Panel 1: Room S 204

Secularity and Secularism in India: Between Indigenous Development and Western Heritage

Rajeev Bhargava (CSDS, Delhi): Indian Secularism: How Should We Deal with Religious Diversity

Barry A. Kosmin (Trinity C, Hartford): Secularism and Secularity among India’s Scientific Elite: Balancing the Political, the Professional and the Personal in the 21st Century

Sebastian Schwecke (U Goettingen): The Secular and the Other: On the Manifold Uses of Identity in South Asian Political Economies

Chair: Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (U Leipzig)

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The Sacred Secular: Did Socialist Societies Produce a Specific Form of Secularity?

Willfried Spohn (U Wroclaw): Religion, Secularity and Secularization in European Postcommunist Societies: A Historical-Sociological Perspective

Klaus Buchenau (U Munich): Socialist Secularities: The Diversity of a Universalist Model

Chairs: Wolfgang Höpken & Steffi Marung (U Leipzig)

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Africa: Colonial Secularity vs. African Religiosity?

Paul Landau (U Maryland, College Park): The Making of the Secular or the Criminalization of the Secular? African Politics in the Colonial Framework

Rijk van Dijk (ASC, Leiden): After Pentecostalism and the New Faith in Intellectualism in Africa: Comparative Examples from Botswana and Ghana

Discussant: Adam Jones (U Leipzig)

Chairs: Marian Burchardt & Geert Castryck (U Leipzig)

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Post-Secularity? Empirical Explorations in Light of Philosophical Debates

Cecelia Lynch (UC Irvine): Religious Humanitarian Ethics and the Politics of Post-Secularity

Massimo Rosati (U Rome ‘Tor Vergata’): Towards a Post-Kemalist Turkey? Multiple Secularisms in the Symbolic Turkish Value System

Discussant: Roman Vido (Masaryk U)
Chair: Jonathan VanAntwerpen (New York U)

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Multiple Modernities – Multiple Secularities: Conceptual and Empirical Questions

Philipp Gorski (Yale U): The Secular Modern: Historical Genesis and Global Diffusion

Ann Swidler (UC Berkeley): African Affirmations: The   Religion of Modernity and the Modernity of Religion

Marian Burchardt & Ute Wegert (U Leipzig): Multiple Secularities and Post-colonial Refractions: South Africa and India

Chairs: Marian Burchardt & Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (U Leipzig)

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Global Interconnectedness and Secularity

David Lehmann (U Cambridge): Secularism: A Concept in Need of Reappraisal

Mark R. Mullins (Sophia U): Secularization, Deprivatization, and the Reappearance of ‘Public Religion’ in Japanese Society

Peter Beyer (U Ottawa): Questioning the Secular/Religious Divide: Canada, Turkey, and India in a Post-Westphalian World

Discussant: Johann P. Arnason (La Trobe U/Charles U)

Chairs: Matthias Middell & Elisabetta Porcu (U Leipzig)

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Path Dependencies and their Transformation: Varieties of Secularity in the West

Hugh McLeod (U Birmingham): Six Paths to Secularity in Modern Europe

Matthias Koenig (U Goettingen/U Michigan, Ann Arbor): The Global Expansion of Judicial Power and the Transformation of Church-State-Relations

Discussant: Detlef Pollack (U Muenster)

Chair: Thomas Schmidt-Lux (U Leipzig)

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Vernacular Secularities and the Problem of Translatability

Hatem Elliesie (FU Berlin): Statehood and Constitution Building in Somalia’s Clan-based Islamic Society

Michael Lestz (Trinity C, Hartford): The Dao of Secularism in China’s Era of Reform (1978-2011)

Stephan Kokew (U Leipzig): Tolerance as a Secular Concept and its Reception in the Islamic World

Chair: Martin Heckel (U Leipzig)

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East Asian Secularities

Ian Reader (U Manchester): Secularisation RIP? Nonsense! Japan and the Death of Religion

John K. Nelson (U San Francisco): Rogue Secularities and the Demise of Japanese Temple Buddhism

Elisabetta Porcu (U Leipzig): Religion and the Secular in a Japanese Urban Setting

Discussant: Paul R. Katz (Academia Sinica, Taipei)

Chair: Philip Clart (U Leipzig)

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The Muslim World: Is Secularity an Alien Concept?

Martin Lau (U London): Secular Form, Religious Norm: Offences Against Religion and the End of Secularism in Pakistan

Gudrun Krämer (FU Berlin): Modern But Not Secular: The Ambiguities of Islamic Reform

Chair: Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (U Leipzig)