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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=DE-AT link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Von:</span></b><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Institut für Judaistik [mailto:judaistik@univie.ac.at] <br><b>Gesendet:</b> Freitag, 04. April 2014 09:54<br><b>An:</b> Judaistik<br><b>Betreff:</b> Vortrag 08.05.2014: Prof. Daniel Boyarin<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=755 style='width:566.25pt;background:#00CC99;border-collapse:collapse' id=table76><tr><td width=739 valign=top style='width:554.25pt;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#CCFF66;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'>Eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung des Instituts für Judaistik, des Salzburger Zentrums für Jüdische Kulturgeschichte, der Theologischen Kurse Wien und des Koordinierungsausschusses für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b>am 8. Mai 2014, 16.00h Institut für Judaistik HS 1</b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'>Univ. Prof. Dr. <br><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Daniel Boyarin, Berkeley</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'> </span></b><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:16.0pt'>The Apologetic Invention of Religion: From Philo to Gregory of Nyssa</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>Since the writing of William Cantwell Smith, it has become almost commonplace to remark that at a certain moment in late antiquity, certain writers were "almost there" in anticipating the allegedly only modern notion of "religion." J.Z. Smith echoes this when he claims that distinctions among "religions," between "our [true] religion" and "their [false] religion" were being made by fourth-century Latin apologists (presumably it is Lactantius to whom he refers). Rejecting Cantwell Smith’s apparent assumption of a totally forgotten false start in late antiquity and an absolutely <i>de novo</i> and <i>ex nihilo</i> modern invention, J.Z. Smith remarks that it was this (fourth-century) distinction that was "at hand for the evaluation of the newly encountered religions beginning in the sixteenth century." The reclaiming of that earlier usage then led to the then current classification of there being four religions on earth, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and paganism. It is here, in one sense, that the current intervention enters into the discourse. On the one hand, I propose that terms like "religion" have appeared and functioned in discursive contexts before the sixteenth century and that these contexts can be specified with more precision than has been done until now. Instead of a linear series, even a linear series of ruptures, as we find in current genealogies of sexuality, religion, the political etc., I propose that such structures can appear, disappear, and reappear given particular sets of contexts within the social world.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br> Bitte um Weiterleitung an Interessierte!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>__________________________________</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Institut für Judaistik der Universität Wien<br><a href="http://www.univie.ac.at/judaistik">www.univie.ac.at/judaistik</a><br><br>Spitalgasse 2/7.3<br>A-1090 Wien<br><br>Tel: +43/(0)1/4277-43301<br>Fax: +43/(0)1/4277-9433 </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>__________________________________________________________</span></i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Die Zusendung erfolgt entsprechend den Bestimmungen des Telekommunikationsgesetzes §107 Abs. 4. <br>Sollten Sie keine weiteren Zusendungen wünschen, senden Sie uns bitte eine kurze Mitteilung an: <u><a href="mailto:judaistik@univie.ac.at">judaistik@univie.ac.at</a></u><br>If you do not want to receive our mailings please send an e-mail to: <u><a href="mailto:judaistik@univie.ac.at">judaistik@univie.ac.at</a></u></span></i> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>