1 – 3 juni 2010
The SIEF Working Group Ethnology of Religion Conference: Experiencing Religion
Warschau, Polen
Programme
Tuesday June 1st
Location The State Ethnographical Museum, ul. Kredytowa 1, Warsaw
| 09:00-10:00 | Registration |
| 10:00-10:15 | Opening of the conference Dr. Peter Jan Margry, Vice-President, SIEF & Meertens Institute, Amsterdam Dr. Adam Czyżewski, Director of the State Ethnographical Museum, Warsaw |
Session I Chair Prof. Gábor Barna
| 10:15-10:45 | Agnė Budriūnaitė (Lithuania): What are we investigating? From mystical trance to mystical experience |
| 10:45-11:15 | Birgit Huber (Germany): Religions as repertoire and enabler. A systematic approach for a phenomenology of “experiences of self- transcendence” |
| 11:15-11:45 | Urszula Idziak (Hungary): The role of religious experience in the postmodern context of religion without religion |
| 11:45-12:15 | Discussion, coffee |
| 12:15-12:45 | Ghanna Loot (The Netherlands): The social reality of subjective transcendent experience |
| 12:45-13:15 | Agnieszka Halemba (Germany): Policing religious experience |
| 13:15-13:45 | Discussion, coffee |
| 13:45-15:00 | Lunch at your own expense |
Session II Chair Prof. Arne Bugge Amundsen
| 15:00-15:30 | Andrew Yip, Michael Keenan, Sarah-Jane Page (United Kingdom): Being religious and being young. A multi-faith exploration |
| 15:30-16:00 | Jayeel Serrano Cornelio (Singapore): Being Catholic among contemporary Filipino youth |
| 16:00-16:30 | José Mapril (Portugal & United Kingdom): The ethics of learning |
| 16:30-17:00 | Discussion, coffee |
| 17:00-20:00 | Excursion |
| 20:00 | Dinner |
Wednesday June 2nd
Session III Chairing Prof. Clara Saraiva
| 9:00- 9:30 | Frances Wilkins (Scotland): Gifts from the Holy Spirit. Contemporary song composition in North-East Scottish Evangelicalism |
| 9:30-10:00 | Orsolya Gyöngyössy (Hungary): Crossing the sacred and profane. The holy visions of a visionay from Hungary |
| 10:00-10:30 | Kathrine Kjærgaard (Denmark): Visual piety and personal religiosity in Greenland |
| 10:30-11:00 | Discussion, coffee |
| 11:00-11:30 | Peter Jan Margry (The Netherlands): Visionary culture, self and the other |
| 11:30-12:00 | Ruth Illman (Finland): Religious otherness in art. Experiences, emotions, encounters |
| 12:00-12:30 | Leonard Norman Primiano (USA): Sacred ephemera: Experiencing Roman Catholic “Holy cards” in the twenty-first century |
| 12:30-13:00 | Discussion, coffee |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch at your own expense |
Session IV Chair Prof. Peter Jan Margry
| 14:00-14:30 | Arne Bugge Amundsen (Norway): “Religious feelings and their value”. Religious psychology in Norway anno 1817 |
| 14:30-15:00 | Anders Gustavsson (Norway): The personal religiosity of a nineteenth-century peasant |
| 15:00-15:30 | Katya Mihaylova (Bulgaria): On the religious experience in folk/popular Christianity |
| 15:30-16:00 | Discussion, coffee |
| 16:00:-17:00 | Formal meeting |
| 19:00 | Dinner |
Thursday June 3rd
Session V Chairing Dr. Éva Pócs
| 9:00- 9:30 | Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska (Poland): “I wanted to play Judas” Performativity as an element of personal religiosity |
| 9:30-10:00 | Lionel Obadia (France): “Your own personal Jesus”? Contesting”individualization” as the main feature of the “modern religious experience” |
| 10:00-10:30 | Gábor Barna (Hungary): A local pilgrimage feast and meeting of portable procession-statues and pictures |
| 10:30-11:00 | Discussion, coffee |
| 11:00-11:30 | Marion Bowman (United Kingdom): Personal, private, public. Negotiating and expressing personal religiosity in Glastonbury |
| 11:30-12:00 | Tuija Hovi (Finland): The narrative approach to neocharismatic Christianity |
| 12:00-12:30 | Ewa Chomicka (Poland): Sin, guilt, forgiveness. The change of popular belief |
| 12:30-13:00 | Discussion |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch at your own expense |
Session VI Chair Prof. Ulrika Wolf-Knuts
| 14:00-14:30 | Éva Pócs (Hungary): The role of dreaming in personal religiosity |
| 14:30-15:00 | Krisztina Frauhammer (Hungary): Virtual places of cult of modern religiosity |
| 15:00-15:30 | Clara Saraiva (Portugal): A new religious experience. Afro-Brazilian religions in Portugal |
| 15:30-16:00 | Anna Niedzwiedz (Poland): Religious experience among members of the family of Radio Maryja |
| 16:00- | Discussion, coffee and summing up |