Venue: Jeppe Vontilius Auditorium
Chair: Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
| 10.50-11.05 | Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark: Trust and Confidentiality and Their Relationship to Culture, Religion, and Sociality |
| 11.05-11.20 | Hans Jørgen Lundager Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark: Religion, solidarity and anti-solidarity: Durkheim and Weber |
| 11.20-11.35 | Armin W. Geertz, Aarhus University, Denmark: |
| 11.35-11.50 | Jeppe Sinding Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark: Trust and solidarity in religion and moral psychology - causes and effects? |
Throughout most of human culture there has been an innate relationship between trust, religion, and culture. The purpose of the present workshop is not only to scrutinise but also account for this connection from a variety of perspectives. At the core of the workshop are examinations from a multifariousness of disciplines such as history of religion, sociology of religion, ritual studies, moral philosophy, moral psychology, and cognitive science. The workshop is divided in two parts. In the first part, Hans Jørgen Lundager Jensen and Anders Klostergaard Petersen will analyse the theme from respectively a Durkheimian, cultural evolutionary and ritual theoretical perspective. The second part of the workshop is focused on theories that discuss the overall theme in light of moral philosophy and psychology as well as cognitive science in general and the cognitive science of religion in particular. The four presentations all share the basic understanding that an intrinsic relationship exists between the three elements discussed, but will complement each other by virtue of the fact that they cast very different theoretical light on this relationship.
