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