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SUMMARY:Traditional Religions\, Secularisms\, and Revivals: Buddhism and S
 hamanism in Northern Eurasia
DTSTART:20180309T080000Z
DTEND:20180310T180000Z
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UID:traditional-religions-secularisms-and-revivals-3700@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:Focusing on Buddhism and Shamanism in Russia\, Mongolia\, Cent
 ral Asia\, Tibet\, and the Himalayas\, the workshop will trace the introdu
 ction of Eurocentric secular projects of defining and limiting religion to
  cultural contexts in which religions\, philosophies\, and worldviews fund
 amentally challenge these secular definitions. The categories of “religi
 on” and “secularism” are both products of European modern intellectu
 al history\, but they developed out of European perceptions of Christianit
 y and its contrast to non-European “others” and their religions.\n\nSc
 holarship on secularism and its effects\, however\, has focused overwhelmi
 ngly on monotheistic contexts\, largely ignoring the role of secularism an
 d the category of religion in socialist secular projects and non-monotheis
 tic religious traditions. The concept of “religion” was not merely imp
 osed from above. It was appropriated and redefined by Buddhists and Shaman
 ists in the twentieth and twenty-first century creating new hierarchies an
 d stimulating new asymmetrical power relations.\n\nSince the early twentie
 th century Buddhism was increasingly used in the processes of nation-build
 ing\, while Shamanism was continuously marginalized. The socialist secular
  project in Siberia\, Mongolia\, and Central Asia demonstrated attempts to
  integrate religion into building new states (1920s)\, rigid anti-religiou
 s campaigns (1930s)\, and the moderate recognition and even support of org
 anized religion (1950s–1980s). In contemporary Mongolia and Siberia\, Bu
 ddhism has once again been elevated to the status of “national” or “
 traditional” religion\, while in Nepal it\nbecame a marker of one’s su
 bnational ethnic belonging. In view of the expectations about what nationa
 l or traditional religion is supposed to be\, Shamanism remained contested
  in all four regional contexts\, yet became increasingly popular in hetero
 geneous revival movements defying\nboth state and religious authority.\n\n
 Examining the ways in which secular projects intersected with Buddhist and
  Shamanist religious projects promises to open new perspectives on secular
 ism\, socialism\, and colonialism. Nikolay Tsyrempilov (Nazarbayev Univers
 ity) will give a keynote lecture.\n\nWorkshop programme\n
LOCATION:CERES Palais\, room "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/traditional-religions-secularisms-and-r
 evivals/
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