Die nächste Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Religionsgeographie wird am 1./2. Juni 2012 in Göttingen stattfinden. Englisch wird überwiegend die Konferenzsprache sein.

Religion, space and diversity - negotiating the religious
in the public sphere

International Colloquium, 1-2 June 2012

Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Hermann-Föge-Weg 11 · 37073 Göttingen

7th International Colloquium on the Changing Religious Landscape in Europe

Friday, 1 June

9.00	Welcome, Introduction (by MPI and Working Group on Geography of Religion in the German Society for Geography, DGfG)
9.30	Common lecture: Hans Knippenberg : Secularization and transformation of religion in Post-War Europe: general trends and geographical variety
10.45 - 12.45	Religious Changes in Western Europe 1	Islam in Europe
	Johan Anderson, Gill Valentine: Beyond the interfaith agenda: religious/atheist divisions in urban Britain	Assia Harwazinski: Change of religious geography in Germany: focus on Islam in the public sphere
	Alssandro Ferrari: Religious freedom and the public-private divide: a broken promise for Europe?	Martina Schlapbach : Religious arguments in the public political discussion or: how is on the minaret debated like?
	Anne Goujon, Ramon Bauer, Richard Giss er: Reconstruction of the forces shaping the religious composition of the population of Vienna from 1951 to 2011	Andreas Tunger-Zanetti: Building lot or battlefield? How social actors constitute space in conflicts over mosque building project
	Francesca Montemaggi: From doctrine to community – church-doing in pluralistic times	Igor Kotin: Unbelievable demolition of the historical Jama Mosque in Moscow
13.00	Lunch break
14.15	Common lecture: Ceri Peach : Islam and the art of mosque construction in western Europe
15.30	Religious Changes in Western Europe 2	Religious Changes in Eastern Europe
	Christoph Bochinger: Religionasing the public sphere. A reflection of a recent research programme in Switzerland	Elzbieta Bilska-Wodecka: Religious diversity in the mass media in Poland
	Daan Beekers : Reviving piety, reworking tradition: a comparison of young observant Muslims and Christians in the Netherlands	Emilia Moddelmog-Anweiler: Religious identityin the public sphere – the image and representations
	Yuqin Huang: Where is Europe? The geography of missionization among Chinese Christian communities in Europe	Joanna Szczepankiewicz-Battek: Political position of churches in Poland after 1989
	Rita Sobzyk: Religion and migration: the role of religious affiliation in the identity formation of Quichua immigrants in Spain	Izabela Soljan: The Muslim community in Poland after 1990
	Eoin O‘Mahoney: Journey geographies: mapping the affective for theory	Sabine von Löwis: Religion in Ukraine – spatial, historical and political peculiarities

Saturday, 2 June

9.00	Common lecture: Kenneth Dean: The religious geography of Singapore: 1819-2012
10.15	Religious Buildings and Places	Beyond Europe
	Tomáš Havlícek: Secularization and church property: the case of Czechia	Deniz Duru: Negotiating claims of religions in multi-faith Burgaz, Turkey
	Reinhard Henkel: New Christian congregations in Mannheim and Heidelberg and their places of worship	Hikmet Kocamaner: Islamic television broadcasting, secularism, and the public sphere in Turkey
	David Koussens, Frédéric Dejean: Evangelical places of worship in Quebec and France: new issues of secularism	Maree Pardy: This space which is not one - ‘there is nothing more public than privacy’
	Arnaud Liszka, Thomas Käckenmeister, Marlen Schröder: What future for church buildings in a highly secularized state of eastern Germany?	Jürgen Lafrenz: Unity of the Brethren, Unitas Fratrum. The settlement congregations of the Brethren as independent settlements of concise typology
	Martina Hupková: Burial culture change	Thorsten Wettich: Imago mundi: pratices of localization and the sacred space
13:00	Concluding remarks
13:15	Lunch break, End of Conference
14.15 - 16.15	Mitgliederversammlung des Arbeitskreises Religionsgeographie in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie (Business MeetingWorking Group "Geography of Religion" in the German Society for Geography, in German)

Limited number of participants · Registration required.

Contact
PD Dr. Thomas Schmitt · schmitt@mmg.mpg.de
Office Julia Müller · Tel.: +49 (551) 4956-229 · mueller@mmg.mpg.de
www.mmg.mpg.de