This link is about an international symposium to be held in Paris 24-25 November about the role that prison chaplains could play in the fight against the swing to violent extremism. It will seek to review the way in which Muslim actors in France and in other countries have made use of this institution even though it does not belong to their own religious tradition.
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The making of Muslim chaplaincies in prisons – Comparative approaches
The making of Muslim chaplaincies in prisons –
Comparative approaches
International symposium
Date of symposium: Thursday 24 and Friday 25 November, 2016 in Paris.
Organisers: Céline Béraud (EHESS, Centre d’études en sciences sociales
du religieux) and Claire de Galembert (CNRS, Institut des sciences
sociales du politiques, ENS Cachan) This symposium is organised as part
of the ‘post-terrorist attack’ research financed by CNRS. Scientific
committee: Jim Beckford (University of Warwick), Sophie Gilliat-Ray
(Cardiff University), Irène Becci (Université de Lausanne), Franck
Frégosi (Institut d’études politiques d’Aix-en-Provence), Mar Griera
(Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), Solenne Jouanneau (Université de
Strasbourg).
In France, prison chaplain activities are currently under hitherto
unforeseen scrutiny in the scope of public action and academic fields.
Pioneering research by Jim Beckford and Sophie Gilliat-Ray (1998) on
managing religious diversity in English prisons paved the way for works
in different national contexts: in particular, Germany (Becci, 2012;
Harms, 2014); Canada (Gagnon, 2008; Beckford & Cairns, 2015); Spain
(Martinez-Arino, Garcia-Romeral, Ubasart-Gonzalez, & Griera, 2015);
France (Beckford, Joly and Khosrokhavar, 2005; Sarg & Lamine, 2011;
Sarg, 2016; Béraud, Galembert and Rostaing, 2013 and 2016); Italy
(Rhazzali, 2010; Fabretti, 2015); Norway and Sweden (Furseth et Kühle
2011); Holland (Ajouaou et Bernts 2015); Switzerland (Becci Bovay &
Kuhn, 2007; Schneuwly-Purdy, 2011).
This renewed interest in an institution that seemed to be on the verge
of falling into disuse little more than two decades ago in France, can
be explained by the upheaval that the religious profile of inmates has
undergone in the past three or four decades. This shift, in evidence in
French, but also British, German, Dutch and Belgium prisons (Roy, 2015),
has made the accommodation of religious diversity – particularly Islam –
unavoidable. Moreover, Islamic chaplains have been seen as a policy tool
for preventing radicalisation. It has resulted in particular from the
interest shown by public authorities in this institution as a potential
instrument for preventing prisoners giving over to religious extremism.
In the aftermath of the killings perpetrated by Mohammed Merah and Mehdi
Nemouche and the 2015 terrorist attacks, Muslim chaplains have benefited
from major backing from the French State, to such an extent that it has
become the most-financed religion in prisons in 2016.
In a context where there is widespread interest in the role chaplains
could play in the fight against the swing to violent extremism, this
symposium will seek to review the way in which Muslim actors in France
and in other countries have made use of this institution even though it
does not belong to their own religious tradition. How have public
policies against prison radicalisation stimulated the
institutionalisation of Muslim chaplaincy in prisons? And how are they
also making it more complicated?
Full call: see Appel_com_anglais
Invitation to the Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies, 5, 6 & 7 December 2016
We are pleased to invite you to participate in the Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies. Registration for our Fall Session (5, 6 & 7 December) is now open. The meeting will be held at The Old Library in the Oxford University Church of St Mary. Constructed in 1320, The Old Library is the first university (as opposed to college) building in Oxford and therefore uniquely important; this is where the nascent University began.
The sessions will be hosted by Canon Brian Mountford MBE, Vicar of St Mary’s. Dr. Mountford is a Fellow and Chaplain of St Hilda’s College in the University of Oxford.
You are invited to present a paper on an aspect of religious studies, or you may wish to attend as an observer. The symposium is inter-disciplinary and has a broad-based theme.
The deadline for proposals is 14 November.
The regular registration deadline is 16 November. (Early Registration is 10 October and is £60 less than the regular registration fees).
For more information visit our website Oxford Symposium on Religious Studies
Gouvernance et religion en Europe / Governance and Religion in Europe
Le colloque international “Gouvernance et religion en Europe” est organisé
conjointement par le réseau Eurel de sociologues et juristes de la
religion (www.eurel.info), et la Faculté de langues, littérature, humanités, art et éducation de
l’Université du Luxembourg. Le colloque vise à se concentrer sur “le rôle
de la religion dans l’élaboration européenne des politiques et du droit”.
Il comportera des approches en sciences politiques, sociologie et droit.
Les interventions s’inscrivent dans quatre thématiques : religion, discours
et stratégies politiques ; engagement religieux et mobilisations politique
des groupes religieux minoritaires ; les groupes religieux, acteurs et
objets de la gouvernance locale ; les religions dans la législation et
l’application de la loi. (Luxembourg, 29-30 septembre 2016,
eurel.sciencesconf.org).
The international conference “Governance and Religion in Europe” is jointly
organised by the Eurel network of sociologists and legal scholars of
religion (www.eurel.info), and the University of Luxembourg. The Conference
aims at focusing on “the role of religion in European policy-making and
law”. Its approaches will be based in political science, sociology, and
law. Contributions will be organised in four panels: Religion, Party
Discourse, and Policy-Making; Religious Engagement and Political
Mobilization of Minority Religious Groups; Religious Groups as Actors and
Objects of Local Governance; Religion in Legislation and Law Enforcement.
(Luxembourg, 29-30 September 2016, eurel.sciencesconf.org).
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Call for Presentations: “Music and Islam”
IV UskoMus symposium: ”Music and Islam”
Cultural Centre Stoa, Helsinki 10 November 2016
Call for Presentations
UskoMus* Research Network (uskomus.com) will organise its next one-day symposium with the theme ”Music and Islam”, with islamologist Jonas Otterbeck (Lund University) as a guest speaker. The symposium will be followed by a public discussion and a concert celebrating the 25-year career of the Turkish-Finnish band Nefes (nefes.fi <http://nefes.fi/>), supported by Senegalese Pape Sarr, Rane Diallo, Ismaila Sane and Ousseynou Mbaye, and with an emphasis on Sufi musical practices.
UskoMus hereby invites proposals for symposium presentations, whether in the form of conventional academic papers or more experimental delivery. All topics associated with the general theme are welcome, but please note that the number of presentations is limited. The 200–300-word abstracts should be sent to uskomus.network@gmail.com no later than 30 September 2016; notifications of acceptance will be sent by 14 October.
There will be no conference fee but no free lunches either.
The language of the symposium will be English. The symposium is organised in collaboration with City of Helsinki Cultural Centre Stoa (stoa.fi <http://stoa.fi/>), Etnosoi! Festival (etnosoi.fi<http://etnosoi.fi/>) and Global Music Centre (globalmusic.fi <http://globalmusic.fi/>), Music Archive JAPA (musiikkiarkisto.fi <http://musiikkiarkisto.fi/>) and the Finnish Society for Ethnomusicology (etnomusikologia.fi <http://etnomusikologia.fi/>). For further information, please consult UskoMus website (uskomus.com <http://uskomus.com/>) oruskomus.network@gmail.com <mailto:uskomus-network@gmail.com>.
Welcome to the symposium!
On behalf of UskoMus,
Antti-Ville Kärjä
*) “uskomus” = a belief, a shibboleth; “usko” = faith, confidence; “mus(iikki)” = mus(ic)
NCSR 2016
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CFP: 14th Nordic Conference on Religious Education
1ST CALL
14th Nordic Conference on Religious Education
Dates: 12-15.6.2017
Theme: Dialogue, cultures and religion in learning environments and beyond
Location: School of Theology & School of Applied Sciences of Education and Teacher Education, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus
WELCOME TO NCRE2017!
In a season of change and movement there is a growing demand for new ways of interpreting the past, present and future. Many global processes such as migration, pluralism and the redefinition of citizenship challenge the traditional notions of borders concerning cultures, states and nationalities, ethnicities and religions. Arguably the early 2000’s has also shown that religion is a relevant –and sometimes even a dominant – actor in the public space. In addition, today the need for dialogue and educating for dialogue skills is increasingly being recognized. At the same time dialogue concerning religions is also becoming more inclusive: dialogue in religious education is to recognize not only the dialogue between religious traditions but also dialogue that includes non-religious traditions or takes place within religious traditions. As the many borders in our world a becoming again more transparent and cultures blended, there is an increasing need to re-examine the conceptions and theories concerning the individual, religions and education through the interplay of philosophical and theological analysis, empirical evidence and scholarly interaction.
The theme of NCRE2017 is “Dialogue, cultures and religion in learning environments and beyond”. The learning environments refer to for instance homes, and classrooms and informal and digital learning environments along with other school and church related contexts. This includes topics such as:
· Borders and de-borderisation in citizenship, nationality, cultures and identities
· Religions and non-religious traditions in various learning environments
· Dialogue, beliefs and education
· Diverse and silenced voices in religious education
· Church, state and school relations in education
· Human rights and right for religion/non-religion in education
· The individual in a pluralistic and digitalized world
One of the characteristics of the University of Eastern Finland is dialogue. First, the UEF is an outcome of a merger of two universities in 2010. Second, in Karelia the interaction between the relatively large Orthodox population and Lutheran population has shaped local culture, customs and history. Third, Karelia is located at the border area between Finland and Russia: it is a place where east meets west. Furthermore, the school of Theology at UEF is one of the few academic institutions that includes both Western and Orthodox theology. It is our wish that you would participate in the scientific dialogue in NCRE2017 in this distinctive context as our most welcome guests.
The keynotes of NCRE2017
Professor Zvi Bekerman, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Professor Cok Bakker, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
Professor Mette Buchardt, University of Aalborg, Denmark
Professor Tuula Sakaranaho, University of Helsinki, Finland
Presentation forms and proposals
Similarly to the previous conference, NCRE2017 includes the following presentation formats and proposals.
Paper proposal
The papers may address aspects of the conference theme or other topics. The abstracts should be 250-300 words, full papers about 2000 words. The length of a paper may exceed this; however more time will not be given for its presentation.
Symposium proposal
We invite groups of researchers to present a theme for debate or a collection of small papers in order to shed light on a particular question. The abstract for a symposium should be 250-300 words, full contribution about 3000 words. Both should be presented for a whole symposium, and not as separate contributions. The names of presenters and discussant(s) should be included both in the abstract and the full paper.
Open forum presentation proposal
Open forum format is a very open form of presentation. Anything fresh and working is welcome here (use of short videos, pictures, open room method, posters, round table, panels, etc). This is also a form for the works and research that are very much in progress. In case of a whole open forum proposal the proposal should consist of description of the contribution and its purpose, procedure of how the discussion will take place, what questions will be touched and possible other contributors. Also questions what were raised in keynote lectures may be further developed. However, also single posters or roundtable presentations (with one or more authors) will be grouped under this presentation form. In a nutshell an open forum proposal can be (please indicate clearly):
· A whole open forum presentation
· A single open forum presentation
The abstracts should be about 250 words, full contribution 500-1000 words.
Location
School of Theology & School of Applied Sciences of Education and Teacher Education, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu campus.
You can reach Joensuu by train or by plane via Helsinki.
Important dates
2016
September 2nd call. Details about costs.
December 1st – December 15th Proposal submission
2017
January 31st Review results and decisions
February 28th Early bird registration fee
April 30th Conference registration ends
April 30th Deadline for full papers and contributions
Schedule
The conference will last Monday 12.6.2016 from 12.00 and until Thursday 15.6.2016 by 15.00.
Full details of conference fees will be given in September 2016. This includes information on accommodation possibilities, the preliminary schedule and the conference fee.
Contact
Email: ncre2017@uef.fi
Homepage: http://www.uef.fi/en/web/ncre2017
Local committee
Professor Martin Ubani, UEF, Chair
Risto Aikonen, UEF
Sari Havu-Nuutinen, UEF
Vesa Hirvonen UEF
Pekka Metso, UEF
Sari Murtonen UEF
Eveliina Ojala UEF
Ismo Pellikka UEF
Saila Poulter, University of Helsinki
CFP: Kliapeda (Lithuania) conference, March 2017
https://www.lcc.lt/academic-conference/
Health and Human Flourishing:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
CALL FOR PAPERS | DATE: MARCH 23-25, 2017
Organized by by LCC International University (Lithuania)
and the Samford University College of Health Sciences (U.S.A.)
Hosted at the campus of LCC International University, Klaipeda, Lithuania
Deadline for Abstract Submission: Sept. 1, 2016
At this conference, there will now be a special session for contributions from the sides of Theology / Religion / Spirituality, chaired by Christo Lombaard.
Dr. Lombaard encourages diversity, originality and the joyful chaos of intellectual engagement to the very highest standards. Deep specialisation and cross-disciplinary contributions are welcomed.
If you propose a paper for this conference (at www.lcc.lt/academic-conference) and would like it to be considered for particularly the “Theology / Religion / Spirituality session/s”, please indicate it as such in your submission.
Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies Workshop
The Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
“Evolving through Context: The Transformation of Buddhism(s) and their Legitimation(s),”
to be held on March 24-25,2017 in Munich, Germany, with keynote addresses by Prof. Peter Schwieger (Bonn) and Prof. Stefano Zacchetti (Oxford).
We invite applications from early-career researchers. The application deadline is September 4, 2016,
Please find the call for papers on the following website:
http://www.en.buddhismus-studien.uni-muenchen.de/currentissues/cfp_2017/index.html
We would ask you to forward it to any parties that might be interested. Thank you very much.