STATES OF BELIEF (February 25-27)
University of Sydney, Woolley Common Room, Woolley Building
Modernity has been analysed as a process of secularisation where
religion progressively declines in favour of 'rational' or
'scientific' understandings of the world. This is supported, in some
contexts, by declining participation in traditional religious
practice. The decline, however, is neither uniform nor
representative. Religion has recomposed itself, sometimes through an
eclectic combining of religious creeds and sometimes through more
extreme expressions of belief. As such rather than seeing a
disappearance of religion what we face is its reconfiguration.
Modernity has not excluded faith or religious belief, rather it
constitutes a stimulus for the recomposition of religiosity, the
reorientation of religious sentiment and has itself triggered new
unexpected expressions of religiosity.
_Wednesday February 25_
__4.30pm --- Conference Opening: Professor Garry W. Trompf
4.45pm --- Key Note Address: Raphaël Liogier (University of
Aix, Marseilles)
6pm --- Reception
_Thursday February 26_
9.30am --- Garry Trompf (University of Sydney)
10.30am --- Roland Boer (Newcastle University)
11.30am --- Tea and Coffee
12.00am --- Ray Younis (University of Central Queensland)
1.00pm --- Lunch
2.00pm --- Mehmet Ozalp (Doctoral Student University of Sydney)
3.00pm --- William McClure (Australian National University)
4.00pm --- Tea and Coffee
4.30pm --- Manas Ghosh (Doctoral Candidate, Charles Sturt
University)
5.30pm --- close
_Friday February 27_
9.30am --- Paul Morris (Victoria University, N.Z)
10.30a --- Marion Maddox (Macquarie University, CRSI)
11.30am --- Tea and Coffee
12.00am --- Philip Quadrio (University of NSW)
1.00 pm --- Lunch
2.00pm --- Rachael Kohn (ABC Radio)
3.00 pm --- Brikha Nasoraia (Emirates University)
4.00pm --- Tea and Coffee
4.30pm --- Paulus Ryanto (Sydney University)
5.30pm --- Close: Garry Trompf and Philip Quadrio
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