Workshop with Tanya Luhrmann

Date: 1st November 2019, 9:00-18:30
Venue: CEFRES Library
Organizers: Charles University (Institute of sociological studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences), Barbora Spalová in collaboration with CEFRES
Language: English

The workshop “GODTalks” is intended for researchers and students who would like to consult their work with Tanya Luhrmann.

Program

10:00-11:00: Zdeněk Konopásek, Charles University Prague
Religion in action: How private apparitions may become true/real

11:15-12:15: Marek Liška, Charles University Prague
How does the Relationship with God come to being in the Christian Community?

12:30-13:30: Samuel Dolbeau, UC Louwain / EHESS Paris
Translating God´s closeness into a catholic language: The case study of a French catholic charismaic community

13:30-15:00 Lunch break

15:00-16:00: Taťána Bužeková, Comenius University in Bratislava
Spirituality, purity and health: What is “right” and what is “wrong” about altered states of consciousness

16:15-17:15: Jan Tesárek, Charles university of Prague
Messengers of Light: Semiotics of Multiple Subjectivities in Czech Angelic Spirituality

17:30-18:30: Joanna Lipinska, University of Warsaw
Transplanting Wicca – an anthropological perspective on how the Polish Wicca develops and does it differ from its British origin?

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Tanya Marie Luhrmann (Watkins Professor in the Anthropology Department at Stanford University). Her work focuses on the edge experience: on voices, visions, the world of the supernatural and the world of psychosis. She uses a combination of ethnographic and experimental methods to understand the phenomenology of unusual sensory experiences. Her very appreciated books are Persuasions of the Witch’s Craft: Ritual Magic in Contemporary England (1989); When God Talks Back: Understanding the American evangelical relationship with God (2012); Our Most Troubling Madness: Schizophrenia and Culture (2016) and others.

During her stay in Prague, she will also deliver a lecture “How Gods (and God) Become Real for Men: Drives a Feeling of Presence”, on 31st October 2019 at 18:30 at Hollar, FSV UK (Smetanovo nábřeží. 6, room 4).