Inform Winter Seminar
Innovation, Violence and Paralysis: How do Minority Religions Cope with Uncertainty?
Date - Saturday, 7 February 2015; 9.30am – 5.00pm
Location – New Academic Building, London School of Economics
Location – New Academic Building, London School of Economics
What
happens when groups lose control of their own destiny? Whether it leads
to violence, as in the case of Aum Shinrikyo’s response to a potential
police investigation in 1995, or to non-violent
innovations, as found in minority religions following the death of
their founders or leaders, uncertainty and insecurity can lead to great
change in the mission and even teachings of religious groups. What does
it take to bring back certainty? This seminar
will explore how minority religions and their members work with notions
of uncertainty and insecurity.
9.30 - 10.00 REGISTRATION
10.00 - 10.05 Eileen Barker (Founder and Honorary Research Fellow, Inform)
Welcome and Housekeeping
10.05 - 10.15 Kim Knott (Professor of Religious and Secular Studies in the Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion at Lancaster University)
Introduction
10.15 - 10.45 Graham Macklin
10.45 – 11.15 TBC
11.15 – 11.40 TEA/COFFEE
11.40 – 12.10 Suzanne Newcombe (Research Officer at Inform)
Certain Beliefs and Uncertain Evidence: The Case of Shugden
12.10 – 12.40 Lois Kendall
12.40 - 13.10 Dawn Marie Gibson (Lecturer, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Uncertain times in the Nation of Islam’s Past and Present
13.10 - 14.10 LUNCH
14.10 - 14.40 George Sieg (Adjunct Professor, University of New Mexico)
14.40 - 15.10 Anthony Fiscella (Doctoral Student, Lund University)
Moving Mountains: From Colonial Orders to Universal Change
15.10 - 15.40 TEA/COFFEE
15.40 – 16.10 TBC
16.10 – 16.50 GENERAL PANEL DISCUSSION
Registration is now open and can be done using a credit/debit card through PayPal or by posting a booking
form and a cheque payable to 'Inform' to Inform, Houghton
St., London WC2A 2AE. Tickets (including buffet lunch, coffee and tea)
paid by 19 January 2015 are
£38 each (£18 students/unwaged). Tickets booked after 19 January 2015 will cost £48 each (£28 students/unwaged).
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