Religion and Power Relations in Central and Eastern Europe. April 19-21, 2012 Petre Andrei University of Iaşi

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1 Religion and Power Relations in Central and Eastern Europe April 19-21, 2012 Petre Andrei University of Iaşi Thursday 19 April Welcoming speeches Introduction: Sebastian Năstuţă 16,30-17,30 Aula Magna Hall (6th floor) 17,30-18,30 Aula Magna Hall (6th floor) Iulian Chifu, Associate professor PhD, Councelor at Romanian Presidential Administration Nicu Gavriluţă,, Al. I. Cuza University of Iaşi, Vice-President of Romanian Sociological Association Siniša Zrinščak, University of Zagreb, President of ISORECEA Doru Tompea, Professor PhD., Rector of Petre Andrei University of Iaşi Opening lecture Theodor Paleologu Religion and power: political theology between East and West Friday 20 April Plenary lecture Chair: Siniša Zrinščak 9,00-10,00 Pal Repstad Studying religion and power - conceptual and methodological challenges 10,00-10,30 Coffee break Religious practice among different confessional traditions (I) Chair: Olaf Müller Eileen Barker Who gets to decide what and how? Milda Ališauskienė Spirituality as strategy in the field of religion: the case of contemporary Hinduism in Lithuania Adela Fofiu Losing my religion in an Islamic Europe. The violent imaginary of the Romanian New Right and the uncertainty of globalized religions Religion, power and gender Chair: Mălina Voicu Agata S. Nalborczyk The role of women in the Polish-Lithuanian Muslim Tatar communities

2 Alina Hurubean Gender inequalities, religion and power relations thinking intersectionality Rasa Pranskevičiūtė New models for gender existence: the case of the Vissarions and the Anastasians Pilgrimage as an expression of religious power Chair: Rafal Smoczynski Room 8.4. Alexander Bielicki Marianism and modernity in Slovak pilgrimage Adrian Netedu Religious pilgrimage as urban brand. The case of Iaşi municipality Adriana Bondor Orthodox pilgrimage in Iași, Romania. A religious gilt-edged investment for political and commercial purposes 12,00 14,00 Lunch break Democratization, the restructuring of power, and religiosity in CEE (I) Chair: Ankica Marinović 14,00 15,30 Gergely Rosta; Olaf Müller Religiosity and the support of democracy Claudiu Herțeliu Religious affiliation in Romania evidences, changes and directions Mălina Voicu Economic insecurity or public supply of religious goods? An explanation of trends in religiosity in post-communist Romania Religion, power and well-being Chair: Barbara Thériault 14,00 15,30 Maria-Nicoleta Turliuc, Petruţa-Paraschiva Rusu Religiosity and well-being in Romanian Orthodox families Anastasia Cherkasova Religion among college students in Russia: a power or powered by? Monica Grigore Influencing fate. Popular beliefs and religious practice in Orthodoxy Theoretical perspectives on religion and power (I) Chair: Sebastian Năstuță 14,00 15,30 Room 8.4. Urszula Idziak-Smoczynska Jacques Derrida: a project of forgiveness without Sovereignty Doru Tompea Petre Andrei s conception on sociology of religion Péter Török Charisma and community - A movement around Fr. Ferenc Pál 15,30 16,00 Coffee break

3 Religious practice among different confessional traditions (II) Chair: Péter Török 16,00 17,30 László-Attila Hubbes Rebellion of the ancestors. Recombinant ethno-pagan narratives in Romanian and Hungarian cyber-religiosity Adina Răducanu You may be a believer, but in private. The efficiency of the freedom of thought, conscience and belief in Romania Rafal Smoczynski The role of Catholicism in blocking opportunistic behavior in the sphere of markets in Poland after 1990 Democratization, the restructuring of power, and religiosity in CEE (II) Chair: Gergely Rosta 16,00-17,30 Branko Ančić; Dinka Marinović Jerolimov; Ankica Marinović Religion and power in CEE countries Siniša Zrinščak; Gordan Črpić Real and / or symbolic power: religiosity and religions in post-yugoslav states. Marjan Smrke The Impact of the Holy Crash (scandal) on trust in the Church in Slovenia Book presentations Chair: Dorota Hall Spaces and Borders. Current Research on Religion in Central and Eastern Europe. Ed. by Máté-Tóth, András / Rughinis, Cosima De Gruyter. Presenter: András Máté-Tóth Discussant: James T. Richardson 17,30-19,00 Aula Magna Hall (6th floor) Tomka, Miklós. Expanding Religion. Religious Revival in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe De Gruyter. Presenter: András Máté-Tóth Discussant: Gergely Rosta Religious Diversity in Post-Soviet Society. Ethnographies of Catholic Hegemony and the New Pluralism in Lithuania. Ed. by Milda Ališauskiene, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, and Ingo W. Schröder, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Ashgate. Presenter: Milda Ališauskiene Discussant: Rafal Smoczynski Saturday 21 April Round table Religion, power, and conflict 9,00-10,00 Introduction: Enzo Pace Discussant: Siniša Zrinščak 10,00-10,30 Coffee break

4 State control and religions in CEE Chair: Dinka Marinović Jerolimov James T. Richardson, Brian M. Lee How courts treat minority religions in Central and Eastern Europe Daniel Șandru Intellectuals and political religions. The case of interwar Romania Political and religious power Chair: Gordan Črpić James A. Kapaló Corrective critique and religious power: The Inochentite Movement in contemporary Moldova Vassilis Pnevmatikakis Ecclesiastical power and the orthodox diaspora: the geopolitics of jurisdictionnalism Emilian Dranca The Romanian rulers sanctification role in the reconstruction of identity of the Romanian Orthodox Church ( ) Religious communities and power relations Chair: Milda Ališauskiene Room 8.4. Elena Konstantinova Contemporary Orthodoxy and the problem of civil society in Russia Tudor Pitulac The contemporaneousness of the ethnic - religious communities. The Lipovan Russians in Romania Roxana Maria Aras The totalitarian catholic identity of the Csángós in Romania 12,00 14,00 Lunch Religion and empowerment Chair: András Máté-Tóth 14,00-15,30 14,00-15,30 Enzo Pace Afro-Christianity in Ukraine Štěpán Ripka Empowerment of marginalized through the conversion to Evangelical Christianity: The case of Roma in Western Bohemian town Sebastian Năstuță Conversion process as self-empowerment strategy. The case of Jehovah s Witness in Romania Theoretical perspectives on religion and power (II) Chair: James T. Richardson Barbara Thériault Mapping the realms of religion (the case of a prison) András Máté-Tóth Interpreting religion in Central and Eastern Europe Dorota Hall Religion and non-heteronormativity in Poland: an introduction to the sociological research

5 LIST OF REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS Milda Ališauskienė Vilnius University, Lithuania Branko Ančić Institute for Social Research, Zagreb, Croatia Roxana Maria Aras Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest, Romania Eileen Barker Inform, London School of Economics, United Kingdom Alexander Bielicki University of Oslo, Norway Adriana Bondor Petre Andrei University of Iaşi, Romania Anastasia Cherkasova Ural State Economical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia Gordan Črpić University of Zagreb, Croatia Emilian Dranca Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Adela Fofiu Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

6 Monica Grigore Department of Sociology, University of Montreal, Canada Dorota Hall Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Claudiu Herţeliu Statistics and Econometrics Department, University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania László-Attila Hubbes Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Faculty of Technical and Social Sciences Miercurea Ciuc Alina Hurubean Petre Andrei University of Iaşi, Romania Postdoctoral fellow at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iaşi, Romania Urszula Idziak-Smoczynska Institute of Religious Studies, Jagiellonian University, Poland James A. Kapaló University College Cork, Ireland Elena Konstantinova Institute of the world literature A.M. Gorkogo, Moscow Cristiana Lavinia Lupu Center for Conflict Prevention and Early Warning, Bucharest, Romania Dinka Marinović Jerolimov Institute for Social Research, Zagreb, Croatia Ankica Marinović Institute for Social Research, Zagreb, Croatia

7 András Máté-Tóth University of Szeged, Hungary Olaf Müller University of Münster, Germany Agata S. Nalborczyk Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland Sebastian Năstută Postdoctoral fellow at Romanian Academy, Iaşi Branch, Romania Adrian Netedu Faculty of Philosophy and Socio-Political Sciences, University Al. I. Cuza, Iaşi, Romania Katrin Nikolova The Family International, Bulgary Enzo Pace Department of Sociology, University of Padova, Italy Tudor Pitulac The Romanian Academy, Iaşi Branch, Romania Vassilis Pnevmatikakis French Institute of Geopolitics, University of Saint-Denis Paris VIII, France Rasa Pranskevičiūtė Center for Cultural Studies, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania Adina Răducanu Karl Franzens University, Austria

8 Pål Steinar Repstad University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway Štěpán Ripka Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Gergely Rosta University of Münster, Germany James T. Richardson University of Nevada, Reno, United States Petruţa-Paraschiva Rusu Faculty of Educational Sciences, Ştefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania Daniel Șandru The Romanian Academy, Iași Branch, Romania Rafal Smoczynski Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Marjan Smrke Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Christoffer Størup Department for Cross-cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Laurenţiu Tănase Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Bucharest, Romania Barbara Thériault Department of Sociology, University of Montreal, Canada

9 Doru Tompea Faculty of Social Work and Sociology, Petre Andrei University of Iaşi, Romania Péter Török Department for the Study of Religions, University of Szeged, Hungary Mălina Voicu GESIS Leibniz Institute for Social Science, Cologne, Germany Siniša Zrinščak University of Zagreb, Croatia