Welcome to the 20th Nordic Conference in Sociology of Religion

PROGRAMME

For those of you booking travels and accommodation, we inform you that the conference programme starts on August 4 at 10 a.m. and ends on August 6 at 3.30 p.m.

Wednesday, Aug 4

10.00 Auditorium B1-001
  Welcome. Opening. Practical information.
   
10.30-12.00

Auditorium B1-001
Keynote speaker: James A. Beckford
The Return of Public Religion? A Critical Assessment of a Popular Claim
. Discussion.

12.00 Lunch
   
13.00 First parallel sessions:
  B2-001 Religion and state I (Kühle)
  B2-002 Religion and media I (Niemäla)
  B2-004 Religious pluralisation and social commitment (Leis-Peters and Engel)
  B2-006 Theorising religions (Pessi)  
  B3-008 Quantitative approaches to religious diversity I (Ketola)
   
15.00   Coffee break
   
15.30-17.30 Second parallel sessions:
  B2-001 Religion and state II (Kühle)
  B2-002 Religion and media II (Niemelä)
  B2-004 Virtual religion and individual religiosity (Straarup)
  B2-006 Changing Faces of Interreligious Dialogue I (Illman/Nynäs)
  B3-008 Quantitative approaches to religious diversity II (Ketola)
   
18.00      Reception at the University
   

Thursday, Aug 5

09.00-10.15

Auditorium B1-001
Keynote speaker: Helen Rose Ebaugh
Transnationality and Religion in Immigrant Congregations: The Global Impact.
Discussion.

   
10.30   Third parallel sessions:
  B2-001 Religion and politics I (Bäckström)
  B2-002 The role of religion in civil society I (Furseth)
  B2-004 Religion as aestheticizing practice I (Repstad)
  B2-006 Changing faces of interreligious dialogue II (Illman/Nynäs)
  B3-008 Religion, ethnicity and culture (Øverland)
   
12.30 Lunch
   
13.30-14.45 Auditorium B1-001
 

Keynote speaker: Effie Fokas
Islam in Europe – Macro-level Debates and Micro-level Adaptations to Religious Plurality
Discussion.

   
15.00-17.00 Fourth parallel sessions:
  B2-001 Religion and politics II (Bäckström)
  B2-002 The role of religion in civil society II (Furseth)
  B2-004 Majority religion - religious minorities I
(Middlemiss Le Mon/Klingenberg)
  B2-006 Learning ’from’ and ’about’ religion (Haakedal)
  B3-008 Nordic churches abroad (Warburg)
   
17.30-19.15 Excursions, exhibition, entertainment (see social events)
   
19.30 Conference Dinner at the University
   

Friday, Aug 6

9.15-11.15 Fifth parallell sessions:
  B2-001 Religion and politics III (Bäckström)
  B2-002 The role of religion in civil society III (Furseth)
  B2-004 Majority religion – religious minorities II
(Middlemiss Le Mon/Klingenberg)
  B2-006 Religion as aestheticizing practice II (Repstad)
  B3-008 Pastors, leaders and religious trends (Vilaca)
   
11.30 Lunch
   
12.30-14.45

Auditorium B1-001
Keynote speaker: Ole Riis
Religious Pluralism and Intolerance in the Nordic Countries.
Discussion.

   
14.45 – 15.15 Rounding off the conference. Next conference.

 

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