Program

Introduction

This program will guide you through the ISORECEA 2010 conference. It is divided into days. For every event, the date is repeated first. Then the time, the building and the room or space is given. The building is also referred to using a number corresponding to the numbers of buildings on the City Center Plan in the Program & Abstracts book.

Thursday 16 December

Thu 16 December 12:00-17:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), Entrance hall

Registration

Thu 16 December 14:00-17:00, Faculty of Arts, building J (3), 5th floor, room J506

ISORECEA Board meeting

Thu 16 December 18:00-19:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U31

Opening lecture

David Voas
Secularization in the West

Thu 16 December 19:15-22:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), Entrance hall

Welcome party under patronage of Deans of Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Social Studies

Friday 17 September

Fri 17 December 9:00-10:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U31

Plenary lecture

Monika Wohlrab-Sahr
Forced Secularity

Fri 17 December 10:00-10:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), in front of the room U31

Coffee break

Fri 17 December 10:30-12:00

Fri 17 December 10:30-12:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U32

The Contemporary Religious Situation in Central and Eastern Europe I

Chair: Dorota Hall (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

  • Milda Ališauskienė
    “Religion Simple Did Not Matter”: Soviet Modernization and Its Influence on Religious Life
  • Krzysztof Kosela
    The Quantitative Indications of Secularization and Desecularization of Polish Society
  • Daniel Reeves
    Religious Differences among the Countries of Present-Day Central Europe: A Macro Perspective

Fri 17 December 10:30-12:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room P22

Religiosity (and Non-Religiosity) from a Comparative Perspective

Chair: David Václavík (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

  • Eileen Barker
    Twenty Years After: Ageing of and Ageing In the New Religions
  • Emilia Wrocławska-Warchala
    Hope as a Basis for Narrative Theodicy: Combining the Perspectives of Empirical Theology, Sociology and Psychology of Religion

Fri 17 December 10:30-12:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U33

Religiosity versus Spirituality: Individualization and Privatization of Religion in CEE I

Chair: Roman Vido (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

  • Nora Bodosi-Kocsis
    The Individual Face of Secularization: the Representation of Current Social Issues in a Hungarian Krishna Devotee’s Blog
  • Joanna Urbańczyk
    Modernity and Tradition: Individualisation Trends within Christian Churches in Poland
  • Marcin K. Zwierżdżyński
    The “Invisible Religion” Forty Years After: Luckmann Re-examined

Fri 17 December 10:30-12:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U34

Religion in the Public Sphere I

Chair: Daniela Kalkandjieva (Sofia University, Bulgaria)

  • Branko Ančić & Siniša Zrinščak
    Social Image of Religion in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Gergely Rosta
    Religiosity and Political Values in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Malgorzata Zawila
    Religion of Nation? Religious and National Symbols in the Public Sphere in Poland after the President’s Flight Crash in Smolensk 2010

Fri 17 December 12:00-14:00

Lunch (at own expense)

Fri 17 December 14:00-15:30

Fri 17 December 14:00-15:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room P22

The Academic Study of Religions in Central and Eastern European Countries and Its Place in European Research

Chair: Milan Fujda (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

  • Irena Borowik
    The Changing Meanings of Religion and the Formative Role of Secularization Thesis for Theoretical Discourses in Sociology of Religion.
  • Gabor Daniel Nagy
    Social Scientific Research of Religion in CEE

Fri 17 December 14:00-15:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U32

Reconsidering Identities: Religious, Ethnic, and Political I

Chair: Malina Voicu (Romanian Academy, Romania)

  • Katya Tolstaya & Peter Versteeg
    Inventing a Saint: Religious Fiction in Post-Communist Russia
  • Jakub Havlicek
    The Dispute Over the Cathedral
  • Jens Köhrsen & Adrián Tovar
    Religious Tastes and Styles in Two Latin American Mega Cities: A New Approach towards Religious Diversity

Fri 17 December 14:00-15:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U33

Cognitive Approaches in the Sociology of Religion

Chair: Luther H. Martin (University of Vermont, USA, and Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

  • Jakub Cigán
    Converting through Collective Remembering: Religious Conversion, Autobiographical Memory and Self
  • Eva Klocová
    To Be a Believer: Identity and Emotions
  • Jan Krátký
    The Problem of Conversion and the Role of Life Environment: The View of Cognitive Science and Material Culture Studies
  • Konrad Talmont-Kaminski
    Secularisation and the Dual Inheritance Model of Religion

Fri 17 December 14:00-15:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U34

Reconsidering Identities: Religious, Ethnic, and Political II

Chair: Dinka Marinović Jerolimov (Institute for Social Research in Zagreb, Croatia)

  • Alexander Bielicki
    Sedembolestná and the Nation: Constructing a Slovak National History in the Homilies of a Religious Holiday
  • Ekaterina Khodzhaeva
    Muslim Identity of the Youth in Tatarstan (Russia): “Nominal” vs.“Practicing” Muslims
  • Zrinka Stimac
    The Ethos of Religious Peace Builders: Habitus Analysis of Group Identities and Strategies

Fri 17 December 15:30-16:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), in front of the room U31

Coffee break

Fri 17 December 16:00-17:30

Fri 17 December 16:00-17:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room P22

Inspiring the Present: What Historical Cases Can Teach Us about Method and Theory in the Study of Religions

Chair: David Zbíral (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

  • David Zbíral
    Introduction to the Panel “Inspiring the Present: What Historical Cases Can Teach Us about Method and Theory in the Study of Religions”
  • Dalibor Papoušek
    Social Grouping in Earliest Christian Texts
  • Jana Valtrová
    Dicussing the Medieval Image of Nestorianism and Its Heritage for Modern Scholarship

Fri 17 December 16:00-17:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U32

Contacts between Religions: Encounters, Communication and Mission

Chair: Eileen Barker (London School of Economics, United Kingdom)

  • Hans Gerald Hoedl
    Mormon Mission Strategies
  • Sebastian Nastuta
    The Inter-Religious Conflict as Legitimation Mechanism in the Conversion Process of Jehovah’s Witness

Fri 17 December 16:00-17:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U33

Religiosity versus Spirituality: Individualization and Privatization of Religion in CEE II

Chair: David Václavík (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

  • Michaela Ondrašinová
    “Religious”, or “Spiritual”? Media Discourses in Contemporary Czech Society
  • Anita Stasulane
    Konstantin Raudive and the “Scientific” Spiritualism

Fri 17 December 16:00-17:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U34

Contemporary Religion in Plurality of Perspectives (Session of the Sociology of Religion Study Group in Masaryk Czech Sociological Association)

Chair: Jan Váně (University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic)

  • Milan Fujda
    How Does the Concept “Religion” Prevent Understanding of Religion?
  • Roman Vido
    Towards a Concept of “Secular” in Sociology of Religion
  • Petra Závorková
    Generational Transmission of Religious Faith: Some Preliminary Remarks

Fri 17 December 18:00-20:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U31

Movie (with introduction)

Miroslav Tížik
Religion in CEE in Movies

Saturday 18 December

Sat 18 December 9:00-10:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U31

Plenary lecture

Olaf Müller
Secularization, Individualization, or Revitalization? The State and Development of Churchliness and Religiosity in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe

Sat 18 December 10:00-10:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), in front of the room U31

Coffee break

Sat 18 December, 10:30-12:00

Sat 18 December, 10:30-12:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room P22

The Contemporary Religious Situation in Central and Eastern Europe II

Chair: Aleš Črnič (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

  • Marika Laudere
    Buddhism Groups in Latvia and their Social Activities
  • Anita Sharma
    Engaged Buddhist Activities in Central Europe: A Case Study of Germany
  • Igor Bahovec
    Education for Intercultural Dialogue before the Challenges of Religion

Sat 18 December, 10:30-12:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U32

Religion in the Public Sphere II

Chair: Siniša Zrinščak (University of Zagreb, Croatia)

  • Daniela Kalkandjieva
    Ideological Approaches to Religion: The Bulgarian Scientific Atheists on the Historical and Social Roles of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church
  • Agnieszka Pawlak
    The Place of Religion as a School Subject in the Polish System of Education
  • Leif Seibert
    The Ethos of Religious Peace Builders: The Religious Field of Bosnia-Herzegovina

Sat 18 December, 10:30-12:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U33

New Religious Movements and Conflict I

Chair: Eileen Barker (London School of Economics, United Kingdom)

  • Rafal Smoczynski
    Studying New Religious Movements and Conflict: The Case of Central Europe
  • Dorota Hall
    Societal Reactions to New Religious Movements in Poland, Croatia and Slovakia
  • Ankica Marinović & Dinka Marinović Jerolimov
    Mutual Relations between the State and Minority Religious Communities: The Case of International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in Croatia, Poland and Slovenia

Sat 18 December, 10:30-12:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U34

The Contemporary Religious Situation in Central and Eastern Europe III

Chair: Jakub Cigán (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

  • Anna Marie Dostalova
    Neopaganism in Czech Republic
  • Orsolya Gyöngyössy
    Gap in Continuity: The Problem of Past and Heritage in the Confraternity of Rosary in Hungary
  • Tatiana Podolinská
    Religious Change as a Factor of Social Inclusion of Roma in Slovakia: Based on Research Project SIRONA, 2010

Sat 18 December 12:00-14:00

Lunch (at own expense)

Sat 18 December 14:00-15:30

Sat 18 December, 14:00-15:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room P22

The Contemporary Religious Situation in Central and Eastern Europe IV

Chair: Rafal Smoczynski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

  • Maria Sroczyńska
    Religious Faith as a Manifestation of Sacral Values in the Generation of Children and Polish Parents (Sociological Analysis)
  • Malina Voicu & Andreea Constantin
    Nationalist Ideology and Religious Revival in Romania: A Longitudinal Analysis 1990-2008

Sat 18 December, 14:00-15:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U32

Religion in the Public Sphere III

Chair: Michaela Ondrašinová (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

  • Roman Vido
    Multiple Secularizations, Multiple Secularisms
  • Michał Żebrowski
    Polish Religious Economy: A Case of Pluralistic Monopoly?

Sat 18 December, 14:00-15:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U33

New Religious Movements and Conflict II

Chair: Dorota Hall (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

  • Milan Fujda & Dušan Lužný
    Non-Church and Detraditionalized Religiosity in Czechia
  • Péter Török
    Conflict Involving NRMs in Hungary

Sat 18 December 15:30-16:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), in front of the room U31

Coffee break

Sat 18 December 16:00-17:30, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U31

ISORECEA General Assembly

Sat 18 December 17:30-18:00, Faculty of Social Studies (2), room U31

Official end of the conference