Wednesday 12 December 2018
17:00 – 19:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE, in cooperation with the SFB 1199 Colloquium
(Venue: SFB 1199, Strohsackpassage 5th floor, Nikolaistr. 6–10, 04109 Leipzig)
Brian Larkin (Columbia U)
Parasites, Infrastructures, and Islamic Networks
Thursday 13 December 2018
TRANSNATIONAL RELIGIOUS SPACES IN AFRICA
(Venue: Strohsackpassage 3rd floor, Nikolaistr. 6–10, 04109 Leipzig)
9:00 – 10:30 RELIGIOUS SPATIAL FORMATS BETWEEN AFRICA AND THE WORLD
Klaus Hock (U Rostock)
Transforming Spatial Formats: Imagined Commonalities, Imaginary Spaces, and Spaces of Imagination
Adam Jones (U Leipzig)
Mission Spaces in German East Africa and Tanganyika
Chair: Katja Werthmann (U Leipzig)
10:30 – 10:50 coffee
10:50 – 12:20 CIRCULATION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGIOUS IDEAS
Afe Adogame (Princeton U)
Out of Africa, Back to Africa: African Spiritualities and Religious Transnationalism from Below
Magnus Echtler (U Bayreuth)
Zulu Salvation: Sacred Places in the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa
Chair: Marian Burchardt (U Leipzig)
12:30 – 14:00 lunch
14:00 – 15:30 RELIGIOUS ASPECTS OF URBAN TRANSNATIONALITY
Johara Berriane (CMB Berlin)
Transnational Evangelical Spaces in Muslim Urban Settings: The Presence and Mediation of African Christian Migrants in Morocco
Geert Castryck (U Leipzig)
Living Islam in Colonial Bujumbura: The Historical Trans-locality of Muslim Life between East and Central Africa
Chair: Brian Larkin (Columbia U)
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS AND THEIR INTERACTION IN EAST ASIA AND BEYOND
(Venue: SFB 1199, Strohsackpassage 5th floor, Nikolaistr. 6–10, 04109 Leipzig)
9:00 – 10:30 NEGOTIATING RITUAL, RELIGION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT IN A DIASPORIC RELIGIOUS SPACE
Jens Reinke (U Leipzig)
Generating Global Pure Lands: renjian Buddhist Civic Engagement within and beyond the Chinese Diaspora Worldwide
Cheng Wei-yi (Foguang U)
Transitioning the Vietnamese Ullabama Festival to Taiwan
Chair: Ugo Dessì (U Cardiff)
10:30 – 10:50 coffee
10:50 – 12:20 TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS AND ENGAGEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA
Nikolas Broy (U Leipzig)
American Dao: Diasporic and Transcultural Engagements of Yiguandao in Urban California
Lai Rongdao (USC)
Tiantai Transnationalism: Mobility, Identity, and Lineage Networks in Modern Chinese Buddhism
Chair: Janet Hoskins (U Southern California)
12:30 – 14:00 lunch
14:00 – 16:15 TEMPLE NETWORKS BETWEEN ASIA, EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA
Jack Chia (U Singapore)
From Chan Master to Translocal Deity: The Patriarch of Sanping’s Cult in Contemporary China
Jonathan Lee (U San Francisco)
A Tale of Three Temples, Three Cities, and Three Goddesses? Historicity and Sacred Space in the Cult of Tianhou/Mazu at Meizhou, Beigang, and San Francisco
Irene Masdeu Torruella (U Barcelona)
Local Temples in a Transnational Space: Invisible and Embodied Mobilities between China and Spain
Chair: Cristina Rocha (Western Sidney U)
17:00 – 18:00 Tour: Paulinum and Augusteum @ Campus Augustusplatz, Leipzig University
18:00 – 19:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE, in cooperation with the Centre for the Study of Religion
(Venue: Felix-Klein-Hörsaal, Paulinum 5th Floor, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig)
Thomas Tweed (U of Notre Dame)
Flows and Dams: Brains, Technologies, and Institutions in the Making of Transregional Religious Spaces
Friday 14 December 2018
RELIGIOUS SPACES UNDER THE GLOBAL CONDITION
(Venue: SFB 1199, Strohsackpassage 5th floor, Nikolaistr. 6–10, 04109 Leipzig)
9:00 – 10:30 MATTER AND MEDIA
Peter Lambertz (DHI Paris / CREPOS Dakar)
Of Ancestors and Others: Reverse Orientalism “from Japan” among Spiritualists in Kinshasa
Cristina Rocha (Western Sidney U)
How Religions Travel or Get Stuck: Imagination and Power Asymmetries
Chair: Nikolas Broy (U Leipzig)
10:30 – 10:50 coffee
10:50 – 12:20 VERNACULARIZATION OF TRANSNATIONAL RELIGION
Marian Burchardt (U Leipzig)
Institutional Innovation and Religious Organizations in Transregional Encounters: Missionary Protestantism in Southern and Eastern Africa
Frédérique Louveau (U Gaston Berger, Saint-Louis)
Japanese Spiritualities in Africa: From a Transnational Space to the Creation of a Local Lifestyle
Chair: Geert Castryck (U Leipzig)
12:20 – 13:30 lunch
13:30 – 15:00 COMPARING GLOBAL SPACES OF RELIGION
Ugo Dessì (U Cardiff)
Religion and Globalization: Toward an Integrated and Comparative Approach
Janet Hoskins (U Southern California)
Vietnamese Transnational Religions: The Cold War Polarities of Temples in “Little Hanois” and “Little Saigons”
Chair: Jens Reinke (U Leipzig)
15:00 – 16:00 Concluding reflections and discussion, Philip Clart (U Leipzig) & Adam Jones (U Leipzig)