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    Call for papers - America

    Mediating conflicts between groups with different worldviews

    Approaches and methods

    In recent decades, more and more violent conflicts have a religious or cultural dimension and take place between groups adhering to different religious or secular visions of the state and society. When groups with different worldviews are required to share the same (social, political, virtual, economic, or military) space, this can lead to tensions and give rise to violence—ranging from offensive language to physical attacks and open warfare.

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  • Budapest

    Call for papers - Religion

    Resistance to Order and Authority (ROAR)

    CEU/ELTE/Masaryk PhD Conference 2020

    Religion has served to legitimize political power, but it has also been a basis for resistance against order and authority. Be it the Maccabean revolt, Gandhi's practice of non-violence resistance, contemporary neo-pagan religions, or the counter-system movements portrayed by Mark Juergensmeyer in his 2001 book Terror in the Mind of God, religious beliefs have motivated people to reject social order that they deem as unjust, and possibly rise against it. Even in today’s secularized societies, religion has served as the ground for social movements and manifestations addressing pressing socioeconomic threats such as climate change, social inequality, authoritarian governments and minority discrimination. These observations have encouraged new trends in scholarly debate, especially regarding the emergence of alternative religious ideas and rituals in modern societies.  old and new religious convictions legitimized various resistance movements among different communities? Which causes have influenced violent mobilizations against established social order, non-violent struggle, or the establishment of alternative community frameworks? What can these movements and ideas tell us about the role that religion plays today both in secularized and non-secularized societies?

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  • Budapest

    Miscellaneous information - Ethnology, anthropology

    The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence

    Call for Guest-Editors : Volume III, Issue I. 2019

    The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence is looking for a Guest-Editor for its May 2019 issue. Preferred topics are : (1) violence and technology; (2) philosophical perspectives on modern wars; (3) reflections on conflict and violence pertaining to the work of a modern western philosopher. 

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  • Timişoara

    Call for papers - Religion

    Politics and religion and the challenge of digital communication

    22nd Franco-Romanian bilateral conference in CIT sciences

    L’intérêt manifesté des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication pour l’impact actuel des nouvelles technologies numériques dans les domaines individuel et social recouvre un certain nombre de problématiques majeures dont celles concernant le politique et le religieux qui revoient à des bouleversements surprenants non seulement en plan symbolique et fonctionnel, mais aussi en termes de structuration et action sociales. Cette XXIIe édition du colloque international franco-roumain vise à mettre en exergue les mutations induites par les nouvelles formes numériques de communication politique et religieuse comme paradigme de sens de l’actualité médiatisée et de la médiatisation de l’information.

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  • Paris

    Study days - Asia

    The processes of politico-religious assignation in the Syrian conflict

    Cette journée d'étude sera consacrée à la violence des processus d’assignation politico-religieux dans le conflit syrien. L’État syrien, ainsi que différentes factions du camp de l’opposition ont dès le début de la révolte en 2011 entrepris de mobiliser les individus sur la base de leurs identités confessionnelles et/ou ethniques. Observable chez les « minoritaires » alaouites, druzes et chrétiens sommés de soutenir le régime de Bashar al-Assad, cette politique a également des conséquences délétères au sein de la « majorité » sunnite. Ne se cantonnant pas au domaine de la mobilisation politico-militaire, elle s’accompagne de la tentative d’imposer par la contrainte une réforme morale de chaque individu, ainsi qu’une homogénéisation des croyances, des pratiques et des manières d’être « citoyen », « musulman », « alaouite »,  etc.

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  • Paris

    Miscellaneous information - Africa

    Muslims in the Sahel: stories of jihad

    This roundtable aims at confronting the current narratives of the war on terrorism with historical perspectives on past jihad in the Sahel. Case studies include the Mad Mullah in Somaliland, the Mahdi in the Sudan, Rabih in Borno, El Hadj Omar in Senegal and Mali, the Sokoto caliphate in Nigeria and the Macina Empire in Mali. The debate is restricted to uprisings under the banner of Islam and does not cover any war involving Muslims. 

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  • Paris

    Lecture series - Religion

    Les mardis des Bernardins (2014-2015)

    Porter un regard neuf sur de grands thèmes collectifs, penser autrement la place de l’homme dans la société et interpréter les grandes transformations de nos civilisations à la lumière de la sagesse chrétienne, voici quelques-uns des défis qui animent, chaque semaine, les équipes des mardis des Bernardins. Pour départager l’information superficielle des enjeux véritables, pour dégager des perspectives et anticiper l’avenir, ces tables rondes n’ont qu’un seul parti pris : replacer l’homme au centre des enjeux de notre temps.

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