Fw: H-ASIA: CFP Rethinking Religion in India III, Univ of Pardubice, 11-14 Oct. 2011

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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Rethinking Religion in India III, Univ of Pardubice,
11-14 Oct. 2011

> H-ASIA
> February 28, 2011
>
> Call for papers: Rethinking Religion in India III, Univwersity of
> Pardubice, Czech Republic, 11-14 October, 2011
> DEADLINE JUNE 15, 2011
> ************************************************************************
> From: Marianne Keppens <marianne.keppens@ugent.be>
>
> *Conference announcement and Call for Papers - Rethinking Religion in
> India III*
>
> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> 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 the Czech Republic.
>
> 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.
>
> The conference will work towards these ambitions in three formats:
>
> 1. The Platform Sessions: Monologue or Dialogue?
> In three sessions, three clearly formulated theses will be discussed
> by four experts. The speakers invited for the sessions are: Prof.
> Arvind Mandair, Prof. Brian Pennington, Prof. Nicholas Dirks and Prof.
> S.N. Balagangadhara (speakers to be confirmed).
>
> 2. The Roundtable Sessions: The Indian Response
> In these plenary sessions we will look at the Indian side of the
> dialogue: how have Indians responded to the European descriptions of
> their religion and culture?
>
> 3. The Parallel Sessions: in the Parallel Paper Sessions scholars will
> present their research on one of the themes given below. In the "How
> to...?" Workshops there will be more room for participation from the
> public.
>
> A call for papers for the Parallel Paper Sessions is open on the
> following themes:
>
> - The colonial construction of Hinduism
> - The caste system and Indian religion
> - Secularism in Europe and India
> - Said and Orientalism: dead or alive?
> - European representations of India
> - What does the modernization of Indian traditions mean?
> - Islamic mysticism in European and Indian perspective
>
> We also invite submissions of proposals for "How to??" Workshops.
>
> |For more information on all the sessions please visit our
> |website:
> |<http://www.rethinkingreligion.org>
>
> Abstracts and proposals for workshops can be submitted online via our
> website (see call for papers).
>
> The deadline for submissions of abstracts and proposals is June 15th,
> 2011.
>
> 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:
> the Department of Religious Studies (University of Pardubice, Czech
> Republic)
> the Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap (Ghent University,
> Belgium),
> the Centre for the Study of Local Cultures (Kuvempu University, India),
> the India Platform UGent (Ghent University, Belgium),
> the Karnataka Academy of Social Sciences and Humanities (ASHA).
>
> Contact:
> Marianne Keppens
> Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap
> Ghent University, Belgium
> tel: +32 (0)9 264 93 71
> e-mail: Marianne.Keppens@UGent.be
> http://www.rethinkingreligion.org/
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