Zadar (Croatia), 4-5 September 2015

Department of Geography, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb

Department of Social Geography and Regional Development, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague

Department of Geography, University of Zadar

9TH MEETING OF EUROPEAN GEOGRAPHERS OF RELIGION:INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIA ON THE CHANGING RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE OF EUROPEDevelopment and Transformation of Religious Landscape in the New European Context

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Saturday, 5th September 2015

The touch of the sacred landscape in North Dalmatia: Maškovića han and Vrana castle – Franciscan Monastery on Visovac islet (Krka River) – Ortodox Monastery Krupa

Friday, 4th September 2015

(Hall of postgraduate studies, No. 2.3; University of Zadar, Rectorate, 2nd floor, left; Mihovila Pavlinovića St. 1)

9:00 Openning Ceremony

9:20 Keynote speech Reinhard Henkel:

Postsecularism in Eastern Europe? The concept of canonical territory and its implications

9:40 Laura Šakaja: Contesting Canonical Territory: the Case of Abkhazia

10:10 Damir Magaš: The Zadar Archdiocese in the Context of the Territorial and Political Changes After World War I

10:30 Borna Fuerst-Bjeliš: Cartography in making: The geography of religion and borderlands identities

10:50 Discussion

11:10 Coffe break

11:30 Elżbieta Bilska-Wodecka and Jarosław Działek: Religion and social capital on the example of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland

11:50 Olga Lyubitseva: The transformation of the religious landscape of Ukraine since independence (1991 - 2014)

12:10 Anastas Odermatt: The Swiss Metadatabase of religious affiliation (SMRE) as a new means of international collaboration in empirical research on religion

12:30 Peter Jordan: An exception in the Balkans: Albania’s multiconfessional identity

12:50 Ewa Klima: Polish National Identity and Religion. From Romantic Era to Contemporary Political Scene

13:10 Jurica Botić: Structural and spatial position of Sufism within Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina

13:30 Discussion

14:00 Lunch (organised by University of Zadar)

16:00 Tomas Havlicek: Post-secularism in Czechia: new sacral objects

16:20 Kamila Klingorová: Religious Landscape in the Secular City Prague

16:40 Ivan Madžar, Andrijana Ostojić Mihić and Danijela Madžar: Changes in the physiognomy and area structure of Međugorje conditioned by the development of religious tourism

17:00 Željka Šiljković, Ivan Madžar and Jelena Putica: The impact of religious objects on the development of tourism in Herzegovina

17:20 Discussion and Coffe break

17:40 Šime Vučetić and Dario Maršanić: Development of Religious Tourism in Croatia – A Human Resource Perspective

18:00 Zdenek Vojtisek: From Monks and Mystics to Stupas and Temples: The Changing Presence of Buddhism in Czech Society

18:20 Josip Faričić, Ante Šiljeg and Lena Mirošević: Building the dynamic sacred space: Topography of the parish churches as the base of the sacred landscape in Zadar Archdiocese

18:40 Discussion

19:00 Ice Cream at Sea Organ