Conference programme

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Conference programmeWednesday, 20.08 10:00- 10:15 : Welcome address 10:15- 11:15 : Keynote: Prof. Marian Burchardt “From Public Religion to Heritage Religion" 11:15-11:30 : Coffee break 11:30-13:00: Paralell sessions 1) Parallel session (PS) 1: Resistance and alternative spiritualities 2) PS 2: Welfare, rights, and self-organization 3) PS 3: Transformations of spatiality in liquid modernity 13:00- 14:00 : Lunch break 14:00- 15:30 : Parallel sessions 4) PS 4: Religion, state, and power 5) PS 5: Religious Praxis and Identities 6) PS 6: Couples and Family in new (religious) contexts 15:30- 16:00 : Coffee break 16:00- 17:30 : Parallel sessions 7) PS 7: Relations between religion and education 8) PS 8: Religion and migration in liquid modernity 9) PS 9: Transformations of rituals and forms of practice 17:30- 21:00 : Conference dinner (meet at conference venue) Thursday, 21.08 09:00- 10:30 : Keynote: Dr. Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg “Rethinking modernity: spirituality, resistance and enchanted configurations of reality” 10:30- 11:00 : Coffee break 11:00- 12:30 : Parallel sessions 10) PS 10: Religion, neoliberalism, and the marketplace 11) PS 11: Esotericism and Spirituality 12) PS 12: Climate change, life quality, and political theology 12:30-13:30 : Lunch break 13:30- 15:00 : Parallel sessions 13) PS 13: Connections between religion, politics, and civic engagement 14) PS 14: Cultural transformations 15) PS 15: New dimensions of religious and spiritual engagement 15:00- 15:15 : Closing of the conference — Conference programme (alternative text available)