12/07/2025 08:30
- 10:45
HALL: Lecture Hall 27
Proponent:
Daphinoff D.,
Innerhofer R.,
Metzger F.,
Morgan D.
Chair:
Daphinoff D.
Speaker:
Daphinoff D.,
Innerhofer R.,
Metzger F.,
Morgan D.
The trans-disciplinary panel is focusing the increasing inclusion of the analysis of 'religion' - in a broad understanding as a cultural field - in the humanities leading to shifts in perspective that could be termed as a post-secular turn. The contributions from literary studies, art history and memory studies will outline central foci of research and approaches in dealing with 'religion'. They explore how transformations in society as well as in literature, art, and dealing with memory in the last few decades as well as epistemological shifts in the fields of study mentioned above have enabled such a post-secular turn. The trans-disciplinary discussion in the panel will on the one hand systematize the 'new' complexity brought to the respective disciplines and fields of study, while on the other hand it will show how this turn leads to a significant broadening of 'religious studies', in which aesthetics, linguistic and visual ritual practices and communication creating transcendence (and transformed meanings of it) are brought into the centre of interest in cultural and social studies.