Late modernity challenges (and has challenged) religion, and religion challenges (and has challenged) late modernity. Secularization and breakdown of great narratives have signaled some tendencies in late modern time, while sacralization in the form of re-enchantment and spiritualization seem to have parallel and yet opposite developments. Are the two processes irreversible and distinct? Is religious authority challenged and how are claims of religious authenticity represented and negotiated within these developments?
The workshop will deal with these broad issues. Scholars with interest in and knowledge about (aspects of) these fields will be invited to present papers, and participants from the Center for Contemporary Religion will present work in progress to be discussed in an informal and hopefully inspiring workshop.
9.30 Welcome and frame of the workshop /Jørn Borup
9.45 Margit Warburg
A Confluence of Secular and Sacred Space: Danish Churches Abroad and Danish Public Space.
10.30 Jørgen Skov Sørensen
From the Authority of Edinburgh 1910 to the Authenticity of the Individual 2010. Christian mission in transformation.
11.15 Coffee break
11.30 Hans Raun Iversen
Replacing 'Secularization' with 'Need of Authenticity and Ambivalence as Condition of existential Life'
12.15 Lunch
Jørn Borup
From religious authority to authenticity of self – the spiritualization thesis in Buddhist contexts
Lars Ahlin
The foundation of Århus Bykirke (an evangelical elective congregation) - the result of a search for authenticity?
Marie Bisbjerg
Individualization, Subjectivization and Authority – An Investigation of Danish Muslim Youth Groups.
Rikke Gottfredsen
'Revivalism in Denmark - Why Not?
- Authority, Submission and New Authenticities in Contemporary Charismatic-Pentecostalism in Denmark'
Peter Fischer Nielsen
Religion, authority and the Internet: How Individuals use and evaluate Internet mediated authorities on religion
Henrik Reintoft Christensen
In the beginning was the Word: Comparing the presence and role of pastors and attorneys at law in the public since 1960s
14.30 Coffee break
Linda Woodhead
Panel
16.30 Wine and snacks
18.30 Dinner Nordens Folkekøkken, Jægergårdsgade 6
