PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME for the conference
Japanese Religions in Europe
from Monday, March 15, to Wednesday, March 17, 1999
Monday, March 15
16:45 h Registration
17:00 h Welcome Note Volker KLEIN (JDZB)
17:15 h Introduction Klaus ANTONI (Tübingen University)
17:30 h Religion on the Marketplace Changes of Religion in Contemporary Society Hartmut ZINSER (FU Berlin)
18:30 h Dinner
Tuesday, March 16
Japanese New Religions in Europe
9:30 h Japanese New Religions in Europe: Accounting for Success and Failure Peter CLARKE (King's College London)
10:15 h Religion in the Post-Aum Era Changes in Japanese Religious Development and Expansion Overseas Ian READER (NIAS, Kopenhagen)
11:00 h Coffee Break
"Alternative Healing?"
11:30 h Alternative Healing or "SelfOrientalism": The Case of Japanese Kanpo-Medicine Christian OBERLÄNDER (Tokyo University)
12:15 h Health, Illness and Disease in Sukyo Mahikari in Britain Louella MATSUNAGA (St. Anthony's College, Oxford)
13:00 h Lunch
14:30 h Latest Trends in Reiki Ulrich DEHN (EZW, Berlin)
On Buddhism
15:15 h Buddhismus und die Legitimation staatlicher Gewalt: Die Haltung des Oberhaupts der Nichiren-Sekte zum Chinesisch-Japanischen und zum Pazifischen Krieg (in German) Peter FISCHER (Berlin)
16:00 h Coffee Break
16:30 h The Uses and Abuses of Zen in the Twentieth Century Robert SHARF (University of Michigan)
17:15 h Buddhist Ways to Happiness; Examples from Germany Inken PROHL (FU Berlin)
18:00 h Compassionate Murder: Violence and its Legitimation in the History of Japanese Buddhism Christoph KLEINE (Berlin)
19:00 h Dinner
Wednesday, March 17
Religious and "Spiritual" Ideas from Japan
9:30 h Ein deutsch-schweizerischer Lebensreformer entdeckt das 'geistige Nippon': Werner Zimmermann und seine drei Japan-Reiseberichte (in German) Ulrich LINSE (Fachhochschule München)
10:15 h Physical Training Systems from Asia to Europe. Between Fitness, Religion and Commercialization Bernd WEDEMEYER (Göttingen)
11:00 h Coffee Break
11:30 h A Nobel Prize Winner as a New Ager: The Case of Oe Kenzaburö Lisette GEBHARDT (Trier University)
12:15 h Concluding Discussion
13:00 h Lunch
Tagungsgebühr: DM 100,- ; für Studenten: DM 50,-.
Weitere Auskunft und Anmeldung bis zum 26. Februar 1999 an:
Jörg Reinowski, Japanese-German Center Berlin
Saargemünder Straße 2 - D-14195 Berlin (Zehlendorf)/Germany - Fax: +49-30-83907-220 -
email: jreinowski@jdzb.de
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