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From: rev.sam koshy <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:51 AM
Subject: Fwd: Seminar: SECULAR SOCIAL SPACE @ TMAMROC
To: [email protected], [email protected], bejoy varughese <
[email protected]>, biji jacob oommen <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
Ginu Zacharia Oommen <[email protected]>, Mathew Thomas <
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T. M. A. M. Research and Orientation Centre
*Recognised by Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam*
**Seminar**
*Saturday August 15**th**, **2009***
09:30 a.m. – 03:30 p.m*.***
Secular Social Space
Moderator:
* Most Rev. Dr. Philipose mar Chrysostom Mar Thoma *
*Valiya Metropolitan** *
Inauguration:
*Dr. Rajan Varghese*
*(Pro-vice Chancellor, Mahatma Gandhi University)*
* *Paper Presentation:
*Prof. Dr. K. S. Mathew*
(Director, Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities)
* Mr. Dileep Raj*
(Research Scholar)
* *Secular Social Space
*S*ecularism as discourse, institution and practice has been inevitable in
any academic exercise of democratic concern. But the contemporary contexts
of communalism, extremisms, identity affirmations, religious affirmations
and resurgence of post enlightenment theories on religion demands deeper
reflections on the conceptualizations of the secular. The postsecular debate
pioneered by Habermas, Jean-luc nancy, Ernesto laclau, Umberto Eco, Pamuk,
Talal Asad, Ashis Nandy and the like problematises the debate. The debate on
secularism is problematised as an ideology, institutional practice,
epistemological position, ethical orientation and engagement with
pluralities.
At this juncture, the Research Department of T.M.A.M. Research and
Orientation Centre is commencing a year long study project on secularism
discourse. The first among them is on August 15th. We solicit your
participation.
*
*
* We wholeheartedly welcome you....
*
* *
*President
Director*
Rt. Rev. Dr. Euyakim Mar Coorilos Episcopa
Rev. Sunny George
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Director
T.M.A.M. Research and Orientation Centre
(Affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University)
Manganam P.O.
Kottayam
Kerala 686 018
India
Ph: 0481 2571167(O), 2572125 (Library), 2571879(R)
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"Sometimes — quite often — the same people who are capable of a radical
questioning of, say, economic neo-liberalism or the role of the state, are
deeply conservative socially — about women, marriage, sexuality, our
so-called 'family values' — sometimes they're so doctrinaire that you don't
know where the establishment stops and the resistance begins. For example,
how many Gandhian/Maoist/ Marxist Brahmins or upper caste Hindus would be
happy if their children married Dalits or Muslims, or declared themselves to
be gay? Quite often, the people whose side you're on, politically, have
absolutely no place for a person like you in their social, cultural or
religious imagination.That's a knotty problem politically radical people can
come at you with the most breathtakingly conservative social views and make
nonsense of the way in which you have ordered your world and your way of
thinking about it and you have to find a way of accommodating these
contradictions within your worldview."
-Arundhati Roy
ANIL
Anil Tharayath Varghese
New Delhi-110058
INDIA
Mobile - 09971170738
email - [email protected]
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