Wednesdays, 4-5.30pm, in Althaus-Reid Room, New College. Unless otherwise stated, seminars are held on Wednesdays, 4-5.30pm, in the Althaus-Reid Room, New College. Please direct all queries to the convenor, Dr Naomi Appleton, naomi.appleton@ed.ac.uk Semester 2: Spring 2019 Date Speaker Topic 16 January 2019 Erica Baffelli (Manchester) ‘Dynamism and the Ageing of a Japanese “New” Religion’ 23 January 2019 Adam Possamai (Western Sydney) ‘Branding the devil in New Age, Catholicism and Pentecostalism: a sociology of exorcism’ 30 January 2019 No seminar No seminar 6 February 2019 Philip Alexander (Glasgow) 'Music and immigrant identity among Glasgow Jews' 13 February 2019 David Robertson (Open University) ‘The Essentialisation of Gnosticism’ 20 February 2019 No seminar No seminar 27 February 2019 POSTPONED Morteza Hashemi (Edinburgh) POSTPONED POSTPONED ‘Post-Secular religious charities and donating blood to non-believers: the case of Imam Hussain Blood Donation Campaign in the UK’ 6 March 2019 Áine Warren (Edinburgh) 'Dark Goddess Mysticism: The Uncanny Other in a Popular Thealogy' 13 March 2019 Chris Jones (Oxford) ‘Buddhists on Non-Buddhists: Representing the Religious Other in Indian Buddhist Literature’ 20 March 2019 Presentations from MSc Research students on their dissertation proposals. Please come along and offer your support and feedback. 27 March 2019 Daan Beekers (Utrecht, visiting IASH Fellow) ‘A converted church: religious heritage, memory and the matter of home in Amsterdam’ 3 April 2019 Closing social event Refreshments will be provided Semester 1: Autumn 2018 Date Speaker Topic 19 September 2018 Welcome session and social event. Welcome session and social event 26 September 2018 No seminar No seminar 3 October 2018 Dr Naomi Appleton (School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh) 'Many Buddhas, One Buddha: Reflections on early Indian Buddhology' 10 October 2018 Todd Lewis (College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA) ‘Reconfiguration and Revival: Newar Buddhist Traditions in the Kathmandu Valley (and Beyond)’ 17 October 2018 Elaine A Peña (George Washington University) ‘Time to Pray: Devotional Rhythms and Space Sacralization Processes at the Mexico-United States Border’ 22 October 2018 No seminar due to Cunningham Lectures No seminar due to Cunningham Lectures 31 October 2018 Carole M Cusack (University of Sydney) ‘The Fourth Way and the Internet: Esotericism, Secrecy, and Hiddenness in Plain Sight’ 7 November 2018 'Issues in the Repatriation of Indigenous Knowledge: An International Panel' NOTE this event will be in the Martin Hall and will be followed by a drinks reception and book launch. Panel: James Cox (University of Edinburgh emeritus), Carole Cusack (University of Sydney) Arkotong Longkumer (University of Edinburgh) Bjørn Ola Tafjord (Trømso University, Norway). Book launch: James L. Cox, Restoring the Chain of Memory. T.G.H. Strehlow and the Repatriation of Australian Indigenous Knowledge (Equinox, 2018). 'Issues in the Repatriation of Indigenous Knowledge: An International Panel' 14 November 2018 Carol Richardson (Edinburgh College of Art) ‘Catholic History and the Tudor Martyrs’ 21 November 2018 No seminar No seminar 28 November 2018 Seminar rescheduled, a film and snacks instead Seminar rescheduled, a film and snacks instead This article was published on 2024-03-19
