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“Women and Spirituality” International Scientific Conference (online), May 25th, 2024
Miejsce wydarzenia: Online (Zoom)
Godzina: 14:30 - 19:00
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“Women and Spirituality”
International Scientific Conference (online)
Ljubljana
May 25th, 2024
There are many definitions of spirituality. Most commonly, spirituality is understood today as a way of life that enables people to search for and find the content, purpose and meaning of life and answers to the deepest life questions. Such a spiritual life leads to a more integral relationship with oneself, others, creation and transcendence, the absolute, which for believers is God. There are, of course, many ways or paths to this, so we speak of several ways of spirituality. Throughout the history of humanity, it has been realised within different religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, so we know different religious spiritualities. Nowadays, many people separate spirituality from religion, so we speak of so-called secular spirituality. It is practised within the values they profess, in different schools of philosophy, cosmology, psychology, art, etc. There is a third way of spirituality, which has elements of both of these.
Every human being is also a sexual being and is marked by this in all that he or she is and lives, including in his or her spirituality. This does not mean that one lives a better or worse spirituality, that one is more or less spiritual, but that the way one understands and practices spirituality is also influenced by what one is as a woman or a man. In the history of humanity there are many well-known female figures in various fields such as: philosophy, religion, art, culture, science, politics, etc. Many of these figures have already been presented, but it is certainly still right and good to go further in showing how women are connected to spirituality and in what way they are or can be influential in the understanding and realisation of spirituality through their femininity, so that it can fulfil its mission to an even greater and fuller extent.
Program
14:30–14:40 |
WELCOME SPEECHES Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Ljubljana Janez Vodičar, PhD, Prof. |
Chairperson: Irena Avsenik Nabergoj | |
14:40–14:55 | Erika Prijatelj (Slovenia, USA) Women’s Patterns of Faith Development |
14:55–15:10 | Ivan Platovnjak (Slovenia) An Anthropological Point of View on the Spirituality of Women |
15:10–15:25 | Liza Primc (Slovenia) The Image and Spirituality of Women by Edith Stein – St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross |
15:25–15:40 | Ewelina Marta Mączka (Poland) Postmodern Expression of Spirituality of Women |
15:40–16:15 | DISCUSSION AND BREAK |
Chairperson: Ines Skelac | |
16:15–16:30 | Irena Avsenik Nabergoj (Slovenia) Aspects of the Spirituality of Female Characters in the Old Testament and Deborah's Song of Thanksgiving (Judg 5) |
16:30–16:45 | Vassilios Bebis (Greece, USA) Women's Spiritual Empowerment in Orthodox Christianity, following the Example of the Virgin Mary |
16:45–17:00 | Wojciech Zyzak (Poland) An extraordinary Woman – Dorothy Day |
17:00–17:15 | Barbara Ćuk (Croatia) How does Spiritual Life Benefit from a Natural Desire to Know? Ana Maria Van Schurman and Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz |
17:15–17:45 | DISCUSSION AND BREAK |
Chairperson: Erika Prijatelj | |
17:45–18:00 | Tone Svetelj (USA) Sibyls in the Ancient World |
18:00–18:15 | Anil D’Almeida (India) Paradoxical Elements within Hinduism on Women and Spirituality |
18:15–18:30 | Murala Jagadeeswaraiah (India) Spirituality of Union in St. Teresa of Avila and Andal |
18:30–18:45 | Raid Al-Daghistani (Germany, Austria, Slovenia) Female and the Feminine Element in the Islamic spiritual Tradition: Historical, Theological and Metaphysical Fragments |
18:45–19:00 | DISCUSSION |
19:00 | CONCLUSION |
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University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Theology
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University of Zagreb, Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies
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The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Faculty of Theology
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Ivan Platovnjak ,Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia (President)
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Ines Skelac, Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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Wojciech Zyzak, Faculty of Theology, The Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland
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Erika Prijatelj, Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia; Hellenic College, USA