Religion and Modernity summer school

International Viadrina Summer University “Religion and Modernity – The Societal Determination of Religion and its Cultural Potential”

Date: 18 June - 06 July 2007
Venue: European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), GERMANY
Congress Language: English
Deadline of application: 1 April
Some grants available

The third Viadrina Summer University will address the role of religion in modern societies. We will study the impact of modernity on religion and, vice versa, the influence religion exerts on modern life worlds. Pivotal to this approach is the assumption that religion is not only constantly challenged and changed by processes of modernization, such as pluralization, individualization, or functional differentiation. Rather it must also be considered as one of societies driving forces to modernization. The interaction of religion and modernization is expressed in the relationship between religion and democracy, religion and the rule of law, religion and education, religion and art, religion and nationalism, as well as in the role of Islam in modern societies. With the Summer University, the European University’s Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences offers a contribution for international graduate education. In the Viadrina’s tradition of international and interdisciplinary research, instructors from a variety of academic fields (sociologists, political scientists, historians, and linguists) and universities (Warsaw, Montreal, UW Milwaukee, UT at Austin, Paris, London, Manchester, Leipzig, Frankfurt (Oder)) will work together on Religion and Modernity. The Summer University is a further contribution to the Viadrina’s task of crossing European borders.
Students will be given the chance to cross borders as an everyday life experience: live in Poland, study in Germany. Social activities include daytrips to the city of Berlin (approx. 100 KM west of Frankfurt (Oder)). Deadline for applications is April 1. All courses will be taught in English. Some grants are available.

For further details about the programme, the venue, fees, grants, and contact information visit
http://www2.kuwi.euv-frankfurt-o.de/de/studium/summeruniversity/index.html