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Lecture Series: What’s Religious about a Dead Body? Cadaver Donations in Taiwan
CeMEAS lecture:
What’s Religious about a Dead Body? Cadaver Donations in Taiwan
Monday July 25, 2016 · 4 pm (c.t.) · KWZ 0.610
Prof. C. Julia Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan/VisitingScholar, The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford University
Drawing from ethnographies, in this lecture Prof. Huang will explore the phenomenon of a recent “surge” of cadaver donations for medical purposes in Taiwan. The setting is a university founded by Tzu Chi (Ciji), a charismatic movement that runs one of the largest charities of Chinese Buddhism in the world. Since Tzu Chi founded its medical school in 1994, the total number of Continue reading
Summer School Göttingen SPIRIT 2016. “Beyond the City Limits: Rethinking New Religiosities in Asia.”
Summer School
Summer School Göttingen SPIRIT 2016. “Beyond the City Limits: Rethinking New Religiosities in Asia.”
18-22 July 2016. University of Göttingen, Germany
Göttingen Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (GISCA), Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) & Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS)
Theme
With the rapid urbanization across Asia, with new cityscapes, glittering skyscrapers, shopping malls, globalized forms of consumption it is easy to assume that cities are the primary sites for the production of the new. Continue reading
Meet our Researchers
Status
Meet our Researchers
Dr. Deng Jun
Deng Jun（邓军）received a doctoral degree in Chinese Intellectual History from East China Normal University in 2013. Currently she is a post-doctoral scholar at School of Marxism, Shanghai Jiaotong University. She will be conducting research in Göttingen University from May to September 2016. Continue reading
Guest Lecture: Floating Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors in North China Plain
Guest Lecture
Floating Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors in North China Plain: Boat-dwelling Fisherpeople’s Mobile Pantheon and Ancestral Hall
Friday July 8, 2016 · 2 pm (c.t.) · KWZ 0.610
Ching-chih Lin
Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, National Chengchi University
This talk focuses on how environmental change transformed the religious culture by examining the floating community of boat-dwelling fisherpeople in freshwater in North China. These mobile, isolated boat people adapted to a boat-dwelling lifestyle, organized aquatic social groups, and created innovative religious practices and beliefs in order to maintain their relationships with spirits and ancestors, as well as dispersed lineage members, given that they had no fixed base on land to build temples, ancestral shrines or tombs. Continue reading
Gastvortrag: Ein Postkolonialer Denker avant la lettre? Takeuchi Yoshimi, sein Asianismus und die Kritik an der Moderne
Gastvortrag
Ein Postkolonialer Denker avant la lettre? Takeuchi Yoshimi, sein Asianismus und die Kritik an der Moderne
Thursday July 7, 2016 · 6 pm (c.t.) · KWZ 3.701
Prof. Viren Murthy, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
In den 1980er Jahren begann eine zentrale Auseinandersetzung zwischen Marxisten und postkolonialen Theoretikern. Letztere kritisierten den Marxismus als eurozentrisch. Ihrer Meinung nach sahen Marxisten die europäische Geschichte als universell gültig und nutzten daher das europäische Entwicklungsmodell um Asien zu erklären. So verwendeten die Marxisten Kategorien wie Sklavengesellschaft und Feudalismus, um die chinesische, japanische und indische Geschichte zu interpretieren. In dieser Hinsicht Continue reading