Chair persons

Prof. Gita Dharampal-Frick

Gita Dharampal-Frick acquired an interdisciplinary academic training in literature, philosophy (Manchester and Leipzig), social anthropology (Cambridge) and Indian cultural history (SOAS and Paris, Sorbonne, PhD), and completed her Habilitation in early modern history (Freiburg). Her published research into pre- and early colonial European documentation on India underscores the continuities and discontinuities between early proto-ethnography and later scientific indology. She has also researched (as a Heisenberg Fellow) into modernizing processes and resistance movements in post-independence India. Her current interests, as Head of the Department of History at the SAI, deal with topics ranging from maritime cultural history of the Indian Ocean region (1400-1800), medical history, and religio-ritual transformations (1500-2000).

Dr. Robert Langer

Robert Langer, SFB 619 member and academic associate of it’s subproject C7 at the University of Heidelberg’s Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near East (Islamic / Ottoman Studies), studied Islamic Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Heidelberg, Damascus, Ankara and Istanbul. He was member of an “Emmy-Noether Research Group” (2000–2002, DFG) on Zoroastrian rituals at the Institute for Religious Studies, University of Heidelberg, where in 2002 he completed his PhD-dissertation on the interaction of Muslim and Zoroastrian shrine worship in Iran, awarded as “Cultural Research of the Year 2002”, Ministry of Culture, Iran. His fields of research are Anthropology, Geography and History of Religion, especially of the ‘Muslim World’. After working in Iran with contemporary Zoroastrians, he now is conducting fieldwork with Alevi and Yezidi groups in Turkey, Armenia and West-European Countries (‘diaspora’). He lectured at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berne (Switzerland).

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P 14 - Ritual Transfer

Chairs: Prof. Gita Dharampal-Frick dharampal-frick@sai.uni-heidelberg.de
Dr. Robert Langer robert.langer@ori.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

11:00-11:45    Moritz Fischer
                        Transcultural performance and ritual healing at
                        ‚FEPACO’-Nzambe Malamu, a Pentecostal-globalizing
                        network in Africa and overseas

11:45-12:30 Donald Sutton

Changing Ritual and Identity on an Ethnic Frontier:
Pilgrims and Tourists in Huanglong, Chinas

14:00-14:45 Subhadra Channa

Ritual transfer:
From the high to the low in Hindu-Tibetan Himalayan Communities

14:45-15:30    Sudha Sitharaman
                        Deconstucting Conflict over 'Worship'.
                        A Study of the Sri Guru Dattatreya Swami
                        Bababudhan Dargah in South India

16:00-16:45 Sundara Raj

Water Rituals in India:
Performance and Events from Kanyakumari to Kasi

16:45-17:30 Tulsi Patel

Transformations in Marriage Rituals:
The Case of Urbanising OBCs in Rajasthan

17:30-18:15    Manjeet Singh Ahluwalia
                        The Baptism Ceremony and the Institution
                        of Panj Piyaras in Sikhism

Day 3 – Wednesday, 1 October 2008

9:00-9:45        Liudmila Khokhlova
                        Contextual aspects of ritual transfer
                        in the history of Sikh community

9:45-10:30 Afsar Muhammed
Muharram Rituals and Hindu Fakirs

11:00-11:45    Arne Harms
                        Gendered Hybridity: Masculinity and Possession among
                        the Hindu Communities of Guyana

11:45-12:30    Heiko Grünwedel
                        Retrieving of souls in Siberia and Europe:
                        processes of cultural exchange between autochthonal
                        traditions of healing of Tyva and of neo-Shamans in Germany

14:00-14:45 Ali Yaman

Observations on ritual transfer of Anatolian Alevis:
A comparative approach to basic Alevi ritual, cem

14:45-15:30 Kimberly H. Belcher

Ritual Identity at Mar Thoma Shleeha in Chicago

16:00-16:45    Ahmet Taşğin
                        The Eastern Church in Sweden:
                        The Transfer of Syrian Orthodox Rituals from Turkey to Europe

16:45-17:30 Davide Astori

Passover sèder and Masonic agàpe: Evidence of (Re)Invention
or Transfer of Ritual?

17:30-18:15 Paul Otto

                        Beads of Power: Wampum and Ritual Transfers between
                        Native Americans and Europeans in the Seventeenth
                        and Eighteenth Centuries

Abstract

This panel aims to elucidate the concept of ritual transfer as representing paradigmatically the dynamics of ritual. To this end the individual papers attempt to deconstruct the processes of ritual transfer as they take place within time and space between Asia, Europe and the USA from the 16th century to the present. Due attention will be paid to contingent contextual factors such as socio-cultural and politico-economic determinants as they are implicated in these dynamic processes which, for their part, impinge on identity formation, especially of diasporic communities. An endeavour will also be made to ascertain to what extent specific cases of intercultural ritual transfer also involve a transformation of the ritual content and its significance.

German version

Die Sektion widmet sich dem Konzept des Ritualtransfers als einer paradigmatischen Manifestation von Ritualdynamik. Die einzelnen Vorlagen unternehmen den Versuch, spezifi¬sche Prozesse rituellen Transfers zwischen Asien, Europa und den USA aus dem Zeitraum vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart in ihren je besonderen raum-zeitlichen Koordinaten und Bedingungszusammenhängen zu rekonstruieren. Dabei soll den jeweils kontingenten kontextuellen Faktoren wie etwa den soziokulturellen und politisch-ökonomischen Determinanten dieser dynamischen Prozesse ein ebenso intensives Augenmerk gelten wie umgekehrt den Auswirkungen ritualdynamischer Prozesse auf die Formierung kultureller Identitäten insbesondere bei Gemeinschaften in der Diaspora. Schließlich wird zu beobachten sein, in welchem Grad spezifische Fälle von interkulturellem Ritualtransfer zugleich Transformationen in Gehalt und Bedeutung der betreffenden Rituale selbst mit sich bringen.

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SFB 619 Sponsors & Partners Poster Send to a Colleague Contact Imprint	Chair persons Prof. Gita Dharampal-Frick Gita Dharampal-Frick acquired an interdisciplinary academic training in literature, philosophy (Manchester and Leipzig), social anthropology (Cambridge) and Indian cultural history (SOAS and Paris, Sorbonne, PhD), and completed her Habilitation in early modern history (Freiburg). Her published research into pre- and early colonial European documentation on India underscores the continuities and discontinuities between early proto-ethnography and later scientific indology. She has also researched (as a Heisenberg Fellow) into modernizing processes and resistance movements in post-independence India. Her current interests, as Head of the Department of History at the SAI, deal with topics ranging from maritime cultural history of the Indian Ocean region (1400-1800), medical history, and religio-ritual transformations (1500-2000). Dr. Robert Langer Robert Langer, SFB 619 member and academic associate of it’s subproject C7 at the University of Heidelberg’s Department of Languages and Cultures of the Near East (Islamic / Ottoman Studies), studied Islamic Studies and Cultural Anthropology at Heidelberg, Damascus, Ankara and Istanbul. He was member of an “Emmy-Noether Research Group” (2000–2002, DFG) on Zoroastrian rituals at the Institute for Religious Studies, University of Heidelberg, where in 2002 he completed his PhD-dissertation on the interaction of Muslim and Zoroastrian shrine worship in Iran, awarded as “Cultural Research of the Year 2002”, Ministry of Culture, Iran. His fields of research are Anthropology, Geography and History of Religion, especially of the ‘Muslim World’. After working in Iran with contemporary Zoroastrians, he now is conducting fieldwork with Alevi and Yezidi groups in Turkey, Armenia and West-European Countries (‘diaspora’). He lectured at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berne (Switzerland). > Abstract > German version P 14 - Ritual Transfer Chairs: Prof. Gita Dharampal-Frick dharampal-frick@sai.uni-heidelberg.de Dr. Robert Langer robert.langer@ori.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 11:00-11:45 Moritz Fischer Transcultural performance and ritual healing at ‚FEPACO’-Nzambe Malamu, a Pentecostal-globalizing network in Africa and overseas 11:45-12:30 Donald Sutton Changing Ritual and Identity on an Ethnic Frontier: Pilgrims and Tourists in Huanglong, Chinas 14:00-14:45 Subhadra Channa Ritual transfer: From the high to the low in Hindu-Tibetan Himalayan Communities 14:45-15:30 Sudha Sitharaman Deconstucting Conflict over 'Worship'. A Study of the Sri Guru Dattatreya Swami Bababudhan Dargah in South India 16:00-16:45 Sundara Raj Water Rituals in India: Performance and Events from Kanyakumari to Kasi 16:45-17:30 Tulsi Patel Transformations in Marriage Rituals: The Case of Urbanising OBCs in Rajasthan 17:30-18:15 Manjeet Singh Ahluwalia The Baptism Ceremony and the Institution of Panj Piyaras in Sikhism Day 3 – Wednesday, 1 October 2008 9:00-9:45 Liudmila Khokhlova Contextual aspects of ritual transfer in the history of Sikh community 9:45-10:30 Afsar Muhammed Muharram Rituals and Hindu Fakirs 11:00-11:45 Arne Harms Gendered Hybridity: Masculinity and Possession among the Hindu Communities of Guyana 11:45-12:30 Heiko Grünwedel Retrieving of souls in Siberia and Europe: processes of cultural exchange between autochthonal traditions of healing of Tyva and of neo-Shamans in Germany 14:00-14:45 Ali Yaman Observations on ritual transfer of Anatolian Alevis: A comparative approach to basic Alevi ritual, cem 14:45-15:30 Kimberly H. Belcher Ritual Identity at Mar Thoma Shleeha in Chicago 16:00-16:45 Ahmet Taşğin The Eastern Church in Sweden: The Transfer of Syrian Orthodox Rituals from Turkey to Europe 16:45-17:30 Davide Astori Passover sèder and Masonic agàpe: Evidence of (Re)Invention or Transfer of Ritual? 17:30-18:15 Paul Otto Beads of Power: Wampum and Ritual Transfers between Native Americans and Europeans in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Abstract This panel aims to elucidate the concept of ritual transfer as representing paradigmatically the dynamics of ritual. To this end the individual papers attempt to deconstruct the processes of ritual transfer as they take place within time and space between Asia, Europe and the USA from the 16th century to the present. Due attention will be paid to contingent contextual factors such as socio-cultural and politico-economic determinants as they are implicated in these dynamic processes which, for their part, impinge on identity formation, especially of diasporic communities. An endeavour will also be made to ascertain to what extent specific cases of intercultural ritual transfer also involve a transformation of the ritual content and its significance. German version Die Sektion widmet sich dem Konzept des Ritualtransfers als einer paradigmatischen Manifestation von Ritualdynamik. Die einzelnen Vorlagen unternehmen den Versuch, spezifi¬sche Prozesse rituellen Transfers zwischen Asien, Europa und den USA aus dem Zeitraum vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart in ihren je besonderen raum-zeitlichen Koordinaten und Bedingungszusammenhängen zu rekonstruieren. Dabei soll den jeweils kontingenten kontextuellen Faktoren wie etwa den soziokulturellen und politisch-ökonomischen Determinanten dieser dynamischen Prozesse ein ebenso intensives Augenmerk gelten wie umgekehrt den Auswirkungen ritualdynamischer Prozesse auf die Formierung kultureller Identitäten insbesondere bei Gemeinschaften in der Diaspora. Schließlich wird zu beobachten sein, in welchem Grad spezifische Fälle von interkulturellem Ritualtransfer zugleich Transformationen in Gehalt und Bedeutung der betreffenden Rituale selbst mit sich bringen.