The 2010 International Conference - Changing Gods. Between Religion and Everyday Life

Torino, Italien

Tid: 9-11 september 20101
Plats: Torino, Italien
Arrangör: CESNUR, Italian Association of
Sociology (AIS) - Sociology of Religions Section, and the School of
Political Science - University of Torino

"CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference will assess the international, global-local, and local
dimensions of religious change, religious pluralism, spirituality,
minority religions, new religious movements, new movements within Islam
and Christianity, Esotericism and the New Age, survey the current
situation, and consider the fate of religious and spiritual groups as
they change and relate to everyday life in an increasingly
multi-cultural and trans-national world. Papers will be accepted from a
variety of perspectives (sociology, history, anthropology, psychology,
law, religious studies).

Topics will include: Change in Old and New Religions; Religion and
Everyday Life; Societal Responses to Religious Diversity and Pluralism;
Religious Movements between Mainstreaming and Marginalization; Religion,
Spirituality, and Body; Religion Online and Online Religion; Magic,
Esotericism, and the Sacred; Bio-religion and Politics; Prayer and
Everyday life; Young Generations; Lifestyles, Religion, and the Sacred;
Gender and the Sacred; and The Emergence of New Movements and Groups.

Those who would like to present papers are invited to submit a 200-word
abstract of their paper (in English or Italian) and a 200-word
curriculum vitae to cesnur_to@virgilio.it before February 28, 2010.
Speakers will be allocated 20 minutes for their talks (but they can
bring longer papers to give to interested participants or e-mail these
later).

Those who would like to arrange a full session should assume that they
will have 2 hours, allowing time for 5 speakers or, if they prefer, 4
speakers and more time for discussion. The session organiser should, in
turn, submit a 200-word synopsis of the whole session and 200-word CVs
and abstracts for each speaker to cesnur_to@virgilio.it before February
28, 2010. The selection panel will be looking for empirical and
theoretical contributions to the scholarly understanding of religious
and spiritual change and pluralism, religion and everyday life, and to
the variety of societal and individual responses to religion. Authors of
papers that have been accepted will be notified before April 15, 2010.

The conference will begin in the morning of Thursday September 9 and it
will end in the afternoon of Saturday September 11. The venues will be
in downtown Torino. A field trip will be arranged in the afternoon of
Friday September 10. Participants will be responsible for arranging
their own accommodation: there are plenty of good hotels in downtown
Torino and you may want to consult your travel agent. Further details
about the conference will be available in due course on the CESNUR
(www.cesnur.org) website.

Unfortunately no scholarship will be available for participants. Each
participant, including speakers, will be expected both to pay his or her
travel and accommodation expenses, and to register before being included
in the final programme. "

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