Academic conferences on religion in today's world
Colloques et séminaires sur les religions dans le monde contemporain
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03-05.09.2010
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| Alba Iulia, Romania |
| Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe: Refiguring Death Rites in Europe |
The aim of the conference is to bring together historians, sociologists, psychologists, and physicians from all over the Europe and to attract original papers on the following topics:
1. Cultural history of death
2. New ritualisations of death in the 21st century
3. Bereavement in modern and post-modern society
4. Suicide, euthanasia and the law
5. End of life and palliative care
6. Definitions of death in terms of biomedicine and otherwise
7. Commemorating the dead in space and time
8. Bodily disposal: implications of the shift from burial to cremation
9. Religion and the meaning of death |
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http://romaniandeathcremation.blogspot.com/2010/01/call-for-papers-dying-and-death-in-18th.html |
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05-08.09.2010
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| University of Winchester |
| Interfaith Encounters and Social Change: Engagements from the Margins |
This conference aims to bring together academics exploring interfaith and social change, with people and organisations whose action for social change is informed by their interfaith ethic.
This conference invites discussion about the dynamic dimensions of interfaith dialogue and multi-faith action across a range of social change issues. Innovative and inclusive, it will open the debate to include academic perspectives and grass-roots voices from both the margins and the mainstream that will allow for broad encounters about the current state and future direction of issues concerning interfaith and social change. |
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http://www.fsscconference.org.uk/2010/index.htm |
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09-11.09.2010
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| Torino |
| Changing Gods: Between Religion and Everyday Life |
An International Conference organized by CESNUR, Italian Association of Sociology (AIS) - Sociology of Religions Section, and the School of Political Science - University of Torino.
The conference will assess the international, global-local, and local dimensions of religious change, religious pluralism, spirituality, minority religions, new religious movements, new movements within Islam and Christianity, Esotericism and the New Age, survey the current situation, and consider the fate of religious and spiritual groups as they change and relate to everyday life in an increasingly multi-cultural and trans-national world. |
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http://www.cesnur.org |
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16-18.09.2010
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| St.Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago |
| Religion in the Caribbean: Addressing the Challenges of Development and Globalism |
There has been considerable published research on religion internationally but insufficient work has been conducted in the Caribbean and Latin America. Our current school and university programmes make little reference to the study of religion as a social phenomenon.
This conference seeks to fill that gap by bringing together scholars who have been doing research in this area. It is hoped that new information and analysis will be presented and the conference will thereby stimulate research in religion across the region. |
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http://sta.uwi.edu/conferences/10/religion/ |
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10-15.10.2010
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| Monte Verità, Ascona (Suisse) |
| Histoire, mémoire et identités en mutation. Les huguenots en France et en diaspora (XVIe-XXIe siècles |
Dès la première éclosion des Églises réformées en France, autour de 1555, leurs membres ont manifesté un extraordinaire intérêt pour la documentation méthodique de leur propre histoire et pour l'écriture de l'histoire en général. De François Hotman à Jean Daillé et Pierre Bayle, de Jacques Basnage de Beauval et Paul Rapin de Thoyras à François Guizot et Gustave Monod, nombreux sont les protestants français dont les noms jalonnent l'histoire de l'historiographie moderne et contemporaine. Cet intérêt des huguenots pour l'histoire n'est pas dénué de fondements identitaires, qui s'affirment plus nettement encore avec la fondation de sociétés huguenotes, au XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle, et la prolifération de lieux de mémoire dans de nombreux pays. Pourtant, un esprit critique a aussi caractérisé le travail des historiens huguenots les plus renommés.
Ouvert à toute personne intéressée d’en suivre les débats, ce colloque regroupera près de 40 communications sur cinq jours. |
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http://www.unige.ch/ihr/huguenots2010.html |
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13-15.10.2010
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| Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| Contesting Religious Identities |
In the Western world, religion has come strongly to the fore again. It is back on the public stages of ‘secular’ society, influencing political and social discourses by raising questions about identity, power, rationality, law and safety. Its ‘return’ however is rather ambiguous. On the one hand, shifting cultural and political frameworks (re-)shape, (re)invent and appropriate religious identities. On the other hand these identities enhance and re-inform cultural and political frameworks. How to understand these different roles religions play? How to understand the ambiguous return of religion on the stages of Western society?
To explore these questions, the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (INTEGON) of Utrecht University organises the international conference ‘Contesting Religious Identities’. The aim of the conference is to build on interdisciplinary insights to analyse the historical and cultural production of religious identities. |
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http://www.uu.nl/EN/faculties/Humanities/contestingreligiousidentities/Pages/default.aspx |
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13-15.10.2010
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| Montpellier |
| Dynamiques de conversions : modèles et resistances |
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Colloque international du Centre Interdisciplinaire d’Etude du Religieux (CIER) de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme de Montpellier. |
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http://www.msh-m.fr/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=386 |
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29-31.10.2010
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| Baltimore, Maryland |
Religion in Unsettled Times
RRA/SSSR Annual Meeting |
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Although it can be argued that all times are to some degree unsettled, recent times have been tumultuous for many in the United States and other societies. Literal and figurative tsunamis have provoked change, realignment, and new practices. Such dynamics are not new, of course, but they do raise questions about what roles religion plays as societies experience dislocation of various sorts. The analysis of how religious individuals and organizations act in the face of perceived crises can add to our understanding of the interaction between religion and its contexts, and can shed light on many of the current challenges with which religious institutions wrestle. |
http://rra.hartsem.edu
http://www.sssrweb.org |
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30.10-01.11.2010
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| Atlanta |
| Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion |
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The largest yearly gathering of scholars of religion in the world. |
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http://www.aarweb.org |
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30-31.10.2010
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| London |
| Anti-Masonry |
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Annual conference of the Canonbury Masonic Research Centre. |
For further information please contact conference organiser, Matthew Scanlan.
Tel: 020 7226 6256
Email: conference@canonbury.ac.uk
Website: www.canonbury.ac.uk |
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