2009: Beyond the Market: Exploring Religious Fields in Modern China
| Beyond the Market: Exploring Religious Fields in Modern China |
| Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Wales Lampeter - Venue: Roderick Bowen Seminar Room November 20-22, 2009 Programme Friday 20 November 2009 All day Arrival in Lampeter and registration 19:00 Dinner at the Falcondale Mansion Hotel, Lampeter Saturday 21 November 08:30 Departure Falcondale Mansion Hotel (Shuttle) 08:45 Welcome at Roderick Bowen Seminar Room 09:00-10:20 Terry Rey (Religion Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA) “What is Religious Capital? Looking for Answers from Bourdieu to Stark” Discussant: Hubert Seiwert (Universität Leipzig, Germany) 10:30-11:50 Peter van der Veer (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany): “Consuming Religion: Rational Choice and Uncertainty in China” Discussant: Robert Weller (Boston University, USA) 12:00-13:00 Roundtable discussion on Jörg Stolz, “The Explanation of Religiosity: Testing Sociological Mechanisms”, in: Observatoire des Religions en Suisse (ORS), Working Papers 8-2008, pp. 1-35. Chair and Introduction: Christian Meyer Statements: Thomas Jansen, Thoralf Klein, Joachim Gentz 13:00-14:30 Lunch break 14:30-15:40 Lu Yunfeng (Department of Sociology, Beijing University, China): “Beyond Exclusive Religions: Challenges for a Sociology of Religion in China” Discussant: Vincent Goossaert (CNRS-EPHE, Paris) 15:40-16:50 Joachim Gentz (University of Edinburgh): Rational choice and the Chinese 2 discourse on the Unity of the Three Religions (sanjiao he yi) Discussant: Christian Meyer (University of Leipzig, Germany) 16:50-17:00 Refreshments 17:00-18:10 David Palmer (Department of Sociology, Hong Kong University): “Where is the Religious Market? Preliminary Reflections Based on Field Research in China” Discussant: Thoralf Klein (University of Erfurt, Germany) 18:30-20:00 Dinner Sunday 21 November 2009 09:00-10:20 Adam Chau (East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK) “Efficacy over Confessionality: On Ritual Polytropy in China” Discussant: Philip Clart (University of Leipzig, Germany) 10:20-11:40 Francesca Tarocco (Buddhist Studies, University of Manchester, UK) “Buddhist Images between Visual Piety and the Market” Discussant: Wendy Dossett (University of Wales Lampeter) 11:40-12:00 Refreshments 12:00-13:00 Final Discussion (Chair: Philip Clart) 13:00-14:00 Light Lunch 14:00 End of workshop |