The Philippine Association for the Sociology of Religion in partnership with the Faculty of Arts and Letters – University of Santo Tomas invite you to 3^rd International Conference dubbed. The SACRED, the STATE and the POOR: Challenges/Gaps, Initiatives, and Cooperations in Engaging the Habitus of Poverty on

February 26 to 28, 2016

Call for Papers and Other Materials:

1. A. Researches – as referred to here are the scientific papers that sought to discover or bring to light facts regarding the phenomenon of poverty and the interventions, or absence of it, by the Sacred and the State.

1. Reflections – reflections on the other hand are serious consideration of a particular academic interest. In this case, it is the phenomenon of poverty and how the Sacred and the State intervene, or otherwise, to lessen or eradicate it.

1. Documentaries – generally mean factual record of something and in this call for materials, it refers to the interpretation and presentation about the phenomenon of poverty employing the medium of film or the digital camera (film), photography and artwork (fine arts).
2. Video-Ethnography – this focuses on a particular group, the poor and dynamics of the sacred and the state towards poverty, as the subject employing digital camera as its medium of presentation and interpretation. (20-30 minutes length)
3. Photo-Ethnography – this also focuses on the sacred, the state and the poor using the still photos as its medium of presentation and interpretation.
4. Art Works – this portrays and interprets the same focus or subject, the dynamics of the poor, the sacred and the state, or the absence of it, using the media of fine arts.

Areas/Disciplines that maybe involved:

• Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science, Governance and Public Administration
• Economics, Community Development and Social Work
• Religion and Theology, History, Philosophy and Education
• Fine Arts, Multi-Media Arts, Mass Communication and Development Communication
• Other Disciplines

Important Dates:

Deadline of Submission of Abstract: 15 December 2015

Deadline of Submission of Full Paper: 30 December 2015

Registration Fee:

Foreign (Professionals) 400 USD Coverage:

2 lunch, 5 snacks, kit and souvenir, for 3 days

with single-room hotel accommodation.

hotel to airport service.

Kit and souvenirs

Local (Professional) – 4,000.00

Coverage:

2 lunch, 5 snacks, kit and souvenir, for 3 days

(without accommodation)

Local (Students) – [TBA]

Contact Person: Prof. Precious ‘Chot’ Velasquez, M.A.

(email: chotvelasquez@yahoo.com, mobile: 09298208047)

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Call for Papers
Post-Secular Stories: the Divine in Contemporary World Literature
A research conference exploring ways in which the Divine / the Holy / God / god / gods /
the Above-Human is thematised is current writing. This includes literature across genres,
geographies and thematics.
Venue, dates, fee:
LCC International University (www.lcc.lt)
Klaipeda, Lithuania
5-6 February 2016
Conference fee: €100 (includes conference dinner)

Context and invitation:
In the unfolding post-secular intellectual climate of our time, the aspect of the religious /
faith / spirituality / theology is recognised for what they are again in song lyrics,
journalism, novels, poetry and other genres of writing. No longer reflexively either
privileged or marginalised as in earlier eras, orientations towards the religious are
increasingly “normalised”, as something that in the public sphere in principle holds no
greater and no lesser prominence than other facets of life. In a more balanced way, faith
can in our time increasingly be spoken, be spoken of and be spoken against.
In this conference, the ways in which this trend plays out in various forms of literature
across the world is investigated. Not intended to provide a definitive overview, but as an
initial attempt to grasp some dimensions of these developments, only 20 papers will be
accepted for presentation at this conference.
To this end, the conference organisers invite, until 15 December 2015, proposals for
research papers on this wide-ranging topic. Specialist academic presentations in English
of 30 minutes (followed by 10 minutes discussion time) that focus deeply on the selected
topic will be welcomed. As wide a range as possible of disciplinary backgrounds,
language and genre specialisations, and international representation will be
accommodated. In typical post-secular mode, participants of all religious orientations
and none are welcomed.
In addition to participants who make formal conference presentations, interested parties
who would like to attend the conference without formal speaking slots would be welcome,
at the same conference fee. Attendees from Klaipeda and surrounding areas who would
like to attend one or more sessions, without attending the conference dinner, are
welcome to do so at a reduced fee (please e-mail JDMininger@lcc.lt in this regard).

Paper proposals should include a presentation title and 150–250 words describing the
intent of the presentation, including the genre/s, language/s and geographical region/s
covered. The name of the author/s, qualifications and institutional affiliation/s (if any)
should be included. Please e-mail proposals to JDMininger@lcc.lt no later than 15
December 2015.

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CALL FOR PAPERS

12th ISORECEA conference & ESA RN34 mid-term conference

RELIGION AND NON-RELIGION IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES

Theoretical, Empirical and Methodological Challenges for Research in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond

Zadar, Croatia, April 21-24, 2016

The interplay between historical, cultural and political factors and events has contributed to processes where both religion and non-religion are features of contemporary societies. At the same time, religion and non-religion are integral to theories of secularisation and religious change. Faced with different empirical data around the world, secularisation theses have been debated for decades, while theoretical debates about religious change have occupied sociologists of religion. They have sought to better and more accurately understand and explain religious changes in different parts of the globe. Their points of view differ and include: privatization thesis, de-privatization thesis, religious economies thesis, religious bricolage, multiple secularities thesis. One angle, non-religion as religious counterpart, has been neglected in sociological research. Indeed, until the end of the 20th century, it was only Campbell (1971) who gave a comprehensive insight into the sociology of non-religion, while many scholars wrote and published within the strand of the sociology of religion.

Non-religion has started to occupy the attention of sociologists since the beginning of this century, especially in the UK and USA. Its prominence has been influenced by its different appearances in the Western world: the rise of declared non-religious people, the appearance of a so-called New Atheism movement (inspired by books by R. Dawkins,

1. Harris, D. Dennett, and C. Hitchens), numerous organizations and associations of non-religious people and their enhanced activities as an alternative to religious conservativism, the growing influence of religion in the public sphere and fundamentalist expressions of religion connected to terrorism. Researchers mostly based their work on theories of subcultural identities, identity politics and new social movements; yet, some authors also drew on the theory of religious economies. In spite of these strands, non-religion remains theoretically underdeveloped and under-researched. Interestingly, this refers particularly to former communist countries where atheism was enforced as part of the official ideology; more research would have been expected on non-religiosity and atheism there. Independently of the exact geopolitical context, non-religion and in particular the interplay between religion and non-religion in different dimensions seem to be a key for understanding contemporary religious changes.

This international conference would like to encourage scholars from various parts of the world to share their theoretical, empirical and methodological considerations on religion and non-religion and take part in discussion on different related topics, like:

• Social theory of religion and non-religion
• Comparative empirical data on religion and non-religion
• Methodological challenges of research on religion and non-religion
• Historical development of religion and non-religion
• Non/religious minority and majority
• Human rights, religion and non-religion
• Religion, non-religion and State
• Religion, non-religion and social inclusion/exclusion
• Religion and non-religion in the intersectional perspective (involving gender, age, socio-economic aspects, etc.)
• Religion and non-religion in everyday life
• Religious and non-religious activism

Keynote speakers: Dr. Marjan Smrke, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

•                                Dr. Lois Lee, University College London, UK

  Please submit a 200-300 words abstract of your presentation by e-mail to: isorecea2016@idi.hr by November 25, 2015.

  If you are interested in a specific topic related to the study of religion and/or non-religion, we encourage you to organize a session/panel. In this case, please submit a 300-400 words proposal with full session details (names and affiliation of contributors, titles of their presentations as well as abstracts) by November 25, 2015 to the same email address.

  Key dates

  Submission of paper and session/panel proposals – November 25, 2015.
  Notification of acceptance and opening of the registration – December 15, 2015.
  The final date of the registration for the conference – January 31, 2016.

  Final program – February 20, 2016.

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The International Congress on Spiritual-Religious Counselling-Care will be held on April 7-10, 2016, in Istanbul, Turkey.  The webpage of the conference, www.mdrk.org displays the event’s programme at the top left corner of the page in Turkish and English).

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CFP: Poverty’s Causes and Consequences in the Urban Developing World

Conference website:
http://povdev.blog.jyu.fi/p/conference-2016.html

Proposers of accepted papers will be notified by December 15th, 2015, unless the proposal deadline is extended. Please send your abstract as an e-mail attachment to the following email address: laura.stark@jyu.fi

On the basis of paper abstract submissions, we will be grouping some papers together into their own thematic sessions. However, we will also have five Special Sessions already proposed and accepted by the conference organizers. These are:

• Elaine Dorighello Tomás: Poverty Reduction in Brazil 
• Bratati Dey: Women and Poverty in Urban India 
• Jeremy Gould and Tiina Konttinen: Poverty, Citizenship and a Rightful Share 
• Remi Adeyemo: Urban Food Security and Poverty Alleviation 
• Sirpa Tenhunen: Neoliberalism and Urban Politics in the Global South 
• Ghefari Elsayed, Abdelrahman Eldagum Bakhtan, and Eiman Omer Osman Suliman: Changing Urban Landscapes in East Africa: Violence, Poverty and Coping Strategies

If you are submitting a paper abstract and you would like your paper to be included in one of the above Special Sessions, please tell us which session when you submit your abstract.

The conference organizers cannot sponsor or fund presenters or delegates, who are expected to pay for their travel, food and stay during the conference. There will be no registration fee for the conference.

The conference is organized by the Finnish Academy-funded project “Urban Renewal and Income-Generating Spaces for Youth and Women in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia” led by Prof. Laura Stark, Dept. of History and Ethnology, University of Jyväskylä. Our co-organizer is the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.

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This is a reminder that the deadline for submissions for abstracts and panel proposals for BRAIS 2016 is less than a month away. The Third Annual Conference of British Association for Islamic Studies (BRAIS) is taking place in London on 11th and 12th April 2016 and the organisers particularly encourage panel proposals on any aspect or sub-discipline of Islamic Studies.  For full details on how to submit papers or panels please visit our website:

http://www.brais.ac.uk/conferences/brais-conference-2016/brais-2016-call-for-papers

Completed submission forms must be submitted via e-mail attachment to conference2016@brais.ac.uk  by 5pm (UK time) on Monday 30th November 2015.

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Heritage, Religion and Travel Network Conference
Theoretical and Empirical Journeys

Mersin, Turkey 27th-29th May 2016

www.heritagereligionandtravel.com

Call for Papers

Around the globe and across a wide variety of religious traditions, heritage has become central to our understanding of landscape, space and time. Heritage sites attract hundreds of millions of visitors each year, often as a form of pilgrimage to sacred destinations. Their popularity has provoked a burgeoning interest in both ‘sacred’ and ‘secular pilgrimage’ as a legitimate focus of academic enquiry and on tangible and intangible heritage more broadly.

This unique conference seeks to build on four decades of research on the relationship between Heritage, Religion and Travel and to advance new theoretical and empirical perspectives concerning this relationship. It also offers an interdisciplinary space for debate. Hence, and not coincidentally, the conference will be hosted in the ancient city of Mersin, Turkey  ̶ a country that could be defined as at the crossroads of history, i.e. between east and west. It is a land deeply influenced by religious traditions and heritage of extraordinary variety and richness. It also has been the setting for the rise and fall of many cultures and entire civilizations. Drawing on the work of leading academics, we hope to evoke the depth and breadth of the importance of heritage and its connection to religion and new and old forms of travel and tourism.

The focus of the conference will be on re-assessing old and building new theoretical frameworks for the study of heritage, religion and travel, with particular emphasis on the study of pilgrimage and religious tourism.

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Dr. John Eade – University of Roehampton/University of Toronto
Prof. Dr. Ian Reader – Lancaster University
Dr. Avril Madrell – University of the West of England
Prof. Maria Coroucli – Universite Paris Ouest Nanterre

Publication Opportunities

Heritage, Religion and Travel: Empirical and Theoretical Journeys, is pleased to announce that we will be able to offer authors the potential to publish their work in three separate series published by Ashgate (U.K.), Routledge (U.K.) and Lexington Books (U.S.A.) respectively, on the topic of the conference.

Ashgate Series editors include Dee Dyas (University of York), John Eade (Roehampton University/Toronto), Simon Coleman (University of Toronto) and Jas Elsner (University of Oxford/Chicago). The Routledge Series is edited by John Eade and Ian Reader (Lancaster University). The Lexington Series editors include Michael A. Di Giovine (West Chester University) and Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven).

Submission is automatic with the acceptance of abstracts. The quality of papers will be the guide for potential publication. This is a great opportunity for new upcoming scholars as well as established authors to showcase their work. We expect wide-spread interest in this conference, so please register ASAP for places are limited
The quality of papers will be the guide to the potential for publication and submission is automatic with the acceptance of the paper’s abstract. This is a great opportunity for new upcoming scholars as well as established authors to showcase their work. We expect wide-spread interest in this conference so please register ASAP for places are very limited! To register go to www.heritagereligionandtravel.com

We are open to the suggestions of thematic panels which may include, but are not limited to the following themes (see www.heritagereligionandtravel.com for further details):

۞ Heritage & Religious Traditions
۞ Religion and Travel
۞ Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage
۞ The Sacred & The Secular: Contesting and/or Re-affirming Religion
۞ Theoretical & Methodological Perspectives

Submission details

Abstracts (up to 350 – words in Word doc.), with contact details and affiliation, should be submitted to the following e-mail address: Chemin@cag.edu.tr by Dezember 15, 2015. You will be informed about acceptance or non-acceptance of your proposal by January 15, 2016.

Registration fee

On or before January 15th 2016 (early bird): € 50 (170 TL)
Regular Fee (after early-bird deadline – January 15th 2016): € 75 (250 TL)
Graduate Students presenting papers: € 50 (170 TL)
Co-authors or accompanying person: € 50 (170 TL)

Please note: All bank transaction costs are to be paid by the author

Registration fee covers:
– Conference proceedings (backpack with book of abstracts)
– Welcome reception (drinks and snacks)
– All meals during the conference hours
– Refreshments and snacks during session breaks
– Excursion with Tourist Guide
– Reception and Dinner

Payment Method:

In EURO (€) (for academics from outside of Turkey) to be made to the following account number:

SWIFT CODE: 6070
held with İŞ BANKASI A.Ş.
IBAN: TR380006400000260700032846
Çağ Üniversitesi (Mesep Oti)
Yenice Mahç Cemal Girsel Bul. 142 D
Tarsus/Mersin

In Türk Lirasi (TRY) (for academics from Turkey) to be made to the following account number:
HESAP SUBESI: 6070 (Adana Ticari/Adana)
held with İŞ BANKASI A.Ş.
HESAP NUMERASI: 26603
IBAN: TR510006400000160700026603
Çağ Üniversitesi (Mesep Oti)
Yenice Mahç Cemal Girsel Bul. 142 D
Tarsus/Mersin

WE WELCOME YOU WARMLY TO MERSIN IN 2016!!!!

Program committee:

Dr. Eduardo Chemin (Çağ Üniversitesi, Turkey)
Prof. Dr. John Eade – University of Roehampton (U.K.)/ University of Toronto (Canada)

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