Reflections on Indigenous Religions, Université d'Edimbourg

Le département des Etudes des Religions et le Département des Etudes Celtiques et Ecossaises de l’Université d’Edimbourg

Critical Reflections on Indigenous Religions: A Symposium
27 November 2010
School of Divinity, Mound Place, University of Edinburgh

Cost: £25 (£15 students/unwaged) – includes teas/coffees and lunch

For registration forms/more information please contact Chris Cotter
(c.r.cotter@sms.ed.ac.uk) and/or Elijah Obinna
(e.o.obinna@sms.ed.ac.uk)


9:15 –10:00 am   Dr Graham Harvey, Open University, UK
Why Study Indigenous Religions ?
 
10:00 – 10:45 am   Professor Ulrich Berner, University of Bayreuth, Germany 
‘Religious Traditions: Kinship-based and/or Universal? Examples of Discourses from European and African Religious History’
10:45 – 11:15 am Coffee Break
 
11:15 – 12:00 noon  Professor Jens Peter Schjødt, University of Aarhus, Denmark 
‘Methodological and Theoretical Problems in Dealing with Orally Based Religions of the Past: The Case of Pre-Christian Scandinavia’
 
 12:15 – 1:00 pm   Professor Carole Cusack, University of Sydney, Australia 
‘The Encounter between Paganism and Christianity: Inventing “Indigenous” and “World Religions” in the Early Middle Ages’
 
1:00 -1:45 pm. Sandwich Lunch (Rainy Hall)
 
1:45 – 2:30 pm.  Dr Sabine Dedenbach-Salazar Saenz, University of Stirling
‘Don Cristóbal, Llocllayhuancupa and the Virgin: The Battle of Words in a Colonial Quechua Conversion Narrative’
 
2:30 – 3:15 pm Dr Bettina Schmidt, University of Wales Trinity St. David
‘The Spirit White Feather in Sao Paulo: How the Native American Has Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Religion’
 
3:15 – 4:00 pm Mr Gemechu Jemal Geda, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies, Germany
‘Irrecha: An Indigenous Oromo Thanksgiving Ceremony of the Oromo for their God Waaqa’ 
 
4:00 – 4:30 pm. Tea Break
 
4:30 – 5:15 pm  Dr Suzanne Owen, Leeds Trinity University, Leeds 
‘Druidry and the Definition of Indigenous Religion’
 
5:15 – 6:00 pm   Dr Emily Lyle, University of Edinburgh  
‘Defining the Religion that Lay behind the Self-Colonisation of Europe’
 
6:00 - 6:30 pm   Closing Panel and Discussion on the Symposium led by Professor James Cox,  Dr Afe Adogame and Dr Steven Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh