Announcement and Call for Papers Rethinking Religion in India III: European Representations and Indian Responses 11 - 14 October 2011, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic www.rethinkingreligion.org |
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Dear Professor, Dear Researcher, Dear Student, |
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We are pleased to announce the third conference of the five-year conference cluster Rethinking Religion in India: European Representations and Indian Responses, which will take place from 11 to 14 October 2011 at the University of Pardubice in Czech Republic. ps. If you would like to forward this email, please use our online forwarding form since this email contains a link to your personal webpage. |
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The Conference Theme | ||||||||||||||||
Today, a virtual consensus has come into being among scholars that the dominant modern descriptions of Hinduism, Brahmanism, Vedism, Sikhism, Jainism, ... are the result of collaboration between Europeans and Indians. Scholars like Brian Pennington, Phillip Wagoner, Thomas Trautmann and others have characterised this collaboration as a kind of dialogue, a dialogue between people belonging to two different cultures possessing different conceptual frameworks. This dialogue, it is said, has resulted in descriptions that contain elements of both sides and are therefore neither entirely European nor entirely Indian. In the third Rethinking Religion in India conference we want to take a closer look at this consensus, at its implications and examine whether and how it helps us in the study of religion in India.
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The Conference Formats | ||||||||||||||||
The conference will work towards these ambitions in three formats: The Platform Sessions: Monologue or Dialogue?
The Roundtable Sessions: The Indian Response
The Parallel Sessions:
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The Call for Papers | ||||||||||||||||
A call for papers for the Parallel Paper Sessions is open on the following themes: >> The colonial construction of Hinduism We also invite submissions of proposals for “How to…?” Workshops.
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On YouTube | ||||||||||||||||
A number of interviews, presentations and debates of the first two conferences, Rethinking Religion in India I & II, can be watched on www.youtube.com/cultuurwetenschap | ||||||||||||||||
Looking forward to welcoming you at our conference, The Organising Committee This conference is jointly organised by |
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Contact | ||||||||||||||||
Marianne Keppens Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap |
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