2006 WORLD CONGRESS OF SOCIOLOGY
Durban, South Africa, 23-29
July 2006
Research Committee on
Sociology of Religion RC22
RELIGION IN EVERYDAY LIFE IN A GLOBALIZED
WORLD
CALL FOR PAPERS
Session 1
The Quality of
Socio-Religious Existence in a Globalizing World.
Chair: Roberto Blancarte (El Colegio de Mexico),
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Session2
Religion and the Question
of Human Security and the Imperative of Peace.
Chair: Thorleif Petterson (Uppsala University, Sweden),
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Session 3
Religion, Culture and
Identity in Africa.
Chair: Tekle Woldemikael (University of Redlands, USA),
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Session 4
African Spirituality.
Chair: Jacob K. Olupona (University of California at Davis, USA),
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Session 5
La religion en Afrique
(session in French).
Chair: T.b.a.
Contact Person: Adam Possamai (University of Western Sydney, Australia),
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Session 6
RC22 Presidential Address:
The Sociology of Religion in the Modern World. Is it up to the Challenge?
Session7
Religion as a Paradigm of
Conflict, Competition and Cooperation.
Chair: Ivan Varga (Queen’s University, Canada),
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Session 8
Religion and Urban
Modernities.
Chair: Grace Davie (University of Exeter, UK), [log in to unmask]
and Lowell Livezey (Harvard Divinity School, USA),
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Session 9
Religion, Healing, Welfare
and Well-Being.
Chair: Alan Black (Edith Cowan University, Australia), [log in to unmask]
and Grace Davie (University of Exeter, UK), [log in to unmask]
Session 10
Migrant Religion and
Identity in a Global World.
Chair: Peter Clarke (Oxford University, UK),
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Session 11
Religion as an Identity
Factor in Extremist and Moderate Minority Groups.
Chair: Martin Geoffroy (Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface, Canada),
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Montréal, Canada), [log in to unmask]
Session 12
Religion in the Light of
Civilizational Analysis.
Chair: Edward Tiryakian (Duke University, USA),
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Session 13
Religion and Post-Colonial
Theories.
Chair: Jim Spickard (University of Redlands, USA),
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Session 14
Religion Disembedding and
Re-embedding. Is Religion Separating out from the
Congregation?
Chair: Kees de Groot (Tilburg University, The Netherlands),
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Session 15
Other Issues in the
Sociology of Religion.
Chair: Adam Possamai (University of Western Sydney, Australia),
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All abstracts should be between 200 and 300 words in length.
- The closing date for abstracts
30
October 2005
Notification
of acceptance
10
December 2005
Abstracts need to be submitted electronically to the chair of the session
in which you want to give a paper. If unsure about the session, please
get in touch with Adam Possamai
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The above list of sessions is tentative since the number of session given
to Research Committees depends on membership. The current RC22 membership
is just below a significant threshold and we urge you to join ISA and
RC22 to secure RC22 sessions at the Congress before April 1, 2005.
Membership form available at
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/memb_i/index.htm.
For more information about the World Congress, please check the Internet
Site:
http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/congress2006/
Programme Co-ordinator
Adam Possamai
School of Applied Social and Human Sciences (Bankstown Campus)
University of Western Sydney
Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC
NSW 1797
Australia
Fax: .. 61-2-9772 6584
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