Events for October 2013

Location: 4030 Université de Montréal, Faculté de théologie et sciences des religions

Time: 11:30am-1:00pm

Title: Gestion de la diversité religieuse en France. Entre le refus des symboles et la reconnaissance des cultes?
 

Sur la base de ses dernières recherches portant sur la gestion du pluralisme religieux et spirituel dans plusieurs domaines publics en contexte français et européen, la chercheure Anne Fornerod se penchera sur les différents défis méthodologiques rencontrés et les pistes de solution trouvées, et nous résumera certains de ses résultats les plus importants.

Anne Fornerod est chargée de recherche au Centre national de la recherche scientifique ...

University of Ottawa, Simard Hall, Room 125

Time: 4pm-5:30pm

Title: Paul, Practical Pluralism, and the Invention of Religious Persecution in Roman Antiquity

Abstract: In antiquity, gods and their humans formed family groups. What we think of as “religion” – relations between heaven and earth, between humans and the divine – thus corresponded closely to ethnicity: Romans worshiped Roman gods, Egyptians worshiped Egyptian gods, Hellenes worshiped Greek gods, Jews worshiped the Jewish god.  People (Jews included) generally found ways to show respect to other gods while maintaining primary allegiance to their own god. The Empire, in brief, accommodated and indeed embraced great ...

The collaborators meeting on the topic of "Religion, Media and Diversity" will be held in Ottawa and will aim to ensure ongoing research networking.

University of Ottawa, Simard Hall, Room 125

Time: 4pm-5:30pm

Title: Four Reasons why Religion has Changed and Will Never be the Same Again

Abstract: Change is inevitable, but since the 1980s it has become inescapable, and its pace has increased. Religion has not been immune: even when it rejects wider social changes, it has to respond. Even the most traditional religions are reshaped by the conditions in which they find themselves. This paper argues that religion has changed dramatically since 1989. It examines the main reasons for this change, and isolates four main ways in which religion has changed ...

The Religion and Diversity Project 2013 Annual Team Meeting on the topic of "A Cultural Divide?" will be bringing together team members, student team members, post-doctoral fellows and selected guests.