NEW RELIGIOSITY IN THE 21^st CENTURY

Eileen BARKER, OBE (London School of Economics), "A New Religiosity or a New Spirituality? What's Out There for the Twenty-first Century?"

Maija KULE (Director, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia), "New Religiosity in the View of Philosophy"

Solveiga KRUMINA-KONKOVA (University of Latvia), "Particularity of New Religiosity in Latvia"

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

11.30-13 SESSION 2 (PLENARY)

NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN THE 21^ST CENTURY

Chair: Nikandrs GILLS

Connie JONES (California Institute for Integral Studies), "What’s New about New Religions?"

J. Gordon MELTON (Institute for the Study of American Religion), "The Post-New Age Spiritual Emergence Movement"

Liselotte FRISK (Högskolan Dalarna), "The Satsang Movement: A Transnational Culture in the 21^st Century"

 

LUNCH

 

14.30-16.30 SESSION 3 (ROOM A)

NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND CONFLICTS IN RUSSIA

Chair: James T. RICHARDSON

Tatiana TOMAEVA (Institute for Religion and Law, Moscow), "Specifics of New Religious Teachings’ Formation in Russia (Analysis of the Doctrinal Evolution within the Last Covenant Church and Other Authentic Russian NRMs)"

Mikhail GUSKOV (Institute for Religion and Law, Moscow), "Notion of "Novelty" and Certain Civic Organizations of Religious Orientation in Russian Mentality"

Anatoly PCHELINTSEV (Director, Institute for Religion and Law, Moscow), " ‘Non-Traditional’ Religions, Their Legal and Social Status in Present-day Russia: Russian Legislation of Religious Freedom — Its Advantages and Contradictions"

Vladimir RYAKHOVSKY (President, Christian Legal Center, Moscow), "Legal Conflicts in the Area of Religious Freedom: Recent Court Cases that Involve Religious Groups — Analysis of Accusations and of Court Decisions"

 

14.30—16 SESSION 4 (ROOM B)

PERSPECTIVES ET CONTROVERSES DES PAYS FRANCOPHONES

Chair : Bernadette RIGAL-CELLARD

Yvon R. THÉROUX (Université du Québec à Montréal/Collège André-Grasset), " Les rescapés de l’an 2000 et la spiritualité transphobique "

Benjamin-Hugo LEBLANC (candidat doctoral, E.P.H.E., Paris), " La perception des ‘sectes’ dans les médias français "

Moussa KHEDIMELLAH (candidat doctoral, E.P.H.E.S.S., Paris), " Jeunes prédicateurs du mouvement Tabligh : la dignité identitaire retrouvée par le puritanisme religieux ? "

 

14.30-16.30 SESSION 5 (ROOM C)

PERSPECTIVES FROM POLAND

Chair: Nikandrs GILLS

J. Edgar BAUER (University of Heidelberg), "Tadeusz Kantor: Kenotic Theatrology and the ‘Reality of the Lowest Rank’"

Leslaw BOROWSKI (University of Lublin), "Freedom and Participant’s Position in Some Neo-Hinduistic NRMs"

Maciej KRZYWOSZ (University of Bialystok), "Why the Raelian Movement is not a Religion According to Poland’s Supreme Administrative Court"

Agnieszka KOSCIANSKA (Doctoral student, University of Warsaw), "Polish Anti-Cult Movements and their Vision of ‘Cults’ and ‘Sects’"

 

16.45—19 SESSION 6 (ROOM A)

NEW RELIGIOSITY IN THE BALTIC AREA

Chair: Solveiga KRUMINA-KONKOVA

Ringo RINGVEE (Department of Religious Affairs, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Republic of Estonia), "New Religious Movements in a Secular Society: The Case of Estonia"

Ruta ZILIUKAITE (Lithuanian Institute of Culture and Arts), "The Issue of Tolerance for Religious Minorities in Post-Communist Lithuanian Society"

Donatas GLODENIS (Ministry of Justice, Republic of Lithuania), "Social Institutions and the Unification Movement in Lithuania: Analysis of a Conflict"

Lea ALTNURME (University of Tartu), "Sacred Stories in Religious Biographies"

 

16.15-19 SESSION 7 (ROOM B)

GNOSTICISM WEST AND EAST

Chair: Connie JONES

Miceal LEDWITH (Maynooth University [em.]), "The Ultimate Challenge for Religion: The Quantum Age"

Joe DISPENZA (Yelms, Washington), "The Human Brain: Where Science and Religion Meet"

Marc GANDONNIÈRE (St. Mars, France), "Swami Premananda’s Movement: New Religion or Traditional Hinduism?" (in French, with English summary)

Clément CONTAN (Lille, France), "Does the Jungian Process of Individuation Allow for Soul’s Transfiguration?"

Sebastien GREGOV (Fontainebleau, France), "From the Second to the Twentieth Century, Being a Gnostic Still Means Being (Self-)Revolutionary: The Experience of the Pistis Sophia"

Sylvain IMBS (Paris, France), "Spagyrists and Spagyrical Treatments: An Alchemist’s Trip to the Europe of 21^st Century"

Jean-Claude PASCAL (Mareil sur Maudre, France), "A Gnostic Reinterpretation of the Dialogue between Eve and the Snake"

 

16.45-18.15 SESSION 8 (ROOM C)

RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSIES EAST AND WEST

Chair: Susan PALMER

Sergei BLAGOV (University of Moscow), "‘One Cannot Defend a Dominion with a Rosary in Hand’: Caodaism’s Armed Forces"

Jean SWANTKO (attorney, Coxsackie, New York), "Anti-Cultists, Social Policy, and the 1984 Island Pond Raid"

 

 

 

9-11 SESSION 9 (PLENARY)

NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS: "OLD" AND "NEW"

Chair: Eileen BARKER

Michael W. HOMER (CESNUR U.S.A., Salt Lake City, Utah), "The Influx of NRMs in Europe After 1848"

James T. RICHARDSON (University of Nevada, Reno), "The Conflict between New and Minority Religions and the Government in France"

Susan PALMER (Dawson College, Montreal), "Quebec Apocalypse: "les sectes", Sovereignty and the New Religious Ferment"

Reender KRANENBORG (Free University of Amsterdam), "Reconciliation and New Religious Movements"

Jeffrey K: HADDEN (University of Virginia) - William Taft STUART (University of Maryland), "A New Strategy of Anti-cultism in America: An Examination of the Maryland Cult Task Force."

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

11.15—13 SESSION 10 (PLENARY)

"FRINGE CATHOLIC" AND POST-CATHOLIC NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS

Chair: Jane WILLIAMS-HOGAN

(11.15-12) SUBSESSION 10.1 — "FRINGE CATHOLIC" MOVEMENTS

Bill SWATOS (Association for the Sociology of Religion/Religious Research Association, Holiday, Florida), "Our Lady of Clearwater: Postmodern Traditionalism"

Bernadette RIGAL-CELLARD (Université Michel de Montaigne, Bordeaux), "Millenarianism in Quebec: Pope Gregory XVII and His Movement"

(12-13) SUBSESSION 10.2 THE CHURCH UNIVERSAL SOUL (CHIESA ANIMA UNIVERSALE)

Massimo INTROVIGNE, with PierLuigi ZOCCATELLI and Veronica ROLDAN (CESNUR), "The Church Universal Soul (Chiesa Anima Universale) in Italy"

 

LUNCH

 

14.30 — 16.20 SESSION 11 (ROOM A)

 

 

14.30 — 16.30 SESSION 12 (ROOM B) (in English and Portuguese)

NEW AGE AND OTHER MOVEMENTS IN BRAZIL

Chair: PierLuigi ZOCCATELLI

Sandra DUARTE de SOUZA (São Paulo), "A Sociological and Theological Approach on Ecological Spirituality in Brazil and its Relation with the New Age Movements"

Leila AMARAL (Federal University of Juiz de Fora), "The Summoning of Happiness: The Relationship between Healing and New Age Spirituality"

Orivaldo P. LOPES, Jr. (Drew University), "Os Limites entre Religião e Ciência"

Deis Elucy SIQUEIRA (University of Brasilia), "Brasília: a construção da ‘Terra prometida’"

Silvia FERNANDES (State University of Rio de Janeiro), "’Ver para creer’: as novas investidas do catolicismo no Brasil atraves do Padre Marcelo Rossi"

 

14.30—16.15 SESSION 13 (ROOM C)

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA AND EASTERN EUROPE

Chair: Boris FALIKOV

Mark SEDGWICK (American University, Cairo), "Russian Traditionalism"

A.M. SALNIKOVA, K.T. SERGADINA and P.G. CHISTYAKOV (graduate students, Russian State University of Humanities, Moscow), "Tolkienism in Russia and Other Countries of CIS"

Barbara POTRATA (Ph. D. candidate, University of Cambridge), "The New Age in Slovenia"

 

16.30-17.45 SESSION 14 (ROOM A)

CHRISTIAN NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS

Chair: Reender KRANENBORG

Stephen HUNT (University of Reading), "The ‘New’ Black Pentecostal Church in Britain"

LITIGATING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN NATIONAL COURTS AND BEFORE THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Chair: Michael W. HOMER

Panelists:

John Warwick MONTGOMERY (European Centre for Law and Justice)

Wil HENDRIKS (attorney, member of the Dutch Bar)

Benjamin W. BULL (European Centre for Law and Justice)

 

 

16.30-19 SESSION 17 (ROOM C)

NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN UKRAINE

Chair: Eileen BARKER

Yevgeny MARTYNYUK (Odessa State University), "The Phenomenon of Nontraditional Religiosity as a Convergence Process in the Second Half of the 20^th Century"

Yelena NIKITCHENKO (Odessa State Law Academy), "The Peculiarities of the Legal Situation of Non-Conventional Religion in Modern Ukraine"

Anatoly KOLODNY (National State University, Kiev), "NRMs in Ukraine in the Context of the Spiritual and Political Transformation of Post-Communist Society"

Lyudmila FILIPOVYCH (National State University, Kiev), "The Main Tendencies of the NRMs and their Changes in Ukraine during the Last Decade of the 20^th Century"

Pavlo PAVLENKO (National State University, Kiev), "NRMs and National Revival in Ukraine"

 

20-22 BANQUET

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

Solveiga KRUMINA-KONKOVA (University of Latvia) and Massimo INTROVIGNE (CESNUR), presiding and introducing

9-11 SESSION 18 (PLENARY)

NEW RELIGIONS IN CULTURAL CONTEXT

Chair: Reender KRANENBORG

Philip JENKINS (Pennsylvania State University), "’The Jesus of the Cults’: How the Esoteric Christ Became the Christ of Scholars"

J. Gordon MELTON (Institute for the Study of American Religion) and Massimo INTROVIGNE (CESNUR), "Tragedy in Uganda: The Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God"

Jane WILLIAMS-HOGAN (Bryn Athyn College of the New Church), "The Swedenborgian Movement in Eastern Europe and Russia: Problems and Prospects"

Nikandrs GILLS (University of Latvia), "Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Social and Cultural Context of Contemporary Latvia"

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

11.15-13 SESSION 19 (PLENARY)

RUSSIAN AND BALTIC PERSPECTIVES

Chair: James T. RICHARDSON

Margit WARBURG and Annika HVITHAMAR (University of Copenhagen), "History Repeating Itself: The Russian Orthodox Perception of History"

Boris FALIKOV (Russian State University of Humanities, Moscow), "Indigenous New Religious Movements in Russia: Do They Really Exist?"

Christina HARRINGTON (The Queen’s University, Belfast), "The Dark Ages as a Golden Age: Revived Paganism in Eastern Europe"

Agita MISANE (University of Latvia), "Pre-Christian Revivalism in Latvia (Introduction to the Field Trip)"

LUNCH

14.30-19.30 FIELD TRIP

PRE-CHRISTIAN REVIVALISM IN LATVIA

We will visit the picturesque town of Sigulda, 52 km from Riga. It is located on the Gauja riverbank in the territory of Gauja National Park. The unique beauty of the vicinity has given it the name of "Switzerland of Latvia". Sigulda was founded by German crusaders in 1207. On the outskirts of Sigulda are the ruins of the 13th century Turaida Castle, and fabled sandstone grottoes on the River Gauja. Below Turaida Castle we will visit Folksong Hill and Dainu Sculpture Park connected with the history of Latvian national folk heritage. There, we will meet with representatives of the "Dievturi" and other groups of pre-Christian revivalism, a growing religious movement in Latvia. Dinner included. Places are limited and pre-registration is strongly recommended.