SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: ‘YOUTHFUL SPACES OF BELIEF’
RGS –IBG Annual International Conference: London, 1st-3rd September 2010
Session Organiser: Peter Hemming (Brunel University)
Sponsored by the RGS-IBG Children, Youth and Families Research Group
Religion is currently on the social and political agenda like never before, and this development has been reflected through increasing interest in the Social Sciences. In Geography, the ‘new’ geographies of religion have gained in prominence (Kong 2001) and the issue of space has received greater attention from other disciplines (e.g. Knott 2005).
Scholars from within the sub-discipline of geographies of childhood and youth have also begun to consider the significance of religion in the spaces that shape the everyday lives of children and young people (e.g. Dwyer, Hemming, Hopkins, Olson). But the word ‘belief’ encompass much more than religion. It includes ethical, moral and political views that structure the lives of religious and non-religious children and young people alike. These perspectives often provide innovative ways of
thinking about and understanding contemporary global issues such as the environment and living with diversity. As such, beliefs and the way in which they intersect with space and place will be of central concern for both geographers and other researchers interested in children, youth and families.
Papers on youthful spaces of belief might include, but would not be limited to, any of the following interdisciplinary topics:
· The role of belief in constructing childhood and youth
· Influences of and influences on beliefs
· Religious education and education spaces
· Belief and spaces of inclusion/exclusion
· Communities of belief
· Social cohesion
· Emotional, affective and embodied aspects of belief
· Belief and social identity
· Intergenerational issues and home spaces
· Nationhood and belief
· Moral and ethical geographies
· New social movements
· Governing beliefs
· Transitions and the life course
· Innovative methods for researching childhood, youth and belief
Please send your proposed title, along with your name, affiliation, email address and abstract (max 250 words) to peter.hemming@brunel.ac.uk by Friday 5th February 2010.
sabato 30 gennaio 2010
CFP: Changing Gods
The 2010 International Conference
Changing Gods. Between Religion and Everyday Life
International Conference organized by CESNUR, Italian Association of Sociology (AIS) - Sociology of Religions Section, and the School of Political Science - University of Torino
Torino, Italy, 9-11 September 2010
http://www.cesnur.org/2010/to_cfp.htm
CALL FOR PAPERS
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. Papers will be accepted from a variety of perspectives (sociology, history, anthropology, psychology, law, religious studies).
Topics will include: Change in Old and New Religions; Religion and Everyday Life; Societal Responses to Religious Diversity and Pluralism; Religious Movements between Mainstreaming and Marginalization; Religion, Spirituality, and Body; Religion Online and Online Religion; Magic, Esotericism, and the Sacred; Bio-religion and Politics; Prayer and Everyday life; Young Generations; Lifestyles, Religion, and the Sacred; Gender and the Sacred; and The Emergence of New Movements and Groups.
Those who would like to present papers are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of their paper (in English or Italian) and a 200-word curriculum vitae to cesnur_to@virgilio.it before February 28, 2010.
Speakers will be allocated 20 minutes for their talks (but they can bring longer papers to give to interested participants or e-mail these later).
Those who would like to arrange a full session should assume that they will have 2 hours, allowing time for 5 speakers or, if they prefer, 4 speakers and more time for discussion. The session organiser should, in turn, submit a 200-word synopsis of the whole session and 200-word CVs and abstracts for each speaker to cesnur_to@virgilio.it before February 28, 2010. The selection panel will be looking for empirical and theoretical contributions to the scholarly understanding of religious and spiritual change and pluralism, religion and everyday life, and to the variety of societal and individual responses to religion. Authors of papers that have been accepted will be notified before April 15, 2010.
The conference will begin in the morning of Thursday September 9 and it will end in the afternoon of Saturday September 11. The venues will be in downtown Torino. A field trip will be arranged in the afternoon of Friday September 10. Participants will be responsible for arranging their own accommodation: there are plenty of good hotels in downtown Torino and you may want to consult your travel agent. Further details about the conference will be available in due course on the CESNUR (www.cesnur.org) website.
Unfortunately no scholarship will be available for participants. Each participant, including speakers, will be expected both to pay his or her travel and accommodation expenses, and to register before being included in the final programme.
Changing Gods. Between Religion and Everyday Life
International Conference organized by CESNUR, Italian Association of Sociology (AIS) - Sociology of Religions Section, and the School of Political Science - University of Torino
Torino, Italy, 9-11 September 2010
http://www.cesnur.org/2010/to_cfp.htm
CALL FOR PAPERS
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. Papers will be accepted from a variety of perspectives (sociology, history, anthropology, psychology, law, religious studies).
Topics will include: Change in Old and New Religions; Religion and Everyday Life; Societal Responses to Religious Diversity and Pluralism; Religious Movements between Mainstreaming and Marginalization; Religion, Spirituality, and Body; Religion Online and Online Religion; Magic, Esotericism, and the Sacred; Bio-religion and Politics; Prayer and Everyday life; Young Generations; Lifestyles, Religion, and the Sacred; Gender and the Sacred; and The Emergence of New Movements and Groups.
Those who would like to present papers are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of their paper (in English or Italian) and a 200-word curriculum vitae to cesnur_to@virgilio.it before February 28, 2010.
Speakers will be allocated 20 minutes for their talks (but they can bring longer papers to give to interested participants or e-mail these later).
Those who would like to arrange a full session should assume that they will have 2 hours, allowing time for 5 speakers or, if they prefer, 4 speakers and more time for discussion. The session organiser should, in turn, submit a 200-word synopsis of the whole session and 200-word CVs and abstracts for each speaker to cesnur_to@virgilio.it before February 28, 2010. The selection panel will be looking for empirical and theoretical contributions to the scholarly understanding of religious and spiritual change and pluralism, religion and everyday life, and to the variety of societal and individual responses to religion. Authors of papers that have been accepted will be notified before April 15, 2010.
The conference will begin in the morning of Thursday September 9 and it will end in the afternoon of Saturday September 11. The venues will be in downtown Torino. A field trip will be arranged in the afternoon of Friday September 10. Participants will be responsible for arranging their own accommodation: there are plenty of good hotels in downtown Torino and you may want to consult your travel agent. Further details about the conference will be available in due course on the CESNUR (www.cesnur.org) website.
Unfortunately no scholarship will be available for participants. Each participant, including speakers, will be expected both to pay his or her travel and accommodation expenses, and to register before being included in the final programme.
Colloquio internazionale: L’ENGAGEMENT DES HOMMES POUR L’ÉGALITÉ DES SEXES
Colloque international 11/13 février 2010
L’ENGAGEMENT DES HOMMES POUR L’ÉGALITÉ DES SEXES
auditorium de la Grande galerie de l’évolution,Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris
La difficulté à faire admettre l’égale valeur des deux sexes, puis l’égalité de leurs droits, a longtemps conduit à s’intéresser, d’un côté, aux actions des femmes pour améliorer le rapport des forces en leur faveur et, de l’autre, aux racines et aux manifestations de la misogynie masculine.
Le présent colloque voudrait aborder le problème d’un autre point de vue, afin de mettre en évidence une réalité aussi incontestable que mal connue : l’action des hommes qui, aux côtés des femmes féministes ou de leur propre chef, ont agi publiquement en vue de l’égalité. Qui sont ces hommes ? Pourquoi et comment se sont-ils désolidarisés de leur «groupe de sexe»?
Avec quelles conséquences ? Dans quels domaines ont-ils agi ? Au nomde quelles idées, de quels principes ? Quel a été leur rôle ? Quelles relations ont-ils entretenu avec les féministes?
Comment l’Histoire a-t-elle traité leur contribution au combat pour l’égalité ? Une réflexion plus globale sur l’engagement masculin en faveur de l’égalité des sexes est-elle désormais possible?
Telles sont quelques-unes des questions auxquelles ce colloque voudrait répondre, dans le double objectif de faire progresser les connaissances sur le féminisme, et de faire régresser les idées reçues sur l’a-historique et a-politique notion de « guerre des sexes ».
L’ENGAGEMENT DES HOMMES POUR L’ÉGALITÉ DES SEXES
auditorium de la Grande galerie de l’évolution,Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle 36 rue Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 75005 Paris
La difficulté à faire admettre l’égale valeur des deux sexes, puis l’égalité de leurs droits, a longtemps conduit à s’intéresser, d’un côté, aux actions des femmes pour améliorer le rapport des forces en leur faveur et, de l’autre, aux racines et aux manifestations de la misogynie masculine.
Le présent colloque voudrait aborder le problème d’un autre point de vue, afin de mettre en évidence une réalité aussi incontestable que mal connue : l’action des hommes qui, aux côtés des femmes féministes ou de leur propre chef, ont agi publiquement en vue de l’égalité. Qui sont ces hommes ? Pourquoi et comment se sont-ils désolidarisés de leur «groupe de sexe»?
Avec quelles conséquences ? Dans quels domaines ont-ils agi ? Au nomde quelles idées, de quels principes ? Quel a été leur rôle ? Quelles relations ont-ils entretenu avec les féministes?
Comment l’Histoire a-t-elle traité leur contribution au combat pour l’égalité ? Une réflexion plus globale sur l’engagement masculin en faveur de l’égalité des sexes est-elle désormais possible?
Telles sont quelques-unes des questions auxquelles ce colloque voudrait répondre, dans le double objectif de faire progresser les connaissances sur le féminisme, et de faire régresser les idées reçues sur l’a-historique et a-politique notion de « guerre des sexes ».
CFP: Muslim youth
The Eighth Nordic Conference on Middle Eastern Studies will take place in Bergen, Norway, 24-26 September 2010. The conference Middle Eastern Connectivities is organised by The Nordic Society for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies (NSM).
We are seeking papers for the panel:
Muslim Youth in Europe: “individualisation” and “secularization”?
This workshop encourages a critical assessment of current research perspectives on Muslim youth in Europe. Frequently, youth with migration background from a Muslim country are viewed as modernized and as expressing a ‘Muslimness’ which is a ‘new’ form of religiosity shaped by the European sphere. The recurrent impression is that Muslim youth has an individualized religious identity – often explained as a result of growing up in an individualised Europe. Muslims youth are consequently undergoing a ‘secularization’ process. Are these research perspectives a result of researches’ effort to ‘normalize’ Muslim youth, a misrepresentation of the research topic, or empirical ‘facts’? What factors are overlooked in such approaches? What alternative perspectives in the discussion of young Muslims and their religiosity in Europe can be promoted?
Both theoretical discussions as well as empirical founded papers are welcomed.
Please submit paper abstracts by March 15th 2010 to: bergen2010@smi.uib.no
For more information, see conference homepage: http://www.uib.no/smi/en/activities/conference-middle-eastern-connectivities
We are seeking papers for the panel:
Muslim Youth in Europe: “individualisation” and “secularization”?
This workshop encourages a critical assessment of current research perspectives on Muslim youth in Europe. Frequently, youth with migration background from a Muslim country are viewed as modernized and as expressing a ‘Muslimness’ which is a ‘new’ form of religiosity shaped by the European sphere. The recurrent impression is that Muslim youth has an individualized religious identity – often explained as a result of growing up in an individualised Europe. Muslims youth are consequently undergoing a ‘secularization’ process. Are these research perspectives a result of researches’ effort to ‘normalize’ Muslim youth, a misrepresentation of the research topic, or empirical ‘facts’? What factors are overlooked in such approaches? What alternative perspectives in the discussion of young Muslims and their religiosity in Europe can be promoted?
Both theoretical discussions as well as empirical founded papers are welcomed.
Please submit paper abstracts by March 15th 2010 to: bergen2010@smi.uib.no
For more information, see conference homepage: http://www.uib.no/smi/en/activities/conference-middle-eastern-connectivities
Forum on Religion: next seminars
Dear all,
Please join us next Thursday, 4 February, for the Forum on Religion Seminar on
'Live and Let Buy? Consumerism, Secularization and Liberalism'
-- Guy Ben-Porat, Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Israel serves in this paper as a case study for examining the relationship between secularism based on "practices of everyday life" and "ideological" or "principled" secularism associated with, on the one hand, church-state separation and, on the other hand, liberal values of tolerance and equality. Given the monopoly of Orthodoxy over Jewish religious life, entrenched anti-liberal and ethnocentric attitudes in society, and various discriminatory practices towards minorities, Israel has been described as a "non-liberal democracy". In the last two decades, religion seems to lose some of its hold over public life, often interpreted as a liberalization of state and society. The proliferation of non-kosher restaurants and food shops, an annual crowd-drawing gay parade and rapidly growing commercial activity on Saturdays are all evidence of the secularization of the Israeli public sphere. However, while these developments are hard to ignore, it remains questionable, first, how deep the secularization of Israeli society really is, and, second, whether Israel is indeed moving away from its non-liberal character towards a liberal democracy, more committed to liberal values of tolerance and equality.
'Spiritualized Work, Recession and Self?'
-- John Cullen, Department of Business & Law at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth
What form of management is suggested by the increased interest in organizational spirituality and what genre of manager does spiritual learning attempt to construct? The growth of ‘organizational spirituality’ and its implications for management learning and development are considered in the context of Burgoyne’s (2002) outline of fourteen different styles of learning approaches and the types of ‘Self’ they seek to construct. Various approaches for understanding the self are explored, and a model for organizing these approaches, and the ‘Selves’ they imply, are presented. The increased spiritualization of organizational life and management are discussed. Spiritual management learning approaches are reviewed with the aim of clarifying a new, spiritualized form (or genre) of managerial self, which the discourse of organizational spirituality appears to seek.
The seminar will take place from 5:30-7pm in the Cañada Blanch Room (J116), Cowdray House, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE (Find the ‘J’ building on this map: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm)
NEXT FORUM ON RELIGION SEMINARS:
4 March -- 'Intolerance and Persecution of Religious Deviance Within Islam: The Case of the Ahmadiyya Community in Indonesia'
-- John Sidel, Department of Government, LSE
The study of religion includes a rich literature on intolerance and persecution of religious deviance in Christianity, but very little in the context of Islam. This lacuna is especially striking and unfortunate, given the prevalent perceptions in the West of Islam as a faith which is particularly strict in its interpretation and application of religious doctrine. Against this backdrop, Professor Sidel's lecture is intended to subject patterns of religious intolerance and persecution within Islam to comparative analysis and theoretical illumination, situating the case of attacks on Ahmadiyya communities and 'deviant sects' (aliran sesat) in Indonesia since 2005 against a broader history of religious violence in the country and beyond.
6 May -- Seminar on Muslim identities:
Muslim identity in the British educational landscape (tentative title) -- Malik Ajani, Royal Holloway, University of London
Integration patterns and Bosnian Muslim identity in New England (tentative title) -- Kristen Lucken, Boston University
3 June -- Seminar on religion, immigration and the far right:
'Home-grown terror, anti-Muslimism and the politics of fear: the rise of the British National Party' -- Christopher Allen, University of Birmingham
'Religion, securitization and anti-immigration attitudes: the case of Greece' -- Georgios Karyotis and Stratos Patrikios, University of Strathclyde
Call for Papers
PRESENT your RESEARCH in the Forum on Religion Seminar Series:
The Forum on Religion hosts a seminar series for the work in progress on religion: submissions welcome from all disciplines and any geographical foci.
Send an email with your proposed presentation topic to religionforum@lse.ac.uk.
For more information, see http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/religionForum/seminarSeries.htm
For more information on the Forum on Religion, visit www.lse.ac.uk/religionforum
Please join us next Thursday, 4 February, for the Forum on Religion Seminar on
'Live and Let Buy? Consumerism, Secularization and Liberalism'
-- Guy Ben-Porat, Department of Public Policy and Administration, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Israel serves in this paper as a case study for examining the relationship between secularism based on "practices of everyday life" and "ideological" or "principled" secularism associated with, on the one hand, church-state separation and, on the other hand, liberal values of tolerance and equality. Given the monopoly of Orthodoxy over Jewish religious life, entrenched anti-liberal and ethnocentric attitudes in society, and various discriminatory practices towards minorities, Israel has been described as a "non-liberal democracy". In the last two decades, religion seems to lose some of its hold over public life, often interpreted as a liberalization of state and society. The proliferation of non-kosher restaurants and food shops, an annual crowd-drawing gay parade and rapidly growing commercial activity on Saturdays are all evidence of the secularization of the Israeli public sphere. However, while these developments are hard to ignore, it remains questionable, first, how deep the secularization of Israeli society really is, and, second, whether Israel is indeed moving away from its non-liberal character towards a liberal democracy, more committed to liberal values of tolerance and equality.
'Spiritualized Work, Recession and Self?'
-- John Cullen, Department of Business & Law at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth
What form of management is suggested by the increased interest in organizational spirituality and what genre of manager does spiritual learning attempt to construct? The growth of ‘organizational spirituality’ and its implications for management learning and development are considered in the context of Burgoyne’s (2002) outline of fourteen different styles of learning approaches and the types of ‘Self’ they seek to construct. Various approaches for understanding the self are explored, and a model for organizing these approaches, and the ‘Selves’ they imply, are presented. The increased spiritualization of organizational life and management are discussed. Spiritual management learning approaches are reviewed with the aim of clarifying a new, spiritualized form (or genre) of managerial self, which the discourse of organizational spirituality appears to seek.
The seminar will take place from 5:30-7pm in the Cañada Blanch Room (J116), Cowdray House, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE (Find the ‘J’ building on this map: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm)
NEXT FORUM ON RELIGION SEMINARS:
4 March -- 'Intolerance and Persecution of Religious Deviance Within Islam: The Case of the Ahmadiyya Community in Indonesia'
-- John Sidel, Department of Government, LSE
The study of religion includes a rich literature on intolerance and persecution of religious deviance in Christianity, but very little in the context of Islam. This lacuna is especially striking and unfortunate, given the prevalent perceptions in the West of Islam as a faith which is particularly strict in its interpretation and application of religious doctrine. Against this backdrop, Professor Sidel's lecture is intended to subject patterns of religious intolerance and persecution within Islam to comparative analysis and theoretical illumination, situating the case of attacks on Ahmadiyya communities and 'deviant sects' (aliran sesat) in Indonesia since 2005 against a broader history of religious violence in the country and beyond.
6 May -- Seminar on Muslim identities:
Muslim identity in the British educational landscape (tentative title) -- Malik Ajani, Royal Holloway, University of London
Integration patterns and Bosnian Muslim identity in New England (tentative title) -- Kristen Lucken, Boston University
3 June -- Seminar on religion, immigration and the far right:
'Home-grown terror, anti-Muslimism and the politics of fear: the rise of the British National Party' -- Christopher Allen, University of Birmingham
'Religion, securitization and anti-immigration attitudes: the case of Greece' -- Georgios Karyotis and Stratos Patrikios, University of Strathclyde
Call for Papers
PRESENT your RESEARCH in the Forum on Religion Seminar Series:
The Forum on Religion hosts a seminar series for the work in progress on religion: submissions welcome from all disciplines and any geographical foci.
Send an email with your proposed presentation topic to religionforum@lse.ac.uk.
For more information, see http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/religionForum/seminarSeries.htm
For more information on the Forum on Religion, visit www.lse.ac.uk/religionforum
European Congess: Dialogue and Concertation between philosophies of life/religions and the Public authorities in Europe
The Catholic University of Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium) and the Hoger Instituut voor Levensbeschouwing, Overheid en Samenleving (HILOS) (Ghent, Belgium) welcome you to an european congress
DIALOGUE AND CONCERTATION BETWEEN PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE/RELIGIONS AND THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES IN EUROPE
CHALLENGES AND LIMITS OF NEW FORMS OF GOVERNANCE
BELGIUM, GHENT, 9-10 MARCH 2010 and LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, 11-12 MARCH 2010
Two kinds of issues will be tackled by this pluridisciplinary colloquium:
1. How do the international organisations or the European nations take into account or mobilise the resources produced by several forms of interreligious dialogues, even by redefining them?
2. How do the actors of interreligious dialogue react to the expectations or the attention given to their religious action by the
international organisations? Does this involve a simple game of instrumentalisation, in one way or two directions? Or are the influences much deeper, either substantial or procedural?
Programme :
Have a look at the conference websites :
http://www.uclouvain.be/275606.html
http://hilos.be/index.php?ID=38167&set_la=3
Ghent Speakers :
Mr. Geert BOURGEOIS
Vice-Minister-President of the Flemish Government and Flemish Minister for Administrative Affairs, Local and Provincial Government, Civic Integration and Tourism
Prof. dr. Francesco MARGIOTTA BROGLIO (to be confirmed)
Università di Firenze, Italy
Prof. dr. Louis-Léon CHRISTIANS
UCL, Belgium
Prof. dr. Patrick DE POOTER
HILOS, Belgium
Prof. dr. Nikos MAGHIOROS
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. Michaela MORAVCIKOVA
Institute for Church-State relations, Bratislava, Slovakia
Prof. dr. Wilfried SPOHN
Universität Göttingen, Germany
Prof. dr. Emmanuel TAWIL
Université Paris II / Université Aix-Marseille, France
Prof. dr. Rik TORFS
KU Leuven, Belgium
Prof. dr. Javier Martinez TORRON
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Prof. dr. Tymen J. VAN DER PLOEG
VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Prof. dr. Eileen BARKER,
London School of Economics
Louvain-la-Neuve Speakers :
Dr. Burkard Joseph BERKMANN
Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule St. Pölten
Dr. Hasan BOUSSETTA, comité scientifique
Université de Liège
Prof. dr. Louis-Léon CHRISTIANS, organisateur
Université catholique de Louvain
Prof. dr. Jean-Paul DURAND
Institut catholique de Paris
Prof. dr. Patrick DE POOTER, co-organisateur
HILOS, Belgique
Prof. dr. Jean-Marc FERRY
Université libre de Bruxelles
Prof. dr. M.-Claire FOBLETS, comité scientifique
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Prof. dr. François FORET, comité scientifique
Université libre de Bruxelles
M. Farid EL ASRI
CISMOC, Université catholique de Louvain
M. Jean-François HUSSON
Oracle - Cifop, Belgique
Prof. dr. Anne-Sophie LAMINE
Université de Strasbourg
Dr. Vincent LEGRAND
COMECE et Université catholique de Louvain
Prof. dr. Walter LESCH
Université catholique de Louvain
Dr. Guy LIAGRE
Belgian Council of Religious Leaders (Belgique)
Prof. dr. Joseph MAILA
ICP Paris, Director, Pôle Religions au Quai d'Orsay
Prof. dr. Nikos MAGHIOROS
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Grèce
Prof. dr. Michel MAGITS, comité scientifique
Vrij Universiteit Brussel
Dr. Bérangère MASSIGNON
Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris)
Rabbin David MEYER
Bruxelles and Brighton New Synagogue, Angleterre
Prof. dr. Jacques SCHEUER, comité scientifique
Université catholique de Louvain
Prof. dr. Emmanuel TAWIL, comité scientifique
Université de Paris II
Prof. dr. Javier Martinez TORRON
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espagne
Prof. dr. Jean-Paul WILLAIME
Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris)
Welcome in Belgium.
Pr. Louis-Léon Christians
Chaire de droit des religions
Université catholique de Louvain
http://www.uclouvain.be/en-chaire-droit-religions.html
Pr. Patrick de Pooter
Hoger Instituut voor Levensbeschouwing, Overheid en Samenleving
http://hilos.be/
DIALOGUE AND CONCERTATION BETWEEN PHILOSOPHIES OF LIFE/RELIGIONS AND THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES IN EUROPE
CHALLENGES AND LIMITS OF NEW FORMS OF GOVERNANCE
BELGIUM, GHENT, 9-10 MARCH 2010 and LOUVAIN-LA-NEUVE, 11-12 MARCH 2010
Two kinds of issues will be tackled by this pluridisciplinary colloquium:
1. How do the international organisations or the European nations take into account or mobilise the resources produced by several forms of interreligious dialogues, even by redefining them?
2. How do the actors of interreligious dialogue react to the expectations or the attention given to their religious action by the
international organisations? Does this involve a simple game of instrumentalisation, in one way or two directions? Or are the influences much deeper, either substantial or procedural?
Programme :
Have a look at the conference websites :
http://www.uclouvain.be/275606.html
http://hilos.be/index.php?ID=38167&set_la=3
Ghent Speakers :
Mr. Geert BOURGEOIS
Vice-Minister-President of the Flemish Government and Flemish Minister for Administrative Affairs, Local and Provincial Government, Civic Integration and Tourism
Prof. dr. Francesco MARGIOTTA BROGLIO (to be confirmed)
Università di Firenze, Italy
Prof. dr. Louis-Léon CHRISTIANS
UCL, Belgium
Prof. dr. Patrick DE POOTER
HILOS, Belgium
Prof. dr. Nikos MAGHIOROS
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. Michaela MORAVCIKOVA
Institute for Church-State relations, Bratislava, Slovakia
Prof. dr. Wilfried SPOHN
Universität Göttingen, Germany
Prof. dr. Emmanuel TAWIL
Université Paris II / Université Aix-Marseille, France
Prof. dr. Rik TORFS
KU Leuven, Belgium
Prof. dr. Javier Martinez TORRON
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Prof. dr. Tymen J. VAN DER PLOEG
VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Prof. dr. Eileen BARKER,
London School of Economics
Louvain-la-Neuve Speakers :
Dr. Burkard Joseph BERKMANN
Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule St. Pölten
Dr. Hasan BOUSSETTA, comité scientifique
Université de Liège
Prof. dr. Louis-Léon CHRISTIANS, organisateur
Université catholique de Louvain
Prof. dr. Jean-Paul DURAND
Institut catholique de Paris
Prof. dr. Patrick DE POOTER, co-organisateur
HILOS, Belgique
Prof. dr. Jean-Marc FERRY
Université libre de Bruxelles
Prof. dr. M.-Claire FOBLETS, comité scientifique
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Prof. dr. François FORET, comité scientifique
Université libre de Bruxelles
M. Farid EL ASRI
CISMOC, Université catholique de Louvain
M. Jean-François HUSSON
Oracle - Cifop, Belgique
Prof. dr. Anne-Sophie LAMINE
Université de Strasbourg
Dr. Vincent LEGRAND
COMECE et Université catholique de Louvain
Prof. dr. Walter LESCH
Université catholique de Louvain
Dr. Guy LIAGRE
Belgian Council of Religious Leaders (Belgique)
Prof. dr. Joseph MAILA
ICP Paris, Director, Pôle Religions au Quai d'Orsay
Prof. dr. Nikos MAGHIOROS
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Grèce
Prof. dr. Michel MAGITS, comité scientifique
Vrij Universiteit Brussel
Dr. Bérangère MASSIGNON
Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris)
Rabbin David MEYER
Bruxelles and Brighton New Synagogue, Angleterre
Prof. dr. Jacques SCHEUER, comité scientifique
Université catholique de Louvain
Prof. dr. Emmanuel TAWIL, comité scientifique
Université de Paris II
Prof. dr. Javier Martinez TORRON
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Espagne
Prof. dr. Jean-Paul WILLAIME
Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris)
Welcome in Belgium.
Pr. Louis-Léon Christians
Chaire de droit des religions
Université catholique de Louvain
http://www.uclouvain.be/en-chaire-droit-religions.html
Pr. Patrick de Pooter
Hoger Instituut voor Levensbeschouwing, Overheid en Samenleving
http://hilos.be/
2 borse di dottorato - Centre for the study of Contemporary Muslim Societies (SCMS)
The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies Doctoral Scholarships (2 available)
Applications close 28 February 2010
The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies (SCMS) has been established at UWS under the umbrella of the National Centre of Excellent for Islamic Studies.
The research focus of the Centre will include:
- how Muslim culture and communities evolve over time
- how to encourage greater intercultural harmony within Australia
- the future of multicultural Australia and the place of Muslim Australians within it
- conducting comparative studies on international Muslim communities in cosmopolitan cultures
About the projects
The Centre is currently seeking two excellent doctoral candidates to undertake research projects in one of the following areas:
- religion and multiculturalism
- Muslim communities and youth cultures
- consumerism and religion
- public religions and secularization
Criteria
- background in the social sciences or humanities
- Bachelor Honours degree (Class I or II), or equivalent qualifications and/or experience (eg coursework masters degree with a significant research component)
- preference will be given to applicants with an interest in the sociology and/or anthropology of religion with special reference to Islam
- domestic and international applicants are encouraged to apply
What does the scholarship provide?
- tax-free stipend of $37,500 per annum
- the successful applicant will be awarded a funded place in the degree
- relocation allowance if applicable
Need more information?
- Contact Assoc Professor Adam Possamai to discuss your proposed project: a.possamai@uws.edu.au;
+61 2 9772 6623 +61 2 9772 6623
- Contact the Research Scholarships Development Officer to discuss enrolments and scholarships at UWS: Ms Tracy Mills; t.mills@uws.edu.au; +61 2 4736 0966 +61 2 4736 0966
- Find out more about The Centre For the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies on the web.
How to apply
Applicants should submit the Application Form (PDF, 469Kb), research proposal and a CV by the closing date 28 February 2010.
http://www.uws.edu.au/research/scholarships/new_higher_degree_research_scholarships
Applications close 28 February 2010
The Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies (SCMS) has been established at UWS under the umbrella of the National Centre of Excellent for Islamic Studies.
The research focus of the Centre will include:
- how Muslim culture and communities evolve over time
- how to encourage greater intercultural harmony within Australia
- the future of multicultural Australia and the place of Muslim Australians within it
- conducting comparative studies on international Muslim communities in cosmopolitan cultures
About the projects
The Centre is currently seeking two excellent doctoral candidates to undertake research projects in one of the following areas:
- religion and multiculturalism
- Muslim communities and youth cultures
- consumerism and religion
- public religions and secularization
Criteria
- background in the social sciences or humanities
- Bachelor Honours degree (Class I or II), or equivalent qualifications and/or experience (eg coursework masters degree with a significant research component)
- preference will be given to applicants with an interest in the sociology and/or anthropology of religion with special reference to Islam
- domestic and international applicants are encouraged to apply
What does the scholarship provide?
- tax-free stipend of $37,500 per annum
- the successful applicant will be awarded a funded place in the degree
- relocation allowance if applicable
Need more information?
- Contact Assoc Professor Adam Possamai to discuss your proposed project: a.possamai@uws.edu.au;
+61 2 9772 6623 +61 2 9772 6623
- Contact the Research Scholarships Development Officer to discuss enrolments and scholarships at UWS: Ms Tracy Mills; t.mills@uws.edu.au; +61 2 4736 0966 +61 2 4736 0966
- Find out more about The Centre For the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies on the web.
How to apply
Applicants should submit the Application Form (PDF, 469Kb), research proposal and a CV by the closing date 28 February 2010.
http://www.uws.edu.au/research/scholarships/new_higher_degree_research_scholarships
mercoledì 27 gennaio 2010
Seminario Ebraismo e Cristianesimo (Parigi)
Organisé en partenariat entre le Collège des Bernardins et l’Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Juives Elie Wiesel
Un séminaire de recherche sur les sources des deux grandes familles spirituelles bibliques judaïsme et christianisme, fondé sur un travail d’enquête et d’approfondissement, dans une perspective transdisciplinaire, intégrant critique historique, réflexion philosophique, analyse documentaire et littéraire des textes juifs et chrétiens, élucidation du cadre historique de la naissance et du développement de ces sources de pensée.
Le séminaire est destiné principalement à des chercheurs, des doctorants ou des étudiants de niveau master.
Quatre séances sont prévues pour février – mai 2010 (environ une séance par mois) et sept séances pour l’année universitaire 2010/2011. Des tables rondes, des soirées et des leçons sont prévues pour le grand public.
Un colloque universitaire aura lieu au courant de l’année universitaire 2011-2012 suivi de la publication des actes du colloque.
Le séminaire abordera le thème majeur de l’altérité et du rapport à l’autre, dans les pensées juive et chrétienne ; rapport homme-femme, rapport au prochain, à l’étranger, à l’esclave, à l’ennemi, à l’hérétique, rapport homme animal,avec l’analyse de textes des deux traditions juive et chrétienne, aussi bien anciens (Bible hébraïque, Evangile, Midrach, Talmud, Pères de l’Eglise) que modernes.
Les deux premières séances :
1. Jeudi 11 février 2010 de 17h à 19h au Collège des Bernardins (20 rue de Poissy 75005 Paris)
Anne-Marie Pelletier
Professeur des Universités et professeur à l’institut catholique de Paris :
« Des vivants non parlants ». Problématiques bibliques d’une question contemporaine.
2. Jeudi 25 mars 2010 de 17h à 19h à l’Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Juives Elie Wiesel (119 rue La Fayette 75009 Paris)
« Le gouffre Homme-Animal : une intuition de la pensée biblique »
par Franklin Rausky : Maître de conférences à l’université de Strasbourg
Inscription gratuite au 01.53.20.52.61 ou par mail à infos@iuej.net
Un séminaire de recherche sur les sources des deux grandes familles spirituelles bibliques judaïsme et christianisme, fondé sur un travail d’enquête et d’approfondissement, dans une perspective transdisciplinaire, intégrant critique historique, réflexion philosophique, analyse documentaire et littéraire des textes juifs et chrétiens, élucidation du cadre historique de la naissance et du développement de ces sources de pensée.
Le séminaire est destiné principalement à des chercheurs, des doctorants ou des étudiants de niveau master.
Quatre séances sont prévues pour février – mai 2010 (environ une séance par mois) et sept séances pour l’année universitaire 2010/2011. Des tables rondes, des soirées et des leçons sont prévues pour le grand public.
Un colloque universitaire aura lieu au courant de l’année universitaire 2011-2012 suivi de la publication des actes du colloque.
Le séminaire abordera le thème majeur de l’altérité et du rapport à l’autre, dans les pensées juive et chrétienne ; rapport homme-femme, rapport au prochain, à l’étranger, à l’esclave, à l’ennemi, à l’hérétique, rapport homme animal,avec l’analyse de textes des deux traditions juive et chrétienne, aussi bien anciens (Bible hébraïque, Evangile, Midrach, Talmud, Pères de l’Eglise) que modernes.
Les deux premières séances :
1. Jeudi 11 février 2010 de 17h à 19h au Collège des Bernardins (20 rue de Poissy 75005 Paris)
Anne-Marie Pelletier
Professeur des Universités et professeur à l’institut catholique de Paris :
« Des vivants non parlants ». Problématiques bibliques d’une question contemporaine.
2. Jeudi 25 mars 2010 de 17h à 19h à l’Institut Universitaire d'Etudes Juives Elie Wiesel (119 rue La Fayette 75009 Paris)
« Le gouffre Homme-Animal : une intuition de la pensée biblique »
par Franklin Rausky : Maître de conférences à l’université de Strasbourg
Inscription gratuite au 01.53.20.52.61 ou par mail à infos@iuej.net
domenica 24 gennaio 2010
Conference: Religion, Livelihoods, Social Movements and Communities
CONFERENCE: RELIGION, LIVELIHOODS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
17th - 19th MARCH 2010
GRENAA, DENMARK
Workshops on Religion, Communities and Social Change; Community Organisations, Livelihoods and Social Change; Livelihood, Food and Nutrition; and Community Entrepreneurs and Local Economic Development (for further information on the individual workshops, see below)
For further information and registration, contact the Association of Development Researchers in Denmark (Foreningen af Udviklingsforskere, FAU)
c/o DIIS, Strandgade 56, 1401 Kbh. K
Phone: +45 32 69 86 90 - Fax: + 45 32 69 88 00
E-mail: fau@diis.dk
www.fau.dk
BACKGROUND AND SUBJECT OF THE CONFERENCE:
Since 1990 FAU has hosted an annual conference with the primary aim of making a contribution to contemporary concerns through interdisciplinary debate. Thus it is our hope that also this year the conference will to bring together Danish, Nordic and International researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds with development practitioners (from donor agencies, consultancies and NGOs) and advanced students in order to present and discuss important contemporary issues within Danish and international development research and shed light on important processes of development.
The theme of the conference is 'Development that matter? Religion, Livelihoods, Social Movements and Community Development. ' Social change takes place in developing countries as continuous processes in time and space. These changes are the outcome of a combination of (sometimes coming as a result of) state policies and international actors, (but more often as results of) as well as local level dynamics (on local level, between government, civil society and the private sector, and within civil society). The 2010 FAU conference aims to trace the various dynamics at the local level in bringing about social change. We need to understand the roles of different themes and actors (within) particularly within civil society in bringing about social change. The conference theme opens up for multi-facetted discussions of participation (social movements) and state policies seen from different actor's levels: Community based organisations, NGOs, faith-based or interest organisations, social movements, political parties, economic actors, government organisations, international donors etc.
The core themes of the conference lie within analysing the processes in society among different levels of action and understanding the power structures both on different levels and between levels in society. In this perspective social change and development could be regarded as 'demand driven' (from below) instead of driven by policies initiated by government and international (donor) organisations. And it invites to a discussion from many different disciplines and geographical areas -
addressing 'development that matters'. Accordingly, the FAU Conference 2010 finds it pertinent to address the situation at the local level, provide a 'bottom-up' perspective on the important development processes that unfolds among the various actors be it local government, individuals, religious groups, civil society organisations, entrepreneurs and others.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (further information at the FAU website)
Erica Bornstein is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin , Milwaukee , USA . She has a PhD from the University of California , Irvine . Bornstein has done extensive research in the areas of philanthropy, charity and humanitarianism, development, human rights, NGOs, political anthropology, and religion, and she has fieldwork experience from southern Africa and India . Bornstein is the author of 'The Spirit of Development. Protestant NGOs, Morality and Economics in Zimbabwe .' ( Stanford University Press, 2005), and 'Disquieting Gifts: An Ethnography of Humanitarianism in New Delhi .' (Stanford University Press, forthcoming) .
Frances Beaver is Reader in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London . Her work is centred on three interrelated themes of central importance to the understanding of poverty, with particular application to the local governance of natural resources: Institutions, collective action and participatory natural resource management; Water governance, poverty and wellbeing and the everyday politics of natural resource access and gendered livelihoods. Her latest publications include: 'Rethinking agency, rights and natural resource management.', (2009) Chapter 8 in S. Hickey and D
Mitlin (eds), Rights Based Approaches to Development: Exploring the Potential and Pitfalls', pp 127-144, Sterling , USA , Kumarian Press, and 'Engendering water governance'. Special edition of Gender and Development, (forthcoming march 2010).
Kanchan Lama is Coordinator of WOCAN, Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources Management, Kathmandu , Nepal . She has worked on a series of issues regarding livelihoods, gender and nutrition as a researcher, consultant and NGO person. Her innovative work on building a critical mass of rural women change agents within a IFAD/FAO project has succeeded in providing poor rural women rights to land and in institutionalizing gender in forestry and livestock agencies of Nepal 's government. Her recent publications include: 'Livelihood alternatives through empowerment of women.' A case published by IDS Sussex journal, 2008, and 'Gender issues in sustainable Land management.' Thematic paper presented in Workshop organized by UNDP/Department of Forest , Timro Leste, 2008.
Dr. Eginald Mihanjo, senior lecturer at the Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam - presently attached to St. Augustine University of Tanzania. He has a wide background in development research with focus on local ethnic, religious, gender and many other community partner representations. He has taken part in joint research project on indigenous knowledge systems and concomitant technological transformation in non-farm village enterprises. Among his many publications are: 'Grassroots Participation and Development - Lessons from Village Level.' ( Tanzania Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 6, No.1, 2005), and ' Kisi Girls: Assets or Marginalization? The Commodification of Household Production.' (forthcoming) .
Workshop 1: Religion, Communities and Social Change.
For decades, religion was effectively ignored in research on local development, in part due to secularist biases in conceptualising development and essentialist conceptions of religion as inherently conservative and therefore irrelevant to development. But religious organizations, institutions, values, ideas and practices are a very real part of the social world in which social change take place, and as such, their inclusion is an indisputable step towards a broader and more empirically based understanding of processes of local development. The workshop intends to explore, among others, different aspects of the relationship between religion and local development, asking questions as to how, when, where, under what circumstances and in what ways religious institutions, organizations, values, ideas and practices play a role in processes of development and social change.
Convenors: Marie Juul Petersen (Department of Regional and Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen , UC) and Catrine
Christiansen (Department of Anthropology, UC)
Resource persons: Karen Lauterbach (International Development Studies, Roskilde University ), Holger Bernt Hansen (Centre for African Studies, UC), Rune Hjarnøe (Department of Regional and Cross-Cultural Studies, UC), Uffe Torm (Danish Missionary Project Department), and Louise Nygaard Rasmussen (Centre for African Studies, UC)
Keynote Presenter: Asst. Prof. Erica Bornstein, University of Milwaukee , USA .
Workshop 2: Community Organisations, Livelihoods and Social Change
Local organisations in the shape of community-based organisations are often perceived by donors and governments as both effective and egalitarian media for organising development at the micro-level, particularly as regards access to resources and opportunities. These organisations have been accommodated within the broad, but fuzzy sphere of decentralisation. Local organisations in the shape of social movements, on the other hand, are often opposed to state and local government, as they struggle against state policies.
Regardless of scope and purpose, analysis of local organisations tends to be characterised by the use of notions of 'community', 'cooperation', 'collective action', 'sustainability, 'participation' and 'empowerment'.
But who are the stakeholders at local level, and how are different interests articulated? What about representation - whose interests are represented in community based organisations? How effective are local organisations in terms of livelihood improvement? How democratic are they? Can social processes at the local level exclude the state and administration levels? To what extent do state policies and the surrounding economy influence local processes? This workshop invites papers that address very different topics and processes with the local level as the point of departure.
Convenors: Torsten Rødel Berg ( Aalborg University , AAU) & Vibeke Andersson (AAU)
Resource persons: Søren Hvalkof (Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS), Ingrid Nyborg (Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Helle Munk Ravnborg (DIIS - tbc), Annette Kanstrup-Jensen (AAU), and Mikkel Funder (DIIS)
Keynote Presenter: Frances Beaver, SOAS , UK .
Workshop 3: Livelihood, Food and Nutrition.
A key issue in reducing poverty and seeking to obtaining sustainable livelihood is food. All too many people in particular in rural areas in developing countries experience daily insecurities with regard to daily food supplies. Many attempts to address this have failed in the sense that little change has occurred and presently it is yet highly unsure if the MDGs will be fulfilled. However, addressing food insecurity is not only about increasing the amount of food produced and/or consumed, but also food with the correct nutritional content, as well as food with the nutritional content that can provide a healthy diet for people in different age-groups. Food also has to be culturally acceptable and well tasting. Quantity can't replace quality and preferences. The challenges are related to the many actors involved, whether be the local population, the direct producers, and particularly women who often prepare the food and nurse the children, agricultural extension officers, providers of seeds and inputs, traders, local government, health workers (governmental and NGO).
Convenors: Irene Nørlund ( Metropolitan University College , Copenhagen) and Aase Mygind Madsen (VIA University College , Aarhus )
Resource persons: Kirsten Havemann (UFT, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)), Chhoden Blau (former UNDP Bhutan), and Anders Baltzer Jørgensen (UFT, MFA)
Keynote Presenter: Kanchan Lama, WOCAN, Nepal .
Workshop 4: Community Entrepreneurs and Local Economic Development
With high levels of poverty persisting in many parts of the globe, local economic development has (yet) be able to bring about change in the situation of many poor people and their communities. While models of local economic development is being tried out, lately certain elements like micro credit and micro finance have been highlighted as the magic keys. Often also local or here 'community' entrepreneurs have been viewed as actors who could develop successful enterprises that would bring jobs and income to the communities. While the entrepreneurs do, they are facing different market challenges (lack of input, finance and tough competition - more and more often from international chains). And many questions remain unanswered (individual entrepreneurial capacities versus community (common) efforts, including the role of local government and civil society organisations) , how to instill change in environments that are reluctant to change, and how to secure that local earnings remain at the local level, become (re-)invested and contribute to potential growth.
Convenors: Søren Jeppesen (CBDS, CBS) and Jørgen Dige Pedersen (Aarhus University, AU)
Resource persons: Jens Müller (AAU) and Annette Skovsted Hansen (AU)
Keynote Presenter: Enigald Mihanjo, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
17th - 19th MARCH 2010
GRENAA, DENMARK
Workshops on Religion, Communities and Social Change; Community Organisations, Livelihoods and Social Change; Livelihood, Food and Nutrition; and Community Entrepreneurs and Local Economic Development (for further information on the individual workshops, see below)
For further information and registration, contact the Association of Development Researchers in Denmark (Foreningen af Udviklingsforskere, FAU)
c/o DIIS, Strandgade 56, 1401 Kbh. K
Phone: +45 32 69 86 90 - Fax: + 45 32 69 88 00
E-mail: fau@diis.dk
www.fau.dk
BACKGROUND AND SUBJECT OF THE CONFERENCE:
Since 1990 FAU has hosted an annual conference with the primary aim of making a contribution to contemporary concerns through interdisciplinary debate. Thus it is our hope that also this year the conference will to bring together Danish, Nordic and International researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds with development practitioners (from donor agencies, consultancies and NGOs) and advanced students in order to present and discuss important contemporary issues within Danish and international development research and shed light on important processes of development.
The theme of the conference is 'Development that matter? Religion, Livelihoods, Social Movements and Community Development. ' Social change takes place in developing countries as continuous processes in time and space. These changes are the outcome of a combination of (sometimes coming as a result of) state policies and international actors, (but more often as results of) as well as local level dynamics (on local level, between government, civil society and the private sector, and within civil society). The 2010 FAU conference aims to trace the various dynamics at the local level in bringing about social change. We need to understand the roles of different themes and actors (within) particularly within civil society in bringing about social change. The conference theme opens up for multi-facetted discussions of participation (social movements) and state policies seen from different actor's levels: Community based organisations, NGOs, faith-based or interest organisations, social movements, political parties, economic actors, government organisations, international donors etc.
The core themes of the conference lie within analysing the processes in society among different levels of action and understanding the power structures both on different levels and between levels in society. In this perspective social change and development could be regarded as 'demand driven' (from below) instead of driven by policies initiated by government and international (donor) organisations. And it invites to a discussion from many different disciplines and geographical areas -
addressing 'development that matters'. Accordingly, the FAU Conference 2010 finds it pertinent to address the situation at the local level, provide a 'bottom-up' perspective on the important development processes that unfolds among the various actors be it local government, individuals, religious groups, civil society organisations, entrepreneurs and others.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: (further information at the FAU website)
Erica Bornstein is Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin , Milwaukee , USA . She has a PhD from the University of California , Irvine . Bornstein has done extensive research in the areas of philanthropy, charity and humanitarianism, development, human rights, NGOs, political anthropology, and religion, and she has fieldwork experience from southern Africa and India . Bornstein is the author of 'The Spirit of Development. Protestant NGOs, Morality and Economics in Zimbabwe .' ( Stanford University Press, 2005), and 'Disquieting Gifts: An Ethnography of Humanitarianism in New Delhi .' (Stanford University Press, forthcoming) .
Frances Beaver is Reader in Development Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London . Her work is centred on three interrelated themes of central importance to the understanding of poverty, with particular application to the local governance of natural resources: Institutions, collective action and participatory natural resource management; Water governance, poverty and wellbeing and the everyday politics of natural resource access and gendered livelihoods. Her latest publications include: 'Rethinking agency, rights and natural resource management.', (2009) Chapter 8 in S. Hickey and D
Mitlin (eds), Rights Based Approaches to Development: Exploring the Potential and Pitfalls', pp 127-144, Sterling , USA , Kumarian Press, and 'Engendering water governance'. Special edition of Gender and Development, (forthcoming march 2010).
Kanchan Lama is Coordinator of WOCAN, Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resources Management, Kathmandu , Nepal . She has worked on a series of issues regarding livelihoods, gender and nutrition as a researcher, consultant and NGO person. Her innovative work on building a critical mass of rural women change agents within a IFAD/FAO project has succeeded in providing poor rural women rights to land and in institutionalizing gender in forestry and livestock agencies of Nepal 's government. Her recent publications include: 'Livelihood alternatives through empowerment of women.' A case published by IDS Sussex journal, 2008, and 'Gender issues in sustainable Land management.' Thematic paper presented in Workshop organized by UNDP/Department of Forest , Timro Leste, 2008.
Dr. Eginald Mihanjo, senior lecturer at the Department of History, University of Dar es Salaam - presently attached to St. Augustine University of Tanzania. He has a wide background in development research with focus on local ethnic, religious, gender and many other community partner representations. He has taken part in joint research project on indigenous knowledge systems and concomitant technological transformation in non-farm village enterprises. Among his many publications are: 'Grassroots Participation and Development - Lessons from Village Level.' ( Tanzania Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 6, No.1, 2005), and ' Kisi Girls: Assets or Marginalization? The Commodification of Household Production.' (forthcoming) .
Workshop 1: Religion, Communities and Social Change.
For decades, religion was effectively ignored in research on local development, in part due to secularist biases in conceptualising development and essentialist conceptions of religion as inherently conservative and therefore irrelevant to development. But religious organizations, institutions, values, ideas and practices are a very real part of the social world in which social change take place, and as such, their inclusion is an indisputable step towards a broader and more empirically based understanding of processes of local development. The workshop intends to explore, among others, different aspects of the relationship between religion and local development, asking questions as to how, when, where, under what circumstances and in what ways religious institutions, organizations, values, ideas and practices play a role in processes of development and social change.
Convenors: Marie Juul Petersen (Department of Regional and Cross-Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen , UC) and Catrine
Christiansen (Department of Anthropology, UC)
Resource persons: Karen Lauterbach (International Development Studies, Roskilde University ), Holger Bernt Hansen (Centre for African Studies, UC), Rune Hjarnøe (Department of Regional and Cross-Cultural Studies, UC), Uffe Torm (Danish Missionary Project Department), and Louise Nygaard Rasmussen (Centre for African Studies, UC)
Keynote Presenter: Asst. Prof. Erica Bornstein, University of Milwaukee , USA .
Workshop 2: Community Organisations, Livelihoods and Social Change
Local organisations in the shape of community-based organisations are often perceived by donors and governments as both effective and egalitarian media for organising development at the micro-level, particularly as regards access to resources and opportunities. These organisations have been accommodated within the broad, but fuzzy sphere of decentralisation. Local organisations in the shape of social movements, on the other hand, are often opposed to state and local government, as they struggle against state policies.
Regardless of scope and purpose, analysis of local organisations tends to be characterised by the use of notions of 'community', 'cooperation', 'collective action', 'sustainability, 'participation' and 'empowerment'.
But who are the stakeholders at local level, and how are different interests articulated? What about representation - whose interests are represented in community based organisations? How effective are local organisations in terms of livelihood improvement? How democratic are they? Can social processes at the local level exclude the state and administration levels? To what extent do state policies and the surrounding economy influence local processes? This workshop invites papers that address very different topics and processes with the local level as the point of departure.
Convenors: Torsten Rødel Berg ( Aalborg University , AAU) & Vibeke Andersson (AAU)
Resource persons: Søren Hvalkof (Danish Institute for International Studies, DIIS), Ingrid Nyborg (Noragric, Norwegian University of Life Sciences), Helle Munk Ravnborg (DIIS - tbc), Annette Kanstrup-Jensen (AAU), and Mikkel Funder (DIIS)
Keynote Presenter: Frances Beaver, SOAS , UK .
Workshop 3: Livelihood, Food and Nutrition.
A key issue in reducing poverty and seeking to obtaining sustainable livelihood is food. All too many people in particular in rural areas in developing countries experience daily insecurities with regard to daily food supplies. Many attempts to address this have failed in the sense that little change has occurred and presently it is yet highly unsure if the MDGs will be fulfilled. However, addressing food insecurity is not only about increasing the amount of food produced and/or consumed, but also food with the correct nutritional content, as well as food with the nutritional content that can provide a healthy diet for people in different age-groups. Food also has to be culturally acceptable and well tasting. Quantity can't replace quality and preferences. The challenges are related to the many actors involved, whether be the local population, the direct producers, and particularly women who often prepare the food and nurse the children, agricultural extension officers, providers of seeds and inputs, traders, local government, health workers (governmental and NGO).
Convenors: Irene Nørlund ( Metropolitan University College , Copenhagen) and Aase Mygind Madsen (VIA University College , Aarhus )
Resource persons: Kirsten Havemann (UFT, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)), Chhoden Blau (former UNDP Bhutan), and Anders Baltzer Jørgensen (UFT, MFA)
Keynote Presenter: Kanchan Lama, WOCAN, Nepal .
Workshop 4: Community Entrepreneurs and Local Economic Development
With high levels of poverty persisting in many parts of the globe, local economic development has (yet) be able to bring about change in the situation of many poor people and their communities. While models of local economic development is being tried out, lately certain elements like micro credit and micro finance have been highlighted as the magic keys. Often also local or here 'community' entrepreneurs have been viewed as actors who could develop successful enterprises that would bring jobs and income to the communities. While the entrepreneurs do, they are facing different market challenges (lack of input, finance and tough competition - more and more often from international chains). And many questions remain unanswered (individual entrepreneurial capacities versus community (common) efforts, including the role of local government and civil society organisations) , how to instill change in environments that are reluctant to change, and how to secure that local earnings remain at the local level, become (re-)invested and contribute to potential growth.
Convenors: Søren Jeppesen (CBDS, CBS) and Jørgen Dige Pedersen (Aarhus University, AU)
Resource persons: Jens Müller (AAU) and Annette Skovsted Hansen (AU)
Keynote Presenter: Enigald Mihanjo, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
sabato 23 gennaio 2010
Max Plank - two-year research position
The Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Department of Socio-Cultural Diversity in Göttingen is
offering a two-year research position for a qualified Social Scientist (Ph.D in political science, political anthropology, political sociology or history) to work on the project ‘Conditions of conviviality and conflict’ to be based at the Institute and undertaken under supervision by Prof. Steven Vertovec together with Prof. Andreas Wimmer, Department of Sociology at UCLA.
This project seeks to enhance our knowledge of the conditions -political, social, economic - that are likely to enhance peace and conviviality between ethnic movements, parties, and leaders, even when ethnicity has been politicized and politics is perceived as a matter of power relations between ethnic communities and their leaders. Most research has so far focused on conflict, seeking to understand the circumstances under which ethnic tensions escalate into violence or even full-scale civil war. Much less attention has been given to the study of “negative” cases, i.e. situations in which one could expect competition
and conflict but in which peace and concordance prevail.
The researcher will be expected to address this question through a controlled comparison of pairs of cases that can be expected to display the same propensity for peace or conflict, but with dissimilar outcomes:
One country has traveled down the road of escalation and violence, while the other one has maintained conviviality and peace. To account for these differences, the project seeks to identify among other things: different patterns of protest, mobilization and de-mobilization; the occurrence or absence of state repression or strategies of co-optation; and different constellation of alliances with external actors.
Further information is to be found on our homepage www.mmg.mpg.de
Salary and benefits are according to the German public service pay scale (E 13 TVÖD Bund)
The Max Planck Society wishes to increase the participation of women wherever they are underrepresented; therefore, applications from women are particularly welcome.
Following its commitment to an equal opportunities employment policy, the Max Planck Society also especially encourages handicapped persons to submit their applications.
Interested scientists should send their applications in writing, including a CV, list of publications and addresses for references, by 12 February, 2010, to the following address:
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec
Hermann-Föge-Weg 11
37073 Göttingen
Germany
offering a two-year research position for a qualified Social Scientist (Ph.D in political science, political anthropology, political sociology or history) to work on the project ‘Conditions of conviviality and conflict’ to be based at the Institute and undertaken under supervision by Prof. Steven Vertovec together with Prof. Andreas Wimmer, Department of Sociology at UCLA.
This project seeks to enhance our knowledge of the conditions -political, social, economic - that are likely to enhance peace and conviviality between ethnic movements, parties, and leaders, even when ethnicity has been politicized and politics is perceived as a matter of power relations between ethnic communities and their leaders. Most research has so far focused on conflict, seeking to understand the circumstances under which ethnic tensions escalate into violence or even full-scale civil war. Much less attention has been given to the study of “negative” cases, i.e. situations in which one could expect competition
and conflict but in which peace and concordance prevail.
The researcher will be expected to address this question through a controlled comparison of pairs of cases that can be expected to display the same propensity for peace or conflict, but with dissimilar outcomes:
One country has traveled down the road of escalation and violence, while the other one has maintained conviviality and peace. To account for these differences, the project seeks to identify among other things: different patterns of protest, mobilization and de-mobilization; the occurrence or absence of state repression or strategies of co-optation; and different constellation of alliances with external actors.
Further information is to be found on our homepage www.mmg.mpg.de
Salary and benefits are according to the German public service pay scale (E 13 TVÖD Bund)
The Max Planck Society wishes to increase the participation of women wherever they are underrepresented; therefore, applications from women are particularly welcome.
Following its commitment to an equal opportunities employment policy, the Max Planck Society also especially encourages handicapped persons to submit their applications.
Interested scientists should send their applications in writing, including a CV, list of publications and addresses for references, by 12 February, 2010, to the following address:
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Prof. Dr. Steven Vertovec
Hermann-Föge-Weg 11
37073 Göttingen
Germany
Post-dottorato, Middle Eastern Studies
Lund University - Post-Doctorate, Middle Eastern Studies
Location: Sweden
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Post-doctoral Fellow
Submitted: Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
The Center for Middle East Studies (CMES) at Lund University is soliciting applications for a two-year Post-Doctoral researcher to begin in August, 2010.
Applicants must have international experience and recognized competence in the field of Middle Eastern Studies (understood as an interdisciplinary field of research on the Middle East and North Africa). Submitted research plans must clearly relate to any of the following focus areas:
1. Contemporary Interpretations of Islam and Muslim Culture
2. Hydropolitics, Security and International Law
3. Migration and Mobility
4. The Middle East in Sweden
All applicants must have a doctorate or a foreign degree equivalent to a doctorate. While applicants who have completed their doctorate within the last three years are a priority, all applicants are welcome. As a post-doctorate at CMES, the main objective is to conduct research and actively participate in the research community at the center. The position is composed of 70% research, 25% teaching (1.2 courses), and 5% administration and community work outside the university.
Please follow the link below for further information on the position and application process.
Contact Info:
The Registrar
Attn: PA 2009/4870
Lund University
Box 117
221 00 Lund
SWEDEN
- or -
Email: registrator@lu.se
- further information -
Email: lars-erik.olofsson@cme.lu.se
Phone: +46 462227601
Website:
http://www.cmes.lu.se/2010/opportunities/new-post-doctorate-position-at-
cmes/
Location: Sweden
Institution Type: College/University
Position Type: Post-doctoral Fellow
Submitted: Wednesday, January 13th, 2010
The Center for Middle East Studies (CMES) at Lund University is soliciting applications for a two-year Post-Doctoral researcher to begin in August, 2010.
Applicants must have international experience and recognized competence in the field of Middle Eastern Studies (understood as an interdisciplinary field of research on the Middle East and North Africa). Submitted research plans must clearly relate to any of the following focus areas:
1. Contemporary Interpretations of Islam and Muslim Culture
2. Hydropolitics, Security and International Law
3. Migration and Mobility
4. The Middle East in Sweden
All applicants must have a doctorate or a foreign degree equivalent to a doctorate. While applicants who have completed their doctorate within the last three years are a priority, all applicants are welcome. As a post-doctorate at CMES, the main objective is to conduct research and actively participate in the research community at the center. The position is composed of 70% research, 25% teaching (1.2 courses), and 5% administration and community work outside the university.
Please follow the link below for further information on the position and application process.
Contact Info:
The Registrar
Attn: PA 2009/4870
Lund University
Box 117
221 00 Lund
SWEDEN
- or -
Email: registrator@lu.se
- further information -
Email: lars-erik.olofsson@cme.lu.se
Phone: +46 462227601
Website:
http://www.cmes.lu.se/2010/opportunities/new-post-doctorate-position-at-
cmes/
Segnalazione volume: Le complot cosmique
Stéphane François & Emmanuel Kreis viennent de publier, Le complot cosmique. Théorie du complot, ovnis, théosophie et extrémistes politiques, Milan, Archè, 112 pages. Préface de Jean-Bruno Renard, postface de Jean-Pierre Laurant.
Le Complot cosmique nous convie à faire un voyage dans un monde foisonnant où la théorie du complot rencontre l’ésotérisme, l’ufologie, l’« histoire mystérieuse », le new age, l’antisémitisme et les idéologies radicales.
En lisant cet essai, le curieux apprendra notamment que Hitler s’est enfui en soucoupe volante ; que la reine d’Angleterre est un lézard ; que l’ONU et le gouvernement américain sont à la solde d’extraterrestres ; ou que les Illuminati sont des agents de ces mêmes envahisseurs extraterrestres...
Cependant, ce livre se concentrera avant-tout sur les tentatives de militants d’extrême droite d’utiliser ces cultures marginales, ces « connaissances rejetées », pour faire passer leurs idées dans des milieux parfois éloignés des leurs. Pour ce faire, les auteurs serviront au lecteur de guide et lui feront faire un tour du monde de ces théoriens-militants durant lequel le lecteur, ou le simple curieux, rencontrera les noms de Ernst Zündel, Miguel Serrano, Jan van Helsing, Jimmy Guieu, David Icke, Franck Scully ou William Cooper.
Le travail novateur de Stéphane François et Emmanuel Kreis a le mérite de démêler l’écheveau de ces idées pour le moins étranges et d’en établir la généalogie.
Le Complot cosmique nous convie à faire un voyage dans un monde foisonnant où la théorie du complot rencontre l’ésotérisme, l’ufologie, l’« histoire mystérieuse », le new age, l’antisémitisme et les idéologies radicales.
En lisant cet essai, le curieux apprendra notamment que Hitler s’est enfui en soucoupe volante ; que la reine d’Angleterre est un lézard ; que l’ONU et le gouvernement américain sont à la solde d’extraterrestres ; ou que les Illuminati sont des agents de ces mêmes envahisseurs extraterrestres...
Cependant, ce livre se concentrera avant-tout sur les tentatives de militants d’extrême droite d’utiliser ces cultures marginales, ces « connaissances rejetées », pour faire passer leurs idées dans des milieux parfois éloignés des leurs. Pour ce faire, les auteurs serviront au lecteur de guide et lui feront faire un tour du monde de ces théoriens-militants durant lequel le lecteur, ou le simple curieux, rencontrera les noms de Ernst Zündel, Miguel Serrano, Jan van Helsing, Jimmy Guieu, David Icke, Franck Scully ou William Cooper.
Le travail novateur de Stéphane François et Emmanuel Kreis a le mérite de démêler l’écheveau de ces idées pour le moins étranges et d’en établir la généalogie.
Research Methods in the Study of Contemporary Religion - PhD training event
Research Methods in the Study of Contemporary Religion 6th-10th September 2010
The Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at Birkbeck College, and the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society programme is collaborating to run a residential training event for PhD students involved in the empirical study of contemporary/modern religion. This is a major training initiative, at which leading academics in the UK will be leading sessions on a range of issues including: theorising religion and the role of the researcher of religion, choosing/combining research methods, the research agenda for religion and contemporary society, sampling, using quantitative data-sets, rigour and validity, ethical and political contexts of researching religion, ethnography, visual methods, researching religion and media, and studying spaces and objects. Confirmed speakers include Linda Woodhead, Kim Knott, David Voas, Sophie Gilliat-Ray and Peter Collins.
Funded by the AHRC’s Collaborative Research Training scheme, the aim of this event is to provide PhD students in this field with advanced methods training in the study of religion not normally available at any single university and represents a major investment in training a significant cohort of PhD students currently working in this field.
The event is open to PhD students working across a wide range of disciplines including theology and religious studies, sociology, anthropology, C20th religious history, social policy and geography. Students accepted on to this programme will have their residential costs and travel costs (within the UK) paid for by the project, and there will be no registration fee for those participating. Places at this event are limited, and students interested in attending should complete the application form (available at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/crcs/events/CRT_methods_event) and return this electronically to Peta Ainsworth (p.ainsworth@lancaster.ac.uk) by 19th February. Priority will be given to UK-based students in receipt of research council or other institutional studentships, and/or who can demonstrate a clear interest in empirical research in their work.
The event will be run at St Catherine’s College in Oxford, with all meals and overnight accommodation provided at the College.
Any queries about this training programme can be sent to Prof Gordon Lynch, Birkbeck College (g.lynch@bbk.ac.uk)
The Centre for Religion and Contemporary Society at Birkbeck College, and the AHRC/ESRC Religion and Society programme is collaborating to run a residential training event for PhD students involved in the empirical study of contemporary/modern religion. This is a major training initiative, at which leading academics in the UK will be leading sessions on a range of issues including: theorising religion and the role of the researcher of religion, choosing/combining research methods, the research agenda for religion and contemporary society, sampling, using quantitative data-sets, rigour and validity, ethical and political contexts of researching religion, ethnography, visual methods, researching religion and media, and studying spaces and objects. Confirmed speakers include Linda Woodhead, Kim Knott, David Voas, Sophie Gilliat-Ray and Peter Collins.
Funded by the AHRC’s Collaborative Research Training scheme, the aim of this event is to provide PhD students in this field with advanced methods training in the study of religion not normally available at any single university and represents a major investment in training a significant cohort of PhD students currently working in this field.
The event is open to PhD students working across a wide range of disciplines including theology and religious studies, sociology, anthropology, C20th religious history, social policy and geography. Students accepted on to this programme will have their residential costs and travel costs (within the UK) paid for by the project, and there will be no registration fee for those participating. Places at this event are limited, and students interested in attending should complete the application form (available at http://www.bbk.ac.uk/crcs/events/CRT_methods_event) and return this electronically to Peta Ainsworth (p.ainsworth@lancaster.ac.uk) by 19th February. Priority will be given to UK-based students in receipt of research council or other institutional studentships, and/or who can demonstrate a clear interest in empirical research in their work.
The event will be run at St Catherine’s College in Oxford, with all meals and overnight accommodation provided at the College.
Any queries about this training programme can be sent to Prof Gordon Lynch, Birkbeck College (g.lynch@bbk.ac.uk)
Wounding, meaning, being: managing experience, knowledge and time in contemporary religiosity - Call for Paper
11th EASA Biennial Conference: Maynooth, Ireland
24-27th August 2010
Call for papers:
Wounding, meaning, being: managing experience, knowledge and time in contemporary religiosity
Convenors
Keith Egan (National University of Ireland)
Ruy Blanes (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)
Description
This workshop invites scholars to tackle issues of experience, knowledge and time in religious contexts. More specifically, we seek to question how the materiality of temporal orientations (i.e. memory and historicity, but also futurology and prediction) entangles with stances of religious experience such as embodiment, memory and transmission, producing specific (successful, critical or precarious) forms of knowing and being that pertain to both the religious and extra-religious sphere.
More specifically, we are thinking about a range of sacred rhythms that join and demarcate self and world, from textual reading (Engelke) and fixation/innovation, personal biographies, hagiographies and ritual calendar celebrations to prediction, prophecy and soteriology, religious interpretations of 'secular history', etc. We are particularly interested in discussing these sacred rhythms in the context of a dialectic of suffering (as an orientation towards the past) and hope (as a projection into the future) that orients the 'lived texture of everyday life' (Orsi) within processes of religious meaning-making. We seek to explore, then, how selves and world intersect in contemporary religiosity to shape the embodiment, experience, imagination and expression of our shared 'struggle for being' (M. Jackson).
The call for papers is now open and closes on 1st March 2010.
Any questions, contact Ruy (ruy.blanes@gmail.com) or Keith (keithmegan@gmail.com). Paper submission must be online at:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=576
24-27th August 2010
Call for papers:
Wounding, meaning, being: managing experience, knowledge and time in contemporary religiosity
Convenors
Keith Egan (National University of Ireland)
Ruy Blanes (Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)
Description
This workshop invites scholars to tackle issues of experience, knowledge and time in religious contexts. More specifically, we seek to question how the materiality of temporal orientations (i.e. memory and historicity, but also futurology and prediction) entangles with stances of religious experience such as embodiment, memory and transmission, producing specific (successful, critical or precarious) forms of knowing and being that pertain to both the religious and extra-religious sphere.
More specifically, we are thinking about a range of sacred rhythms that join and demarcate self and world, from textual reading (Engelke) and fixation/innovation, personal biographies, hagiographies and ritual calendar celebrations to prediction, prophecy and soteriology, religious interpretations of 'secular history', etc. We are particularly interested in discussing these sacred rhythms in the context of a dialectic of suffering (as an orientation towards the past) and hope (as a projection into the future) that orients the 'lived texture of everyday life' (Orsi) within processes of religious meaning-making. We seek to explore, then, how selves and world intersect in contemporary religiosity to shape the embodiment, experience, imagination and expression of our shared 'struggle for being' (M. Jackson).
The call for papers is now open and closes on 1st March 2010.
Any questions, contact Ruy (ruy.blanes@gmail.com) or Keith (keithmegan@gmail.com). Paper submission must be online at:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=576
Spirituality against religion: the role of gender and power - Call for paper
"Spirituality against religion: the role of gender and power" EASA conference, Maynooth, Ireland, August 24th till 27th, 2010
Convenors:
Dr. Anna Fedele (Lisbon University Institute, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Dr. Kim Knibbe (dept. of social and cultural anthropology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Deadline for submissions: 1st March 2010.
In this panel we want to discuss the processes of (gendered) power among people who call themselves 'spiritual' rather than 'religious' and problematize the opposition between these two terms. What kinds of power can we discern despite people's assertions that they only follow their own ‘inner voice'? We invite papers rooted in ethnographic research that explicitly discuss processes of (gendered) power in "New Age" or Neopagan movements or other social and religious movements using the distinction/opposition between religion and spirituality.
N.B.: We plan to turn the papers of this panel into a publication. This means that if your paper is selected for the panel, we expect you to send it to us before the conference, so that we can start looking for a publisher and working on a book-proposal.
Abstract
In social sciences, the debates on the increasing popularity of alternative spiritualities and the fate of religion in Europe and Northern America has in the past few years been dominated by the thesis that posits a 'shift' from religion, recognizing a transcendent authority outside the self, to spirituality, focused on the inner self as the ultimate authority. This shift is furthermore linked to a broad array of attitudes (Paul Heelas et al. 2005, Peter Berger et al. 2008: 14-15). However, we might wonder whether this thesis does not in fact replicate the internal discourses of alternative spiritualities, obscuring the ways in which the fields of alternative spiritualities are themselves socially structured and the role of various kinds of power in them. What kinds of critique are embedded within the distinction between 'religion' and 'spirituality'? How can we theorize power in these settings? Gender, for example, is one issue that is hardly addressed except descriptively. Although people might be searching for a 'religion without power', from a social scientific point of view there is no such thing as religion without power.
In this panel we want to address the question how the categories 'religion' and 'spirituality' are constructed, how this relates to gender and what theories of power to bring to this field.
Submission
You can submit a proposal for a paper via the EASA website choosing the workshop W014
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?View=Workshops
Or access the panel directly and click on “Propose a paper”:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=591
Please note that you do not need to be a EASA member in order to submit a paper, you can become a member and register once your paper is accepted.
Convenors:
Dr. Anna Fedele (Lisbon University Institute, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Dr. Kim Knibbe (dept. of social and cultural anthropology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Deadline for submissions: 1st March 2010.
In this panel we want to discuss the processes of (gendered) power among people who call themselves 'spiritual' rather than 'religious' and problematize the opposition between these two terms. What kinds of power can we discern despite people's assertions that they only follow their own ‘inner voice'? We invite papers rooted in ethnographic research that explicitly discuss processes of (gendered) power in "New Age" or Neopagan movements or other social and religious movements using the distinction/opposition between religion and spirituality.
N.B.: We plan to turn the papers of this panel into a publication. This means that if your paper is selected for the panel, we expect you to send it to us before the conference, so that we can start looking for a publisher and working on a book-proposal.
Abstract
In social sciences, the debates on the increasing popularity of alternative spiritualities and the fate of religion in Europe and Northern America has in the past few years been dominated by the thesis that posits a 'shift' from religion, recognizing a transcendent authority outside the self, to spirituality, focused on the inner self as the ultimate authority. This shift is furthermore linked to a broad array of attitudes (Paul Heelas et al. 2005, Peter Berger et al. 2008: 14-15). However, we might wonder whether this thesis does not in fact replicate the internal discourses of alternative spiritualities, obscuring the ways in which the fields of alternative spiritualities are themselves socially structured and the role of various kinds of power in them. What kinds of critique are embedded within the distinction between 'religion' and 'spirituality'? How can we theorize power in these settings? Gender, for example, is one issue that is hardly addressed except descriptively. Although people might be searching for a 'religion without power', from a social scientific point of view there is no such thing as religion without power.
In this panel we want to address the question how the categories 'religion' and 'spirituality' are constructed, how this relates to gender and what theories of power to bring to this field.
Submission
You can submit a proposal for a paper via the EASA website choosing the workshop W014
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?View=Workshops
Or access the panel directly and click on “Propose a paper”:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2010/panels.php5?PanelID=591
Please note that you do not need to be a EASA member in order to submit a paper, you can become a member and register once your paper is accepted.
Religion in global perspective - Call for papers and sessions
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting October 29-31, 2010
Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland
"Religion in Global Perspective"
http://www.sssrweb.org/
Religious identities, belief systems and institutions have been transformed by globalization, and globalization has accelerated the rate of this transformation. Everywhere, the processes of economic liberalization and migration interact with the religious aspects of society and individuals' lives. For example, immigration is changing the religious make-up of countries' populations; economies open to foreign capital and investment are also experiencing the challenge of change.
This is an intellectually challenging, pioneering time for the scientific study of religion. As last year's call for papers noted, researchers are studying an ever changing religious landscape using new concepts and theoretical ideas, sharper analytical tools, and increasingly rich, sophisticated, and accessible quantitative and qualitative data. We tackle this transformation as scholars by coming together to engage in an ambitious, far-reaching and inclusive annual meeting.
Proposals for sessions and papers on any topic in the scientific study of religion are welcome. We particularly invite proposals for sessions that include perspectives from around the globe and papers that situate their research within a global context. We anticipate tackling important issues and debates in the scientific study of religion; illuminating new developments and emerging trends in religious institutions, movements and social groups; expanding our understanding of the role of
religion in individuals' lives; exploring progress in conceptualizations; and foregrounding advances in methodology. Proposals including research from experiments, computer simulations, analysis of narratives, historical or ethnographic case studies and large-scale data projects, and from scholars in all disciplines are invited.
All session and paper proposals must be submitted via the on-line submission system that will be available on the SSSR's web site, http://www.sssrweb. org beginning January 15, 2010. In addition to the session petitioner's full contact information, a session proposal requires a session title and an abstract of not more than 150 words describing the goal of the session and how the petitioner expects the session to contribute to the scientific knowledge of religion. Paper proposals require the name(s) of the author(s), first author's full contact information, abstract of not more than 150 words that succinctly describes the question(s) motivating the research, the data and methods used, and what the paper contributes or expects to contribute to the
knowledge or understanding of religion. The submission deadline is March 1, 2010.
The meetings are taking place in Baltimore, Maryland, a central location on the U.S. East Coast, well known for its Inner Harbor and Harborplace, fresh seafood, and ethnic neighborhoods. It is home to the Baltimore Basilica (1806-1821) which is the oldest Catholic Cathedral in the U.S.; the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, built in 1870 and noted for its stained glass windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany; the 1845 Greek Revival style Lloyd Street Synagogue which is one of the oldest synagogues in the U.S.; and the Sharp Street United Methodist Church, a National Historic Landmark established in 1787 and the home of Baltimore's first black congregation. Well known for its unique histories, immigrant populations, foods and cultures, Baltimore is an ideal setting for the 2010 SSSR meetings.
Please direct questions to:
Korie Edwards, Program Chair
Department of Sociology
The Ohio State University
kle[at]sociology.osu.edu
Important Dates:
Submissions Close: March 1, 2010
Decision Notification: April 5, 2010
Papers to Discussants: September 24, 2010
Sheraton Baltimore City Center Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland
"Religion in Global Perspective"
http://www.sssrweb.org/
Religious identities, belief systems and institutions have been transformed by globalization, and globalization has accelerated the rate of this transformation. Everywhere, the processes of economic liberalization and migration interact with the religious aspects of society and individuals' lives. For example, immigration is changing the religious make-up of countries' populations; economies open to foreign capital and investment are also experiencing the challenge of change.
This is an intellectually challenging, pioneering time for the scientific study of religion. As last year's call for papers noted, researchers are studying an ever changing religious landscape using new concepts and theoretical ideas, sharper analytical tools, and increasingly rich, sophisticated, and accessible quantitative and qualitative data. We tackle this transformation as scholars by coming together to engage in an ambitious, far-reaching and inclusive annual meeting.
Proposals for sessions and papers on any topic in the scientific study of religion are welcome. We particularly invite proposals for sessions that include perspectives from around the globe and papers that situate their research within a global context. We anticipate tackling important issues and debates in the scientific study of religion; illuminating new developments and emerging trends in religious institutions, movements and social groups; expanding our understanding of the role of
religion in individuals' lives; exploring progress in conceptualizations; and foregrounding advances in methodology. Proposals including research from experiments, computer simulations, analysis of narratives, historical or ethnographic case studies and large-scale data projects, and from scholars in all disciplines are invited.
All session and paper proposals must be submitted via the on-line submission system that will be available on the SSSR's web site, http://www.sssrweb. org beginning January 15, 2010. In addition to the session petitioner's full contact information, a session proposal requires a session title and an abstract of not more than 150 words describing the goal of the session and how the petitioner expects the session to contribute to the scientific knowledge of religion. Paper proposals require the name(s) of the author(s), first author's full contact information, abstract of not more than 150 words that succinctly describes the question(s) motivating the research, the data and methods used, and what the paper contributes or expects to contribute to the
knowledge or understanding of religion. The submission deadline is March 1, 2010.
The meetings are taking place in Baltimore, Maryland, a central location on the U.S. East Coast, well known for its Inner Harbor and Harborplace, fresh seafood, and ethnic neighborhoods. It is home to the Baltimore Basilica (1806-1821) which is the oldest Catholic Cathedral in the U.S.; the Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, built in 1870 and noted for its stained glass windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany; the 1845 Greek Revival style Lloyd Street Synagogue which is one of the oldest synagogues in the U.S.; and the Sharp Street United Methodist Church, a National Historic Landmark established in 1787 and the home of Baltimore's first black congregation. Well known for its unique histories, immigrant populations, foods and cultures, Baltimore is an ideal setting for the 2010 SSSR meetings.
Please direct questions to:
Korie Edwards, Program Chair
Department of Sociology
The Ohio State University
kle[at]sociology.osu.edu
Important Dates:
Submissions Close: March 1, 2010
Decision Notification: April 5, 2010
Papers to Discussants: September 24, 2010
Call for application Training Seminar, April 2010 in Berlin
The Network Migration in Europe (www.network-migration.org) is organizing for multipliers and activists in the European (citizenship) education field an Advanced Training in (Forced) Migration and Human Rights: Challenges and Approaches for European Citizenship Education, 14 -18 April 2010 in Berlin.
We are looking for involved young multipliers and activists in the European (citizenship) education field.
Therefore we would be glad if you could forward this submission to interested advanced students, education activists, trainee or young teachers and could announce the award on your homepage.
Deadline for application is 14 March 2010.
We are looking for involved young multipliers and activists in the European (citizenship) education field.
Therefore we would be glad if you could forward this submission to interested advanced students, education activists, trainee or young teachers and could announce the award on your homepage.
Deadline for application is 14 March 2010.
PhD scholarships in Int.Politics in London - including expertise on Islam in Europe, migration, religion and politics
Monday 25th January is the DEADLINE for applications to the FULLY FUNDED * PhD scholarships * competition at City University London.
Applicant wishing to study in City's Department of International Politics are welcome in any field. In particular they will be able to be supervised by experts working in the heart of London on cutting edge issues such as:
Financial crises, Islamism, health, Middle East, development, religion and radicalisation, security, transnational movements, forced displacement, US foreign policy, migration, post-conflict situations.
For further details on the department see: http://www.city.ac.uk/intpol
If you are interested in studying at City contact the Senior Tutor for Research
Dr Sara Silvestri (sara.silvestri[at]city.ac.uk) and the the adaministrator (Peter.Aggar.1[at]city.ac.uk)
It may be arranged to send references after the deadline if you contact us now.
Applicant wishing to study in City's Department of International Politics are welcome in any field. In particular they will be able to be supervised by experts working in the heart of London on cutting edge issues such as:
Financial crises, Islamism, health, Middle East, development, religion and radicalisation, security, transnational movements, forced displacement, US foreign policy, migration, post-conflict situations.
For further details on the department see: http://www.city.ac.uk/intpol
If you are interested in studying at City contact the Senior Tutor for Research
Dr Sara Silvestri (sara.silvestri[at]city.ac.uk) and the the adaministrator (Peter.Aggar.1[at]city.ac.uk)
It may be arranged to send references after the deadline if you contact us now.
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