Esoteric Practices from a Global Perspective

December 8–9 2020


Location

via Zoom


Conveners

Michael Lackner (IKGF), Andreas Nehring (FAU), Dominik Müller (SDAC, FAU), Bernd-Christian Otto (IKGF), Rolf Scheuermann (IKGF)


Programm

December 8 2020

10:00-11:00
  • Introduction (Lackner, Nehring, Müller, Otto)
  • David Gellner: Feedback
11:00-12:00
  • Discussion
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:00
  • Knut Graw, "Divinatory Dialectics: Reflections on Voyance, Ritual and Recognition in Senegal"
14:00-15:00
  • Klaus Hock, "’Soft Type Divination’ in Late Modern Contexts. Esoteric Practices as ‘Second Order Coping with Contingency’?”
15:00-15:30 Walking Break
15:30-16:30
  • Raquel Romberg, “Crosscultural transformational Ontologies: Global Flows and Local Dams”
16:30-17:30
  • Bruce Kapferer, TBA
17:30-18:00
  • Concluding discussion

December 9 2020

10:00-11:00
  • Wouter Hanegraaff, “Secret Fears and Hidden Dangers: Some Thoughts on Occult Contingency Management East and West”
11:00-12:00
  • Yuval Harari, “Magic, Kabbalah and the WWW”
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:00
  • Birgit Menzel, “The Soviet-Russian Waterbirth Movement and its Impact in the West as a Case of Globalized Esoteric Practice (10 Theses)”
14:00-15:00
  • Keith Cantu, “The Transformation of the Royal Yoga for Shiva into a ‘Translocalized’ Esotericism”
15:00-15:30 Walking Break
15:30-16:40
  • Concluding discussion

For more information, please contact rolf.scheuermann@fau.de.



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