THE ROLE OF RELIGION IN TURKIC CULTURE /RRTC/ International Conference Budapest, Hungary 9th-11th September 2015 Organized by the Turkological Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Szeged in collaboration with the Péter Pázmány Catholic University, Budapest PROGRAM Wednesday, 9 September 2015 08.30 09.30 REGISTRATION (26 Szentkirályi, 1088 09.30 10.00 OPENING ADDRESSES (Room A: Room Pope John Paul II, 2nd floor, 26 Szentkirályi, 1088 Prof. emeritus András RÓNA- TAS member of the Hungarian Academy Prof. Szabolcs SZUROMI, O. Praem. Rector of the Péter Pázmány Catholic University Prof. Mária IVANICS Director of the Turkological Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Szeged. Technical announcements : Zsuzsanna Olach, PhD, Secretary of the Organization committee. 10.00 10.451 KEYNOTE LECTURE (Room A: Room Pope John Paul II, 2nd floor, 26 Szentkirályi, 1088 DEWEESE, DEVIN A.: The Disciples of Aḥmad Yasavī among the Turks of Central Asia: Early Views, Conflicting Evidence, and the Emergence of the Yasavī Silsila 10.45 11.00 Coffee break 11.00 12.30 SESSION 1 (Room A: Room Pope John Paul II, 2nd floor, 26 Szentkirályi, 1088 Chairs: Agyagási, Klára, Rentzsch, Julian 11.00-11.20 Erk, Kutluay: Vocabulary of Religious Belief in the Karakhanid Turkic Qur an Translation (on the Basis of the Rylands edition) 11.20-11.40 Turgut, Halil: The Role of Islam in Scientific Research: The Case of Turkish Pre-Service Science Teachers 11.40-12.00 Demircioğlu, Aytekin: Criticism of Causality in Zamakhshari s (1075 1144) Works 12.00-12-30 12.30 14.00 Lunch
14.00 16.00 SESSION 2 Session 2/A (Room B: Room 204, 2nd floor, 1 Chairs: Vásáry, István, Römer, Claudia 14.00-14.20 Wilhelmi, Barbara: The Nestorians as Medical Scientists: Nestorian Christology and the Idea of Human Being 14.20-14.40 Rentzsch, Julian: Oghuz Variants of the Lord s Prayer 14.40-15.00 Kovács, Szilvia: A Franciscan Letter from the Crimea (1323) 15.00-15.20 Erk, Kutluay: Ten Commandments in the Codex Cumanicus 15.20-16.00 Session 2/B (Room C: Room 205, 2nd floor, 1 Chairs: Khabtagaeva, Bayarma, Turgut, Halil 14.00-14.20 Schamiloglu, Uli: The Celebration of Birth of the Prophet Muhammad (Mevlid) Among the Muslims of the Russian Empire 14.20-14.40 Ürkmez, Ertan: The Formation of Miraj Narratives in Turkey 14.40-15.00 Balkanlıoğlu, Mehmet A.: Symbolic Islam, Marriage and Family in Contemporary Turkey: What Do Indicators Tell Us? 15.00-15.20 Chilmon, Władysław: Religion and Authority Authority of Religion: The Case of Turkey 15.20-16.00 16.00 16.30 Coffee break 316.30 18.00 SESSION 3. Session 3/A (Room B: Room 204, 2nd floor, 1 Chairs: Schamiloglu, Uli, Ó. Kovács Eszter 16.30-16.50 Römer, Claudia: Comets as Bringers of Evil in 17th-century Ottoman Belief 16.50-17.10 Csáki, Éva: Sufism in Alevi and Bektashi Culture in Turkey 17.10-17.30 Godzińska, Marzena: Defining Cem Evi of Turkish Alevis Place of Prayings, Place of Sacrum, Place of Gatherings, Place of Pleasures 17.30-18.00 Session 3/B (Room C: Room 205, 2nd floor, 1 Chairs: DeWeese, Devin A., Danka, Balázs 16.30-16.50 Eördögh, Balázs: Since the sky and the earth mingled : A Reconsideration of Tengrism 16.50-17.10 Somfai Kara, Dávid: The concept of ʻHappinessʼ and the Ancient Turkic Notion of ʻSoulʼ 17.10-17.30 Göncöl, Csaba: ʿAbdu l-ġaffār on the Religion of the Kalmyks 17.30-18.00
Thursday, 10 September 2015 09.00 09.45 KEYNOTE LECTURE (Room A: Room Pope John Paul II, 2nd floor, 26 Szentkirályi, 1088 SKRYNNIKOVA, TATIANA: Rethinking the Meaning of the Theonym Umai 09.45 10.00 POSTER SESSION. (Room A: Room Pope John Paul II, 2nd floor, 26 Szentkirályi, 1088 Moderator Olach, Zsuzsanna Voinov, Vitaly - Krason, Feruza: Bible Translation into Turkic Languages in the Post-Soviet World 10.00 10.30 Coffee break 10.30 12.00 SESSION 1. Session 1/A (Room B: Room 204, 2nd floor, 1 Chairs: Sibgatullina, Gulnaz, Fröhlich, Ida Nevskaya, Irina: Evil Female Spirits of the Sayan-Altai Turks Kapalo, James: Bu epistolii yazdı kendi Allah : Christian Apocryphal Texts, Vernacular Orthodoxy and Identity amongst the Gagauz of Moldova Olach, Zsuzsanna: Karaim Translations of the Song of Moses as a Source of Karaite Religious Concepts Session 1/B (Room C: Room 205, 2nd floor, 1 Chairs: Godzińska, Marzena, Vér, Márton Sipos, János: The Psalms and Folk Songs of a Bektashi Community in Thrace Gülbeyaz, Abdurrahman: The Role of Musical Semiosis in Anatolian Alevism Mukusheva, Raushangul: The Shaman Archetype and the Features of a Mythological Mindset in the Works of the Contemporary Kazakh Poet T. Abdikakimuly 11.30-12.00 11.30-12.00 12.00 13.30 Lunch
13.30 14.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE (Room B: Room 204, 2nd floor, 1 Mikszáth Kálmán Square, 1088 ÖZERTURAL, ZEKINE: Research into Uyghur Manicheism: State-of-the-art and Future Investigations 14.45 16.15 SESSION 2 Session 2/A (Room B: Room 204, 2nd floor, 1 Chairs: Skrynnikova, Tatiana, Kovács, Szilvia 14.45-15.05 Vér, Márton: Religious Communities and the Postal System of the Mongol Empire 15.05-15.25 Danka, Balázs: About the historical and religious context of the ʻPaganʼ Oγuz-nāmä 15.25-15.45 Routamaa, Judith Nazari, Abdollah: The Impact of Islam on the Language and Culture of the Turkmens of Iran: A Sociolinguistic Perspective 15.45-16.15 Session 2/B (Room C: Room 205, 2nd floor, 1 Chairs: Mawkanuli, Talant, Eördögh Balázs 14.45-15.05 Porció, Tibor: The Meanings of čxšapt and Related Terms as Found in Old Uygur Religious Literature 15.05-15.25 Ótott-Kovács, Eszter: On the Complex Sentences in the Old Turkic Huastuanift 15.25-15.45 Sibgatullina, Gulnaz: Found to Be on the Fault Line: Language and Religion in the National Identity of the Kryashen Tatars 15.45-16.15 16.15 16.45 Coffee break 16.45 18.15 SESSION 3. Session 3/A (Room B: Room 204, 2nd floor, 1 Chairs: Kapalo, James, Porció, Tibor 16.45-17.05 Carlson, Charles: Role of the Religion in Kyrgyz Culture 17.05-17.25 Mawkanuli, Talant: Language and Religion in Relation to the Jungar Tuvan Ethnic Identity 17.25-17.45 Khabtagaeva, Bayarma: Remarks on the Buddhist Terminology in Tuvan 17.45-18.15 Session 3/B (Room C: Room 205, 2nd floor, 1 Chairs:, Voinov, Vitaly, Csáki, Éva 16.45-17.05 Tazhibayeva, Saule: Kazakh Rites and Their Reflection in the Language 17.05-17.25 Prokopieva, Svetlana: Concept Analysis of Language of Shamanistic Rituals in Texts of Shamanizing of Former Vilyui Region 17.25-17.45 Grezsa, Bence: Notes on the Kazakh Religious Terminology 17.45-18.15
Friday, 11 September 2015 09.00 9:45: KEYNOTE LECTURE (Room A: Room Pope John Paul II, 2nd floor, 26 Szentkirályi, 1088 Langó, Péter: Variisque deorum vanitatibus : Religious Concepts of Peoples of the Eurasian Steppe as Revealed by the Remains of Their Material Culture 10.00 12.00 SESSION 1(Room A: Room Pope John Paul II, 2nd floor, 26 Szentkirályi, 1088 Chairs: Carlson, Charles, Langó, Péter 09:50-10.10 Türk, Attila: Signs of Religions or Simply Amulets? Archaeological Remarks on Some Early Medieval Gravefinds Originating from the East-European Steppe Zones (AD 8 10th centuries) 10.10-10.30 Gulyás, Bence: Religious Form of Group Cohesion? Remarks on the Partial Animal Burial in the Carpathian Basin and Eastern Europe (AD 6th 7th centuries) Lunczner-Szabó, Ágnes: Trepanation in the 10-11th Centuries in the Carpathian Basin and Its Magical Reason Csiky, Gergely: Rites Related to Weapons in Burials of the Avar period (AD 6 8th Centuries) Peler, Gökçe Yükselen: The Islamic Balbals of Ayios Andronikos 11.30-12.10 12.10 12.30 Coffee break 12.30 13.00 CLOSING (Room A: Room Pope John Paul II, 2nd floor, 26 Szentkirályi, 1088 Prof. István VÁSÁRY member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Prof. István ZIMONYI Chair of the Department of Altaic Studies, Unisversity of Szeged 13.00 14.30 Lunch