8 September 2015

8.30 Coffee (Darwin Suite 1)

9.00-10.30 Plenary Discussion: Joint BASR & TRS-UK Event
The Future of Religious Studies
Chaired by Steven Sutcliffe (BASR President-Elect) and Jolyon Mitchell (TRS-UK) (Darwin Suite 2/3)

10.30-11.00 Coffee (Darwin Suite 1)

11.00-12.30 Panel Sessions 3: 4 Parallel Rooms

PANEL SESSION 3: 11.00-12.30 (Select from 4 sessions)

 3.A. Global Bodies, Sexuality & Religion. Chair: Bettina Scmidt
(Darwin Suite 2: Main Room)

  • Nicole Zaneti (Universidade Católica de Brasília- UCB, Brazil) “Sexuality and Women’s Spirituality: A Study with Tai Chi Chuan”
  • Sarah Harvey (University of Kent) “A Religious Studies Perspective on Natural Childbirth: A Global Ideal Versus An Individual Plan”
  • Richard Amesbury (University of Zurich) “Is the Body Secular? Circumcision, Religious Freedom, and Bodily Integrity”
  • Shaunna Calpin (University of Oxford) “Contemporary Witch Hunt: Making the Unintelligible Intelligible”

3.B. ROUNDTABLE: Religion and Non-religion in London: Class and Power in the Secular City. Chair: TBC
(Darwin Suite 3)

  •  A roundtable discussion on Lois Lee’s Recognizing the Non-religious: Reimagining the Secular (OUP, 2015) and Anna Strhan’s Aliens and Strangers? The Struggle for Coherence in the Everyday Lives of Evangelicals (OUP, 2015)
    • Roundtable discussants:
      Abby Day (University of Kent),
      Mia Lövheim (Uppsala University),
      Dawn Llewellyn (University of Chester),
      Paul-François Tremlett (Open University)

3.C. Global Positions of Yoga. Chair: Richard King
(Darwin Lecture Theatre 1)

  • Suzanne Newcombe (Inform, based at the London School of Economics) “Yoga, Ayurveda and Immorality: The Case of Swami Ramdev”
  • Karen O’Brien-Kop (SOAS, University of London) “An Intertextual Reading of the Pātañjalayogaśāstra: Localized Contexts of Production and Global Challenges of Interpretation”
  •  Theo Wildcroft (University) “Wild Things and Fallen Angels: An Epistemological Struggle in the Evolution of Physical Practice”

3.D. Religion and Economy. Chair: Taylor Weaver
(Darwin Lecture Theatre 2)

  • Beatric Nuti (Pisa, Italy) “Religion and industry: Adriano Olivetti”
  • Pandora Dimanopoulou-Cohen (Sciences Po, Paris) “The Involvement Of The Churches In Economic And Political Relations Between Greece And Germany: The Action Of Bishop Ireneos Galanakis, 1957-1991.”

12.30-13.30 Buffet Lunch (Darwin Suite 1)

13.30-15.00 BASR AGM (Darwin Suite 2/3)

15.00-15.30 Tea (Darwin Suite 1)

15.30-17.00 Panel Sessions 4: 4 Parallel Rooms

PANEL SESSION 4: 15.30-17.00 (Select from 4 sessions)

4.A. Local and Global: Migration, Boundaries and Performance. Chair: Abby Day
(Darwin Suite 2: Main Room)

  • Moojan Momen (Independent) “From Local to Global: An Examination of the Spread of the Baha’i Faith”
  • Anna S. King (University of Winchester) “Crossing Boundaries: The Liberation Spiritualities and Ethics of the Dalai Lama and Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar”
  • Graham Harvey (Open University) “Indigenous Performances in the UK: Ceremony or Entertainment?”

4.B. Pilgrims, Pentecostals and Postcolonial Christians in Africa and Asia: An Ethnographic Exploration
(Conveners: Jonathan Miles-Watson and Sitna Quiroz, University of Durham)Chair: Alan Le Grys 
(Darwin Suite 3)

  • Jonathan Miles-Watson and Sitna Quiroz (University of Durham) “Rupture or Redress?
Processional Ritual, Identity and the Everyday lives of Christians in Africa and Asia”
  • Iracema Dulley (London School of Economics) “Iterations of Christianity:
Catholic and Protestant Missions in the Central Highlands of Angola”
  • Iliyana Angelova (University of Oxford) “Postcolonial Conversions and the Construction of Difference in the Indo-Burma Borderlands: An Ethnographic Study of Identity Formation in Northeast India”
  • Seth Kunin (University of Aberdeen) “Japan’s Kakure Kirishitans:
Mediating Structures and Conflicting Identities at the Nagasaki Matzori”

4.C. The Political Values of Religious Studies
(Convener: Steven Sutcliffe, University of Edinburgh)
Chair: Richard King
(Darwin Lecture Theatre 1)

  • Steven Sutcliffe (University of Edinburgh) “After Smart: from liberalism to the rebel alliance”
  • Paul-François Tremlett (The Open University) “Darwinism makes it possible”: Religion, Progress and the Conquest of Nature
  • Jeremy Carrette (University of Kent) “The Politics of Objects: Commodification, Objectification and Religious Things”

4.D. The Church of Scientology: Doctrine, Practice and Rebellion
Convener: Stephen Gregg (University of Wolverhamption)
Chair: George Chryssides
(Darwin Lecture Theatre 2)

  • Donald A. Westbrook (Fuller Seminary, Pasadena, USA) “Keeping Scientology Working”: Systematic Theology, Orthodoxy, and Heresy in the Church of Scientology
  • Aled J.Ll. Thomas (Open University, UK) “Scientology Beyond the Church: The Practice of Auditing in the Free Zone”
  • Stephen E. Gregg (University of Wolverhampton, UK) “Scientology Inside Out: Complicating Religious Identity in Global Scientologies”

17.30-18.30 Dinner in Rutherford Hall

18.30-19.30 Drinks Reception for the University of Kent 50th Anniversary and Booklet Launch of 50 Years of the Study of Religion (Darwin Suite 1)

19.30 Keynote Address: Professor Peter van der Veer (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, Germany)
“Religion and the City: A Comparative Perspective on Asia and the Rest” (Darwin Suite 2/3)

21.00 Social Time in Origins Bar, Darwin College

 

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