The conference Religion and Spirituality as Sites of Learning, organized by the Donner Institute and the LeNeRe-project (Learning from new religion and spirituality), will take place on site in Åbo/Turku, May 15-17, 2023. The conference starts on May 15 at 10 a clock and ends on May 17 at around 15 a clock. The keynote lectures will be streamed and open to everyone. You find the link to the webinar in the programme below.
-
- Call for papers is open 3.10.2022-17.1.2023 – the deadline has been extended
- Notification of accepted abstracts 3.2.2023
- Registration is open 3.2-3.4.2023
- Conference dates 15-17.5.2023
Conference Programme
Monday 15 May
10:00
Coffee and Registration – Entrance Hall
10:30
Words of Welcome: Terhi Utriainen and Ruth Illman – Aud. Armfelt A102
11:00
Keynote: Kim Knott : The case for ‘unlearning’ in the study of religions: Pros and cons, interconnections and added value
Chair: Terhi Utriainen – Aud. Armfelt A102
Link to webinar: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66719039769
12:00
Lunch – Café Arken
13:30
Parallel Sessions
1. Westermarck C101 – Chair: Ville Husgafvel
Reet Hiiemäe: Hop-on hop-off spirituality: from consumerism and entertainment to learning
Marcus Moberg & Tommy Ramstedt: Teaching Mindfulness in Church: The Case of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Katarina Plank, Helene Egnell & Linnea Lundgren: The new ritual specialists of the Swedish folk church – lived religion, new spiritual practices and theological legitimacy
2. Aud. Voltaire M127 – Chair: Helena Kupari
Joanna Krotofil, Dagmara Mętel & Dorota Wójciak: Learning to navigate the alliance between the Catholic ideal of a mother and the ideology of intensive mothering – the experiences of women attending a Catholic mother and child group
Tiina Mahlamäki: Learning to knit
Mari Metso: Neo-Buddhist women transforming caste and gender boundaries through studying, learning, and teaching
3. Aud. Goethe L104 – Chair: Ruth Illman
Hanoch Ben Pazi: Religion and Spirituality as Sites of Learning
Miriam Feldmann Kaye: Learning as an Idea: ‘Hospitality’ from a Philosophical Perspective
Ville Hämäläinen: Dangerous Dialogue: The Teacher, Learner, and Communication in Kierkegaardian Religious Learning
15:00
Coffee Break- Entrance Hall
15:30-17:00
Parallel Sessions
4. Aud. Westermarck C101 – Chair: Måns Broo
Teija Rantala & Nella van den Brandt: Embodiment and sensory unlearning of women disengaging from religious belonging
Päivi Salmesvuori: Trancepreacher Helena Konttinen (d. 1916) and her yearly performance of penance
Emine Neval: Where are the women? The Gulen movement in Finland
5. Goethe L104 – Chair: Sofia Sjö
Ada Elgabsi: Religious (il)literacy? An investigation of the relationship between religion and culture in the school culture in Swedish-speaking lower secondary schools in Finland
Lise Eriksson, Victor Dudas, Aje Carlbom & Birgitta Essén:
Religious Literacy in Healthcare: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Perceived Religious Discrimination
Nina Maskulin: An apocalyptic film as a site for learning equality
6. Aud. Armfelt A102 – Chair: Linda Annunen
Jaana Kouri: Learning in contemporary shamanism
Katri Ratia: (Re-)Appropriated Practices for Radical Democracy in European Rainbow Gatherings
Linda Woodhead: What They Don’t Teach You in School: Spirituality, Paganism and Alternative Learning
17:15-18:45
Panel Discussion: ‘Eastern Spirituality’ in Arts: Inspiration, Appropriation, Conversation , Nina Kokkinen, Linda Annunen, Måns Broo & Ville Husgafvel
Chair: Ruth Illman – Aud. Armfelt A102
19:00-21:00
Get-together reception at Arken including the presentation of the Donner Institute Research Prize to Maija Butters
Performance by Päivi Hirvonen – Entrance Hall
Tuesday 16 May
09:00
Panel Discussion: What did we learn about religion and learning in the LeNeRe project? Linda Annunen, Maija Butters, Ville Husgafvel, Helena Kupari, Tiina Mällinen, Terhi Utriainen & Siiri Virta
Responses by Kim Knott and Linda Woodhead
Chair: Terhi Utriainen – Aud. Armfelt A102
10:30
Coffee Break – Entrance Hall
11:00
Parallel Sessions
7. Aud. Westermarck C101 – Chair: Sofia Sjö
Elisa Mikkola: Women learning a new profession in the field of New Spirituality
Emilia Plichta: Impact of Catholic Church’s teachings on childless women in Poland
Ella Poutiainen: Sacred feminine leadership? Teaching and learning gender within feminine spiritualities
8. Aud. Voltaire M127 – Chair: Marcus Moberg
Anders Aschim: First language Catholic catechesis in Norway: Learning (religion) for the diaspora?
Dmytro Markov (online): An education and the revival of Nepalese (Newar) Mahayana Buddhism: to educate an old Buddhist priest and a young Buddhist scholar
Teemu Toivonen: Communal life as a context of learning
9. Aud. Källan C201 – Chair: Maija Butters
Elad Ben David: Social Media as a Platform for Religious Spirituality during Covid-19: The Case of Jewish Israeli Preachers on YouTube
Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska & Joanna Krotofil: Polish Islamic Internet as a Site of Learning
Robin Isomaa: How to Think like an Atheist: Analyzing Atheist-Produced Educational Content on YouTube
12:30
Lunch – Café Arken
14.00
Keynote: Daniel Winchester: Let Us Attend: Religion, Spirituality, and the Education of Attention
Chair: Helena Kupari – Aud. Armfelt A102
Link to webinar: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66719039769
15:00
Coffee – Entrance Hall
15:30-17:00
Parallel Sessions
10. Aud. Armfelt A102 – Chair: Terhi Utriainen
Yael Dansac: Somatic Pedagogy in Contemporary Spiritual Practices
Nataliia Pavlyk: The Bodily Practices in Jain Yoga: Learning the Steps to Liberation
Ilona Raunola: A Process of Spiritual Nutrition
11. Aud. Westermarck C101 – Chair: Sofia Sjö
Sawsan Kheir: Secularization Among Young Adult Minority Students in Israel: Processes of Learning and Unlearning Religious Worldviews
Igor Mikeshin: Humility and Obedience: Russian Baptist Conversion as Unlearning
Liya Xie: Unlearning Religion in Churches: Why did Soviet anti-religious museums fail?
12. Aud. Goethe L104 – Chair: Ruth Illman
Lena Roos: The Green Sabbath Project. A Day for Learning about Our Place in the World
Laura Wickström: Learning About the Environment Within Islamic Tradition
19:00
Conference Dinner at Kåren
Dinner Speech: Peter Nynäs
DJ: Jokakeli
Hämeenkatu/Tavastgatan 22
Wednesday 17 May
09:00
Parallel Sessions
13. Aud. Westermarck C101 – Chair: Helena Kupari
Martina Björkander: Dancing steps of faith: Kinetic-somatic learning processes in charismatic worship
Heidi Jokinen: Altar Flowers – awing or learning
Helena Kupari: “Back row sign of the cross”: Conversion as learning through legitimate peripheral participation in the Finnish Orthodox community
14. Aud. Voltaire M127– Chair: Terhi Utriainen
Peter Boros: Redesigning Buddhist education in early 20th- century China
Aaron French: Esotericism Against Capitalism? Rudolf Steiner’s Esoteric Pedagogy
Tiina-Mari Mällinen: Learning Compassion, Unlearning Egoism -Mother Amma’s Devotees’ Continuing Life Lessons
15. Källan C201 – Chair: Maija Butters
Mikko Autere: Aesthetic and mystical cognition. Learning appropriate reactions to Sufi poetry
Olivia Cejvan: Revelations according to schedule: Secrecy as didactics in the initiatory society Sodalitas Rosae Crucis
Helena Hildur W: Interfaith Dialogue by Images
10:30
Coffee Break – Entrance Hall
11:00
Keynote: Mulki al-Sharmani : Women Living with, Learning from, and Reasoning with the Qur’an: Selected Experiences from Finland and Egypt
Chair: Maija Butters – Aud. Armfelt A102
Link to webinar: https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/66719039769
12:00
Lunch – Café Arken
13:00-14.30
Parallel Sessions
16. Aud. Armfelt A102 – Chair: Linda Annunen
Tero Heinonen: Kirtans and sacred chants as sites of learning
Laura Hellsten: Dance as a spiritual formation practice
Jip Lensink: Embodied and Emotional Practices: Learning Religious Songs among Moluccan Christians in the Netherlands
17. Aud. Källan C201 – Chair: Ville Husgafvel
Karima Karppinen: Applying Mysticism to Psychotherapy: Can Transcendent Experiences and the Expanding of Consciousness be Beneficial in a Non-Religious Therapeutic Context?
Ariane Kovac: Taking Christianity to Therapy: Spiritual (Un-)Learning and Mental Health in a Global Megachurch
Andrew Thomas: Self knowledge in education
14:45
Closing words
Conference reflections by Kim Knott and Daniel Winchester – Aud. Armfelt A102
15:15
Coffee and farewell – Entrance Hall