INFORM Seminar XLIX
CHANGING BELIEFS AND SCHISMS
IN NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS
Wolfson Theatre, New Academic Building,
London School of Economics, Saturday 1 December 2012
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PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
The presence of speakers on an Inform programme does not mean that Inform endorses their position.
The aim of Inform Seminars is to help participants to understand, or at least recognise, different perspectives.
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9.30-9.50 Registration and coffee
9.50-10.00 Welcome and Introduction
10.00-10.25 Eileen Barker (Professor Emeritus, LSE; Chair & Honorary Director, Inform)
“Re-vision and Division in New Religions: Some Introductory Remarks”
10.25-10.50 Claire Borowik (Co-Director of the Worldwide Religious News Service, and member of The Family International)
“The Family International: Rebooting for the Future”
10.50-11.15 J. Gordon Melton (Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Baylor University)
“When Science Intervenes—Revising Claims in the New Age”
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-12.10 Susan Palmer (Lecturer in Religious Studies, Dawson College / Concordia University)
"The Mission of the Holy Spirit: One Hundred Years of Revisions and Schisms in a Quebec NRM"
12.10-12.35 Masoud Banisadr (PhD in chemical engineering and engineering mathematics, and former member of MEK)
“The Metamorphism of MEK (Mujahedin e Khalgh) and its Schism”
12.35-13.00 Mike Mickler (Professor of Church History, Unification Theological Seminary)
"The Post-Sun Myung Moon Unification Church"
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.25 James Tong (Professor of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles)
“The Re-Invented Wheel: Revisioning and Diversification in the Falun Gong, 1992-2012”
14.25-14.50 David V. Barrett, PhD (Freelance Writer)
“The Fragmentation of a Sect: Revisioning Beliefs and Schisms in the Worldwide Church of God"
14.50-15.20 Tea
15.20-15.45 Eugene Gallagher (Rosemary Park Professor of Religious Studies, Connecticut College)
“The Branch Davidians”
15.45-16.10 Massimo Introvigne (Lawyer and Managing Director of CESNUR (Center for Studies on New Religions), Turin)
“Mormon Origins - Revisionism or Re-Interpretation?”
16.10-16.50 Panel Discussion
