[movimenti.bicocca] Workshop EUI

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Workshop: New Approaches to Contemporary "Religious History" in Europe

During the last decades traditional Church History, focussing on the
church as an institution, has progressively given place to various
"religious histories", which often shift into an understanding of
religion as a wide spread social and cultural phenomenon. These new
forms of "religious history" assume methodologies and problematics
coming from other types of history, such as social, cultural and
intellectual histories, but also gender history and histories of
literature, art and sciences.

This workshop aims to present an overview of these different trends,
stressing their national historiographical backgrounds. Traditional
Church History had developed according to schools deeply rooted in a
national academical and political context. With the emergence of new
"religious histories", how do these national schools evolve? Is it
still relevant to speak of national schools in "religious history"?
Would it be more accurate to consider these new forms of "religious
history" in a broader perspective? Is there for instance a tendency to
do European "religious history" and if so, in which way?

At the same time, the important influence of historiographical
patterns, not specific to "religious history", invites to reflect on
the specifity of the "religious" object in history. Would it be
pertinent to consider the reconfiguration of "religious history" in
terms of historiographical schools rather than national schools? And,
as a consequence, has religion still to be considered as a separate
topic?

The workshop's purpose is to promote a common reflexion on "religious
history", involving EUI researchers whose topic deals with that field.
In a first session, we would present the more recent trends in Western
European countries, namely Germany, France and Italy. During the
second session, we would reflect in a more international and
interdenominational perspective, focussing on the confrontation of
"Western" traditions of "religious history" with Eastern Church
history and Islamic studies.

The workshop will be held at the EUI during the second semester
2008-2009. We would invite two guests who would give us a short
introduction and comment the papers presented by the researchers. We
would invite researchers to propose papers focussing on the
historiographies of the country where they were educated or on which
there research is about.


Submission (and information): daniel.gerster@???