| 15 Feb 2018 - 16 Feb 2018 | All day | Boys Smith Room, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP | |
- Description
- Programme
Description
This event is the second two-day seminar from the Andrew W Mellon Foundation-funded project Religious Diversity and the Secular University.
This second international workshop of the CRASSH-Mellon project, “Religious Diversity and the Secular University” revisits two of the central disciplines in the history of the modern research university: theology and biblical scholarship. It does so by devoting one day each to two of the most important figures in the history of each discipline: Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918). Because of the predominant role of their respective disciplines in European culture of the long 19th century, Schleiermacher and Wellhausen were not merely authorities in the domains for which they are best known — systematic theology and the textual criticism of the Old Testament; they were thinkers whose work and whose example reached across the humanistic disciplines and far beyond Germany, transforming what it meant to study religion, the Bible, and language itself, indeed changing what it meant to practice scholarship (Wissenschaft) überhaupt in an age of historicism and science. In this way, we intend to explore and better understand the apparent paradox of the primacy of religion(s) in a story long told in terms of secularisation: the emergence of the modern university.
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‘Religious Diversity and the Secular University’ is funded by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation to support a multi-disciplinary examination of the interplay between religion, secularism, and the role of the university, reference #41600622.
Programme
Day One: Thursday 15 February 2018 |
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| 09:45 - 10:15 | Registration Tea and Coffee available |
| 10:15 - 11:45 | Session One Ruth Jackson (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge) Respondent: Geoff Dumbreck (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge), |
| 11:45 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Session Two Zachary Purvis (University of Edinburgh) Respondent: Giles Waller (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge) |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Break |
| 15:00 - 16:30 | Session Three Alexandra Zirkle (University of Notre Dame) Respondent: Ayla Lepine (Westcott House/University of Essex) |
Day Two: Friday 16 February 2018 |
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| 09:15 - 10:45 | Session Four Reinhard Kratz (University of Göttingen) Respondent: Nathan MacDonald (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge) |
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Break |
| 11:15 - 12:45 | Session Five Ronald Hendel (University of California Berkeley) Respondent: David Friedman (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge) |
| 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Session Six Paul Michael Kurtz (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge) Respondent: Marieke Dhont (British Academy/Leuven/University of Cambridge) |
