Muslim Devotional Practices. Rituals, Theology and Aesthetics

Programme:

09.00 - 09.15	Catharina Raudvere, Copenhagen The network “Contemporary Muslim Piety”. A Short Introduction
09.15 - 10.00	Alessandro Gori, Copenhagen The Local and Global in the Islamic Pietistic Literature of Ethiopia
10.15 - 11.30	Kjersti Larsen, Oslo (in room 10.3.28) Muslim Piety in the Context of Everyday Life. Aesthetics and Devotional Engagement in Zanzibar
11.30 - 12.15	Aslı Elitsoy, Ankara Pro-Kurdish Holy Birth Week Celebrations in Turkey
13.00 - 13.45	Anne Bang, Bergen Quranic Healing and the Placebo Effect. The “Zanzibari Questions” in al-Manar, 1904
13.45 - 14.30	Ingvild Flaskerud, Oslo Rituals and Aesthetics. Spaces for Female Agency in the Mosque
15.00 - 15.45	Helen Haas, Tartu A Portrait and Its Meanings. Representation of Hacı Bektâş-ı Velî
15-45 - 16.30	Simon Stjernholm and Maria Lindebæk Lyngsøe, Copenhagen Danish Muslims Cultivating and Experiencing Nearness to God
16.30 - 17.15	Hege Markussen, Lund Living Alevi Lives in Turkey. Stories of Education, Religion and Politics
17.15 - 17.30	Summing-up Andreas Bandak, Copenhagen

The conference was funded by the Center for Modern European Studies at the Faculty of Humanities.