Lecture series "Holy Times": The Spiritual Quality of Sunday. Sunday cultures between religious and secular meaning

January 12, 2023: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Riegel (religious educator from Siegen) - The spiritual quality of Sunday. Sunday cultures between religious and secular meaning

Lecture series "Holy Times. Understandings between theology and cultural studies"
The "sacred" is never "given" as such, but is only revealed in the profane. Therein lies an insurmountable bond between the sacred and culture in its changing, historical forms of expression. An understanding of the sacred is therefore always also an understanding of the cultural and refers theology to the perspectives and methods of cultural studies.
In the lecture series "Sacred Times", the quality of the "sacred" will be explored from various disciplinary perspectives. The aim is to find out which strategies and techniques of demarcation are effective: What makes times into "sacred" times, how are differences to "normal" times produced, what practices are associated with them, where do religious conceptualizations of time continue to have an effect in the secular? Time should not be understood solely as a medium that is more or less fixed in its structure. Rather, it is about temporality in its religious-cultural forms of appropriation, which in turn can be reflected upon both theologically and philosophically and considered with regard to their respective situating of the (religious) subject. Finally, the question of the sacred is posed: How do conceptualizations of time affect notions of and dealings with the sacred, which can only be conceived as accessible to human beings insofar as it manifests itself in the temporal?

Further dates (all Thursdays from 18:00 to 20:00):

• January 26, 2023: Dr. Fana Schiefen (fundamental theologian in Münster) - The value of forgetting
• February 2, 2023: Prof. Dr. Anne-Charlott Trepp (historian in Kassel) - From the end times to the seculum? Notes on the genesis of progress and future thinking in Western modernity