Inform Seminar XL
New Religions and Prophecy
Date: Saturday, 22 November 2008; 9.30am - 4.30pm
Venue: New Theatre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (Online clickable map available at: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/howToGetToLSE.htm.)
Prophecies, even those that have apparently failed, continue to be widely accepted. Believers and sceptics will assess the role of supernatural revelations in contemporary religions.
Speakers will examine subjects including: the roles of prophecy in life within the World of Yaad, Branch Davidians, Twelve Tribes and in Biblical times; whether Christian predictions of the end of the world constitute a tool for analysing a society that lies beyond the control of believers; how the Jehovah's Witnesses' 1914, 1918, 1925 and 1975 dates came to be derived from scripture, and how they have developed over the past 150 years; and how, when the esotericist prophesies, s/he is contributing within a "hylozoic" (all-living) universe.
LIST OF SPEAKERS
PROF EILEEN BARKER PhD OBE FBA, Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics; Chair and Honorary Dirctor, Inform: "Verily, Verily, I say unto You....and it Shall Come to Pass.......": An Introductory Overview of Prophecy and New Religions.
LIVINGSTONE FAGAN, surviving Branch Davidian: "Prophecy and New Religious Movements."
DR GEORGE CHRYSSIDES PhD, Research Fellow in Contemporary Religion, University of Birmingham: "1914 and All That - Jehovah's Witnesses and Biblical Prophecy."
SHEBET, Twelve Tribes Representative: "The Stone and the Sword."
THE REVEREND ANDREW MAGUIRE, Nominee, Free Churches' Group & Inform Governor and Treasurer: "Prophecy - a Perspective from the Early Churches of Christianity."
SUZANNE ROUGH, Head of the DK Foundation School of Astrology: "Remembering the Future."
DR DAMIAN THOMPSON PhD, Author and Leader Writer Daily Telegraph and Catholic Herald: "It's not the End of the World - what Pentecostals Really Think about the End Times."
JACK KREINDLER, ex-member World of Yaad: "Prophecy and the World of Yaad."
Registration
Tickets booked before 15 November 2008 cost £37 each (£15 students/unwaged) and include buffet lunch, morning coffee and afternoon tea. Tickets booked after 15 November 2008 cost £40 each (£20 students/unwaged). To register, email [log in to unmask], phone 020 7955 7677 or complete and post Registration Form at the end of this message.
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Inform Seminar XL
NEW RELIGIONS AND PROPHECY
Saturday, 22 November 2008, 9.30am - 4.30pm
New Theatre, London School of Economics & Political Science
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