Invitation Workshops - Sociology of Religion - Latin America
Workshops with
Prof. Manuel A. Vasquez PhD., University of Florida
Prof. Dr. Hugo José Suárez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
at Bielefeld University
Center for the Interdisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (CIRRuS)
Center for Interamerican Studies (CIAS)
June 22nd, 23rd and 29th, 2015
Tuesday, June 23th:
18:00 – 20:00 h: Manuel Vásquez: Transnacionalization of religion. Colloquium CIAS.
Room X-E0-209
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/cias/studium/kolloquium.html
In this workshop, we will focus on current empirical trends with regard to religious praxis in the Latin and Anglo American societies as well as in transnational perspective. Both in Anglo and in Latin America, religious praxis is the crucial mediating force between private and public life. The upsurge of religious activity in the last decades turns religion even more relevant. The increase of migration and the transnational media presence of neoliberal logics are mediated partly by religious praxis. In the religious field, a strong Pentecostal movement challenges a re-invigorating Catholic Church. Social protest often is expressed by religious means – not least by revitalizing indigenous movements. These and other topics will be discussed in this workshop.
Persons who are interested in presenting a topical theme or a research project (10 to 15 minutes) during the afternoon, please contact cp.buitrago@uni-bielefeld.de.
Morning:
- Prof. Dr. Manuel Vasquez: General issues in Latin America, the USA, and in between
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer: Beliefs, Competition and Politics (the examples of Guatemala and Nicaragua).
Afternoon:
- Clara Buitrago, Tamara Candela, Alvaro Espinoza
- Open for other presenters.
Workshop Theoretical and methodological aspects of the study of religion. June 29th, 9:00 – 17:00 Room X - A2 - 103
In this workshop, theory and method in sociology of religious praxis are in the focus. Manuel Vásquez is well known not only for important advancements in the theory of transnational religiosity but also as the author of the materialist theory of religion “More than belief”. Hugo José Suárez is a student of Pierre Bourdieu and has concentrated his research on visual sociology as well as on semiotic analysis. Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer and his team are developing a praxeological theory of religion and corresponding methods drawing on Bourdieu’s general sociology.
Persons who are interested in presenting a topical contribution – for example from a Systems Theory, Post Colonial, or any other theoretical approach to religion – 10 to 15 minutes during the afternoon, please contact cp.buitrago@uni-bielefeld.de.
Morning:
- Prof. Dr. Manuel Vasquez: More than belief. A materialist theory of religion.
- Prof. Dr. Hugo José Suarez: Ver y creer: visual sociology and religiosity on the margins
Afternoon:
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinrich Schäfer, Bielefeld – Praxeology of Religion. Together with Leif Seibert, Adrian Tovar, Tamara Candela, Sebastian Schlerka
- Open for other presenters.
Additionally, we would like to announce
Thursday, June 25th through Saturday, June 27th:
CIAS conference: Politics of Entanglements, Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld.
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/%28en%29/cias/entangled_americas/politics_ea.html
For further information:
- Manuel A. Vásquez: http://religion.ufl.edu/faculty/core/manuel-a-vasquez/
- Hugo José Suárez: http://ru.iis.sociales.unam.mx/dspace/handle/IIS/2173
- Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer: www.uni-bielefeld.de/religionsforschung
Contact:
- Clara Buitrago: cp.buitrago@uni-bielefeld.de
- Sebastian Matthias Schlerka: Sebastian_Matthias.Schlerka@uni-bielefeld.de