domenica 7 marzo 2010

Seminario: Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter les 25-27 mars prochains au colloque intitulé :
«Turkey between Nationalism and Globalization».
Adresse: CERI, 56 rue Jacob - 75006 Paris

INSCRIPTION OBLIGATOIRE auprès de : reunion@ceri-sciences-po.org avant le 18 mars

CFA: Professorship in Sociology

Deadline: 15 March 2010
The Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Tuebingen (Department of Sociology) invites applications for a

Professorship in Sociology (W3 with tenure; Chair), starting 01 October 2010.

The successful candidate is expected to cover theoretical foundations and empirical aspects of sociology in both research and teaching. Research should focus on the analysis of processes of migration and social integration.
Cooperation with ongoing research activities in the field of education and human development is expected. Advanced academic qualifications in Sociology (Habilitation or equivalents) are required. The candidates need to have a strong record of international empirical research as well as proven teaching ability.

The University aims to raise the number of women among faculty members and therefore strongly encourages women to apply. Handicapped persons with essentially equal qualification will be preferred.

The deadline for applications is 15 March 2010.

Applications are to be submitted with the usual supporting documentation to the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences Prof. Dr. Ansgar Thiel, Hausserstr. 11, 72076 Tuebingen Germany

CFP for the ECPR conference, to be held in August 2011 in Reyjavik, Iceland.

The politics of Christianity: conservative, traditionalist, radical

In The Next Christendom (2003) Philip Jenkins suggested that the Christian centre of gravity was changing. Echoing other scholars of religious affairs, he argued that the majority of Christians were now to be found in the ‘global south’ and that within 50 years the concept of a white Christian might seem a ‘curious oxymoron’. At the same time Jenkins noted that this new Christianity was more conservative, traditionalist and supernaturally oriented in its understanding of the faith, and that this might impact upon the very nature of Christianity as a faith and have implications for the world of politics. Leaving aside the critiques of his work, some of which echo similar critiques of Samuel Huntington’s simplistic analysis of civilisations, the experience of several major Christian communities bears out at least some of this analysis. Roman Catholicism is more and more a world religious community, regardless of the current Pope’s attempt to reassert the centrality of its European identity; Anglican debates over homosexuality has seen northern traditionalists appeal to more conservative colleagues in the south when they have lost their battles at home; the ever expanding Pentecostal community clearly believes in the supernatural phenomenon associated with the ‘gifts of the spirit’ but the political consequences of this movement are hotly debated

In this section we explore some of the ways in which these developments are impacting in the political sphere, within religious communities, in domestic political contexts and in the international arena. Individual panels might focus on:

• the ways in which globalisation and ‘southernisation’ are affecting Christianity;
• debates surrounding the religious politics of specific issues – sexuality, family values, poverty and debt, disease etc;
• developments within specific faith communities – has Benedict XVI made a difference, is Eastern Orthodoxy different in its approach to politics, can Anglicanism survive, must Pentecostalism be conservative;
• developments within specific countries – how will the Obama presidency impact upon the Christian Right, is establishment dead, does Orthodoxy reinforce authoritarian trends in Russia, Serbia etc
• developments within the international arena, eg. new Christian activism at the UN and associated agencies;
• connections being made with other faith communities.


Please submit preliminary expressions of interest or proposals for panels within the section to: John Anderson (jpa@st-and.ac.uk) and Sandy Livingstone (slivingston@abdn.ac.uk) by 26th March

Giornata di studio sul Concilio Vaticano II (11 marzo, Università Cattolica, Milano)

Editrice Vita e Pensiero, Dipartimento di Scienze Religiose Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in collaborazione con la Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale

Giornata di studio sul Concilio Vaticano II
in occasione della pubblicazione di:
JOHN W. O’MALLEY "Che cosa è successonel Vaticano II", Vita e Pensiero, 2010

Aula Pio XI - Giovedì 11 marzo 2010, ore 9.30
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Largo A. Gemelli, 1 - 20123 Milano

Sessione mattutina
presiede Luigi Franco Pizzolato [Università Cattolica, Milano]
ore 9.30
Introduzione ai lavori Gian Luca Potestà [Università Cattolica, Milano]
ore 9.45
John O’Malley [Georgetown University, Washington] Che cosa è successo nel Vaticano II. Continuità e riforma nella Tradizione della Chiesa
ore 10.30
Gilles Routhier [Université Laval, Québec] La recezione del Concilio. Mentalità, attori e tempi di un percorso laborioso
ore 11.15 Pausa caffè
ore 11.30
Enzo Bianchi [Monastero di Bose] Concilio e postconcilio in Italia
ore 12.15 Dibattito
ore 13.00 Pausa pranzo

Sessione pomeridiana
presiede
Gian Luca Potestà [Università Cattolica, Milano]
ore 15.00
Franco Giulio Brambilla [Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale, Milano] Il Vaticano II, ‘bussola’ per la Chiesa nel mare aperto di questo tempo
ore 15.45
Silvano Maggiani [Pontificia Facoltà Teologica Marianum, Roma] La riforma liturgica: acquisizioni e incompiutezze
ore 16.30
Pietro Bovati [Pontificio Istituto Biblico, Roma] La Bibbia: il ‘grande codice’ nella vita della Chiesa postconciliare?
ore 17.15 Dibattito e conclusioni

Partecipazione libera
Informazioni: Ufficio Stampa Vita e Pensiero Tel. 02 7234.2259 ufficiostampa.vp@unicatt.it

Seminario: 'Intolerance and Persecution of Religious Deviance Within Islam: The Case of the Ahmadiyya Community in Indonesia'

'Intolerance and Persecution of Religious Deviance Within Islam: The Case of the Ahmadiyya Community in Indonesia'

-- Professor 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.

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)

Seminario: La discrimination dans l’emploi à raison de la religion existe-t-elle en France? Une étude expérimentale

Mardi 9 mars 2010

17h – 19h

CERI
Salle du RDC
56, rue Jacob – 75006 Paris




« La discrimination dans l’emploi à raison de la religion existe-t-elle en France? Une étude expérimentale »

par

David Laitin (Stanford University) et Éric Cédiey (ISM-CORUM)


Discussion : Valérie Amiraux (Université de Montréal)

La séance sera présidée par Daniel Sabbagh (Sciences Po/CERI)



David Laitin est professeur invité à Sciences Po dans le cadre du programme « Égalité des chances » de Sciences Po et la French-American Foundation (New York). Avec Claire Adida et Marie-Anne Valfort, il est l’auteur du texte « Les musulmans en France sont-ils les laissés pour compte de l’intégration ? », à paraître le 22 mars. Pour en obtenir un exemplaire, s’adresser à Ioanna Kohler (ikohler@frenchamerican.org).

Responsables scientifiques : gwenaele.calves@free.fr; sabbagh@ceri-sciences-po.org

Seminario: La transmission du judaïsme dans les couples mixtes

Mercredi 10 mars 2010 à 19 h 30
La transmission du judaïsme dans les couples mixtes

À l'occasion de la parution de l'ouvrage de Séverine Mathieu, aux éditions de l’Atelier (2009)
Avec la participation de Séverine Mathieu, docteur en sociologie, professeur agrégée de sciences sociales à l’École pratique des hautes études et membre du Groupe sociétés, religions, laïcités (GSRL-UMR 8582, EPHE-CNRS) ; Pauline Bebe, rabbin, Nicole Lapierre, sociologue (sous réserve) et Rosette Tama, psychanalyste
Rencontre animée par Catherine Coroller, journaliste à Libération


Que transmet-on lorsqu’on est juif, que l’on ne pratique pas, que l’on partage sa vie et que l’on élève des enfants avec un conjoint non juif ? Comment ce dernier perçoit-il et vit-il le judaïsme de l’autre ? Circoncire ou ne pas circoncire ? Quelle cuisine prépare-t-on ? Les résultats de l’enquête sociologique menée par l’auteur montrent que les deux conjoints, juif et non juif, homme ou femme, souhaitent transmettre un judaïsme qui ne soit pas seulement une religion. Ce faisant, ces personnes mettent en œuvre des «opérations de bricolage» individuelles, en réinventant des espaces, symboliques ou réels, pour donner corps à leur identité et à leur mémoire. Elles transmettent ainsi un judaïsme qu’elles pourront qualifier de « culturel ». Souvent, ce désir de revendiquer une identité juive est intimement lié à la Shoah.
Outre ses recherches sur la transmission du judaïsme dans les couples mixtes, l’auteur travaille sur divers thèmes liés aux questions de laïcité.