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SUMMARY:Invoking a Strange God: Rituals of Power and Religious Contacts in
  the Late Antique Mediterranean World and Medieval Europe
DTSTART:20191107T080000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This workshop brings together scholars in the fields of late a
 ntique and medieval magic and Kabbalah in the Mediterranean world and West
 ern Asia to study the role of religious contacts in their historical conte
 xts. The conference advances a three-fold programmatic approach:\n\n\n	Fir
 st\, its participants are invited to consider the composite nature of prim
 ary sources of ancient\, late-antique\, and medieval of “magic” and Ka
 bbalah as texts documenting the accumulations of practices and ideologies 
 underlying rituals of power. As a result\, the first approach aims to unco
 ver paths of circulation and patches of accumulation of these documents.\n
 	Second\, the scholars are invited to discuss historical instances of late
 -antique and medieval magic and Kabbalah as instances of mutual influence\
 , exchanges\, and appropriations among various historical religious tradit
 ions. As such\, this approach encourages the participants to explore the m
 alleable role of “tradition” and “change” in the discourses associ
 ated with practices of ritual power and invocations of divine names.\n	Thi
 rd\, the scholars are invited to undertake analyses of the materiality ass
 ociated with rituals of power in various ancient and medieval Jewish and C
 hristian traditions. In doing this\, the third programmatic approach seeks
  to highlight the role of materiality in the transmission of occult religi
 ous traditions\, such as magic and Kabbalah.\n\n\nThe outcome of this work
 shop will be a special issue dedicated to the above approaches\, to be pub
 lished in the Journal Entangled Religions in 2020.\n\nWorkshop Program
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/invoking-strange-god/
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