Department of Philosophy and Faculty of Catholic Theology

VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY

International Interdisciplinary Conference

RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND TRADITION

Kaunas, Lithuania May 11-12, 2012 Vytautas Magnus University Gimnazijos st. 7

Friday 11th of May

9.009.45 Registration 9.4510.00 Welcome speech Session I 10.0010.45 10.4511.00 11.0011.45 11.4512.00 12.0014.00 Place: Aula Chair: Marcello Neri and Benas Uleviius

Christo LOMBAARD. The Word or the Word? The Divine Experience as Mediated or Directa Perspective from Biblical Spirituality Discussion Peter JONKERS. Tradition, Religious Experience, and Personal Commitment Discussion Lunch Session IIB In English Chair Gbor BARNA Place: room 102
14.0014.20 Solveiga KRUMINA-KONKOVA Learning a Foreign Experience: the Beginning of Yoga Movement in Latvia 14.2014.40 Alar KILP Detraditionalization of Religion and Religious Symbols of Tradition in a Modernized Culture 14.4015.00 Istvan POVEDK Bricolage Religious Experience 15.0015.20 Regina CHLOPICKA Eastern and Western Tradition in the Music of Krzysztof Penderecki as Sources of Inspiration for the Composer and of Metaphysical Religious Experience for Contemporary Man 15.2015.40 Discussion 15.4016.00 Coffee break

Session IIA In English Chair Stephen M. GARRETT Place: Aula

14.0014.20 Ulrike POPP-BAYER Religious Experience as Narrative: Some Reflections on the Advantages of a Narrative Approach 14.2014.40 T imo KOISTINEN Wittgenstein and Religious Realism 14.4015.00 Agn BUDRINAIT Presence of Absolute Oneness as Non-religious Non-experience in Plotinus and Zhuangzi 15.0015.20 Krzysztof CYRAN Anenaiki by Augustyn Bloch (1979)a Merger of Traditions in Religious Music

Session IIC In French//German Chair Povilas ALEKSANDRAVIIUS Place: room 206

14.0014.20 Par Pahimi PATRICE Foi, intolrance religieuse et dconstruction sociale dans le Nord-Cameroun 14.2014.40 Christiane SFEIR Le paysage sacr au Mont-Liban. Entre pratiques sociales et mcanismes de sacralisation 14.4015.00 Krisztina FRAUHAMMER Schriftlich formulierte Wnsche und Gebete in realen und virtuellen Wallfahrtsttten 15.0015.20 ivil ADVILONIEN Die Rolle der Traditionen in der Familie bei der Gestaltung persnlicher Glaubenserfahrung- und Praxis 15.2015.40 Discussion 15.4016.00 Coffee break

15.2015.40 Discussion 15.4016.00 Coffee break

Session IIIA In English Chair Peter JONKERS Place: Aula

16.0016.20 Emmanuel NATHAN Of Words and Worlds: The Curious Case of Saint Paul 16.2016.40 Satoshi KIKUCHI Repeating Incarnation: Meister Eckhart and the Problem of Christs Historicity 16.4017.00 Valdas MACKELA Seeing and Believing in Resurrection Narratives 17.0017.20 Anna WIECZOREK Tradition of the Genre in the Age of Intertextuality. Wojciech Kilars Te Deum

Session IIIB In English Chair Solveiga KRUMINA-KONKOVA Place: room 102

16.0016.20 Orsolya GYNGYSSY Bonds and Memories in the Sacred Space 16.2016.40 Gbor BARNA Via Margaritarum, the Revitalized Cult of St. Margaret of Hungary and the Spirit of Penance 16.4017.00 Hee Sook LEE-NIINIOJA Al-Andalus and Java: Still a Sanctuary for Interconnecting Religions and Traditions? 17.0017.20 Renata BOROWIECKA Stabat Mater Sequence in the Works of Italian18th-Century Composers

Session IIIC In Lithuanian Chair Sandra KRATAVIIT Place: room 206

16.0016.20 Salomja JASTRUMSKYT Synaesthetical Theology 16.2016.40 Bron GUDAITYT Believe God or Believe in God 16.4017.00 Povilas ALEKSANDRAVIIUS Martin Heidegger: from Religious Experience to a Hymn to Holiness 17.0017.20 Rimantas VIEDRYNAITIS Epistemology of Religious Experience

Poster presentations: Tetiana RIAZANTSEVA. The Theme of Religion in the British Metaphysical Poetry of the 20th Century (Poetry of the New Apocalypse, 19391941) Berel Dov LERNER. How Did the Prophets Know They Had Received Divine Revelation?

Saturday, 12th of May

Session IV
10.0010.45 10.4511.00 11.0011.45 11.4512.00 12.0014.00

Place: Aula

Chair: Christo Lombaard and Agn Budrinait

Marcello NERI. From Experience to TraditionThe Hard Path Backward Discussion Olga BRESKAYA. Religious Experience without Religious Tradition and Vice Versa Discussion Lunch

Session VA In English Chair Emmanuel NATHAN Place: Aula

14.0014.20 Tuija HOVI An Ethnographic Approach to the Psychology of ReligionDoing Research in the Field of Experience and Tradition 14.2014.40 Sandra KRATAVIIT The Phenomenon of Christian Conversion in the Prison: Convicts Converts Religious Experiences 14.4015.00 Milda ALIAUSKIEN The Place and Role of the Religious Experience in the Context of Contemporary Religiosity in Lithuania 15.0015.20 Anita STASULANE From Religious Participation to Political Participation: The Engagement of Young people in Theosophy 15.0015.40 Discussion 15.4016.00 Coffee break

Session VB In English Chair Regina CHLOPICKA Place: room 102

14.0014.20 Agnieszka DRAUS Music As a Religious Experience According to Karlheinz Stockhausen 14.2014.40 Vida DAUGIRDIEN Catechesis of the Youth Groups of Liturgical Music 14.4015.00 Kinga POVEDK New Music for New (?) Religious Experiences

Session VC In Lithuanian Chair Rta BRZGIEN Place: room 206

14.0014.20 Aura KAIRAITYT Expression of Religious Experiences in Lithuanian Folklore Narratives 14.2014.40 ivil NEDZINSKAIT New Jesuit Saints and Their Meaning for the Religiosity of the 17-18th Century: Context of GLD Poetics and Poetry 14.4015.00 Ilona IUAUSKAIT Literary Expression of the Sermons of Vaigantas

15.0015.20 Danut KALAVINSKAIT Religious Experience Through Music: Contemporary Lithuanian Compositions

15.0015.20 Elena BALIUTYT Eduardas Mieelaitiss Meditative Fragments Laments and Reflections, with the Medieval Anchorite Grigor Narekatsi, upon the Fate of Man and the Poets Creative Context 15.2015.40 Discussion 15.4016.00 Coffee break

15.2015.40 Discussion 15.4016.00 Coffee break

Session VIA In English Chair Anita STASULANE Place: Aula

16.0016.20 Stephen M. GARRETT Hans Urs von Balthasars Third Way of Love: The Spiritual-Corporeal Encounter of Religious Experience 16.2016.40 Benas ULEVIIUS Native or Christian: Interaction of Traditions in Peyote Religion 16.4017.00 Irena Egl LAUMENSKAIT Conversion as a Personal Experience in Relation to the Meaning of Life Events and Religion Tradition 17.0017.20 Discussion

Session VIB In English Chair Hee Sook LEE-NIINIOJA Place: room 102
16.0016.20 Silvija RAKUTIEN The Spread of the Apocalyptic Feelings in the Lithuanian Poetry of the Young Generation 16.2016.40 Magdalena CHRENKOFF Krzysztof Pendereckis Dies IraeArtistic Expression of Religious Tradition 16.4017.00 Elena SAKALAUSKAIT Religious Experience as Expressed in Contemporary Visual Art 17.0017.20 Discussion

Session VIC In Lithuanian Chair ivil NEDZINSKAIT Place: room 206

16.0016.20 Rta BRZGIEN Religious Poetry of Bernardas Brazdionis: Rhetoric of Form 16.2016.40 Paulius JEVSEJEVAS The Experience of Tradition in the Giesm apie pasaulio med of Sigitas Geda 16.4017.00 Virginija CIBARAUSK Sigitas Parulskiss Poetry: Deconstruction of Underlying Principles of Being or the Return of the Baroque? 17.0017.20 Discussion

Scientific commitee: prof. PhD Algis Micknas (chair, Ohio university, USA), F. John Emmanuel Le Taillandier de Gabory, CSJ (Prior of the Monastery of St. John the Theologian in Vilnius), prof. dr. Romualdas Dulskis (VMU, Faculty of Catholic Theology, Lithuania), prof. dr. Merab Ghaghanidze (Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia), prof. dr. Peter Jonkers (Tilburg university, Netherlands), prof. PhD Rekha Menon (Berkeley College, Boston, USA), prof. dr. Tomas Sodeika (KUT, Dep. of Philosophy and Cultural Science, Lithuania), prof. dr. Anita Stasulane (Daugavpils University, Latvia), assoc prof. dr. Olga Breskaya (University of Brest, Belarus), assoc. prof. dr. Janis Priede (University of Latvia, Latvia), r. f. dr. Istvn Povedk (Blint Sndor Institute for the Study of Religion, Hungary). Organizing committee: assoc. prof. dr. Agn Budrinait (chair, VMU, Dep. of Philosophy, Lithuania), assoc. prof. dr. ivil Advilonien (VMU, Faculty of Catholic Theology, Lithuania), assoc. prof. dr. Povilas Aleksandraviius (MRU, Dep. of Philosophy, Lithuania), assoc. prof. dr. Rta Brzgien, (MRU, Dep. of Lithuanian Language, Lithuania), assoc. prof. dr. Vida Daugirdien (VMU, Faculty of Catholic Theology, Lithuania), assoc. prof. dr. Benas Uleviius (VMU, Faculty of Catholic Theology, Lithuania), assist. prof. dr. Valdas Mackela (VMU, Faculty of Catholic Theology, Lithuania), assist. prof. Rimantas Viedrynaitis (VMU, Dep. of Philosophy, Lithuania), theol. lic. Aura Vasiliauskait (s. Gabriel, VMU, Faculty of Catholic Theology, Lithuania), Audrius Rakauskas (VMU, Dep. of Philosophy, Lithuania), Sandra Krataviit (Caritas, Lithuania).