City as Religious Stage

New religious communities and religious-political organizations use the urban space as a stage: with theatrical productions and parades, they demonstrate their presence, for example in Jakarta, Oberammergau and Mumbai. Paola Yacoub und Filip de Boeck report on emerging media-effective funeral rituals in Beirut and Kinshasa against the background of hushed-up mass graves or informal structures of cemetery management. And films and a discussion look at the Iranian revolution as an example of the links between religion and politics.

With Filip de Boeck (Anthropologist Leuven, Kinshasa), Aryo Danusiri (Documentary Filmmaker, Ethnologist, Jakarta), Roberto Dell´Orco and Jacopo Gallico (Artist, Berlin)Thomas Giefer (Journalist, Filmmaker, Berlin), Hengameh Golestan (Photographer, Tehran, London), George Jose (Sociologist, Mumbai), Sandra Schäfer (Artist, Berlin), Surabhi Sharma (Documentary Filmmaker, Mumbai), Christian Stückl (Director, Oberammergau), Paola Yacoub (Artist, Beirut, Berlin).
Moderator: Jochen Becker (Curator, Berlin), Stephan Lanz (Urban Researcher, Berlin, Frankfurt-on-Oder)