JCM Conference 2021 ONLINE ONLY
How does the time of isolation change our ideas about religious community?
8 - 14 February 2021 online
The pandemic, regardless of whether one counts it as the most relevant crisis of the time or criticises the measures taken to fight it as exaggerated, is having an impact on our everyday life everywhere. In the last months the isolation has led to a changed sense of time, to new types of social contacts and especially for people of faith, to a rethinking in areas of worship, spiritual welfare and coping with contingency. The pandemic is now testing the foundation of every Abrahamic religion, the community. Times of crisis have always reinforced search for meaning. Will the problem of isolation lead in the long term to a reversal of individualisation and will the sense of community regain a higher status in society?
How do our faith institutions respond to feelings of loneliness and alienation? Can faith and religiosity in psychological terms relieve the burden at all, and if so, how? Streaming events by religious communities have drawn greater attendance than local in-person worship. But does it touch people as deeply as an in-person real-life services that allows personal encounter and involvement and do these satisfy religious needs or are they just another means against boredom next to Youtube, Netflix and Co.?
The 2021 conference will attempt to discover how this crisis challenged and will continue to challenge life and works of our religious communities and how we can sustain ourselves and our dialogue. What will we need to leave behind and what can we learn from and with one another?
Due to continuing restrictions imposed by the pandemic, there will not be an in-person conference as originally planned. However, we will offer the corner-stones of JCM programming online including interreligious discussion groups, creative groups and presentations on the theme from three faith perspectives. We will also have an opportunity to share streamed religious services to enable the participants to experience the worship of the three religions.
Our target group includes students and their teachers, as well as all those interested in, and actively committed to, dialogue amongst the three religions.
Conference languages are German and English. All contents will be translated.
Find out more about the timetable.
How do our faith institutions respond to feelings of loneliness and alienation? Can faith and religiosity in psychological terms relieve the burden at all, and if so, how? Streaming events by religious communities have drawn greater attendance than local in-person worship. But does it touch people as deeply as an in-person real-life services that allows personal encounter and involvement and do these satisfy religious needs or are they just another means against boredom next to Youtube, Netflix and Co.?
The 2021 conference will attempt to discover how this crisis challenged and will continue to challenge life and works of our religious communities and how we can sustain ourselves and our dialogue. What will we need to leave behind and what can we learn from and with one another?
Due to continuing restrictions imposed by the pandemic, there will not be an in-person conference as originally planned. However, we will offer the corner-stones of JCM programming online including interreligious discussion groups, creative groups and presentations on the theme from three faith perspectives. We will also have an opportunity to share streamed religious services to enable the participants to experience the worship of the three religions.
Our target group includes students and their teachers, as well as all those interested in, and actively committed to, dialogue amongst the three religions.
Conference languages are German and English. All contents will be translated.
Find out more about the timetable.