Chair person

Dr. Henrik Jungaberle

Henrik Jungaberle studied in Freiburg, Konstanz and Heidelberg. From 1996 on he worked as psychotherapist/music therapist in the Institute of Medical Psychology, University Clinic Heidelberg, where he also did his doctorate on "Music and Metaphor", an interdisciplinary and multimethod study on group psychotherapy involving music. Being a member of the research group on ritual dynamics, he works on the topics of ritual psychology, particularly on experiential aspects of performative behaviour. His empirical focus is on altered states of consciousness, use of psychoactives and behaviour control. He has authored and edited a number of publications, including "Rituale erneuern/Renewing Ritual" (2006).

Prof. Geoffrey Samuel

Geoffrey Samuel grew up in Leeds, studied physics at Oxford and social anthropology at Cambridge, where he completed a doctorate on religion in Tibetan societies in 1975. He has worked in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia, and also lived for extensive periods in South Asia and the USA. He came to the School of Religious and Theological Studies at Cardiff as a Professorial Fellow in January 2005 to set up an interdisciplinary research programme that includes religion, health, Asian technologies of consciousness, and Asian medicine. In October 2007, he became the first Director of the Cardiff Humanities Research Institute (CHRI). His publications include four authored books, Mind, Body and Culture (1990), Civilized Shamans (1993), Tantric Revisionings (2005), and The Origins of Yoga and Tantra (2008), four edited books, and a large number of journal articles, book chapters and other works.

Dipl.-Psych. Jan Weinhold

Jan Weinhold studied psychology in Berlin (Humboldt-University). Since 2002 he has been working at the Institute of Medical Psychology,
Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Clinic Heidelberg. His interests cover the use of psychoactive substances in relation to ritual studies, cross-cultural psychology, and systemic psychotherapy. As a member of the Collaborative Research Centre "Dynamics of Ritual" (SFB 619 "Ritualdynamik") he has published articles in the field of rituals and drug-use, and has (co-)edited the volume "Rituale in
Bewegung" (Rituals on the move), 2006, LIT-Verlag).

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P 19 - The Varieties of Ritual Experience

Chairs: Dr. Henrik Jungaberle Henrik_Jungaberle@med.uni-heidelberg.de
Prof. Geoffrey Samuel SamuelG@cardiff.ac.uk
Dipl.-Psych. Jan Weinhold Jan.Weinhold@med.uni-heidelberg.de

Download preliminary daily schedule here (pdf)
(for better readability kindly print it out)

Common activities:

Reception
On Monday, 29 September, we will officially open the conference with a reception from 19.30 to 22.30

Key Note Lecture
Tuesday, 30 September:
Key Note Speaker Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jan Assmann
"Magie und Ritual"

Plenary Discussion
Wednesday, 1 October at 18.00 introductory presentation:
Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf, Freie Universität Berlin
"The Future of the Science of Ritual in a transcultural Context"

Exchange meeting
Thursday, 2 October from 9:00 - 12:00:
Exchange meeting between scientists from the German Archaeological Institute
and the Collaborative Research Center SFB 619

Speakers (synonym for referee, panelist, active participant)

Day 2 – Tuesday, 30 September 2008

9:00-9:45     Etzel Cardeña
                       Truthful trickery:
                       The reality of hypnosis, shamanism, and performance/ritual

9:45-10:30 Henrik Jungaberle

Ritual in the Mind - How ritual structures experience

11:00-11:45 David Thurfjell
Ritual, emotion and the navigation of the self

11:45-12:30 Jan Weinhold

Experiencing drugs or rituals?
Psychoactive substances within ritual contexts

14:00-14:45 Michael Winkelmann
Phylogenetic and evolutionary origins of human ritual

14:45-15:30 Sarah Pike

Performing Grief in Formal and Informal Rituals at
the Burning Man Festival

16:00-16:45 Jason Throop

Ritual experience and biogenetic structuralism

16:45-17:30 Martin Hell

Rituals and Family Constellation

Day 3 – Wednesday, 1 October 2008

9:00-9:45 Andreas Odenthal

Theology and Psychoanalysis in dialogue about the liturgy
of the Catholic Church

9:45-10:30 Anna Van den Kerchove

Texts in the core of different ritual experiences

11:00-11:45 Beatrix Hauser

Dramatic Changes? Religious and Aesthetic Experience
in Metropolitan Ramlila Performances

11:45-12:30 Daniel Böttger

To say "Krishna" is to smile -
emotion psychology and the neurology of mantra singing

14:00-14:45 Gerard Poole

The Musical Form, Emotional Modalities, and Controlled Chaos,
as Encountered in Andalusian Ritual Practices

16:00-16:45 Yulia Ustinova

Cave Experiences and Ancient Greek Oracles

16:45-17:30 Louise Child

                       Visions, Dreams, and the Consort in Tantric Buddhism

Day 4 – Thursday, 2 October 2008

9:00-9:45     Yolanda van Ede
                       Sensational Flamenco: Comparing Japanese and Spanish Dancers

9:45-10:30 Barbara Gerke

                       The Multivocality of Ritual Experiences:
                       Long-Life Empowerments among Tibetan Communities
                       in the Darjeeling Hills, India

11:00-11:45 Jay Johnston

Physiognomy of the Invisible: Ritual, Subtle Anatomy and Ethics

11:45-12:30 Ingrid Lutz

The Use of Ritual in Contemporary (Drama-) Therapy –
Towards a “Transformational Grammar” of Ritual?

14:00-14:45 Richard H. Roberts

                       Ritual and experiential learning:
                       practice, process and 'inner work' in leadership studies
                       and higher education

14:45-15:30 Geoffrey Samuel

Inner Work and the Connections between
Anthropological and Psychological Analysis

16:00-16:45 Angela Sumegi

Buddhist and Shamanic Ritual:
A Comparison of their Inner Workings

Abstract

While research on rituals has focused on both performative and script analysis, the experiences of different ritual agents and participants has yet to receive adequate attention. Changes in the experiential dimensions of rituals may prove indicative of shifts in the social and structural dynamics of a ritual.

The experience of ritual can be influenced by individual and cultural expectations, patterns of interpretation, and of course by the types of ritual themselves. Can connections be established between the particular ritual design and techniques, and the intended experiential states of the participants, to yield perhaps a typology of ritual experience? Some rituals, for example, seem to include and others exclude critical (self)-reflection. While some rituals appear to be designed to elicit heightened emotionality, other ritual performances seem to aim at creating an atmosphere of formality that lacks any expression of emotion. In some cultural contexts particular rituals are a source of deepened and collective participation and can be conceived of as critical life-events. In other contexts, however, rituals seem so omnipresent that it is hard to distinguish them from non-ritualized actions. The experiential dimension is crucial to many ritual (re)inventions that take place in post-modern societies. What do these inventions allow for, what do they exclude? What concepts of personhood are involved? Which traditional and new forms of technology and behavior are used to alter states of consciousness/experience by means of ritual?

How might psychologists and other social scientists identify both interpersonal and intra-personal differences and changes over time in the experience of ritual? Of course, experience is a complex phenomenon that includes conscious and unconscious cognition, individual and collective symbolic representations, body-mind issues, and the like. No single method can give a comprehensive account of this wide range of experiences in all its complexity. On the contrary, only by enlisting a variety of methods do we have a better basis for investigating all these various experiential dimensions.

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SFB 619 Sponsors & Partners Poster Send to a Colleague Contact Imprint	Chair person Dr. Henrik Jungaberle Henrik Jungaberle studied in Freiburg, Konstanz and Heidelberg. From 1996 on he worked as psychotherapist/music therapist in the Institute of Medical Psychology, University Clinic Heidelberg, where he also did his doctorate on "Music and Metaphor", an interdisciplinary and multimethod study on group psychotherapy involving music. Being a member of the research group on ritual dynamics, he works on the topics of ritual psychology, particularly on experiential aspects of performative behaviour. His empirical focus is on altered states of consciousness, use of psychoactives and behaviour control. He has authored and edited a number of publications, including "Rituale erneuern/Renewing Ritual" (2006). Prof. Geoffrey Samuel Geoffrey Samuel grew up in Leeds, studied physics at Oxford and social anthropology at Cambridge, where he completed a doctorate on religion in Tibetan societies in 1975. He has worked in the UK, New Zealand, and Australia, and also lived for extensive periods in South Asia and the USA. He came to the School of Religious and Theological Studies at Cardiff as a Professorial Fellow in January 2005 to set up an interdisciplinary research programme that includes religion, health, Asian technologies of consciousness, and Asian medicine. In October 2007, he became the first Director of the Cardiff Humanities Research Institute (CHRI). His publications include four authored books, Mind, Body and Culture (1990), Civilized Shamans (1993), Tantric Revisionings (2005), and The Origins of Yoga and Tantra (2008), four edited books, and a large number of journal articles, book chapters and other works. Dipl.-Psych. Jan Weinhold Jan Weinhold studied psychology in Berlin (Humboldt-University). Since 2002 he has been working at the Institute of Medical Psychology, Centre for Psychosocial Medicine, University Clinic Heidelberg. His interests cover the use of psychoactive substances in relation to ritual studies, cross-cultural psychology, and systemic psychotherapy. As a member of the Collaborative Research Centre "Dynamics of Ritual" (SFB 619 "Ritualdynamik") he has published articles in the field of rituals and drug-use, and has (co-)edited the volume "Rituale in Bewegung" (Rituals on the move), 2006, LIT-Verlag). > Abstract P 19 - The Varieties of Ritual Experience Chairs: Dr. Henrik Jungaberle Henrik_Jungaberle@med.uni-heidelberg.de Prof. Geoffrey Samuel SamuelG@cardiff.ac.uk Dipl.-Psych. Jan Weinhold Jan.Weinhold@med.uni-heidelberg.de Download preliminary daily schedule here (pdf) (for better readability kindly print it out) Common activities: Reception On Monday, 29 September, we will officially open the conference with a reception from 19.30 to 22.30 Key Note Lecture Tuesday, 30 September: Key Note Speaker Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jan Assmann "Magie und Ritual" Plenary Discussion Wednesday, 1 October at 18.00 introductory presentation: Prof. Dr. Christoph Wulf, Freie Universität Berlin "The Future of the Science of Ritual in a transcultural Context" Exchange meeting Thursday, 2 October from 9:00 - 12:00: Exchange meeting between scientists from the German Archaeological Institute and the Collaborative Research Center SFB 619 Speakers (synonym for referee, panelist, active participant) Day 2 – Tuesday, 30 September 2008 9:00-9:45 Etzel Cardeña Truthful trickery: The reality of hypnosis, shamanism, and performance/ritual 9:45-10:30 Henrik Jungaberle Ritual in the Mind - How ritual structures experience 11:00-11:45 David Thurfjell Ritual, emotion and the navigation of the self 11:45-12:30 Jan Weinhold Experiencing drugs or rituals? Psychoactive substances within ritual contexts 14:00-14:45 Michael Winkelmann Phylogenetic and evolutionary origins of human ritual 14:45-15:30 Sarah Pike Performing Grief in Formal and Informal Rituals at the Burning Man Festival 16:00-16:45 Jason Throop Ritual experience and biogenetic structuralism 16:45-17:30 Martin Hell Rituals and Family Constellation Day 3 – Wednesday, 1 October 2008 9:00-9:45 Andreas Odenthal Theology and Psychoanalysis in dialogue about the liturgy of the Catholic Church 9:45-10:30 Anna Van den Kerchove Texts in the core of different ritual experiences 11:00-11:45 Beatrix Hauser Dramatic Changes? Religious and Aesthetic Experience in Metropolitan Ramlila Performances 11:45-12:30 Daniel Böttger To say "Krishna" is to smile - emotion psychology and the neurology of mantra singing 14:00-14:45 Gerard Poole The Musical Form, Emotional Modalities, and Controlled Chaos, as Encountered in Andalusian Ritual Practices 16:00-16:45 Yulia Ustinova Cave Experiences and Ancient Greek Oracles 16:45-17:30 Louise Child Visions, Dreams, and the Consort in Tantric Buddhism Day 4 – Thursday, 2 October 2008 9:00-9:45 Yolanda van Ede Sensational Flamenco: Comparing Japanese and Spanish Dancers 9:45-10:30 Barbara Gerke The Multivocality of Ritual Experiences: Long-Life Empowerments among Tibetan Communities in the Darjeeling Hills, India 11:00-11:45 Jay Johnston Physiognomy of the Invisible: Ritual, Subtle Anatomy and Ethics 11:45-12:30 Ingrid Lutz The Use of Ritual in Contemporary (Drama-) Therapy – Towards a “Transformational Grammar” of Ritual? 14:00-14:45 Richard H. Roberts Ritual and experiential learning: practice, process and 'inner work' in leadership studies and higher education 14:45-15:30 Geoffrey Samuel Inner Work and the Connections between Anthropological and Psychological Analysis 16:00-16:45 Angela Sumegi Buddhist and Shamanic Ritual: A Comparison of their Inner Workings Abstract While research on rituals has focused on both performative and script analysis, the experiences of different ritual agents and participants has yet to receive adequate attention. Changes in the experiential dimensions of rituals may prove indicative of shifts in the social and structural dynamics of a ritual. The experience of ritual can be influenced by individual and cultural expectations, patterns of interpretation, and of course by the types of ritual themselves. Can connections be established between the particular ritual design and techniques, and the intended experiential states of the participants, to yield perhaps a typology of ritual experience? Some rituals, for example, seem to include and others exclude critical (self)-reflection. While some rituals appear to be designed to elicit heightened emotionality, other ritual performances seem to aim at creating an atmosphere of formality that lacks any expression of emotion. In some cultural contexts particular rituals are a source of deepened and collective participation and can be conceived of as critical life-events. In other contexts, however, rituals seem so omnipresent that it is hard to distinguish them from non-ritualized actions. The experiential dimension is crucial to many ritual (re)inventions that take place in post-modern societies. What do these inventions allow for, what do they exclude? What concepts of personhood are involved? Which traditional and new forms of technology and behavior are used to alter states of consciousness/experience by means of ritual? How might psychologists and other social scientists identify both interpersonal and intra-personal differences and changes over time in the experience of ritual? Of course, experience is a complex phenomenon that includes conscious and unconscious cognition, individual and collective symbolic representations, body-mind issues, and the like. No single method can give a comprehensive account of this wide range of experiences in all its complexity. On the contrary, only by enlisting a variety of methods do we have a better basis for investigating all these various experiential dimensions.