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CALL FOR PAPERS
TWENTY YEARS OR MORE: RESEARCH INTO MINORITY RELIGIONS, NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND "THE NEW SPIRITUALITY"
An International Conference organised by INFORM and CESNUR
at the London School of Economics, 16-19th April 2008
On 1st January 1988, Inform (Information Network Focus on Religious Movements, www.inform.ac) opened its doors to the public for the purpose of providing information that is as objective, reliable and up-to-date as possible about minority religions. Later that same year, CESNUR (the Center for Studies on New Religions, www.cesnur.org) was established by a group of European and North American scholars with the similar aim of contributing to our knowledge and understanding of minority religions.
As part of their twentieth anniversary celebrations, these two organisations are jointly organising this conference in order to assess the changes that have taken place over the past two decades, survey the
current situation, and consider the fate of religious and spiritual groups in an increasingly multi-cultural world.
Those who would like to offer a paper are invited to submit a 200-word abstract of their paper and a 200-word curriculum vitae both to [log in to unmask] and to [log in to unmask] before Friday 30 November 2007. The selection panel will be looking for empirical and theoretical papers which contribute to the scholarly understanding of minority religions and the variety of societal and individual responses to them. Authors of papers that have been accepted will be notified before the end of January 2008.
The conference will begin in the late afternoon of Wednesday 16th April (a field visit will be arranged for those who wish to go on it earlier in the day) and it will officially end on the evening of Saturday 19th (with further visits being arranged for Sunday 20th). Participants will be responsible for arranging their own accommodation (a list of possible places will be placed on the Inform website). Further details about the conference and how to register will be available on both the CESNUR (www.cesnur.org) and the Inform (www.inform.ac) websites.
Unfortunately no scholarship will be available for participants. Each participant, including speakers, will be expected both to pay his or her travel and accommodation expenses, and to register before being included in the final programme
Eileen Barker
Professor Emeritus of Sociology with Special Reference to the Study of Religion
London School of Economics
Houghton St
London WC2A 2AE
England
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7289
Fax: +44 (0) 20 8902 2048
Email: [log in to unmask]
www.Inform.ac
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