Participating scholar:

Prof. Philippe Buc

Philippe Buc is Professor of Medieval European History at Stanford University, California, USA, whose faculty he joined in 1990, and co-director of the Stanford Center for European Studies. He holds a Doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Paris, and a Masters from the University of California, Berkeley. He was visiting professor at Heidelberg in 2004; fellow of the NIAS (Wassenaar, Netherlands); and fellow of the Whitney Center for Humanities (Yale, USA). His research concentrates on the intersections between theology andpolitical culture, including political theology and the theology of politics. His first two books were respectively L'ambiguïté du Livre. Prince, pouvoir et peuple dans les commentaires de la Bible (1994), and The Dangers of Ritual. Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory (2001). He is currently working on an essay tentatively entitled Genealogies of religious violence: Martyrdom, holy war and terror in the West, ca. 70 C.E. to ca. 2001. (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/Faculty/buc.html)

>> next Participating scholar:

Among the scholars who have
agreed to participate are:

>> Prof. Phillip Buc

>> Prof. Folker Reichert

>> Prof. Hans Vorländer

>> Prof. Gerd Althoff

>> Prof. Gert Melville

>> Prof. Reinhard Strohm

>> Prof. Bruce Kapferer

>> Prof. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

>> Prof. Ronald L. Grimes

>> Prof. Alexis Sanderson

>> Prof. Harvey Whitehouse

>> Prof. Jan Heesterman

>> Prof. David Chidester

>> Dr. Donna L. Seamone

>> Prof. Eric Venbrux

>> Prof. Jone Salomonsen

>> Prof. Frederick M. Smith

>> Dr. Barry Stephenson

New Forms of Research on Rituals – An Announcement

We are delighted to announce the publication of the conference
proceedings "Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual" (ed. by Axel
Michaels et al.) by the publishing house Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Germany.

Please find below details of the publication:

Volume I: Grammars and Morphologies of Ritual Practices in Asia (2010)
Section I: Grammar and Morphology of Ritual
Editors: Axel Michaels (Heidelberg) & Anand Mishra (Heidelberg)
Section II: Ritual Discourse, Ritual Performance in China and Japan
Editors: Lucia Dolce, Gil Raz & Katja Triplett

Volume II: Body, Performance, Agency, and Experience (2010)
Section I: Ritual and Agency
Editor: Angelos Chaniotis (Princeton)
Section II: Ritual, Performance, and Event
Editor: Silke Leopold and Hendrik Schulze (Heidelberg)
Section III: The Body and Food in Ritual
Editor: Eric Venbrux, Thomas Quartier and Joanna Wojtkowiak (Nijmegen)
Section IV: The Varieties of Ritual Experience
Editors: Jan Weinhold (Heidelberg) and Geoffrey Samuel (Cardiff)

Volume III: State, Power, and Violence (2010)
Section I: Ritual and Violence
Editor: Margo Kitts (Honolulu)
Section II: Rituals of Power and Consent
Editor: Bernd Schneidmüller (Heidelberg)
Section III: Usurping Ritual
Editors: Gerald Schwedler and Eleni Tounta (Zürich)
Section IV: State and Ritual in India
Editor: Hermann Kulke and Uwe Skoda (Kiel)

Volume IV: Reflexivity, Media, and Visuality (2011)
Section I: Reflexivity and Discourse on Ritual
Editor: Udo Simon (Heidelberg)
Section II: Ritual and Media
Editor: Christiane Brosius and Karin Polit (Heidelberg)
Section III: Ritual and Visuality
Editors: Petra H. Rösch (Köln) and Corinna Wessels-Mevissen (Berlin)
Section IV: Ritual Design
Editor: Gregor Ahn (Heidelberg)

Volume V: Transfer and Spaces (2010)
Section I: Ritual Transfer
Editors: Gita Dharampal-Frick and Robert Langer (Heidelberg)
Section II: Ritualized Space and Objects of Sacrosanctity
Editor: Nils Holger Petersen (Kopenhagen)

Transforming Heidelberg into the center of research on rituals, the conference proceedings are an result of the international conference “Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual” with its immense seminal potential of the traditional subject. Held by the collaborative research center SFB 619 “Ritual Dynamics” from Sept 29 to Oct 2, 2008, it was one of the most comprehensive conventions in the field of humanities and cultural science at the Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg. As many as 600 participants from more than 15 disciplines discussed the future of research on rituals. More than 260 experts presented their research results in 22 panels, some of which spanned several days. 

Aswell as the the conference the conference proceedings assembled all experts of importance to research on rituals in order to reassess the traditional subject in view of the latest research. Its outcomes will be pathbreaking for a future transcultural, interdisciplinary and multi-methodical research approach and as a basis for a possible ritual science. The convention was marked by the broad range of disciplines and the corresponding diversity of methods. It embraced a tremendous variety of topics in terms of cultural geography and spanned a time horizon from the antiquity to the present.

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SFB 619 Sponsors & Partners Poster Send to a Colleague Contact Imprint	Participating scholar: Prof. Philippe Buc Philippe Buc is Professor of Medieval European History at Stanford University, California, USA, whose faculty he joined in 1990, and co-director of the Stanford Center for European Studies. He holds a Doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Paris, and a Masters from the University of California, Berkeley. He was visiting professor at Heidelberg in 2004; fellow of the NIAS (Wassenaar, Netherlands); and fellow of the Whitney Center for Humanities (Yale, USA). His research concentrates on the intersections between theology andpolitical culture, including political theology and the theology of politics. His first two books were respectively L'ambiguïté du Livre. Prince, pouvoir et peuple dans les commentaires de la Bible (1994), and The Dangers of Ritual. Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory (2001). He is currently working on an essay tentatively entitled Genealogies of religious violence: Martyrdom, holy war and terror in the West, ca. 70 C.E. to ca. 2001. (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/history/Faculty/buc.html) >> next Participating scholar: Among the scholars who have agreed to participate are: >> Prof. Phillip Buc >> Prof. Folker Reichert >> Prof. Hans Vorländer >> Prof. Gerd Althoff >> Prof. Gert Melville >> Prof. Reinhard Strohm >> Prof. Bruce Kapferer >> Prof. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger >> Prof. Ronald L. Grimes >> Prof. Alexis Sanderson >> Prof. Harvey Whitehouse >> Prof. Jan Heesterman >> Prof. David Chidester >> Dr. Donna L. Seamone >> Prof. Eric Venbrux >> Prof. Jone Salomonsen >> Prof. Frederick M. Smith >> Dr. Barry Stephenson > Welcome > Aim of the conference > Conference structure New Forms of Research on Rituals – An Announcement We are delighted to announce the publication of the conference proceedings "Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual" (ed. by Axel Michaels et al.) by the publishing house Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, Germany. Please find below details of the publication: Volume I: Grammars and Morphologies of Ritual Practices in Asia (2010) Section I: Grammar and Morphology of Ritual Editors: Axel Michaels (Heidelberg) & Anand Mishra (Heidelberg) Section II: Ritual Discourse, Ritual Performance in China and Japan Editors: Lucia Dolce, Gil Raz & Katja Triplett Volume II: Body, Performance, Agency, and Experience (2010) Section I: Ritual and Agency Editor: Angelos Chaniotis (Princeton) Section II: Ritual, Performance, and Event Editor: Silke Leopold and Hendrik Schulze (Heidelberg) Section III: The Body and Food in Ritual Editor: Eric Venbrux, Thomas Quartier and Joanna Wojtkowiak (Nijmegen) Section IV: The Varieties of Ritual Experience Editors: Jan Weinhold (Heidelberg) and Geoffrey Samuel (Cardiff) Volume III: State, Power, and Violence (2010) Section I: Ritual and Violence Editor: Margo Kitts (Honolulu) Section II: Rituals of Power and Consent Editor: Bernd Schneidmüller (Heidelberg) Section III: Usurping Ritual Editors: Gerald Schwedler and Eleni Tounta (Zürich) Section IV: State and Ritual in India Editor: Hermann Kulke and Uwe Skoda (Kiel) Volume IV: Reflexivity, Media, and Visuality (2011) Section I: Reflexivity and Discourse on Ritual Editor: Udo Simon (Heidelberg) Section II: Ritual and Media Editor: Christiane Brosius and Karin Polit (Heidelberg) Section III: Ritual and Visuality Editors: Petra H. Rösch (Köln) and Corinna Wessels-Mevissen (Berlin) Section IV: Ritual Design Editor: Gregor Ahn (Heidelberg) Volume V: Transfer and Spaces (2010) Section I: Ritual Transfer Editors: Gita Dharampal-Frick and Robert Langer (Heidelberg) Section II: Ritualized Space and Objects of Sacrosanctity Editor: Nils Holger Petersen (Kopenhagen) Transforming Heidelberg into the center of research on rituals, the conference proceedings are an result of the international conference “Ritual Dynamics and the Science of Ritual” with its immense seminal potential of the traditional subject. Held by the collaborative research center SFB 619 “Ritual Dynamics” from Sept 29 to Oct 2, 2008, it was one of the most comprehensive conventions in the field of humanities and cultural science at the Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg. As many as 600 participants from more than 15 disciplines discussed the future of research on rituals. More than 260 experts presented their research results in 22 panels, some of which spanned several days.  Aswell as the the conference the conference proceedings assembled all experts of importance to research on rituals in order to reassess the traditional subject in view of the latest research. Its outcomes will be pathbreaking for a future transcultural, interdisciplinary and multi-methodical research approach and as a basis for a possible ritual science. The convention was marked by the broad range of disciplines and the corresponding diversity of methods. It embraced a tremendous variety of topics in terms of cultural geography and spanned a time horizon from the antiquity to the present.