- 2024 Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
University of Tartu, Estonia, 8-11 May 2024 Methodologies and Ideologies in Interreligious Engagement Building Bridges in a Multipolar World CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION The 2024 ESITIS Conference plans to explore the radical pluralities at the heart of contemporary interreligious engagement. Its geographical and methodological pluralities provide new generative possibilities for understanding, as voices from the majority world contribute perspectives that reflect local historical trajectories, and as disciplines within the political sciences furnish conceptual tools that complement a focus on texts and rituals in theology and religious studies and the sociology and anthropology of religion. Understanding the role of religion vis à vis…
- ESITIS Conference 2024
Methodologies and Ideologies in Interreligious EngagementBuilding Bridges in a Multipolar WorldUniversity of Tartu, Estonia8-11 May 2024 Video Keynote 1: Nicholas Adams, “Funding and Beards: challenges to interreligious engagement” Video Keynote 2: Robert Vosloo, “Religious Traditions, Intellectual Postures, and Incompleteness: In Search of a Responsible Hermeneutic of Tradition for Interreligious Engagement” Video Keynote 3: Liz Bucar, “Is Appropriation a Useful Category for Religious Studies?” Video Keynote 4: Ülo Valk, “Vernacular Perspective in Folkloristics and Personal Experience Narratives of the Supernatural” Video Keynote 5: Anne Hege Grung, “The Geopolitics of Interreligious Dialogue” Video Keynote 6: Paul Hedges, “The Scholar-Activist as Educator Amidst…
