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.

Program

9.00 am: Welcome with coffee  

9.30 am -11.30 am
Chair of the session: Clotilde Prunier

• 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):
  “Adapting to Manchuria: Religious Challenges and Adjustments faced by the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in North-Eastern China in the 1870s”
• Hanzhi Zhang, Yuanzhe Guo and Dan Lin (Leipzig, Germany / Beijing, China):
  “Neo-Localization of Global Catholicism: An Ethnographic Study of an International Student Choir in Modern China”

11.30 am - 11.50 am : Coffee break 

11.50 am-12.50 pm: Keynote
Chair of the session: Anne Page

• Eyal Poleg, Queen Mary University of London, UK:
  “The Unintentional Rise of the Parish Bible”

1.00 pm- 2.00 pm: Lunch break 

2.15pm-3.35 pm
Chair of the session: Benjamin Dubrulle

• Madhulika Sonkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India):
  “Re(doing) deen and dunya: Everyday Assemblages of Islam, Vocation, and Selfhood by Muslim women in Contemporary India”

• Alizee S. Ahmad (Emory University, USA):
  “Reshaping Islamic Intellectual Life: Islam in English and the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement”

3.35 pm-4.00 pm: Coffee break 

4.00 pm-5.20 pm
Chair of the session: Aude de Mézerac-Zanetti

• Nao Nomura (Saitama University, Japan):
  “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)”

5.20-5.45 pm: Conclusions - Rémy Bethmont & Nathalie Caron

Organisers

A one-day seminar organised by Rémy Bethmont (Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis) and Nathalie Caron (Sorbonne Université) 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
-Institut universitaire de France

Practical details  

Hybrid event:

- 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

- Online via the following link: https://univ-paris8.zoom.us/j/94435435629?pwd=fXRzX6EX4bNPIU9BPalmDxTl1C5mCT.