Dear Colleagues,

we are pleased to present to you the agenda for the Annual Meeting of the AK Religionsgeographie on November 21-22, 2024, in Jena and Dornburg. The venue will be „Das Alte Schloss von Dornburg“ (Max-Krehan-Straße 4, 07774 Dornburg-Camburg). You can reach it by regional train to Dornburg (Saale) station, followed by a 20-minute walk or, if needed, using our shuttle (private) vehicle to the conference venue (meet up in front of the station building, Naschhäuserstr. 22; multiple departures). We recommend accomodation in Jena.

Vegetarian catering will be provided. A contribution of €30 in cash will be collected at the beginning of the conference for this purpose.

The conference language will be English in 2 sessions (Nos. 1 and 4), otherwise German or mixed.

We kindly ask for pre-registration by October 31, 2024, to reliably calculate the catering costs, at f_meyer@leibniz-ifl.de

Agenda Thursday, 21st November 2024

12:00                          „Shuttle“ (Privat-Kfz) from Bhf Dornburg/Saale

13:00                          Welcome, Presentation, and Discussion

Joachim Rathmann (Augsburg/Würzburg)
Ehrfurchtsverlust im digitalen Zeitalter?

14:00 – 15:30           Sitzung 1 / Session 1 (Language: English)

Lisa Maria Franke (Ghent)
Rethinking digital spaces, religion and sociability – from private to intimate

Christoph Günther (Erfurt)
The negotiation of piety on #muslimtiktok

Nadia Zasanska (Flensburg)
“Let’s unite in prayer!”: online rituals during the war in Ukraine

16:00 – 17:30           Sitzung 2

Sungsoo Hong (Jena)
Paradoxe Subjektivierung in digitalen Räumen – bildungstheoretische und religionspädagogische Überlegung

Henrik Gasmus (Berlin)
Gottes Gegenwart als digitalitätstranszendentes Datum

Simon Runkel (Jena)
Religionsgeographische Inseln. Forschungsüberlegungen am Beispiel der „Brüderbewegung“ auf den Färöer

17:30                          Ende of Day 1

19:30                          Dinner in Jena, Restaurant „Zur Noll“

Agenda Friday, 22nd November 2024

09:00 – 10:30                          Working Group Meeting

  • Retrospective on 2022-2024
  • Future plans for 2025-2026
  • Election of Working Group Speakers (suggestions explicitly welcome)

11:00 – 12:30                          Sitzung 4 / Session 4 (Language: English)

Diana Lunkwitz (Hamburg)
Imagining Religion and Space in Islamic Eschatology Translocal Entanglements of Mahdi Concepts and Sacralised West African Landscapes (c.1880 to 1930)

Stefan van der Hoek (Bochum)
Mapping the Spiritual Geography of Contemporary Evangelical Missionaries – The 10/40 Window and its Influence on the Perceptual Dichotomy in Evangelical Discourse

Lena Dallywater (Leipzig)
Orientation in World View – Faith-Based Transnational Solidarity Networks in African Decolonial Transitions

12:30 – 13:30                          Lunch Break

13:30 – 15:00                          Sitzung 5

Seyma Aksoy (Jena)
Wissenstransfer von Deutschland in die Türkei im frühen 20. Jahrhundert im Kontext der Religionspsychologie von Bedi Ziya Egemen

Franziska Sandkühler (Jena)
Die transnationale Vernetzung religiöser Minderheiten anhand des Fallbeispiels polnisch-tatarischer Organisationen

Michael Wermke (Jena)
Transnationaler Bildungsraum und die Entwicklung des höheren jüdischen Schulwesens im langen 19. Jahrhundert

15:00                                         End