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 Budapest)
09.30 – 10.00 OPENING ADDRESSES (Room A: Room Pope John Paul II, 2nd floor, 26 Szentkirályi,
1088 Budapest)
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 Budapest)
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 Budapest)
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
Discussion
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.00 SESSION 2
Session 2/A (Room B: Room 204, 2nd floor, 1
Mikszáth Kálmán Square, 1088 Budapest)
Chairs: Vásáry, István, Römer, Claudia
Session 2/B (Room C: Room 205, 2nd floor, 1
Mikszáth Kálmán Square, 1088 Budapest)
14.00-14.20
Wilhelmi, Barbara:
The Nestorians as Medical Scientists: Nestorian
Christology and the Idea of Human Being
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
Rentzsch, Julian:
Oghuz Variants of the Lord’s Prayer
14.20-14.40
Ürkmez, Ertan:
The Formation of Miraj Narratives in Turkey
14.40-15.00
Kovács, Szilvia:
A Franciscan Letter from the Crimea (1323)
14.40-15.00
Balkanlıoğlu, Mehmet A.:
“Symbolic” Islam, Marriage and Family in
Contemporary Turkey: What Do Indicators Tell Us?
15.00-15.20
Erk, Kutluay:
Ten Commandments in the Codex Cumanicus
15.00-15.20
Chilmon, Władysław:
Religion and Authority – Authority of Religion: The
Case of Turkey
15.20-16.00
Discussion
15.20-16.00
Discussion
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
316.30 – 18.00 SESSION 3.
Session 3/A (Room B: Room 204, 2nd floor, 1
Mikszáth Kálmán Square, 1088 Budapest)
Chairs: Schamiloglu, Uli, Ó. Kovács Eszter
Session 3/B (Room C: Room 205, 2nd floor, 1
Mikszáth Kálmán Square, 1088 Budapest)
Chairs: DeWeese, Devin A., Danka, Balázs
16.30-16.50
Römer, Claudia:
Comets as Bringers of Evil in 17th-century Ottoman
Belief
16.30-16.50
Eördögh, Balázs: “Since the sky and the earth mingled
… ”: A Reconsideration of Tengrism
16.50-17.10
Csáki, Éva:
Sufism in Alevi and Bektashi Culture in Turkey
16.50-17.10
Somfai Kara, Dávid: The concept of ʻHappinessʼ and
the Ancient Turkic Notion of ʻSoulʼ
17.10-17.30
Godzińska, Marzena:
Defining Cem Evi of Turkish Alevis – Place of
Prayings, Place of Sacrum, Place of Gatherings, Place
of Pleasures
17.10-17.30
Göncöl, Csaba: ʿAbdu’l-Ġaffār on the Religion of the
Kalmyks
17.30-18.00
Discussion
17.30-18.00
Discussion
Thursday, 10 September 2015
09.00 – 09.45 KEYNOTE LECTURE (Room A: Room Pope John Paul II, 2nd floor, 26 Szentkirályi, 1088
Budapest)
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
Budapest)
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
Mikszáth Kálmán Square, 1088 Budapest)
Chairs: Sibgatullina, Gulnaz, Fröhlich, Ida
Session 1/B (Room C: Room 205, 2nd floor, 1
Mikszáth Kálmán Square, 1088 Budapest)
Chairs: Godzińska, Marzena, Vér, Márton
10.30-10.50
Nevskaya, Irina: Evil Female Spirits of the Sayan-Altai
Turks
10.30-10.50
Sipos, János:
The Psalms and Folk Songs of a Bektashi Community
in Thrace
10.50-11.10
Kapalo, James: ‘Bu epistolii yazdı kendi Allah’:
Christian Apocryphal Texts, Vernacular
Orthodoxy and Identity amongst the Gagauz
of Moldova
10.50-11.10
Gülbeyaz, Abdurrahman:
The Role of Musical Semiosis in Anatolian Alevism
11.10-11.30
Olach, Zsuzsanna: Karaim Translations of the Song of
Moses as a Source of Karaite Religious
Concepts
11.10-11.30
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
Discussion
11.30-12.00
Discussion
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE (Room B: Room 204, 2nd floor, 1 Mikszáth Kálmán Square, 1088
Budapest)
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
Mikszáth Kálmán Square, 1088 Budapest)
Chairs: Skrynnikova, Tatiana, Kovács, Szilvia
14.45-15.05
Vér, Márton:
Religious Communities and the Postal System of the
Mongol Empire
Session 2/B (Room C: Room 205, 2nd floor, 1
Mikszáth Kálmán Square, 1088 Budapest)
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
Danka, Balázs:
About the historical and religious context of the
ʻPaganʼ Oγuz-nāmä
15.05-15.25
Ótott-Kovács, Eszter:
On the Complex Sentences in the Old Turkic
Huastuanift
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
15.25-15.45
Sibgatullina, Gulnaz:
Found to Be on the Fault Line: Language and Religion
in the National Identity of the Kryashen Tatars
15.45-16.15
Discussion
15.45-16.15
Discussion
16.15 – 16.45 Coffee break
16.45– 18.15 SESSION 3.
Session 3/A (Room B: Room 204, 2nd floor, 1
Mikszáth Kálmán Square, 1088 Budapest)
Chairs: Kapalo, James, Porció, Tibor
Session 3/B (Room C: Room 205, 2nd floor, 1
Mikszáth Kálmán Square, 1088 Budapest)
Chairs:, Voinov, Vitaly, Csáki, Éva
16.45-17.05
Carlson, Charles:
Role of the Religion in Kyrgyz Culture
16.45-17.05
Tazhibayeva, Saule:
Kazakh Rites and Their Reflection in the Language
17.05-17.25
Mawkanuli, Talant:
Language and Religion in Relation to the Jungar Tuvan
Ethnic Identity
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
Khabtagaeva, Bayarma:
Remarks on the Buddhist Terminology in Tuvan
17.25-17.45
Grezsa, Bence:
Notes on the Kazakh Religious Terminology
17.45-18.15
Discussion
17.45-18.15
Discussion
Friday, 11 September 2015
09.00 – 9:45: KEYNOTE LECTURE (Room A: Room Pope John Paul II, 2nd floor, 26 Szentkirályi, 1088
Budapest)
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 Budapest)
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)
10.30-10.50
Lunczner-Szabó, Ágnes:
Trepanation in the 10-11th Centuries in the Carpathian Basin and Its Magical Reason
10.50-11.10
Csiky, Gergely:
Rites Related to Weapons in Burials of the Avar period (AD 6–8th Centuries)
11.10-11.30
Peler, Gökçe Yükselen:
The Islamic Balbals of Ayios Andronikos
11.30-12.10
Discussion
12.10 – 12.30 Coffee break
12.30 – 13.00 CLOSING (Room A: Room Pope John Paul II, 2nd floor, 26 Szentkirályi, 1088 Budapest)
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