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2009: Beyond the Market: Exploring Religious Fields in Modern China

Beyond the Market: Exploring Religious Fields in Modern China    
Centre for Chinese Studies, University of Wales Lampeter - Venue: Roderick Bowen Seminar Room 
November 20-22, 2009

Programme

Friday 20 November 2009 
All day Arrival in Lampeter and registration 

19:00 
Dinner at the Falcondale Mansion Hotel, Lampeter 

Saturday 21 November 

08:30  
Departure Falcondale Mansion Hotel (Shuttle) 

08:45  
Welcome at Roderick Bowen Seminar Room 

09:00-10:20 
Terry Rey (Religion Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA) 
“What is Religious Capital? Looking for Answers from Bourdieu to Stark”  
Discussant: Hubert Seiwert (Universität Leipzig, Germany) 

10:30-11:50 
Peter van der Veer (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany):  
“Consuming Religion: Rational Choice and Uncertainty in China” 
Discussant: Robert Weller (Boston University, USA) 

12:00-13:00 
Roundtable discussion on Jörg Stolz, 
“The Explanation of Religiosity: Testing Sociological Mechanisms”, in: Observatoire des Religions en Suisse (ORS), Working Papers 8-2008, pp. 1-35. 
Chair and Introduction: Christian Meyer 
Statements: Thomas Jansen, Thoralf Klein, Joachim Gentz 

13:00-14:30 
Lunch break 

14:30-15:40 
Lu Yunfeng (Department of Sociology, Beijing University, China): 
“Beyond Exclusive Religions: Challenges for a Sociology of Religion in China” 
Discussant: Vincent Goossaert (CNRS-EPHE, Paris) 

15:40-16:50 
Joachim Gentz (University of Edinburgh): 
Rational choice and the Chinese 2 discourse on the Unity of the Three Religions (sanjiao he yi) 
Discussant: Christian Meyer (University of Leipzig, Germany) 

16:50-17:00 
Refreshments 

17:00-18:10 
David Palmer (Department of Sociology, Hong Kong University): 
“Where is the Religious Market? Preliminary Reflections Based on Field Research in China” 
Discussant: Thoralf Klein (University of Erfurt, Germany) 

18:30-20:00 
Dinner 

Sunday 21 November 2009 

09:00-10:20 
Adam Chau (East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge, UK) 
“Efficacy over Confessionality: On Ritual Polytropy in China” 
Discussant: Philip Clart (University of Leipzig, Germany) 

10:20-11:40 
Francesca Tarocco (Buddhist Studies, University of Manchester, UK) 
“Buddhist Images between Visual Piety and the Market” 
Discussant: Wendy Dossett (University of Wales Lampeter) 

11:40-12:00 
Refreshments 

12:00-13:00 
Final Discussion 
(Chair: Philip Clart) 

13:00-14:00 
Light Lunch 

14:00  
End of workshop