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- Convenors:
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Hoppál Bulcsú
(Corvinus University Budapest)
Abraham Kovacs (J. Selyeho University)
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- Discussant:
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Abraham Kovacs
(J. Selyeho University)
- Format:
- Panel
- Location:
- Epsilon room
- Sessions:
- Wednesday 6 September, -
Time zone: Europe/Vilnius
Short Abstract:
The aim of our panel is to outline the main points and milestones of the Karl Kerényi Program. The panel will raise methodological and theoretical issues.
Long Abstract:
The Hungarian Association for the Academic Study of Religions (HAASR) has launched a scientific program in commemoration to the famous Hungarian religious scholar Karl Kerényi. The Karl Kerényi Program includes researches, publications, translations, conferences, and it will certainly determine the frameworks of the research of religious studies in Hungary for the next decades. The aim of our panel is to outline the main points and milestones of the Program. This however raises methodological and theoretical issues. The panelists will discuss these problems from historical as well as from a systematic point of view. Each paper will discuss relevant aspects of the Karl Kerényi Program and will address general theoretical-methodological issues in religious studies and will include their significance from the point of view of the relation of technologies and religions.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Wednesday 6 September, 2023, -Paper short abstract:
In my paper I will list Hungarian institutions, individuals that have contributed these questions and I will show some new religious phenomena emerging recently. My question is whether the ideologically nonbiased, free scholarship can explain all questions of religious phenomena?
Paper long abstract:
Religious Studies in Middle-Europe 30 years after the Political Turn
After the political turn in 1990 there was a huge expectation both on scientific as well as on social level. After the collapse of Communism scholars of religion have started to redefine what religion is and relocate their position free from ideological and theological concerns. In my paper I will list Hungarian institutions (and names of outstanding scholars of religion) that have contributed these questions and I will show some new religious phenomena emerging recently. My question is whether the ideologically nonbiased, free scholarship can explain all questions of new religious phenomena? I will answer this question by the help of some concrete examples.
The paper will include historical as well as purely systematical approaches with a special emphasis on the relation of religions and sciences.
Paper short abstract:
The presentation outlines some aspects of K. Kerényi, S. Ferenczy and W. James to the Study of Science of Religion with a particular view on myth and faith as well their relation to healing and the well-being of individuals so as to bring into dialogue some of their theories and views on religion.
Paper long abstract:
This paper seeks to sketch out some selected contributions of Karl Kerényi, Sándor Ferenczy and William James to the Study of Science of Religion with a particular view on myth and faith as well their relation to healing and the well-being of individuals. The intention is to bring into dialogue some of their theories and views about religion as such and its relation to sciences. This presentation first intends to identify the psychological and philosophical tools and approaches they offer. Then, by applying them it tries to probe into the issue how faith, unbelief and persuasion function for the believer be ‘it’ an ancient or postmodern human being. In so doing, it is hoped to sketch out major lines of thought in their interpretation that could be used for understanding what is often thought to be incomprehensible, the myth and mysterious reality of religion.