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
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).
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
Titus Hjelm (Lecturer, UCL) Paradoxes of Religious Legitimacy and Authenticity in an Age of Expediency
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
TBC
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
David Robertson Conspiracy Theories as Response to Uncertainty in Minority Religions
16.10 – 16.50
GENERAL PANEL DISCUSSION
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