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August 30th – Sessions
| 15:00 | Opening Address and Welcome Speech | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hEfFea_kfc |
| 15:30 | Inaugural Lecture (Barker) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hEfFea_kfc |
| 16:30 | ISC 5 Orthodox Christianity (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 16:30 | 146 Resilient Spirituality and the Challenge of Transformation ONLINE | |
| 16:30 | ISC 6 Neopaganism and NRM (Individual Short Communications) |
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| 16:30 | 247 An Interdisciplinary Discourse on the Semantic Links between Spirituality and Resilience ONLINE | |
| 16:30 | ISC 7 Case Studies (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 16:30 | ISC 8 Philosophy (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 16:30 | ISC 1 Ancient Greece (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 16:30 | ISC 2 Roman Religion (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 16:30 | ISC 3 Early Christianity (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 16:30 | ISC 4 India and China (Individual Short Communications) |
August 31st – Sessions
| 09:00 | 648 Facing a Crisis: The Resilience of Catholicism in Poland | |
| 09:00 | 453 Contents and Social Places of Religion-Based Healing and Personal Growth Services | |
| 09:00 | 643-I Resilient Esotericism | |
| 09:00 | 81-I Resilience of Tantric, Magic, and Shamanic Practices at the “Margins” of South and Southeast Asian Religions | |
| 09:00 | 496 Doing (Field) Research in a Pandemic | |
| 09:00 | 409-I Geographies of Encounter: Multi-religious Spaces ONLINE | |
| 09:00 | 354 Religion Entangled: Theoretical and Methodological Reflections | |
| 09:00 | 287-I The Resilience of the Science of Religion(s) between Hermeneutics and History | |
| 09:00 | 32-I War, Peace and Resilience in the Ancient World Narratives | |
| 09:00 | 26-I Gods Don’t Die | |
| 09:00 | 30 The Concept of Religion according to the Church Fathers ONLINE | |
| 09:00 | ISC 9 Modern and Contemporary Judaism (Individual Short Communications) |
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| 09:00 | 300 Speaking for Islam in Europe | |
| 09:00 | 40-I Resilient Modalities of Religion in Chinese Societies ONLINE | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lectures (Goossaert) | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lectures (Klostergaard Petersen) | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lectures (Wiegers) | |
| 11:50 | ISC 11 Religion in Poland (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 11:50 | ISC 12 Religion and Health (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 11:50 | 643-II Resilient Esotericism | |
| 11:50 | 81-II Resilience of Tantric, Magic, and Shamanic Practices at the “Margins” of South and Southeast Asian Religions | |
| 11:50 | 328 When Healing Fails: Resilience Management in Christian Healing | |
| 11:50 | 409-II Geographies of Encounter: Multi-religious Spaces ONLINE | |
| 11:50 | 192 Evaluation, Quality Management and Member Statistics as “Resiliency Techniques” – How the Catholic Church in Europe Deals with Its Current Crises | |
| 11:50 | 287-II The Resilience of the Science of Religion(s) between Hermeneutics and History | |
| 11:50 | 32-II War, Peace and Resilience in the Ancient World Narratives | |
| 11:50 | 26-II Gods Don’t Die | |
| 11:50 | 375 Pagan Religious Resilience: Reinventing Zeus in Athenian Neoplatonism ONLINE | |
| 11:50 | ISC 10 Ancient Judaism (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 11:50 | 97 Moderate and Radical Muslims | |
| 11:50 | 40-II Resilient Modalities of Religion in Chinese Societies ONLINE | |
| 12:50 | 109 Radical Resilience | |
| 14:40 | 249-I Re-enchantment in Central-Eastern Europe? Religious Change in Former Socialist Countries Revisited | |
| 14:40 | 158 Resilience and Transformation of Religious Communities in Eastern Europe | |
| 14:40 | 643-III Resilient Esotericism | |
| 14:40 | 81-III Resilience of Tantric, Magic, and Shamanic Practices at the “Margins” of South and Southeast Asian Religions | |
| 14:40 | 292-I Facing Discrimination: Religion and Agency | |
| 14:40 | 409-III Geographies of Encounter: Multi-religious spaces ONLINE | |
| 14:40 | 253 Locating Resilience, Trauma and Religion in a Transdisciplinary and Historical Perspective ONLINE | |
| 14:40 | 287-III The Resilience of the Science of Religion(s) between Hermeneutics and History | |
| 14:40 | 32-III War, Peace and Resilience in the Ancient World Narratives | |
| 14:40 | 26-III Gods Don’t Die | |
| 14:40 | 315-I Resilient Citizens: Religious Dissent and Civic Rights in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages | |
| 14:40 | ISC 13 Christians, Jews and Arabs in the Middle Ages (Individual Short Communications) |
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| 14:40 | 235 Institutionalism as Strategy of Resilience | |
| 14:40 | 40-III Resilient Modalities of Religion in Chinese Societies ONLINE | |
| 15:40 | ISC 14 India (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 16:40 | 249-II Re-enchantment in Central-Eastern Europe? Religious Change in Former Socialist Countries Revisited | |
| 16:40 | 700 Religious Toleration and Peace (RETOPEA): Engaging the Present with the Past in European Contexts | |
| 16:40 | 643-IV Resilient Esotericism | |
| 16:40 | 81-IV Resilience of Tantric, Magic, and Shamanic Practices at the “Margins” of South and Southeast Asian Religions | |
| 16:40 | 292-II Facing Discrimination: Religion and Agency | |
| 16:40 | 59 Religious Spaces and Urban Resilience ONLINE | |
| 16:40 | 631 Religious Narrative and Narration in the Study of Religion | |
| 16:40 | 287-IV The Resilience of the Science of Religion(s) between Hermeneutics and History | |
| 16:40 | ISC 15 Near East and Greece (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 16:40 | 26-IV Gods Don’t Die | |
| 16:40 | 315-II Resilient Citizens: Religious Dissent and Civic Rights in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages | |
| 16:40 | 163 Total Devotion ONLINE | |
| 16:40 | ISC 16 Silk Road (Individual Short Communications) |
September 1st – Sessions
| 09:00 | 293-I Building Resilience by Peacemakers Professing Muslim and Christian Religion in the Times of Civil War in Lebanon (1975-1990) | |
| 09:00 | 103 Engaging for the Common Good in Pluralistic Society: Religious Organisations, Resilience, and Civic Engagement | |
| 09:00 | 640 The Resilience of the Memory of the Vikings: Why the Viking Age Continues to Be Reinvented | |
| 09:00 | 115 Visual Media on the Move | |
| 09:00 | 694 Pipes of Cathedrals: Anthropology of Religious Infrastructure in Post-Secular Societies ONLINE | |
| 09:00 | 47-I Rites, Rituals and Liturgies as “Places” of Resilience | |
| 09:00 | ISC 18 Vulnerability, Religion, and Resilience (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 09:00 | 287-V The Resilience of the Science of Religion(s) between Hermeneutics and History | |
| 09:00 | ISC 17 Ancient Egypt (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 09:00 | 20-I Religion as a Key Factor for Resilience: From Rome to Constantinople | |
| 09:00 | 217-I Chrétiens Ariens et Nicéens en Afrique Vandale (Ve-VIe siècles). Enjeux Religieux, Politiques et Culturels d’une Coexistence Difficile | |
| 09:00 | 64 Modalities of Resilience in the Rereading of Mystical or Religious Experience (in Italian) ONLINE | |
| 09:00 | 255-I Transformative Resilience: Global Adaptations of Shi‘i Islam in Times of Radical Change ONLINE | |
| 09:00 | 210-I Invoking the Guru ONLINE | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lectures (Lannoy) | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lectures (Pocs) | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lectures (Stoyanov) | |
| 11:50 | 293-II Building Resilience by Peacemakers Professing Muslim and Christian Religion in the Times of Civil War in Lebanon (1975-1990) | |
| 11:50 | 10-I Gender Law and Religion During the COVID-19 Health Crisis ONLINE | |
| 11:50 | 333-I Revelations, Networks, and Crisis in Socialist East European and Soviet New Age Underground | |
| 11:50 | ISC 20 Media (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 11:50 | 83 Identity, Diversity and (the study of) Religion ONLINE | |
| 11:50 | 47-II Rites, Rituals and Liturgies as “Places” of Resilience | |
| 11:50 | 464 Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives | |
| 11:50 | 287-VI The Resilience of the Science of Religion(s) between Hermeneutics and History | |
| 11:50 | ISC 19 Ethnography (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 11:50 | 20-II Religion as a Key Factor for Resilience: From Rome to Constantinople | |
| 11:50 | 217-II Chrétiens Ariens et Nicéens en Afrique Vandale (Ve-VIe siècles). Enjeux Religieux, Politiques et Culturels d’une Coexistence Difficile | |
| 11:50 | 107 Resilience, Change, and Magic in Late Antiquity ONLINE | |
| 11:50 | 255-II Transformative Resilience: Global Adaptations of Shi‘i Islam in Times of Radical Change ONLINE | |
| 11:50 | 210-II Invoking the Guru ONLINE | |
| 14:40 | 861 Karl Kerényi and the Hungarian Science of Religions – Resilience and Varieties of Religious Entities and Ideas | |
| 14:40 | 10-II Gender Law and Religion During the COVID-19 Health Crisis ONLINE | |
| 14:40 | 333-II Revelations, Networks, and Crisis in Socialist East European and Soviet New Age Underground | |
| 14:40 | ISC 22 The Notion of Religion (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 14:40 | 47-III Rites, Rituals and Liturgies as “Places” of Resilience | |
| 14:40 | 547 Cultural Immunology as a Paradigm for the Study of Resilience in Religious Traditions | |
| 14:40 | 287-VII The Resilience of the Science of Religion(s) between Hermeneutics and History | |
| 14:40 | 922 “Gurt Vös'”, A Village Ceremony (62 min) (Ethnographic Film) | |
| 14:40 | 20-III Religion as a Key Factor for Resilience: From Rome to Constantinople | |
| 14:40 | 218 Resilienza e Cristianesimo Antico: Forme e Motivi | |
| 14:40 | ISC 21 Renaissance (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 16:10 | General Assembly |
September 2nd – Sessions
| 09:00 | 34 (I) Resilience or Resistance: Repressive Regimes and the Blurring of Boundaries Between the Political and Religious | |
| 09:00 | ISC 23 Secularisation (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 09:00 | 7 (I) Surveying Ritual Creativity in Contemporary Paganism and New Age Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic | |
| 09:00 | 48 (I) Embodiment in Religious Resilience | |
| 09:00 | 195 Discovering Resilience through Religiousness: Experiences of Power in Migration | |
| 09:00 | 24 (I) Resilient Religious Communities: Changing Identities, Needs, and Relations across Time and Space | |
| 09:00 | 269 (I) A View to Nowhere | |
| 09:00 | 287 (VIII) The Resilience of the Science of Religion(s) between Hermeneutics and History | |
| 09:00 | 174 (I) Religion as Resource of Resilience – Diachronic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives | |
| 09:00 | 180 (I) Coping with the Krisis. Phenomena of Religious Acculturation and Enculturation: Patterns and Policies of Resilience from the Hellenistic-Roman Period and Late Antiquity | |
| 09:00 | 62 (I) Resilient Gnosis | |
| 09:00 | 209 Well Being in the Middle Ages | |
| 09:00 | 697 The Resilience of Lived Islam in Egypt: Voices from the Margins of Empires ONLINE | |
| 09:00 | 33 (I) Yes we Jain! | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lectures (Herrero) | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lectures (Illman) | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lectures (Wunn) | |
| 11:50 | 34 (II) Resilience or Resistance: Repressive Regimes and the Blurring of Boundaries Between the Political and Religious | |
| 11:50 | 2 Christianity and Sex | |
| 11:50 | 7 (II) Surveying Ritual Creativity in Contemporary Paganism and New Age Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic | |
| 11:50 | 48 (II) Embodiment in Religious Resilience | |
| 11:50 | ISC 25 Latin America Throughout the Ages (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 11:50 | 24 (II) Resilient Religious Communities: Changing Identities, Needs, and Relations across Time and Space | |
| 11:50 | 269 (II) A View to Nowhere | |
| 11:50 | 287 (IX) The Resilience of the Science of Religion(s) between Hermeneutics and History | |
| 11:50 | 174 (II) Religion as Resource of Resilience – Diachronic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives | |
| 11:50 | 180 (II) Coping with the Krisis. Phenomena of Religious Acculturation and Enculturation: Patterns and Policies of Resilience from the Hellenistic-Roman Period and Late Antiquity | |
| 11:50 | 62 (II) Resilient Gnosis | |
| 11:50 | 623 Una Lunga Resilienza. Diocesi e Istituzioni Diocesane nel Pieno e nel Basso Medioevo (secc. XII-XV) | |
| 11:50 | ISC 24 Islam (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 11:50 | 33 (II) Yes We Jain! | |
| 14:40 | 34 (III) Resilience or Resistance: Repressive Regimes and the Blurring of Boundaries Between the Political and Religious | |
| 14:40 | 45 European States and Their Regulation of ‘Minority’ Religions | |
| 14:40 | 7 (III) Surveying Ritual Creativity in Contemporary Paganism and New Age Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic | |
| 14:40 | 48 (III) Embodiment in Religious Resilience | |
| 14:40 | 104 Religious Changes in Latin America: Beliefs, Identity & Democracy | |
| 14:40 | 24 (III) Resilient Religious Communities: Changing Identities, Needs, and Relations across Time and Space | |
| 14:40 | ISC 27 Theoretical and Methodological Questions (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 14:40 | 287 (X) The Resilience of the Science of Religion(s) between Hermeneutics and History | |
| 14:40 | 426 Resilience Shaping Identity | |
| 14:40 | 256 (I) Underground Religious Spaces as Resources for Community Resilience | |
| 14:40 | 62 (III) Resilient Gnosis | |
| 14:40 | 518 (I) Erasmianism, Female Resilience, and Accommodation ONLINE | |
| 14:40 | ISC 26 Contemporary Islam (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 14:40 | 33 (III) Yes We Jain! | |
| 16:40 | 34 (IV) Resilience or Resistance: Repressive Regimes and the Blurring of Boundaries Between the Political and Religious | |
| 16:40 | 15 Traditional Instruments and New Challenges: The Squaring of the Circle? ONLINE | |
| 16:40 | 407 The Resilience of Religious Visions: A Discursive Approach to Change and Resistance to Change | |
| 16:40 | 225 Commodifying Happiness: Self-Improvement, Self-Healing, and Faith Branding in Contemporary Religious Discourses | |
| 16:40 | 607 Rethinking Resilience and Religious Coping among Migrants ONLINE | |
| 16:40 | 24-IV Resilient Religious Communities: Changing Identities, Needs, and Relations across Time and Space (Bernardo) | |
| 16:40 | 408 Mothers and Untimely Deaths | |
| 16:40 | 287 (XI) The Resilience of the Science of Religion(s) between Hermeneutics and History | |
| 16:40 | 320 Resilience, Domination, and Inequality in the Ancient Funerary World | |
| 16:40 | 256 (II) Underground Religious Spaces as Resources for Community Resilience | |
| 16:40 | 360 ‘Pagans’ and Gnostics in Late Antiquity. Strategies of ‘Doctrinal Resilience’ ONLINE | |
| 16:40 | 518 (II) Erasmianism, Female Resilience, and Accommodation ONLINE | |
| 16:40 | 148 Islam and Muslim Communities in Latin America and the Caribbean: Narratives of Resilience and Change | |
| 16:40 | 33 (IV) Yes We Jain! |
September 3rd – Sessions
| 09:00 | 846 Resilience or Survival? The Role of Ethnicity, Religion and Culture in the Economy and Identity of Romanian, Hungarian, German, Slovak, Ruthenian and Jewish people in the Partium Region of the European Union | |
| 09:00 | ISC 29 Resilient Spirituality (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 09:00 | ISC 30 Esotericism (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 09:00 | 185 (I) Resilient Visual Mosaics: Transformation Processes in Arts and Religions ONLINE | |
| 09:00 | 788 British Ritual Resilience under a Pandemic: The BRIC-19 Project ONLINE | |
| 09:00 | 286 (I) Negotiating the Crisis: The Role of Sanctuaries as Places of Resilient Religious Experiences (Campione / Carnevale / Laghezza) | |
| 09:00 | 475 Representing and Teaching Religious Cultures ONLINE | |
| 09:00 | 482 (I) Change, Order, Remembrance: Crisis and Religion in the Ancient Near East ONLINE | |
| 09:00 | 953 Imperial Cult | |
| 09:00 | 394 (I) Spatializing Religious Competition in Late Antiquity | |
| 09:00 | ISC 28 Late Antiquity (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lectures (Bronkhorst) | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lectures (Thomassen) | |
| 11:00 | Keynote Lectures (Timus) | |
| 11:50 | 291 (I) Religion in Central and Eastern Europe – Towards an Auto-interpretative Perspective | |
| 11:50 | 395 (I) The Voices from the Outskirts: Discourses on Religion and Resilience in Modern Contexts | |
| 11:50 | 719 From the Ashes | |
| 11:50 | 185 (II) Resilient Visual Mosaics: Transformation Processes in Arts and Religions ONLINE | |
| 11:50 | 9 (I) Religious Minorities and Covid-19 ONLINE | |
| 11:50 | 286 (II) Negotiating the Crisis: The Role of Sanctuaries as Places of Resilient Religious Experiences | |
| 11:50 | 470 Resilient Pilgrimage (Bowman) | |
| 11:50 | 482 (II) Change, Order, Remembrance: Crisis and Religion in the Ancient Near East ONLINE | |
| 11:50 | 394 (II) Spatializing Religious Competition in Late Antiquity | |
| 11:50 | ISC 31 Late Antiquity and Middle Ages (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 14:40 | 291 (II) Religion in Central and Eastern Europe – Towards an Auto-interpretative Perspective | |
| 14:40 | 395 (II) The Voices from the Outskirts: Discourses on Religion and Resilience in Modern Context | |
| 14:40 | 135 Soka Gakkai: Resilience and Solidarity in a Global Buddhist Movement | |
| 14:40 | ISC 32 Alternative Spiritualities (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 14:40 | 9 (II) Religious Minorities and Covid-19 ONLINE | |
| 14:40 | 286 (III) Negotiating the Crisis: The Role of Sanctuaries as Places of Resilient Religious Experiences | |
| 14:40 | 61 (I) Russian Old Believers (in Russian with English summary) ONLINE | |
| 14:40 | 482 (III) Change, Order, Remembrance: Crisis and Religion in the Ancient Near East ONLINE | |
| 14:40 | 370 (I) Recovering from Crises – Forging Resilience: The Role of Religious Narratives in Fashioning Socio-Political Stability in Antiquity ONLINE | |
| 14:40 | 662 (I) Dinamiche Rituali e Strategie di Resilienza nella Tardoantichità ONLINE | |
| 14:40 | 211 The Resilience of Religious Minorities: Examples from the Middle Ages | |
| 16:40 | 308 Religious Security as a Factor of Resilience in a Pandemic Situation in Ukraine ONLINE | |
| 16:40 | 108 Life, Death, and Esoteric Resilience: A Case Study of Archeosophy | |
| 16:40 | ISC 33 Alternative spiritualities (Individual Short Communications) | |
| 16:40 | 9 (III) Religious minorities and Covid-19 ONLINE | |
| 16:40 | 61 (II) Russian Old Believers (in Russian with English summary) ONLINE | |
| 16:40 | 482 (IV) Change, Order, Remembrance: Crisis and Religion in the Ancient Near East ONLINE | |
| 16:40 | 370 (II) Recovering from Crises – Forging Resilience: The Role of Religious Narratives in Fashioning Socio-Political Stability in Antiquity ONLINE | |
| 16:40 | 662 (II) Dinamiche Rituali e Strategie di Resilienza nella Tardoantichità ONLINE | |
| 16:40 | 608 Cujus Regio, Ejus Religio? Glimpses of Resiliences in and from Ancient Times and the Middle Ages ONLINE | |
| 18:30 | Closing Ceremony |