an International Conference will take place Tuesday through Thursday, January 5-7, 2010 at the Academy
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
10:00-12:45
Chairperson: Guy G. Stroumsa
Opening remarks: Menahem Yaari
Christoph Markschies, Does It Make Sense to Speak about a Hellenization of Christianity in Antiquity?
Shaul Shaked, Jews, Christians and Mandaeans in Sasanian Babylonia
14:00-17:00
Chairperson: Mushirul Hasan
Sara Sviri, Mysticism and Asceticism in Early Islam: Terms, Definitions and Processes Revisited
Moshe Idel, The Emergence of 18th-Century Hasidism as a Mystical Revivalist Movement
Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, Some Comparative Observations of the Contemporary Religious Scene
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
9:30-12:30
Chairperson: Christoph Markschies
Michael Heyd, From Total Depravity to Limited Autonomy: Reflections on One Transformative Potential of Protestantism
Ulinka Rublack, Materialising the Word: Materialising Religion in the German Reformation
Yosef Kaplan, Confessionalization, Discipline and Religious Authority in the Early Modern Western Sephardi Diaspora
14:00-16:00
Chairperson: Mordechai Akiva Friedman
Vered Noam, The Emergence of Rabbinic Culture from the Perspective of Qumran
Michael Fishbane, From Exegetical Midrash to Rabbinic Epic: Some Liturgical Formations of Cultural Memory
Thursday, January 7, 2010
9:30-12:30Chairperson: Etan Kohlberg
Benjamin Z. Kedar, Revisiting the Crusade Idea
Sabine Schmidtke, The Zaydı Reception of Mu´tazilı Thought: Taj al-Dın al-´Ansı (d. 667/1268) and His Kitab al-Mahajja al-bayda fı usul al-dın
Yohanan Friedmann, Conversion, Apostasy and Excommunication in the Islamic Tradition
14:00-16:00
Chairperson: Yohanan Friedmann
Mushirul Hasan, Interpreting Islam and Modernism: Purdah, Polygamy and Women’s Rights
Zeev Maghen, Can Religion Be Revolutionary? Iranian Shı´ism after 1979
RSVP with Ms.Ruth Hanuka: phone 02-5676200 or
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