CHILDREN AND RELIGION
COPENHAGEN COLLOQUIUM 18-19 May 2011
Convenors: Sally Anderson and Christian Højbjerg
Department of Education and MindLab Aarhus University
The study of children and religion is currently on the rise. This is in part due to renewed interest in cognitive and relational approaches to religious learning and transmission, which enlist the help of children as experimental informants, or study children as participants in real-life religious rituals. This is also partly due to renewed controversy among governments, religious communities, educators and other stakeholders over the place of religion, faith-based identities and affiliations in children’s lives. Present scholarship on children and religion is thus not only scattered widely across disciplines and departments, it is also divergently focused on questions of cognition and spirituality and the cultural politics of morality, education, identity, affiliation and rights.
The purpose of this colloquium is to bring together international scholars to engage in a common discussion about the ‘relationship’ between children and religion and the ways in which scholars study this relationship. Which understandings of ‘children’ are informing contemporary studies of religion, spirituality and cognition – and which understandings of ‘religion’ are informing contemporary studies of children and youth in diverse settings?
Invited speakers:
Christina Toren, Professor of Anthropology, St. Andrews University
Marcia J. Bunge, Professor of Humanities and Theology, Valparaiso University
Armin W. Geertz, Professor in the History of Religion, MindLab, Aarhus University
Michael Allen, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Sydney
Cristina Legare, Assistant Professor Psychology, Cognition, Culture and Development Lab, University of Texas-Austin
Deadline for Registration: 5 May 2011; please register at: or http://www.dpu.dk/aktuelt/kalender/arrangement/artikel/copenhagen_colloquium_children_and_religion/; http://www.mindlab.au.dk/menu82-en or Nete Vang: [log in to unmask]
Conference fee: DKK 300
Venue: Arhus University Campus in Copenhagen, Danish School of Education, Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen NV.
Venlig hilsen/ Best wishes,
Sally Anders on and Christian Kordt Højbjerg
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