To browse Academia. Religious knowledge is strongly linked to individual and collective practices and discourses. Therefore, our panel explores the developments of religious knowledge e.
Our leading question is: On the basis of which practices and discourses is the way of life performed and how are such practices and discourses generated, and transformed, by taking up innovative lifestyles?
To what extent are institutions involved? Do they repel or foster the innovation process? Prof Labuschagne acting vice-principal: research, postgraduate studies, innovation and commercialisation , Dr Zawada deputy executive dean: CHS , Prof Kistner respondent , colleagues, family, friends and guests Let me begin with two legends from ancient Greece. When the Greek mathematician Archimedes was taking a bath, he suddenly realized that he could calculate the volume of his body.
Subtracting the volume of the water without him in the bath from the volume of the water with him in the bath would equal the volume of his body. Excited by the discovery, it is said, he jumped out of the bath, and ran naked through the streets, shouting heureka, 'I have found it! Second story: When the Greek hero of technology, Daedalus, invented wings of wax for his son Icarus, Greek myth tells us, Icarus flew too close to the sun, his wings of wax melted, and he fell to his death.
If the first story captures the 'wow' feeling of the scientific innovator, the second warns of the ambiguity of technological inventions.
