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INFORM Seminar XLV - STATE REACTIONS TO NEW RELIGIONS

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David Green <[log in to unmask]>

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Society for The Academic Study of Magic <[log in to unmask]>

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Sun, 10 Oct 2010 22:09:50 +0100

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INFORM Seminar XLV

STATE REACTIONS TO NEW RELIGIONS

Saturday 20 November 2010, 9.30am - 5pm
Room D302, Clement House, London School of Economics, WC2A 2AE
http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/howToGetToLSE.htm
Registration (including buffet lunch, coffee and tea) paid by 1 November 2010 costs £38 each (£20 students/unwaged). NB: Registration received after 1 November 2010 will cost £48 each (£28 students/unwaged).

WE ARE NOW TAKING PAYPAL BOOKINGS: http://www.inform.ac/inform_seminar_payment.htm
Or alternatively post a cheque (made payable to 'Inform') to Inform, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE along with the attached booking form. ([log in to unmask]; 020 7955 7654).

Provisional programme: 
9.30 - 10.00: Registration
10.00 - 10.10: Welcome and Introduction
10.10 - 10.35: Eileen Barker (Professor Emeritus, LSE; Chair and Honorary Director, Inform) "Promote, Protect, Prevent or Pay no heed?"
10.35 - 11.00: Ziya Meral (John Crapa Fellow at the US Commission on International Religious Freedom) "Politics of Religious Minorities in the Muslim-majority States; old challenges and new trends"
11.00 - 11.25: Coffee
11.25 - 11.50: Hervé Machi (Magistrat, Secretary General of MIVILUDES: Interministerial Mission for Monitoring and Combating Sectarian Deviations) "The Situation in France"
11.50 - 12.15: Cole Durham (Professor Brigham Young University) "Legal Overview"
12.15 - 12.50: Group Discussions
12.50 - 13.50: Lunch
13.50 - 14.15: Mike Kropveld (Executive Director, Info-Secte, Canada) "The Situation in Canada and the USA"
14.15 - 14.40: Lori Beaman (Canada Research Chair in the Contextualisation of Religion in a Diverse Canada, University of Ottawa) "Laws of General Application: The Legal Narrowing of Religious Freedom in Canada"
14.40 - 15.05: Ian Reader (Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester) "Japanese State Reactions to New Religious Movements"
15.05 - 15.30: Tea
15.30 - 15.55: Ringo Ringvee (Ministry of the Interior, Estonia) "Reactions to New Religions by the Baltic States"
15.55 - 16.20: Jamie Bartlett (Senior Researcher with Demos) "British Reactions to Radicalisations?"
16.20 - 16.50: Panel Discussion
************************************************************
Also, the LSE Forum on Religion seminars are beginning again in October: 
6 October -- Seminar on Eastern and Western Christianity and secularisation compared
-- Professor David Martin, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, LSE on 'Orthodoxy in the Second World, Pentecostalism in the Two-Thirds World' and Dr. Daphne Halikiopoulou, Department of Government, LSE on 'Patterns of Secularization: Church, State and Nation in Greece and Ireland'
3 November -- Seminar on demographics and the future of religion and of secularism
-- Dr. Eric Kaufmann, Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, on 'Shall the religious Inherit the Earth?'
1 December -- Seminar on social welfare and social representation
-- Dr. Ipek Goecmen, Doctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, on 'The Politics of Religiously Motivated Welfare Provision: The Turkish case in Comparative Perspective' and Rev'd. Stephen Headley, Anthropological Observatory on the Russian Orthodox Church, French National Centre for Scientific Research, on 'The Crisis of Representation: case studies from the United States, Indonesia, and the Russian Federation'
All seminars take place on the first Wednesday of the month within term time, from 5:30-7pm in the Cañada Blanch Room (J116), Cowdray House, Portugal Street, London WC2A 2AE
(Find the 'J' building on this map: http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm)
Call for Papers
PRESENT your RESEARCH in the Forum on Religion Seminar Series:
The Forum on Religion hosts a seminar series for the work in progress on religion: submissions welcome from all disciplines and any geographical foci.
Send an email with your proposed presentation topic to [log in to unmask]
For more information, see http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/religionForum/seminarSeries.htm
For more information on the Forum on Religion, visit www.lse.ac.uk/religionforum
**************************************************************
Also look out for the new International Journal for the Study of New Religions, which has its second volume coming out in November:
http://www.equinoxjournals.com/index.php/IJSNR 
Nova Religio also have a new issue coming out in November: http://www.ucpressjournals.com/journal.asp?j=nr 
ISORECEA's (International Study of Religion in Central and Eastern Europe Association) conference will be in December in Brno: http://www.phil.muni.cz/relig/isorecea2010/ 
ICSA (The International Cultic Studies Association) are holding an event on November 21: "Helping People Affected by Cults: What people are doing in the UK and around the world" (http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_respond/event_conferences_workshops.asp)
******************************************************************
Some dates for next year:
Inform's spring seminar, Saturday 14th May 2011: ''African New Religions in the West' 
CESNUR's (Center for Studies on New religions) next conference will be in June 2011 in Taiwan: http://www.cesnur.org/2011/dan_cfp.htm 
ICSA's (The International Cultic Studies Association) next conference will be in Barcelona in July: http://www.icsahome.com/infoserv_respond/event_callforpapers.asp 

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