Presentation 

Developments within religions in the English-speaking world are often examined from the perspective of theological or doctrinal discourse, particularly when such discourse consequently imposes new liturgical or devotional practices on the religious community. This conference, by contrast, focuses on the transformations, fluctuations, shifts, reversals and adaptations that affect, more specifically, religious practices and which, often over the long term, give rise to new discourses that spread throughout the community and which, in some cases, go so far as to bring about structural or institutional changes within that same community, or even beyond.

Programme 

9.00 am: Welcome with coffee  

9.20 am
- Introduction to the symposium by Sandrine Parageau, Director of the HDEA laboratory

9.30 am -11.30 am
- Dampi Somoko (Université de Nantes, France) : « John Henry Newman : du geste à
la parole, itinéraire spirituel d’un théologien en transition »
- Anne Dalles-Maréchal (Université de Jean Monnet-Saint Etienne, France) :
« S’adapter à la Mandchourie : défis et ajustements religieux de l’Église
Presbytérienne Unie d’Écosse dans le nord-est de la Chine dans les années 1870 »
- Hanzhi Zhang & Yuanzhe Guo (MA student à Leipzig, Allemagne ; PhD candidate à
Pékin, Chine): "Neo-Localization of Global Catholicism: An Ethnographic Study of
an International Student Choir in modern China"

11.30 am: Coffee break 

12.00-1.00 pm: Keynote
- Eyal Poleg, Queen Mary, University of London, Royaume-Uni, on the materiality of
religious transformation

1.00 pm- 2.00 pm: Lunch break 

2.pm-3.20 pm
- Alizee S. Ahmad (PhD candidate, Emory University, États-Unis): "Beyond Doctrine:
How Translation and Mission Reshape Islamic Intellectual Life. The Case of the
Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam"
- Madhulika Sonkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, Inde): "Re(doing) deen
and dunya: Everyday Assemblages of Islam, Vocation, and Selfhood by Muslim
women in Contemporary India"

3.20 pm-3.50 pm: Break coffee  

3.50 pm-5.10 pm
- Nao Nomura (Saitama University, Japon) : "From Solar Panels to Espresso
Machines: Strategic Consumption Practices and the Negotiation of Amish Identity”
- Nadia Malinovich (Université Picardie Jules Verne / GSRL, France) : “Traditional or
Orthodox? Moroccan Jewish Immigrants to Los Angeles Encounter the Strange
New World of American Denominationalism (1950s to 2020s)"

5.10-5.30 pm: Conclusions

Organisers

A one-day seminar organised by Nathalie Caron (Sorbonne University) and Rémy Bethmont (University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis) with the support of the Paris IAS.

Partners

- Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis / Transcrit
- Sorbonne Université/ HDEA
- Université Paris Nanterre / CREA
- Aix Marseille Université / LERMA

Practical details  

On-site event at the Paris IAS, Gardes Room (1st floor), 17 quai d'Anjou, Paris 4.

Registration is required by email: nathalie.caron@sorbonne-université.fr