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heterogeneous and hardly institutionalized, a coherent worldview can be <strong>di</strong>stinguished (see<br />

Heelas 2008). This holistic worldview can be <strong>di</strong>scerned within esotericism (e.g. former New<br />

Age), neopaganism, human potential activities, Complementary and Alternative Me<strong>di</strong>cine etc.<br />

On the one hand, tendencies of revitalized popular religion are visible in it (see Partridge<br />

2004). On the other hand, there still is an ‘esoteric elite’ of theosophists etc. Eastern influences<br />

are present as well (Campbell 2007). After characterizing this milieu as a more or less coherent<br />

religion, I have two questions. There are strong in<strong>di</strong>cations that such a holistic religion is<br />

growing over the whole of Europe. E.g. in book shops in the cities you can see this with the<br />

large supply of books and magazines on esotericism, holistic help-yourself-books etc. Of<br />

course, there are regional and national <strong>di</strong>fferences, because of religious and other tra<strong>di</strong>tions<br />

(see Jespers 2009). My first question is, whether this idea is correct. The second is, how can we<br />

measure such tendencies, e.g. with a kind of international scientific network on holistic<br />

spirituality.<br />

Ana Jiménez San Cristobal, University of Madrid, Spain<br />

Novedades sobre las laminillas órficas<br />

98<br />

Tue 15 th , 16.00, Classroom 6<br />

El corpus de laminillas órficas ha aumentado en los últimos años gracias a <strong>di</strong>versos hallazgos<br />

arqueológicos y al redescubrimiento de una lámina de Feras, olvidada durante un siglo en el<br />

Museo Arqueológico de Atenas. Las recientes excavaciones ejecutadas en la región de la<br />

antigua Macedonia han sacado a la luz nuevas laminillas de oro. En la necrópolis de Anfípolis<br />

se halló una lámina rectangular situada sobre el pecho de una mujer enterrada en un sarcófago.<br />

El ejemplar, datado entre los siglos IV-III a. C., presenta un texto relativamente breve pero<br />

muy interesante porque aparece el nombre del <strong>di</strong>os Dioniso. De una tumba de la antigua<br />

Heraclea, cerca de Agios Atanasios, procede otra lámina de oro, sin datar, que contiene un<br />

texto también muy breve con el nombre de un iniciado y una alusión al Soberano del Hades. La<br />

laminilla de Feras, datada entre finales del s. IV a. C. y comienzos del s. III a. C., contiene dos<br />

hexámetros incompletos en los que se mencionan tíasos de iniciados y los nombres de los<br />

<strong>di</strong>oses Baco y Deméter Ctonia. Un análisis comparativo entre las láminas de Anfípolis<br />

Heraclea, Feras y el resto de laminillas áureas inscritas tratará de mostrar las coincidencias en<br />

el soporte, contexto arqueológico y, sobre todo, contenido y función de unas y otras, para<br />

determinar si es lícito incorporar los dos últimos hallazgos macedonios al creciente corpus de<br />

laminillas.<br />

Marianne Keppens, Ghent University, Belgium<br />

The European Concept of Religion and the Idea of a Hindu Nation<br />

Wed 16 th , 17.40, Classroom 8<br />

The past decennia scholars in the domain of postcolonial and religious stu<strong>di</strong>es have argued that<br />

the religion Hinduism is a construction that has come out of the encounter of Europeans and<br />

In<strong>di</strong>ans in the colonial period. One of the claims within this account is that an orientalist and<br />

missionary assumption – namely, that the In<strong>di</strong>an religions form one unified pan-In<strong>di</strong>an religion

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