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Call for Papers, ‘Making all things new?’ Evangelii Gaudium and Ecumenical Mission

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St John’s College, Cambridge, 29 June – 1 July 2015

Organised by Duncan Dormor (St John’s, Cambridge) and Alana Harris (Lincoln, Oxford)

Pope Francis’ first Apostolic Exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, (The Joy of the Gospel) was released in December 2013. Striking in both tone and content it is a watershed document that heralds a new style of engagement on the part of the Papacy. Written in clear and often robust language, the text exhorts every Christian to a rediscovery of the joy of the Gospel. It challenges Christians to focus on their relationship  with Christ, and to take the ‘economics of exclusion and inequality’ seriously as well as criticising the excessive centralization of the Roman Catholic Church, and its sense of priorities. Unsurprisingly it has been reprinted five times and has sold more than twice the number of any previous papal document.

This conference seeks to evaluate the significance of Evangelii Gaudium in the life of the Roman Catholic Church today, but also ecumenically; to interrogate the enthusiastic popular reception given to this lengthy, complex text; and, to explore its implications for the evangelization and missionary strategies of those within the Roman Catholic Church and beyond. Heralded as inaugurating a ‘new chapter’ of joyful evangelization, this conference asks what Christians from diverse theological and church traditions might find within Evangelii Gaudium to aid and inspire their renewed efforts to become ‘missionary disciples’ in our rapidly evolving and uncertain world.

Examining Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation from an open and explicitly ecumenical perspective, the conference will use multidisciplinary methodologies derived from receptive ecumenism and ecclesiology, biblical studies, anthropology, the sociology of religion, and religious history. Confirmed speakers for the conference include:

  • Professor Tina Beattie (Roehampton);
  • Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta (Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and St John’s College, Cambridge);
  • Professor Massimo Fagglioli (St Thomas, Minnesota);
  • Professor Paul Murray (Director, Centre for Catholic Studies Durham)
  • the Right Revd Rowan Williams (Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge)

Alongside these plenary papers, we plan to run a number of parallel sessions on a variety of themes. The organizers therefore welcome innovative and interdisciplinary papers on theoretical and practical issues arising from the document, including:

  • The central role given to scripture and biblical exegesis;
  • Theological framings, including Trinitarian emphases and the language of mercy;
  • Pope Francis’ theological anthropology in historical context;
  • Socio-economic and political interpretations, referenced against church traditions of social justice (e.g. Catholic Social Teaching etc.);
  • Missionary praxis – the parish, preaching and practical ecumenical initiatives;

Abstracts of 250 words, accompanied by a one-page CV, should be sent to d.dormor@joh.cam.ac.uk and alana.harris@lincoln.ox.ac.uk by 18 February 2015. Decisions about selected abstracted will be communicated by 16 March 2015. All participants will be expected to submit full papers of no more than 8,000 words (including references) by 29 May 2015. A collective volume, issuing from the conference proceedings, is planned.

Dr Alana Harris
Darby Fellow in History
Lincoln College, Oxford
(01865) (2)79790
alana.harris@lincoln.ox.ac.uk

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Call for Papers: Session on “Divide and Rule? Interfaith Initiatives and the Governance of Religious Diversity”

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Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion
Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium – July 2-5, 2915

 

Dear Colleagues:

We would very much appreciate your paper proposal for a thematic session (STS 41) entitled “Divide and Rule? Interfaith Initiatives and the Governance of Religious Diversity”, which is scheduled for next year´s ISSR conference in Leuven. The session focuses on the rather specific question of political and administrative actors making use of interfaith initiatives on the local or regional level in order to govern religious diversity. We particularly welcome empirical works on specific local or regional contexts.

For a more detailed description of the session please see below or have a look at the conference website:   http://www.sisr-issr.org/English/Conferences/Complete%20Session%20List%202015%20-%20revised%202014-11-27.docx

To propose a paper, click: http://sisr-issr.org/Program/

Thank you,
Alexander-Kenneth NAGEL
Center for Religious Studies, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)
alexander-kenneth.nagel@rub.de

 

Session Description:

During the last decades European immigration societies have experienced a significant increase of religious diversity as a result of labor and refugee migration as well as missionary religious movements. At the same time, these processes of religious pluralization have long gone unnoticed as migration policy was overshadowed by economic concerns. Only when religion returned powerfully to public awareness after the fall of the Iron Curtain and—despite incentives—immigrants showed no sign of returning to their countries of origin, religious and cultural diversity came up as factors, which could no longer be overlooked by local and regional policy makers. Given the lack of experience, expertise and competency to deal with religious matters political authorities subsequently looked for partners to help them govern the heterogeneous religious field and found them in interfaith bodies and initiatives. While some of these initiatives have started at the very grassroots of civic engagement in order to promote religious understanding on the local level, others were formed as regional platforms to prevent interreligious conflict and grant ‘religion’ a public voice. Despite their differences in size, scope and orientation have been increasingly addressed, invited or even initiated by political decision makers and thus become instruments of diversity governance.

The thematic session is to comparatively examine the role of interfaith initiatives in the local and regional governance of religious diversity. It brings together empirical studies from different localities and seeks to provide new insights on a) the variety of public-private arrangements in which interfaith bodies cooperate with state actors, b) the role political and administrative actors play in interfaith activities, and c) the potential impact of these public-private partnerships on the involved initiatives. With particular regard to the framework topic of senses the session will also address d) the staging of religious harmony in public interfaith ceremonies and installations, and finally, e) how political authorities literally ‘make sense’ of religion and religious diversity according to their inner notions of and experiences with religion.

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Reminder: SISR/ISSR 2015 Conference Proposal Deadline

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The 33rd ISSR conference will be held in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), from 2-5 July 2015. 

The deadline for proposing papers is December 15th, 2014. 

Please submit your proposals at the SISR/ISSR website: http://sisr-issr.org/Program/

The theme of the conference will be “Sensing Religion“:

 

Religions are not just a matter of belief, of practice, and of social organization. They more broadly also involve experience, perception, and the expression and representation of such ‘sensing of the religious’. Experiences may be sensory, as with the sights, sounds, and smells of religious rituals; and they may be communal and emotional, as various scholars have theorized through concepts such as ‘collective effervescence’, ‘communitas’, and ‘collective emotional regimes’. The sensible and the senses in religion has been a recurring theme in sociology and anthropology since the beginning of these disciplines. It unfolds in multiple directions and poses a whole host of interconnected questions.

What are the locations for sensing religion and how do the individual body and the communal temple interrelate as such locations? How are deities and spiritual entities represented and how does that representation articulate with bodily and communal religious practice? How is religious experience involved and how does that manifest and articulate with sensory perception and representation?

How do contemporary religious groups use sensory and other experiences to gather and serve their adherents – from mega-church audio-visuals to congregational art, music, and dance?  What is the role of images, music, and dance as producers of the religious and not just religious productions?

The audio-visual dimension is involved in various ways with media, including through television, radio, religious art, the Internet and the world of gaming – how do religious people understand the experiences that they increasingly claim are central to their religious lives?  How do such matters vary across the world’s different religious traditions, and what can we learn from this variety? 

How are experiences – sensory, emotional, or inward – expressed in varying religious discourses? What is the role of religious language in this sensory and emotional context? What are the emotional characteristics of religious language? How do we understand, in this context, the success of various charismatic movements?

How do people sense religion in daily life? To what extent and how do people feel religion as, for instance, a source of meaning, identity, guilt, health or obligation in their day to day existence?

And from a reflexive perspective, what do we as sociologists and anthropologists ‘sense’ as the religious? Why and how? Does the importance in our discipline of the questions just outlined signal transformations in this observation of the religious?

These questions, and others like them, will be the focus of our 2015 conference.  We welcome sessions and papers on these and other topics of interest to the social sciences of religion.

You can find a list of sessions at http://www.sisr-issr.org/Documents/SISR-ISSR_2015_Conference_Sessions.pdf

We invite all members in good standing (for 2014-2015) to submit proposals for papers. The deadline for is 15 December 2014. Each participant may give only one paper at the conference. In addition, a participant my be an author or critic in an Author Meets Critics (AMC) session.

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SOCREL Conference: Sociology of Religion: Foundations and Futures

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Sociology of Religion Study Group (Socrel) Annual Conference

www.socrel.org.uk

Tuesday 7 – Thursday 9 July 2015 hosted by Kingston University London 

High Leigh Conference Centre, Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, UK

http://www.cct.org.uk/high-leigh/introduction

Keynote Speakers:

  • Professor Nancy T. Ammerman (Boston University)
  • Professor James Beckford (University of Warwick)
  • Professor Grace Davie (University of Exeter)
  • Professor David Martin (London School of Economics)
  • Professor Linda Woodhead (Lancaster University)

Since its foundation in 1975, the Sociology of Religion Study Group has become one of the largest in the British Sociological Association (BSA). Its membership includes educators and researchers from across the UK and internationally, and in 2015 the Sociology of Religion Study Group will be celebrating 40 years!

Given this occasion, it is an opportune moment to reflect on religion in society, and religion in sociology. From its foundation, Socrel has foregrounded research on secularisation, gender, spiritualities, embodied and lived accounts, materiality, generational innovations, atheism, social difference, migration, institutions, politicised expressions and methodologies in the study of religion. While this list does not account for all the many ways scholars have been investigating religion in social life – its various forms, intersections and spaces – it does speak to how religions continue to be important subjective and collective experiences that are stable and continuous, resistant and shifting. This conference will bring together scholars who have shaped and are shaping the discipline. It will be an opportunity to pay heed, not only to the Study Group’s and discipline’s accomplishments, but also an opportunity to address questions that are emerging to inform future agendas and areas of concern and study, such as:

  • - What are the key points of continuity and innovation in theorising religion?
  • - How are methodologies emerging and informing research on religion?
  • - How are new approaches adapting and transforming old practices?
  • - What are the key controversies that will occupy sociologists of religion?
  • - What are the pedagogical challenges and innovations in teaching the sociology of religion?
  • We invite you to celebrate with us by engaging in the conference questions from your particular area of research in the Sociology of Religion.

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • -David Martin will be in conversation with Linda Woodhead about his career and recent books, ‘The Education of David Martin: The Making of an Unlikely Sociologist’, and ‘Religion and Power: No Logos without Mythos’.
  • -Grace Davie will be addressing the religious situation in twenty-first century Britain, drawing from her new book, ‘Religion in Britain: A Persistent Paradox’ (February 2015). This builds on her highly successful ‘Religion in Britain since 1945: Believing without Belonging’, now 20 years in print.
  • -Nancy Ammerman, James Beckford and Linda Woodhead will be bringing important reflections on the status of religion in sociology, and in society.

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Abstracts for individual papers (250 words max.) and panels (500 words max.) are invited by 5 January 2015. Panels may take a standard 20-minute paper format or take alternative modes such as pre-circulated papers/work in progress/or ‘points of view’ that are 10-minutes long. Submissions should be made in Word format and include in the following order: Name, institutional affiliation, email address and paper title.

**All presenters must be members of Socrel.

Abstracts will be subject to peer review. Please note, presenters will be limited to one paper per person at the conference, but you may also organise a panel. 

  • -Abstract submissions open: 1 September 2014
  • -Early bird registration opens: 1 September 2014
  • -Abstract submissions close: 5 January 2015
  • -Decision notification: 15 January 2015
  • -Presenter registration closes: 16 March 2015
  • -Draft programme online: 16 April 2015
  • -Early bird registration closes:  11 May 2015
  • -Registration closes: 15 June 2015

Please send abstracts to the attention of the conference organisers:

  • Dr Sylvie Collins-Mayo (Kingston University London) and
  • Dr Sonya Sharma (Kingston University London) at: socrel2015@gmail.com

Should you have other questions about the conference please also contact the conference organisers at the above email address.

Online Registration: http://portal.britsoc.co.uk/public/event/eventBooking.aspx?id=EVT10391

A limited number of bursaries are available to support postgraduate, early career, low income or unwaged Socrel members to present at the conference. Please visit www.socrel.org.ukfor instructions, and to download an application form, and submit your bursary application along with your abstract by 5 January 2015.

Socrel is the British Sociological Association’s study group on Religion. For more details about the study group and conference please visit www.socrel.org.uk.

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GLOCAL RELIGIONS: CALL FOR PAPERS and PUBLICATION OPPORTUNITY

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A session on Glocal Religions will be held at the 2015 biannual congress of the International Society for Sociology of Religion. The deadline for paper proposals is 15 December 2014. 

Glocal religions involve the blending or fusion of global religious expression with local particularity. This fusion can take a variety of forms and can be expressed in different cultural milieus and historical eras. Under the heading of glocal religion are included various forms of religious or cultural syncretism. Examples include forms of indigenous religion or transnational religious groups or nationalized religious forms of belonging. While there are many forms of hybrid religiosity a glocal religious form requires that one facet of this hybridity is taken from a local setting or context. This Special Issue’s goal is to explore different facets of glocal religion. It invites papers that focus on global-local or glocal religion. Contributions from all religious traditions and all continents are welcome. The theme of glocal religion has been in circulation for several years and under a variety of labels (syncretism, hybrid religion, vernacular religion, etc.). This Special Issue aims to offer the opportunity to focus the various approaches more intensely into this particular area of inquiry and to advance and relate arguments within the literature in order to offer a comprehensive treatment of this research agenda.

For more information, please visit the conference website at http://www.sisr-issr.org/English/Conferences/Conferences.htm.

The Session is sponsored by the journal Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).  The journal is currently running a special issue (which might also appear in book format) under the same title: Glocal Religions. For further details, please follow the link to the Special Issue Website at:http://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/glocal_religions

Contributions are sought both for the ISSR session on Glocal Religions and the special issue of the journal.

Please use the websites above for submissions.
For inquiries, please contact Victor Roudometof at roudomet@ucy.ac.cy

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Sociology of Religion Study Group 2015 Peter B. Clarke Memorial Prize

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The BSA Socrel Study Group invites essay submissions on any aspect of contemporary religion addressed from a sociological perspective.

Final Deadline: 31 January, 2015 - completed submission form should be emailed to aratalp@gmail.com

The essay competition submission form can be download HERE.

The Winner of the Prize will receive:

  • A Free Day’s Pass for the Annual Socrel Conference 7-9 July 2015 hosted by Kingston University (worth £175)
    - A cheque for £100 (sponsored by Taylor & Francis)
    - A £50 voucher for books from Taylor & Francis (sponsored by Routledge)
    - A year’s subscription to the Journal of Contemporary Religion
    - An opportunity to get published in the Journal of Contemporary Religion
    (subject to the JCR’s normal peer review)
    - A second prize cheque for £50, if the judges decide that there is a runner-up
    (sponsored by Taylor & Francis)

Submission Details:
- The essay should be between 5000 and 7000 words, including footnotes and
bibliography, and must not be available in print/electronic format or submitted for publication elsewhere.
- The essay should be sole authored, written in English and submitted as a single MS Word document attachment, including bibliography and cover sheet. Failure to incorporate the cover sheet will render disqualification.
- Submitting authors must follow the JCR style guide, and the winning essay
must be submitted to the JCR within 3 months of being awarded.
- Submitting authors must be postgraduates and a member of SOCREL to enter.
- Application forms and further details are available from the Study Group
website www.socrel.org.uk.
- Please forward electronic submission with cover sheet downloaded from the
Study Group website to Alp Arat (aratalp@gmail.com).

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Call for Papers: Session on ”Social Theory and Religion”, International Society for the Sociology of Religion, July 2-5, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

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CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS
(in either French or English)

Social Theory and Religion / La Théorie sociale et le religieux

The aim of this session is to stimulate debate about theoretical ideas that have a bearing on sociological research on religion. With reference to the conference theme – Sensing Religion – we invite papers that focus on, but are not limited to, discussing theorisations of religion and the senses. Contributions are welcome from researchers applying both familiar and less familiar traditions of social theory to the study of religion.

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Le but de cette session est de stimuler le débat sur les idées théoriques ayant un impact sur la recherche sociologique sur la religion. En ce qui concerne le thème de la conférence—Éprover le religieux—nous encourageons la soumission d’articles portant, principalement, mais pas uniquement, sur une discussion des théorisations de la religion et des sens. Les contributions de chercheurs appliquant des traditions de théorie sociale aussi bien connues que moins connues à l’étude de la religion sont les bienvenues.​

Please submit proposals at the ISSR website: http://sisr-issr.org/Program/ 

Please feel free to write the organizers with questions:

We may be able to publish the best of these papers as a special journal issue (refereed).  This depends on the quality of what we receive.

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Appel à communications: Les évolutions de la Science chrétienne

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Les évolutions de la Science chrétienne

Congrès international organisé par l’Observatoire européen des Religions et de la Laïcité et la Faculté d’études comparatives des religions et de l’Humanisme de Wilrijk-Anvers en partenariat avec le CESNUR (Turin) and CLIMAS (Bordeaux)

23-24 avril 2015

Lieu: Anvers: Faculty for the Comparative Study of Religion and Humanism.

Bist 164. 2610 Wilrijk-Antwerpen. Belgique

En 2015, le livre Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures de Mary Baker Eddy aura 140 ans. Il fut la pierre d’angle d’une Église de guérison, la Science chrétienne, qui s’est répandue dans le monde et qui affiche un nombre impressionnant de témoignages de guérison. Mais la Science chrétienne est plus qu’une Healing Church : elle est un mode de vie, une culture marquée par des inspirations artistiques des valeurs sociales qui se reflètent notamment dans le journal mondialement connu qu’est le Christian Science Monitor et dans bien d’autres domaines. Dans nos représentations, la Science chrétienne est l’Église mère de Boston avec sa cathédrale mais elle qui fait partie du paysage religieux mondial et mérite une attention renouvelée des universitaires qui étudient le fait religieux. En coopération avec la Faculté d’études comparatives des religions et de l’Humanisme (FVG) of Wilrijk-Antwerpen, l’Observatoire européen des Religions et de la Laïcité propose de mettre à jour la connaissance théologique, philosophique, sociologique, juridique, de ce mouvement.

On pourra aborder les évolutions de la Science chrétienne sous ces divers angles :

  • - évolutions de la direction et de la gouvernance,
  • - croissance numérique, expansion internationale, modalités d’installation,
  • - perception dans le monde en tant que groupe né en Amérique,
  • - problèmes juridiques,
  • - impact sur l’art et la culture…
  • - couverture médiatique
  • - influences de la Science chrétienne sur la communauté religieuse, par exemple sur la New Thought, la guérison chrétienne, la Scientology. Gordon Melton organise une session sur le rôle de la SC dans la naissance de la New Thought.

La liste n’est pas close et toutes les dimensions de l’analyse de la Science chrétienne sont bienvenues.

Langues : français et anglais.

Nous vous invitons à envoyer vos abstracts (10 lignes) et un court cv à Régis Dericquebourg, professeur associé de la FVG et président de l’Observatoire européen des Religions et de la Laïcité,

et/ou à Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, professeur à l’Université Bordeaux Montaigne, vice-présidente de l’Observatoire.

redericq@netcourrier.com

bcellard@numericable.fr

Comité scientifique

  • Regis Dericquebourg, Associate Professor at the FVG and President of the European Observatory of Religions and laïcité (secularism), France and Belgium
  • Massimo Introvigne, CESNUR, Torino, Italy
  • Gordon Melton, Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Baylor, Texas
  • Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, Professor in North American Studies, member de CLIMAS (Culture et littératures du monde anglo saxon), Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France
  • Chris Vonck, professor in Religious Studies, Dean of the faculty of Comparative studies of religions, (FVG), Wilrijk (Antwerpen), Belgium

La publication des présentations sera envisagée sur les recommandations du comité scientifique. Nous insistons sur le fait que les textes seront soumis d’abord au comité organisateur avant d’être soumis à d’autres éditeurs.

Les détails sur l’inscription, l’hébergement, l’accès au lieu du congrès seront donnés ultérieurement.

Les conférenciers prennent en charge leurs frais de transport et d’hébergement.

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Call for Papers: The evolutions of Christian Science in scholarly perspective

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Call for papers

The evolutions of Christian Science in scholarly perspective

April 23-24, 2015

Antwerp, Belgium
Organized by : The European Observatory of Religion and Secularism (Laïcité) in partnership with Faculty of Comparative Studies of Religions, CESNUR and CLIMAS (Bordeaux)

Venue: Faculty of Comparative Studies of Religions (FVG). Wilrijk (Antwerpen) Belgium.

In 2015 Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures will be 140 years old. It lay the foundation of a healing church, Christian Science, that since then has spread to the whole world and has received thousands of testimonies on its spiritual and physical healing power. Yet Christian Science is much more than a healing church, it is a way of life, spiritually, socially and materially, and it has given birth to an original culture. Its values are displayed in the world famous Christian Science Monitor and in many more areas. With the mother Church of Boston, Christian Science is a major actor on the international religious stage that deserves to be reassessed today in a scholarly perspective. We thus invite religious studies scholars to join us in Antwerp to focus on its evolutions and possible transformations in its 140 years of existence.

The list of topics below is not exhaustive:

  • - Evolutions of the governance of the Church,
  • - Membership: numbers, growth, sociological profile. International expansion,
  • - Perception in the world as an American born religion,
  • - Judicial issues addressing its status and its healing techniques,
  • - Impact on art and culture in general,
  • - Media coverage,
  • - Influences: Christian Science impact on the religious community, including New Thought, Christian healing, Scientology… (In this regard, Gordon Melton has suggested a session on the role of Christian Science on the birth of New Thought).

Language of the conference: English and French

Send a 10 line abstract, with a 5 line résumé of your previous work to:

Régis Dericquebourg, Associate Professor at the FVG and President of the European Observatory of Religions and laïcité (secularism)

and/or to Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, professor at Université Bordeaux Montaigne, vice-president of the Observatory.

redericq@netcourrier.com

bcellard@numericable.fr

Papers will be considered for publication, with editorial details given during the conference. It is understood that presenters must submit their paper first to the organizers before submitting them to other publishers.

Detail on registration, housing, transportation will be given later

Deadline to submit your proposal: February 28, 2015

Unfortunately, no funding will be available to cover travel and accommodation expenses

Scientific committee:

  • Regis Dericquebourg, Associate Professor at the FVG and President of the European Observatory of Religions and laïcité (secularism), France and Belgium
  • Massimo Introvigne, CESNUR, Torino, Italy
  • Gordon Melton, Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Baylor, Texas
  • Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, Professor in North American Studies, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, member de CLIMAS (Culture et littératures du monde anglo saxon), France
  • Chris Vonck, professor in Religious Studies, Dean of the faculty of Comparative studies of religions, (FVG), Wilrijk (Antwerpen), Belgium

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Appel à communications: “Religion et institutions publiques: nouvelles pratiques et dynamiques religieuses-séculières”

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Dans le cadre de la 33e conférence de la SISR qui aura lieu à Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgique), du 2 au 5 Juillet 2015 nous lançons l’appel à communications suivant pour la Session STS 21.
Religion et institutions publiques: nouvelles pratiques et dynamiques religieuses-séculières

Les institutions publiques sont des lieux privilégiés pour l’observation du rôle changeant du religieux dans nos sociétés contemporaines. D’une part, leur analyse permet, telle une fenêtre, d’observer les implications pratiques, sociales et politiques des transformations globales contemporaines des dynamiques religieuses-séculières. Les institutions publiques reflètent, en miniature, les enjeux émergents que la croissante vitalité et variété religieuse pose dans la sphère publique. D’autre part, elles gagnent en importance comme des lieux de fabrication du champ religieux et de ses frontières. Dans ce sens, la présence de plus en plus forte de “spiritualités holistes” dans les institutions publiques telles que les prisons ou les hôpitaux illustre la perméabilité des frontières traditionnelles et nourrit de nouvelles pratiques à la limite du séculier. De plus, les micro-processus de négociation, contestation et accommodement autour de revendications religieuses dans ces institutions contribuent à redéfinir le rôle des Églises traditionnelles et des minorités religieuses dans nos sociétés. Cette session vise à faire rencontrer des scientifiques étudiant le rôle du religieux dans les institutions publiques telles que — mais non exclusivement—les hôpitaux, les prisons ou les écoles. Nous encourageons notamment la présentation de recherches empiriques adoptant une approche comparative internationale ou inter-institutionnelle.

Nous invitons les personnes intéressées par ces thématiques à nous faire parvenir une proposition de communication au plus tard le 15 décembre 2014 en utilisant le formulaire en ligne http://sisr-issr.org/Program/
Pour toute information, n’hésitez pas à nous contacter via email.

Irene BECCI (UNIL– Université de Lausanne, Switzerland: Irene.BecciTerrier@unil.ch)
Mar GRIERA (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain: mariadelmar.griera@uab.cat)
Lene KÜHLE (Aarhus University, Denmark: lk@cas.au.dk)

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