2012 Australian Association for the Study of Religion Conference

University of Western Sydney Parramatta Campus, 28-30 September 2012

 

Multiple Religious Modernities Deadline for submissions of abstracts (individual paper or panel proposals): 31 May, 2012 At the local and global level, religion is changed through social processes, but religion also impacts on societies at the structural and grass roots levels. [...]

panels for the annual SISP conference

panels for the annual SISP conference (13 – 15 September 2012, University of Roma tre.

The SISP (Italian Political Science Society) standing group Religion and Politics organises three panels for the annual SISP conference (13 – 15 September 2012, University of Roma tre), info: http://www.sisp.it/convegno

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

In order to [...]

Nonreligion and the Secular

Nonreligion and Secularity Research Network

Call for Papers| 4-6 July 2012, Goldsmiths, University of London

Conveners: Lois Lee (ll317@cam.ac.uk), Stacey Gutkowski (stacey.gutkowski@kcl.ac.uk), and Stephen Bullivant (stephen.bullivant@smuc.ac.uk)

Conference Coordinator: Katie Aston (k.aston@gold.ac.uk)

Following decades of neglect, the academic study of nonreligion has grown rapidly in the past five years.  The primary aim of [...]

Black Church Activism

Black Church Activism and Contested Multiculturalism in Europe, North America, and Africa.

Birkbeck, University of London, May 29-30, 2012

This conference, which is part of an annual Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race, will bring together academics, church leaders, students, and community activists to explore the role that churches play in the construction of [...]

Radical Secularization?

CALL FOR PAPERS

Antwerp, September 20-22-2012

International conference on contemporary philosophical secularization theory. Authors discussed include Blumenberg, Assmann, Nancy, Taylor, Gauchet, Habermas. Keynote speakers: Jean-Claude Monod (CNRS, Paris), Laurens ten Kate (Universiteit voor Humanistiek, Utrecht, Holland), André Cloots (K.U. Leuven, Louvain, Belgium), Guido Vanheeswijck (University of Antwerp), John Milbank (University of Nottingham, UK), Jonathan VanAntwerpen (director SSRC, [...]

Negotiating Religion Workshop

UCL’s Dr Myriam Hunter-Henin is pleased to announce a workshop to be held at UCL on 12th June 2012 on

Negotiating Religion Workshop: Legal Framework – Schools and Religious Freedom

This one day workshop, which is part of the Negotiating Religion Workshop Series, will look at how and to what extent do legal [...]

PROPHECY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM: When Prophecies Persist

INFORM Seminar XLVIII

Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building,
London School of Economics, Saturday 12 May 2012
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/howToGetToLSE.htm

To register: WE ARE NOW TAKING PAYPAL BOOKINGS: http://inform.ac/node/1550
Or post a booking form (attached) and a cheque payable to ‘Inform’ to Inform, Houghton St., London WC2A 2AE. (Inform@lse.ac.uk; 020 7955 7677).

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ALTERNATIVE SALVATIONS

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One Day Conference, Sept 18th 2012, University of Chester

The conference will explore how ‘unorthodox’ readings of sacred texts inform salvation experience; how life transformations outside of religious contexts might be considered spiritual; how ideas of this-worldly salvation are politicised; how ideas of salvation are simultaneously secularised and [...]

Religion, Race, and National Identity

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SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
NOVEMBER 9 – 11, 2012
Hyatt Regency, PHOENIX, AZ

For much of human history, religion has been tightly connected to peoplehood and to territory – to blood and land. Collective identity was a blending of faith with deep relational ties, in today’s terms, religion and [...]

Digital religion.

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The Donner institute will arrange a Symposium

13-15 June 2012 in Åbo / Turku, Finland

Place:
Åbo Akademi University
Asa
Fänriksgatan 3 / Vänrikinkatu 3
Åbo / Turku/
Finland

The theme we have chosen for the Donner Institute 23rd Symposium is Digital Religion. The conference “Digital Religion” aims to explore the [...]