Pious radicals? Strong religion and politics in modern Europe...Andreas Häger (Turku/FI): The use...

Piousradicals?StrongreligionandpoliticsinmodernEurope

InternationalConference,UniversitätSiegen,Germany

14–15March2019

Organizer: Conferenceplace:

ProfessorDr.VeronikaAlbrecht-Birkner DorintParkhotelUniversitätSiegen,Germany Patmosweg60PhilosophicalFaculty 57078SiegenDept.ofProtestantTheology tel:+49(0)271-770096-0Adolf-Reichwein-Str.2 mail:info@siegen.dorint.com57068Siegen https://hotel-siegen.dorint.com/de

PhilosophicalFaculty ResearchInitiativePopularCultures

TheconferenceisanactivityoftheEuropeanBibleBeltproject,fundedbytheDutchresearchcouncilNWO.

Thursday14March2019

10.00 OPENINGSESSIONDr.NielsWerber,ProfessorofModernGermanLiterature,DeanofPhilosophicalFaculty,SpeakerofResearchInitiativePopularCulturesattheUniversityofSiegen:Welcomeaddress

10.15 KeynotelectureI

IntroductionandChair:VeronikaAlbrecht-Birkner

Dr.GertPickel,ProfessorofChurch-andReligiousSociologyatUniversityofLeipzig,Germany:“Strongreligionandradicalpolitics?Remarksandempiricalevidence”

11.30 Papersession1:ReligionandRevolution:ExamplesofFranceandRussiaChair:FredvanLieburg

ManuelStadler(Leipzig/DE):SchismandTerrorduringtheFrenchRevolution

IgorMikeshin(St.Petersburg/RU):TheRevolutionary,theMartyr,theApolitical:PoliticalNarrativesofRussianEvangelicals

12.30 LUNCH

13.30 Papersession2:ReligionandPolitics:ExamplesofGermany,NorwayandFinlandChair:BrittaSchröder

ChristoLombaard(Pretoria/ZA):WeighingCarlSchmittanew:ImplicitReligioninpolitics

JoukoTalonen(Helsinki/FI):TheLaestadianinfluenceinFinnishpolitics,1917–2017.Generalaspects

GerdSnellmann,JakobDahlbacka(Turku/FI):InstitutionaltrustintheOstrobothnianBiblebelt.Laestadianviewsongoverningauthoritiesandpoliticalactivity

SveinIvarLanghelle(Stavanger/NO):Conservativeandpious,«preservingtheChristianSociety».ANorwegiancase

15.45 COFFEE

16.15 Papersession3:ReligionandFundamentalism:ExamplesofEnglandandtheNetherlandsChair:PeterAchterberg

GerulfHirt(Hallea.d.Saale/DE):“JesusSaves,RomeEnslaves”:“Protestant”Fundamentalists’ReactionstoAnglican-RomanCatholicRapprochementsin1960’sEngland

Koos-jandeJager(Amsterdam/NL):Radical(s)againstvaccination.ConscientiousobjectionstovaccinationamongDutchultra-orthodoxProtestantsduringtheIndonesianwarofindependence,1945-1950

PaulVermeer,PeerScheepers(Nijmegen/NL):ComparingpoliticalattitudesofevangelicalswiththeattitudesofmainlineChristiansandnon-churchmembersintheNetherlands

18.15 DINNERATTHERESTAURANTOFDORINTPARKHOTEL

Friday15March2019

9.00 KeynotelectureIIIntroductionandChair:GertPickel

Dr.PeterAchterberg,ProfessorofSocialandBehavioralScienesatTilburgUniversity,theNetherlands:“AsecondhomeforChristians?UnravelingtherelationshipbetweenreligiousbackgroundandpopulistvotingintheNetherlands”

10.15 COFFEE

10.45 Papersession4:Religionandidentity:ExampleofSwitzerlandChair:GertPickel

AmirSheikhzadegan,MichaelNollert(Fribourg/CH):Politicalengagementoforthodox,Muslim(re-)convertsinSwitzerland:Assessingtheinteractionoflife-history,socialnetworksandidentitytransformation

11.30 Papersession5:Religion,popularmusicandgovernmentsupport:ExamplesofScandinavia,RussiaandSerbia

Chair:FlorianHeesch

AndreasHäger(Turku/FI):TheuseofBobDylan’smusicinchurchservices

12.15 LUNCH

13.30 ContinuationofPapersession5

ThomasBossius(Gothenburg/SE):“CanITakeMyDogwithMetoHeaven?”SwedishCountryMusicandReligion

SabinaHadžibulić(Uppsala/SE):GodisintheHouse:NickCave,ReligionandSerbianFandom

14.45 COFFEE

15.15 ContinuationofPapersession5

David-EmilWickström(Mannheim/DE):MyPravoslavnye–Russkiirok,Orthodoxyandnationalisminpost-SovietRussia

16.00 CLOSINGSESSIONChair:VeronikaAlbrecht-Birkner

FinalDiscussion

Dr.FredvanLieburg,ProfessorofReligiousHistoryatVrijeUniversiteitAmsterdam,theNetherlands:Concludingnoteonthe3-yearsEuropeanBibleBeltproject