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Conference Announcement
"Religion and Culture: Horizons of Everyday Life"
International Interdisciplinary Conference
Center for Religious Studies and Research,
Vilnius University
Vilnius (Lithuania)
20-21 May 2009
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The theme of the conference takes into consideration the key
transformations in the contemporary everyday life, which
brings challenge to religion. Such transformations
representing the face of contemporary everyday world would
be following:
1) multi-culturalization, multi-ethnicity, and
multi-religiosity of the society as a result of
globalization as well as globalization itself;
2) secularization and the conflict of values: confrontation
between new life standards and the sphere of the traditional
values; philosophical and theological meaning of the
secularization and the outcomes of religious life;
3) nihilism and secularization as challenges of the
contemporary world and their representations in everyday
life.
The aim of the conference is to analyze the separate
representations of these transformations and to investigate
the specific aspects of the manifestation in the sphere of
everyday life by taking into account the entirety of the
mentioned transformations challenging the religion in the
contemporary world.
Possible topics included, but are not limited to, the
following:
* Everyday life and secularization
* Everyday life and sacrum
* Religious experience and everyday life
* Language, religious, everyday life
* Religious, politics, everyday life
* Everyday life and the crisis of religiosity
* Globalization, everyday life and religious
* Religious, art and everyday life
* Psychology, religious and everyday life
Costs: There is no conference fee. Participants should cover
their travel and accommodation costs.
Conference languages: Lithuanian, Italian, English
Contact:
Jolanta Saldukaityte
Center for Religious Studies and Research
Vilnius University
Universiteto g. 9/1 - 105
LT-01513 Vilnius
Lithuania
Tel./Fax: +370 5 268 71 89
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.rstc.vu.lt/index.php?id=10158
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