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Kocku von Stuckrad - The Relational Turn and the Study of Religion

Kocku von Stuckrad's lectures on European Animisms were organized by the Estonian Society for the Study of Religions in cooperation with the School of Theology and Religious Studies and the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu. The academic and popular work on the concept of animism is clearly linked to a broader change that characterizes European and North American intellectual culture today. The new scholarly interpretations of animism resonate with the ‘relational turn’ across academic disciplines, the arts, and politics. Taking seriously the relationality, entanglement, and situatedness of our knowledges is key for the study of religion as well. As it turns out, the acknowledgment of animism as a European tradition may even contribute to attempts at decolonization and de-Westernization. Against this background, the lecture formulates a few programmatic ideas for the study of religion in the 21st century. Kocku von Stuckrad is a professor of religious studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He has published extensively on topics related to the history of religion, science, and philosophy in Europe and North America. Using a discursive approach to religion, he has worked particularly on nature-based and esoteric spiritualities as influential currents in European tradition. His most recent book is A Cultural History of the Soul: Europe and North America from 1870 to the Present (Columbia University Press, 2021). Ivar Paulson lectures is a lecture series organized by the Estonian Society for the Study of Religions that focus on the most noteworthy topics, issues and new developments in the contemporary study of religion. Ivar Paulson (1922-1966) was known for the wide range of peoples, religious beliefs and practices he was interested in and which he studied by combining a number of different research approaches. Similarly, Paulson lectures aim to highlight and bring together some of the more significant developments from various approaches and perspectives in the contemporary study of religion.