Please circulate widely. Apologies for multiple emails. -------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (online and in-person) --------------------------------------
CONCEPTS OF GOD IN UNDERREPRESENTED RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS Nord Luxxor Tambaú Hotel João Pessoa, Brazil February 6-7 and 12-14, 2025 Website: https://www.god-and-consciousness.com/jp-conference Registration: god.and.consciousn...@gmail.com Deadline: February 4, 2025 The conference "Concepts of God in Underrepresented Religious Traditions" will be divided into two parts. Online talks on February 6 and 7, 2025, and in-person talks on February 12, 13 and 14. Both parts will be broadcast via Zoom. To register, send an email to god.and.consciousn...@gmail.com, with the subject line “Registration at the João Pessoa Conference” by February 4, 2025. The body of the message should contain the following information: (1) full name, (2) institution/country, and (3) type of attendance for the second part of the conference (in-person or online). Attendance will be guaranteed on a first come, first served basis. There is no fee to attend the conference. -------------------------------------- KEYNOTE TALKS • Gods, devata-s, and Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion, Purushottama Bilimoria (University of San Francisco, USA) • Ghosts, Gods, and Spirits in Chinese Discourses on Self-Cultivation, Leah Kalmanson (University of North Texas, USA) • Concepts of Divinity in Afro-Brazilian Religious Traditions, José Eduardo Porcher (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) • Early Chinese Conceptions of Divinity, Kelly Clark (Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul) • Sacrality in Indigenous America: Camac and the Everpresent Sacrality of Life in Andean Thought, Jorge Sanchez-Perez (University of Alberta, Canada) • Concepts of God in Indian Religious Traditions, Alan Herbert (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK) • Freemasonry as Universal Religion, Benedikt Paul Göcke (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) • Concepts of God in African Traditional Religions, Emmanuel Ofuasia (National Open University of Nigeria, Nigeria) -------------------------------------- ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITEE • Ricardo Sousa Silvestre, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil (co-chair) • Dilip Loundo, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil (co-chair) • Gabriel Reis de Oliveira, Saint Louis University, USA -------------------------------------- SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE • Ananya Barua, University of Delhi, India • Monima Chadha, Monash University, Australia • Joanna Leidenhag, University of Leeds, UK • Rodrigo de Azeredo Grünewald, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil • Swami Medhananda, UCLA and University of Southern California, USA • Yujin Nagasawa, University of Oklahoma, USA • Timothy O'Connor, Indiana University, USA -------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION This is the second conference of the project “Concepts of God and the Variety of Theisms in Indian Traditions: Towards a Theistic Theory of Consciousness”, hosted by the Brazilian Association for the Philosophy of Religion and supported by funding totaling $260,000 from the John Templeton Foundation. https://www.god-and-consciousness.com The conference is hosted by the Federal University of Campina Grande, in collaboration with the Graduate Program of Religious Studies at the Federal University of Paraiba.
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