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CFP:International conference: Religion in the Mirror of Law. Research on Early Modern Poland-Lithuania and its Successor States in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
| Location: | Ukraine |
| Call for Papers Deadline: | 2010-01-10 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-11-12 |
| Announcement ID: |
171975 |
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Place: L'viv
Date: April 16-17, 2010 – Arrival on April 15, departure on April 18
Conference language: English
Initiative:
Emmy Noether-Research Group (DFG) "Pathways of Law in Ethno-Religiously Mixed Societies:
Resources of Experience in Poland-Lithuania and its Successor States", Institute for Slavic
Studies, Leipzig University – Dr. Yvonne Kleinmann
Cooperation Partners:
> Center for Urban History of East-Central Europe, L'viv – Dr. Harald Binder, Dr. Tarik Amar
> German Historical Institute (DHI), Warsaw – Dr. Ruth Leiserowitz
> Max Planck-Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main – Dr. Stefan Ruppert
The history of the various religious and confessional communities in East Central Europe has been
increasingly studied during the past two decades and remains an intense field of research. The
motivations are rooted in the liberated scientific discourse and in improved access to archival
sources in the post communist era. Furthermore present European policies are engaged in the
mechanisms and (dys-)function of ethno-religiously mixed societies. Not accidently historians so
far have focused on ideological differences and interreligious conflict, whereas consensus and
unspectacular periods of relative social peace have not attracted significant attention. In particular,
legal culture as a crucial dimension of interreligious communication has been neglected. Today's
methodologically broadened legal research holds the promise of enhancing perspectives on longterm
conventions and cultural practices among different religious communities.
The projected conference is devoted to early modern Poland-Lithuania and its
successor states in the 19th and early 20th centuries – a territory that was continuously populated
by various religious and confessional communities, mainly Roman Catholics, Greek-Orthodox,
Uniates, Protestants, Armenian Christians, Jews and Muslims. At the same time, repeated shifts in
governing powers resulted in different strategies of addressing religious heterogeneity. Therefore,
the conference will focus both on legal institutions and practices in early modern Poland-Lithuania.,
and on periods of transition to Russian, Austrian and Prussian rule, and later to the establishmentof the Second Polish Republic after the First World War. Proposals should consider, how the
importance and meaning of religion in public life was renegotiated in each period, how the
hierarchy of religious communities shifted and to what extent religious practice changed
subsequently. Regulations, practices and structures of coexistence deserve special attention.
Guiding questions are: What religious values and laws provided the basis for legal
thought and practice during each period? What legal agreements and institutions did the various
religious communities develop to ensure social accord? Can the demarcation of symbolical and
spatial borders prevent ideological conflict? How was the interdependence of law and religion
perceived by state institutions and rulers, as well as by other agents, especially in the peripheries?
To what extent did dealing with religious pluralism and dissent vary in normative law, in common
law, and in legal practice? What efforts were undertaken to dissolve the interdependence of
religion and law, and on the other hand, what efforts to perpetuate religious conditioning of law can
be identified? Are Secularization and Confessionalization respectively the adequate concepts to
describe these partly simultaneous developments? How did the modern, religiously to a large
extent neutral constitutional state generate its own dogma concerning the status of religious
communities?
Fields / Panels
• Religious affiliation in pre-modern law
• Interaction of religious/confessional communities: competition and overlapping of values
• Shifts in political rule and its consequences for individual religious communities
• Religion in constitutional texts and other legal sources
• Secularization – Confessionalization? Separation and/or unification of law and religion?
• Empires facing the legacy of ethno-religious autonomies
• Law of nations and the nation state: From religious community to nation and minority?
• Loyalty to one's religion – Loyalty to one's state
Proposals are welcome from any discipline of the humanities and social sciences, in particular,
discussions that include historical, theological, legal, anthropological and/or sociological
methodologies will be considered especially valuable contributions to interdisciplinary research on
law and religion. The revised papers from the conference will be published in a book.
Please send a short outline (up to 500 words) to kleinm@rz.uni-leipzig.de by January 10th 2010.
Travel and and accommodation expenses up to a limited amount will be covered by the organizers of the conference
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