SESSION PROPOSALS AND FREE PAPERS

Please click on the title for further information about the session. Please contact the organizer directly by e-mail (see addresses below) if you want to suggest a paper to a thematic session, with a copy to Frida.Forsgren@uia.no. The deadline for suggesting papers is March 1, 2010. A suggestion for a paper should have the following information:
A title of the paper, your name and institutional affiliation, your e-mail address and a short abstract (no more than 12 lines).

If you want to present a paper that does not really fit into any of the suggested thematic groups, please send an e-mail with the same structure and information as mentioned above to Frida.Forsgren@uia.no. The deadline is the same, March 1, 2010

Religion and State
Organizer:
Lene Kühle, Aarhus University, Denmark. LK@teo.au.dk

Religion and the media
Organizer:
Kati Niemelä, Church Research Institute, Finland. Kati.Niemela@evl.fi

Religious Pluralisation and Social Commitment through the Prism of Welfare
Organizers:
Annette Leis-Peters, Uppsala University, Sweden Annette.Leis@teol.uu.se  and Charlotte Engel, Ersta Sköndal University College, Sweden. charlotte.engel@esh.se  

Majority Religion – Religious Minorities? Legacies and new relations in a European context
Organizers:
Marta Middlemiss Lé Mon, Uppsala University, Sweden martha.middlemiss@teol.uu.se and
Maria Klingenberg, University of Helsinki, Finland Maria.Klingenberg@helsinki.fi  

The Changing Faces of Interreligious Dialogue
Organizers:
Ruth Illman and Peter Nynäs, Åbo Akademi University, Finland. rillman@abo.fi and pnynas@abo.fi

Sociological perspectives on "learning from" and "learning about" religion in multi-religious societies
Organizer:
Elisabet Haakedal, University of Agder, Norway. Elisabet.Haakedal@uia.no  

The role of religion in civil society
Organizer:
Inger Furseth, KIFO Centre for Church Research, Norway. Inger.Furseth@kifo.no

Nordic Churches Abroad as Immigrant Religious Associations                
Organizer:
Margit Warburg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. warburg@hum.ku.dk

Religion and politics
Organizer:
Anders Bäckström, Uppsala University, Sweden. Anders.Backstrom@crs.uu.se

Religion as aestheticizing practice
Organizer:
Pål Repstad, University of Agder, Norway. Pal.Repstad@uia.no

Religious leaders in a secular age
Organizer: Berit Thorbjørnsrud, University of Oslo, Norway, b.s.thorbjornsrud@ikos.uio

Quantitative Approaches to Religious Diversity
Organizer: Kimmo Ketola, The Church Research Institute, Finland, kimmo.ketola@evl.fi

Virtual religion and individual religiosity
Organizer: Jørgen Straarup, Umeå University, Sweden.  Jorgen.Straarup@religion.umu.se

 

 

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