Fromm Study Day on Saturday, September 14, 2024 at the Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt am Main
The International Erich-Fromm-Society and the Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt invite you to a conference with top-class guests, which will shed light on the socially critical forces of mysticism in Judaism, Christianity, Buddhism and Islam. The focus is on the question of what mystical faith can contribute to a more humane coexistence in our conflict-ridden, digitalized society.
Erich Fromm, who was born into an orthodox rabbinical family in 1900, originally wanted to follow tradition, but his encounter with psychoanalysis in the mid-1920s led him to renounce the old rites. After his time as a leading psychologist at the Institute for Social Research (Frankfurt/New York), he decided to go his own way at the end of the 1930s – partly because he defended religiosity as an encounter with needs. In numerous popular writings, he emphasizes humanistic aspects of mysticism, which are opposed to the orientation towards having. But how much and what can mysticism achieve today?
The venue is the same as for our last study day a year ago. We will meet again at the Evangelische Akademie Frankfurt, Römerberg 9 in Frankfurt am Main. The program starts at 09:30 and ends at 17:30. The conference fee is €20 (reduced rate for students, trainees and others in need: €10). Lunch in the conference building and a coffee break in the afternoon can also be booked for an additional €30.(Register for the conference)
We were able to win the following speakers:
- Dr. Ansgar Martins – research assistant/postdoctoral researcher (focus on Kabbalah, religion in the Frankfurt School, etc.) at the Franz Rosenzweig Center for German-Jewish Literary and Cultural History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Prof. Dr. Dietmar Mieth – Vice-President of the Meister Eckhart Society, former Professor of Theological Ethics/Social Ethics in Tübingen, founder of the Meister Eckhart Research Centre at the Max Weber College of the University of Erfurt, Federal Cross of Merit
- Prof. Dr. Inken Prohl – Professor of Religious Studies (focus on recent religious history of Germany, Japan and the USA, religion and AI) at the Institute for Religious Studies at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- Prof. Dr. Erdal Toprakyaran – Professor of Islamic History and Contemporary Culture and Deputy Director of the Center for Islamic Theology at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
All details on the conference venue, participation fees and the program can be found in the conference flyer.
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