CfP: International Conference: Intercultural Knowledge Transfer in (Transregional) Asian Religious Contexts

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Date: 13-15 November 2025
Place: University of Münster
Submission Deadline: 31 March 2025
Send Abstracts to: knowledgetransfer2025[at]uni-muenster.de

Religious traditions have long served as dynamic vehicles for the transfer and transformation of cultural knowledge across societies. In 19th and 20th century Asia, profound political, social, and cultural changes affected interactions between religious actors, institutions, and ideas, fostering unprecedented movements of knowledge within and beyond religious communities. This conference seeks to explore the mechanisms, actors, spaces and outcomes of intercultural knowledge transfer with a particular focus on East Asian and Indo-Persian regions. By examining these processes, the conference aims to deepen our understanding of how religious frameworks influenced the production, adaptation, and dissemination of knowledge across cultures. We invite papers that engage with the central question: How did religious contexts facilitate the transfer and transformation of knowledge in, about and across Asia from early modern times to the 20th century?

For more information see the attached Call for Papers.

Institute of Sinology and East Asian Studies

Institute for Missiology and the Study of Theology Beyond Europe In cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” and Asian Studies Center