20/05/2024 08:30 - 13:15

HALL: LA PIRA - TEATRO

Proponent: Drzewiecka E.

Chair: Drzewiecka E., Lubańska M.

Speaker: Bychak K., Drzewiecka E., Jarzynska K., Ladner G., Lubańska M., Michalska A., Muller D., Naydenova D., Pascal E., Popiolek P., Schmalz M., Szwat-Gyłybowa G.

The aim of the panel is to present and discuss various case studies which show complexity and variability of meanings in the process of attributing Christian characteristics. The intention is to contribute to the on-going discussion on concepts and terms in the field of religious studies by drawing attention to a particular dimension of the issue, i.e. different ways of understanding, classifying and evaluating phenomena that are related with Christianity. We invite researchers representing different fields and cognitive matrices (religious studies, social anthropology, theology, cultural studies, history, art history), investigating different cultural and language milieus, who deal with religious phenomena with regard to the notion of the (non-)Christian and/or address this matter in theoretical terms. We would like to discuss disciplinary vocabularies and epistemological assumptions that underpin modern social imaginaria. Such notions as "Christianisation", "Christianity vs. paganism", "peasants vs. elites", "folk religiosity", "double faith", "religious syncretism" function in many discourses (scientific, literary, popular culture) and need to be further examined from the point of view of both different regimes of knowledge and different cultures. Thus, the idea of paradigm shift will be addressed by taking into consideration the indigenous experiences with the Christianity in the perspective of the history of concepts and the history of humanities and social sciences.