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).
P 14 - Ritual Transfer
Room Nr. 9, Neue Universität
Chairs: Prof. Gita Dharampal-Frick dharampal-frick@sai.uni-heidelberg.de
Dr. Robert Langer robert.langer@ori.uni-heidelberg.de
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Common activities:
Reception
On Monday, 29 September, we will officially open the conference with a reception from 19.00 to 22.30
Neue Universität, Neue Aula, free admission
Key Note Lecture
Tuesday, 30 September at 19.00:
Key Note Speaker Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.
"Magie und Ritual"
Neue Universität, Neue Aula, free admission
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"
Neue Universität, Neue Aula, free admission
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
Neue Universität, Alter Senatssaal, free admission
Workshop
Friday, 3 October from 10:00 - 16:00:
"Staging Religion: Traditional Performances in New Public Spheres and Media"
(Cluster of Excellence »Asia and Europe in a Global Context:
Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows« / B7
Institut für Medizinische Psychologie, Bergheimer Str. 20
Speakers (synonym for referee, panelist, active participant)
Day 2 - Tuesday, 30 September 2008
11:00-11:45 Moritz Fischer (Discussant: Yan Suarsana)
Transcultural performance and ritual healing at
,FEPACO'-Nzambe Malamu, a Pentecostal-globalizing
network in Africa and overseas
11:45-12:30 Donald Sutton (Discussant: Petra Rösch)
Changing Ritual and Identity on an Ethnic Frontier:
Pilgrims and Tourists in Huanglong, Chinas
14:00-14:45 Subhadra Channa (Discussant: Karin Polit)
Ritual transfer:
From the high to the low in Hindu-Tibetan Himalayan Communities
14:45-15:30 Sudha Sitharaman (Discussant: Soumen Mukherjee)
Deconstructing Conflict over 'Worship'.
A Study of the Sri Guru Dattatreya Swami
Bababudhan Dargah in South India
16:00-16:45 Tulsi Patel (Discussant: Anja Wagner)
Transformations in Marriage Rituals:
The Case of Urbanising OBCs in Rajasthan
16:45-17:30 Manjit Singh Ahluwalia (Discussant: N.N.)
The Baptism Ceremony and the Institution
of Panj Piyaras in Sikhism
Day 3 - Wednesday, 1 October 2008
9:00-9:45 Afsar Muhammed (Discussant: Torsten Tschacher)
Muharram Rituals and Hindu Fakirs
9:45-10:30 Liudmila Khokhlova (Discussant: Martin Brandtner)
Contextual aspects of ritual transfer
in the history of Sikh community
11:00-11:45 Arne Harms (Discussant: Nitin Varma)
Gendered Hybridity: Masculinity and Possession among
the Hindu Communities of Guyana
11:45-12:30 Heiko Grünwedel (Discussant: Paula Schrode)
Retrieving
of souls in
processes of cultural exchange
between autochthonal
traditions of healing of Tyva and of neo-Shamans in
14:00-14:45 Ali Yaman (Discussant: Raoul Motika)
Observations on ritual transfer of Anatolian Alevis:
A comparative approach to basic Alevi ritual, cem
14:45-15:30 Kimberly H. Belcher (Discussant: Martin Brandtner)
Ritual Identity at Mar Thoma Shleeha in Chicago
16:00-16:45 Ahmet Taşğin (Discussant: N.N.)
The Eastern Church in Sweden:
The Transfer of Syrian Orthodox Rituals from Turkey to Europe
16:45-17:30 Davide Astori (Discussant: Frederek Musall)
Passover sèder and Masonic agàpe: Evidence of (Re)Invention
or Transfer of Ritual?
17:30-18:15 Paul Otto (Discussant: Manfred Berg)
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.
