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Nils Hallvard Korsvoll
Stipendiat
Religionsvitenskap
Det Teologiske Menighetsfakultet

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Religion, Values and Society (RVS)

“Religion and Globalization”

Stavanger 10-12 December 2015

Venue: Himmel og Hav, Sola (close to the airport)

 

Program

Thursday 10 December

13.00- 14.00    Arrival and Sandwiches

14.00-16.00     Welcome and information. Lecture followed by discussions.

Tomas Sundnes Drønen: “Mapping the Field – African Pentecostalism as Globalized Religion”

16.00-16.30     Coffee Break

16.30-18.30     Group presentations – PhD students

19.00-20.00     Dinner

 

Friday 11 December

08.00-09.00     Breakfast

9.00-10.45       Lecture followed by discussions

                        Peter Beyer: “Religion and Globalization – Theoretical Approaches”

10.45-11.15     Coffee break

11.15-13.00     Lecture followed by discussions

Peter Beyer: “Religion, Globalization and Migration: Canadian and Western Perspectives"

13.00-15.00     Lunch

15.00-16.30     Lecture followed by discussions

Gina Lende: “Religion, Politics and Globalization – Perspectives from Nigeria and Guatemala”

16.30-17.00     Coffee break

17.00-19.00     Group presentations – PhD students

19.00-20.00     Dinner

 

Saturday 12 December

08.00-09.00     Breakfast

9.00-10.45       Lecture followed by discussions

                        David Herbert: “Media, Migration and Religion”

10.45-11.15     Coffee break

11.15-12.15     Group presentations

12.15-1300      Concluding summary

13.00-14.00     Lunch

 

Lecturers

Peter Beyer is professor of religious studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His work has focused primarily on religion in Canada and on developing sociological theory concerning religion and globalization. His publications include Religion and Globalization (Sage, 1994), Religions in Global Society (Routledge, 2006), and Religion in the Context of Globalization (Routledge 2013). Since 2001 he has been conducting research on religious diversity in Canada. From this research, he is principal author and editor, along with Rubina Ramji, of Growing Up Canadian: Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists (McGill-Queen’s, 2013).

 

Gina Lende has a PhD in History of Religion focusing on the growth of the global Pentecostal movement, with case studies from Nigeria and Guatemala. She has previously worked on politics, religion and conflict resolution at the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), and was the Director of the research and dialogue centre in Nicosia, PRIO Cyprus Centre.  She is currently working as a senior advisor on international affairs at the Council on Ecumenical and International Relations, Church of Norway alongside an academic project on “the politics of the family”, examining contemporary Christian responses to the family.

 

David Herbert is professor of sociology at Kingston University, UK and the University in Agder. His main research interest is topics related to religion, media and global change. Herbert is author of Creating Community Cohesion: religion, media and multiculturalism (Palgrave Macmillan 2013), and co-author of Social media and religious change (Walter de Gruyter 2013).

 

Tomas Sundnes Drønen is professor in global studies and religion at School of Mission and Theology. He has authored and edited many publications on globalization, intercultural communication, and religious change in Africa; including Communication and Conversion in Northern Cameroon (Brill, 2009) and Pentecostalism, Globalisation and Islam in Northern Cameroon (Brill, 2013).

 

 

Cost

Housing, incl. meals, at Himmel og Hav is 1500 NOK per night for a single room, 1300 NOK per person for a double room.

There is no tuition fee.

 

Participation

The course is primarily for doctoral students who are members of The Research School Religion Values Society (RVS), but other PhD students and researchers may also participate.

 

Course requirement

The course gives 3 ECT points. Requirements are a) participation at the lectures and activities at the course and b) handing in an essay after the course (further details will be given during the course). The text should not exceed 2500 words, and be submitted no later than one month after the course. A short written response will be given to the text, and the text is graded approved/not approved.

 

In preparation for the course we expect the participants to familiarize themselves with the course literature of approximately 400 pages, and to write a short (ca. 3 pages) paper relating their own research project to the topic of the course. These will be distributed among the participants a week in advance and form the basis for the discussions in the group sessions.

 

Application and information

Application for participation at the course can be done by e-mail to:

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Reading list

For Peter Beyer’s lecture:

Beyer, Peter. “Multiculturalism and Religious Pluralism in Canada: Intimations of a ‘Post-Westphalian’ Condition,” pp. 33-54 in S. Sikka and L. Beaman, eds., Multiculturalism and Religious Identity: Canada and India. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2014.

Beyer, Peter. “Differential Reconstruction of Religions among Second Generation Immigrant Youth in Canada,” pp. 1-28 in Giuseppe Giordan, ed., Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion, Volume 1: Religion and Youth. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2010.

Beyer, Peter. "Religious Diversity, Institutionalized Religion, and Religion that is not Religion" (forthcoming) [and attached]

Beyer, Peter. “Religion and Globalization,” in George Ritzer, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Globalization. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2007. Pp. 444-460.

Robinson, William I. "Theories of Globalization," in George Ritzer, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Globalization. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2007. Pp. 125-143.

 

For David Herbert’s lecture:

Wong, Diana (2014) “Time, generation and context in narratives of migrant and religious journeys”. Global Networks 14, 3: 306–325

Hollenbach, David (2014) “Religion and Forced Migration,” in The Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. Edited by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, Gil Loescher, Katy Long, and Nando Sigona (Oxford/NY: OUP)

 

For Tomas Sundnes Drønen’s lecture:

Drønen, Tomas Sundnes. Pentecostalism, Globalisation and Islam in Northern Cameroon. Megachurches in the Making?” Leiden: Brill, 2013, pp. 13-68

Meyer, Birgit. "Pentecostalism and Globalization," in Studying Global Pentecostalism. Theories and Methods, ed. Allan Anderson, Michael Bergunder, André Droogers and Cornelius van der Laan, 113-130. Berkely: University of California Press, 2010.

 

For Gina Lende’s lecture:

Mc Alister, Melani. (2014) “US Evangelicals and the Politics of Slave Redemption as Religious Freedom in Sudan”. The South Atlantic Quarterly 113:1.

Lende, Gina. (2015) “Introduction”, in The rise of Pentecostal power. Exploring the politics of Pentecostal growth in Nigeria and Guatemala, PhD thesis MF, pp. 5-20.