Workshop "Religion"
Chaired by
José Casanova (Professor of Sociology of Religion, Georgetown University, USA)
- Irene Becci (Sociology/Anthropology, Max-Planck-Institute of Social Anthropology Halle/S., Germany)
“Liminals and Marginals: Creating Religious Identification in an Eastern District of Berlin”
Download Paper (PDF) - Synnøve Bendixsen (Social Anthropology, University of Kurdistan – Hawler, Erbil, Northern Iraq)
“Connecting the Local, National and Transnational Powers of a Religious Youth Organisation in Berlin”
Download Paper (PDF) - Marian Burchardt (Sociology, University of Leipzig, Germany)
“Belonging and Success: Religious Vitality in an African Metropolis”
Download Paper (PDF) - Nelly Elias (Communication Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel)
“Between Faith and Community: The Choice of Christianity by the FSU Immigrant Adolescents in Israel”
Download Paper (PDF) - Murat Es (Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA)
“Alevis in Cemevis: Religion and Secularism in Turkey”
Download Paper (PDF) - Diana Nogueira de Oliveira Lima (Sociology, University Candido Mendes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
“Prosperity Theology: On the Meaning of Material Success in Contemporary Urban Brazil”
Download Paper (PDF) - Tuomas Martikainen (Comparative Religion, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland)
“From the Celebration of Diversity to the Scandal of Maximalist Religion”
Download Paper (PDF) - Sylvia Meichsner (Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK)
“Constructing Hope. The Role of Secular Saints in Mexico”
Download Abstract (PDF) - Gustavo Morello (Social Sciences, Catholic University, Cordoba, Argentina)
“Global Cities, Modern Religions and People’s Lives”
Download Paper (PDF) - Hassan Juma Ndzovu (Philosophy/Religion, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya)
“Muslims’ Relations with Politics of Nationalism and Secessionism in Kenya”
Download Paper (PDF) - Godwin Onuoha (Society & Culture in Motion, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)
“Trans-National Religious Identities and Contemporary ´Forms of Exit/Inclusion` in the Nigerian Public Sphere”
Download Paper (PDF) - Samadia Sadouni (Political Science/International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
“Somalis in Johannesburg: Muslim Transformations of the City”
Download Paper (PDF) - Ethan Philip Sharp (Folklore & Latin American Studies, University of Texas-Pan American, Edinburg, USA)
“Plotting the Paths of Justice: Urban Growth, Security Governance and Evangelical Revivalism in Mexico”
Download Paper (PDF) - Kerstin Steiner (Law, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
“National Identity and Religious Harmony – Secularism the ‘Singaporean Way’: The State and the Muslim Minority in Singapore”
Download Paper (PDF) - Leilah Vevaina (Anthropology, New School for Social Research, New York, USA)
“Excarnation and the City: The Tower of Silence Debates in Mumbai”
Download Paper (PDF) - Wilson Will (Anthropology/Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University, Montréal, Canada)
“Hope and Religion in the Inner-City U.S. Hospital: The View from Chaplaincy”
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