The Käte Hamburger Kolleg invites papers to be presented at the international workshop “Religious Contacts in Early Modern Scandinavia 1500-1750” to be held on the 10-11 October 2018 in Bochum, Germany.

The workshop will bring together scholars of religious studies, history and cultural studies to explore further the multitude of religious contacts on and around the Scandinavian Peninsula and the Baltic in early modern times. Among others we would like to compare case studies of different religious contacts and how they were executed by the actors involved. The focus will be rather on the situation and effect of religious contacts than on a single religious group. Examples to be discussed are among others:

- indigenous religions’ (Sami, Karelian, Inuits of Greenland) encounters with Lutheranism/Pietism,
- adaption and local alignments of, or resistance towards ideas derived from Protestant Reformation,
- encounters of Scandinavian colonists with the religious beliefs practiced by native peoples (of North America, Africa, Asia),
- early encounters between Protestantism and Orthodox Christianity in Finland and the Baltic,
- Jewish communities of and Jewish migration towards the Scandinavia peninsula in early modern times,
- the spread of non-theistic Enlightenment ideas in Scandinavia and the Baltic before 1750.

Each participant is invited to present a paper in English.
The paper shall later be published in the Käte Hamburger Kolleg’s peer reviewed online journal Entangled Religions (https://er.ceres.rub.de/).

All costs (travel expenses, accommodation, dining) will be covered by the Käte Hamburger Kolleg.

The Käte Hamburger Kolleg “Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” is an international research institution directly funded by the German government. It conducts research in the field of religious studies and history of religion that is dedicated to the formation and expansion of religions, the mutual permeation of religious traditions and their densifications into the complex figurations called 'world religions.' Find more information here: https://khk.ceres.rub.de/en/

The Käte Hamburger Kolleg welcomes short applications including an abstract on the intended paper to be presented (max 1,500 words) and a short notice about the academic affiliation of the applicant. Applications should be submitted electronically in one single pdf-file to ulf.plessentin@rub.de no later than June 15, 2018.