AFRICAN NEW RELIGIONS IN THE WEST
Saturday 14 May 2011
9.30am - 5pm
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building, London School of Economics, London
WC2A 2AE
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2011 will cost £48 each (£28 students/unwaged)
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09.30 - 10.00: Registration
10.00 - 10.10: Welcome and Introduction: Professor Eileen Barker (LSE; Chair
& Honorary Director, Inform)
10.10 - 10.35: Dr. Afe Adogame (University of Edinburgh, UK) "The Public
Face of African NRMs in the West"
10.35 - 11.00: Dr. Abel Ugba (University of East London, UK) "Representation
and self-representation of African-led churches in the UK"
11.00 - 11.25: Coffee
11.25 - 11.50: Dr. Bettina E. Schmidt (University of Wales Trinity Saint
David, UK) "The Discourse about 'Africa' in Candomblé communities in Brazil:
How Afro-Brazilian religions create African space"
11.50 - 12.15: Ms. Laura Premack (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, USA) "'The Coca-Cola of Churches Arrives': Nigeria's Redeemed
Christian Church of God in Brazil"
12.15 - 12.50: Group Discussions
12.50 - 13.50: Lunch
13.50 - 14.15: Rev. Israel Oluwole Olofinjana (Crofton Park Baptist Church,
London, UK) "Nigerian Pentecostals in Britain: Towards Prosperity or
Consumerism?"
14.15 - 14.40: Pastor Festus Olatunde (Mountain of Fire and Miracles
Ministries, Edinburgh, UK) "Poverty Alleviation Strategies in the Mountain
of Fire and Miracles Ministries Edinburgh"
14.40 - 15.05: Dr. Rev. John Omolafe (New Covenant Church, London, UK)
"Dynamics of Local Partnership between British churches and African-led
Pentecostal churches in London"
15.05 - 15.30: Rev. Dr. Garnet Paris (University of Birmingham, UK) "The
Myth of Reverse Mission"
15.30 - 15.55: Tea
15.55 - 16.20: Dr. Dominic Pasura (University of Huddersfield, UK)
"Constructing transnational religious identities among Zimbabweans in
Britain"
16.20 - 16.50: Panel Discussion
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