09/07/2025 14:00
- 17:30
HALL: Franz König Hall
Proponent:
Drzewiecka E.,
Lubanska M.
Chair:
Drzewiecka E.,
Lubanska M.
Speaker:
Drzewiecka E.,
Lubanska M.,
Popiolek P.,
Sadanowicz E.
Referring to the main theme of the EuARe Conference "Religion and Socio-Cultural Transformation: European Perspectives and Beyond", we offer a panel devoted to the recent turns of reconceptualizing and reinvestigating the problem of "religion" in the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe that attempt to reach beyond this category and its particular western-centred embediments. The objective of the panel would be not only to address the question of socio-cultural transformations in the region but also the transformation of recent religious-related research in this part of Europe and how they affect one another. We want to gather different research approaches, and epistemological and methodological standpoints after so many turns in cultural and religious studies. Our idea is to challenge the field from a different angle, providing a critical discussion with e.g. postsecular turn, ontological turn, and non-religion studies. For this purpose, we also encourage scholars that engage with different confessional and ontotheological traditions and (re)vitalize such seemingly well-recognized and investigated phenomena as the visual, material, sensual and written expressions of religious beliefs, but also the relationship between the Church and the State, interfaith coexistence and religious (anti)syncretism, gender-issues controversies.