RELIGIOLOGIQUES

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Numéro thématique :

« Mutations des croyances et pratiques religieuses migrantes : rejets, retours et réinventions »

Description

À la remorque des trajectoires migratoires des individus, le croire et la pratique religieuse se retrouvent, à leur tour, migrants. Détachées de leurs contextes d’origine, les croyances, les pratiques, les identités, les organisations et les institutions religieuses migrantes se voient interpelées inlassablement par les nouveaux environnements dans lesquelles elles s’inscrivent et par les pratiques sociales et culturelles inédites avec lesquelles elles doivent dorénavant interagir.

La pérennité des formes et des structures du croire et des pratiques religieuses s’en trouve alors ébranlée par un processus de réinscription dans de nouvelles réalités sociale, politique, économique et culturelle, processus qui entraîne d’inéluctables reconfigurations des croyances et des pratiques religieuses individuelles et collectives selon les aléas de leurs diverses expériences de continuité ou de discontinuité, de déracinement ou d’enracinement.

Mais qu’en est-il de ces croire et religieux, patries « portatives » (Bastenier), inscrits dorénavant au cœur d’un processus de recomposition identitaire « ethnoconfessionnelle » (Rousseau ; Castel) ? Ce processus s’opère aux niveaux des croyances, des pratiques, des identités, des représentations, voire des organisations et des institutions, et cela, en fonction des attitudes ou stratégies identitaires (Berry ; Camilleri) déployées par des individus et des communautés déracinées de leurs terreaux d’origine, mais en quête de renouvellement d’unité de sens. Se profilent alors à l’horizon plusieurs modalités de réinscription de cette unité de sens : multiples rejets, retours variés, et réinventions innovatrices (Rouvillois) dont les exemples sont innombrables, notons, pour n’en donner qu’un, l’exemple des nouvelles pratiques « croyantes »

(Hervieu-Léger) des musulmans de deuxième génération en France (Saint-Blancat).

Ce numéro thématique se propose d’explorer, entre autres, les critères, les structures, et les théories de transformation, de mutation, de reconfiguration et de réinvention de croyances et de pratiques religieuses aux prises, d’une part, avec le déplacement, la dislocation, la (re)diasporisation, ou l’errance et, d’autre part, l’implantation, l’insertion, l’intégration ou la réinscription sociale, tout cela dans des contextes de dynamiques d’interactions qu’elles entretiennent avec les nouvelles pratiques sociales et culturelles des environnements dans lesquelles elles se retrouvent. Parmi les pistes possibles mais non exhaustives d’exploration, notons les suivantes :

- Enculturation, acculturation, déculturation du croire migrant

- Déterritorialisation et translocalisation de l’autorité religieuse

- Mutations du religieux, du croire et des appartenances transplantés

- Nouvelles croyances et pratiques religieuses migrantes

- Religion migrante, genre, politique, et éthique (« intersectionalité »)

- Processus de recomposition et stratégies identitaires religieuses

- Nouveaux réseaux transnationaux et construction de sens

- Réinscription dans une « ligné croyante » en contexte minoritaire

Longueur des articles

Les articles devront être de 6,000 à 8,000 mots et soumis en format WORD

(.doc) à l’adresse courriel suivante religiologiques@uqam.ca. Pour les consignes de présentation des textes, voir « Soumission d’articles » sur le site de la revue (https://www.religiologiques.uqam.ca)

Échéances

Les manuscrits devront être soumis pour évaluation, au plus tard, avant la fin du mois de novembre 2013. La version finale des articles retenus devra être acheminée, au plus tard, avant la fin du mois d’avril 2014 (pour publication automne 2014 / printemps 2015).

Pour de plus amples informations, veuillez contacter

Roxanne D. Marcotte

Département de sciences des religions

Université du Québec à Montréal

Courriel : marcotte.roxanne@uqam.ca

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INFORMATION sur la revue RELIGIOLOGIQUES

RELIGIOLOGIQUES est une revue de sciences humaines qui s’intéresse aux

manifestations du sacré dans la culture ainsi qu’au phénomène religieux sous toutes ses formes. Elle s’intéresse également au domaine de l’éthique. Les articles qu’elle publie font l’objet d’une évaluation (à double insu et minimum de deux évaluateurs) des comités de lecture spécialisés, indépendants de son comité de rédaction.

RELIGIOLOGIQUES est la revue phare de la recherche francophone en

sciences des religions en Amérique du Nord publiée de 1990 à 2005, avec ses plus de 31 numéros dont plusieurs disponibles en ligne sur le site de la revue (https://www.religiologiques.uqam.ca).

RELIGIOLOGIQUES s’apprête donc à publier, de nouveau, deux fois l’an

et ainsi poursuivre sa tradition de publication de numéros thématiques, tout comme d’articles hors thèmes (acceptés en tout temps) et de numéros réguliers.

RELIGIOLOGIQUES

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Courriel: religiologiques@uqam.ca

The standing group on ‘Politics and Religion’ of the Italian Political Science Society (SISP) organizes four panels in English at the next annual conference of the association that will be held in Florence (Italy) on 12-14 September 2013.

Conference website: https://www.sisp.it/conference

Deadline: 15 May 2013

To propose a paper, send an abstract of about 200 words to the chairs (see addresses below, for each panel).

LIST OF PANELS:

1) Religious organizations in the local political sphere

Chairs: Xabier Itçaina (x.itcaina@sciencespobordeaux.fr) and Alberta Giorgi (albertagiorgi@ces.uc.pt)

Abstract: The relationships between religion and politics are a topic usually dealt with from a national or international perspective. Nevertheless, the changes in the contemporary political systems, in Europe and abroad, reshaped the hierarchies between the local and the national spheres on a number of policies. Specifically, the processes of devolution and subsidiarization of policies, as well as the cooperation between private and public organizations (especially in the field of social services) under the horizontal governance perspective, increased the importance of local politics. For instance, the local scale is particularly relevant as constituting the arena where public authorities, private actors, religious and secular “third sector” organizations manage – or not - to constitute efficient networks of governance in the welfare field. These local arrangements constitute an implicit form of regulation of public life by religious actors that, in some cases, might not coincide exactly with the sociopolitical preferences of the religious central authorities. In addition, politicized controversies on symbolic issues often take place at the local level –the debates over the localization of mosques in Italy, for example, and, more broadly, the issues dealing with religion in public life. Moreover, grassroots religious organizations and associations have an important and increasing political role – in Italy (movements for public water and against discrimination, renewed engagement of religious associations in politics,…), and abroad (Indignados, Arab Spring…). This panel aims at exploring the political involvement of religious associations and organizations at the local level. Papers’ topics include (but are not limited to): religious associations and political movements, third-sector religious organizations and local policies, interactions between religious and political identities. Papers dealing with empirical cases are more than welcome.

2) Religion in Secular International Contexts: Religious Norm Entrepreneurs and International Institutions

Chair: Gregorio Bettiza (Gregorio.Bettiza@EUI.eu)

Abstract: Over the past decades an exponential growth in religious advocacy and lobbying has occurred towards international institutions that are deeply embedded and anchored to the secular structures of the ‘international liberal order’ (Ikenberry). These institutions range from the United Nations, the European Union, and the International Financial Institutions. This panel theoretically interrogates and empirically investigates the discourses, strategies and mechanisms adopted by transnational religious norm entrepreneurs to advance their concerns within secular international institutions. The panel seeks to address, among others, the some of the following questions. When, under what circumstances, and which religious norm entrepreneurs succeed in their advocacy efforts? Which type of religious norms have, and have had, the greatest chances of being diffused and why? In which ways and how have international institutions changed, if al all, to accommodate religious norm entrepreneurs? What distinguishes international institutions that are more accommodating to the claims of religious actors from those who are less?

3) Religion and democracy in Italy’s ‘second republic’

Chairs: Luca Ozzano (luca.ozzano@unito.it) and Marco Marzano (marco.marzano@unibg.it)

Abstract: Italy is a very interesting case in terms of relation between religion and democracy, both because of the presence in Rome of the Vatican (which has always implied peculiar relations between the Catholic Church and the Italian state) and for the decades-long rule of the Christian Democracy (DC) party. In the latest decades, however, the role of religion in the Italian political system has experienced changes that have been only partially acknowledged by the literature: both as a consequence of wider socio-economic processes, such as secularization and migration flows (which have turned the country from predominantly Catholic to increasingly pluralistic); and as a consequence of the demise, at the beginning of the 1990s, of the old party system (including DC) because of a wide bribery scandal. With the collapse of the party, and the fragmentation of Catholics in left-wing and right-wing factions and parties, a new era seemed to start. To begin with, the Catholic Church started to play a direct role in politics through the so-called ‘cultural project’ of the CEI, the organization of the Italian bishops. On the other hand, new political actors, both from the left and from the right wing of the political spectrum, started to exploit religious and moral issues (albeit with different frames) in order to garner the votes of the Catholic constituency. Several moral issues, from the presence of the crucifix in public offices, to gay unions, have thus become points of contention in the Italian public debate. The panel will take into account these subjects, in order to cast a new light on the role of religion and religious issues in Italian democracy after the beginning of the so-called ‘second republic’. Qualitative as well as quantitative empirical studies are welcome, as well as comparative ones, both written in English and in Italian.

4) Islamism in the Arab world: between elections, street politics and armed struggle

Chairs: Francesco Cavatorta (Francesco.cavatorta@dcu.ie)

Abstract: The Arab Spring has once again led analysts and policy-makers to focus their attention of Islamist movements and parties, which have become the main beneficiaries of the changes of the last two years in the region. However, different groups have responded differently to the new opportunity structures that the Arab Spring opened up. The purpose of this panel is to examine the theoretical and comparative perspectives on the ways in which Islamist groups acted in the wake of the Arab Spring and what explains their specific strategy and choices. How have some movements come to the decision to participate in elections? Conversely how have other movements in a similar setting decide to continue with street protests, refusing to engage with the new institutions being built? What explains the choice of military struggle as in Syria? Was it the inevitable response to regime’s repression or did other factors come into play?

THE WORD AND THE WORLD: PUBLIC THEOLOGY IN AN AGE OF GLOBAL MEDIA

Global Network for Public Theology

Riverside Innovation Centre, University of Chester Sept 2^nd - 6^th, 2013

Plenary Keynotes: Prof. Jolyon Mitchell (Edinburgh)

Prof. Linda Woodhead (Lancaster)

Dr Heidi Campbell (Texas A&M)

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GNPT’s 2013 triennial meeting considers the relationship between the media and global public theology. In particular, the conference will explore the extent to which media, in­formation and communication technologies have become a new, largely autono­mous, ‘public’ sphere with global reach and an increasingly influential (and not necessarily benign) role to play in mediating religious and spiritual concerns and representing religion to a wider public. The con­sultation will explore the ways in which electronic media function as power­ful means by which religious organizations mediate their presence and message into wider society; and some of the ethical and theological dimensions of the production and con­­sumption of media and pop­ular culture.

Topics for the Consultation will include:

·    * How established and emerging forms of media and mass communication shape the ways in

w   which reli­gious organizations and movements communicate with the wider public sphere;

·   * How electronic media shape public perceptions of religious belief, practice and representation;

·   * How mainstream media – news and entertainment - report and represent religious belief, practice and affiliation in pluralist, secularising and multi-cultural societies;

·   * The role of media in impeding or facilitating wider ‘religious literacy’ within societies;

·   * How media technologies are working to reconfigure the very relationship between ‘pri­vate’ and ‘public’, and reshaping our concepts of selfhood, privacy, community;

·   *How new media assist in developing what Birgit Meyer and Annelies Moors term the ‘alternative politics of belonging’ – within or alongside conventional structures of democratic participation

·    *The re-emergence of the idea of ‘the sacred’ as applied to public discourse, especially within fields of pop­ular culture, media and popular spiritualities;

·     * Issues of media ethics: sex and violence, ownership and control, freedom and censor­ship, representation of minorities, commercialism and the use and abuse of information and communications technologies;

·     * How patterns of globalisation affect the theory and practice of communication; how new forms of broad­cast, network and social media affect practices of faith amongst global diasporas.

Short papers will be grouped into the following themes:

1.      Media, Public Life and Public Theology

2.      Globalization and Public Theology

3.      Learning, Teaching and Researching in Public Theology: methods, innovations and case studies

4.      Theological Sources and Resources for Global Public Theology 

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Proposals for short papers are invited on any aspects or themes related to the above. Papers should  be 30 minutes in length with an additional 15-20 minutes discussion.

Applications to submit a paper should include:

·         Proposer’s name, institutional affiliation and contact details (preferably email);

·         Title of the paper;

·         200-word abstract;

·         Details of any audio-visual equipment you will need to deliver your paper.

Applications to be sent to: trs@chester.ac.uk

Irish Women, Religion and the Diaspora: A Symposium

Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool

Saturday 18^th January 2014

The Women on Ireland Research Network invite paper proposals for a symposium on Irish Women, Religion and the Diaspora. This Symposium seeks to understand not only the shifting role that religion has played in the lives of Irish women but the role that Irish women themselves have undertaken in religious institutions and organisations and how this role has changed over time. Although the idea of diaspora assumes a shared experience, Irish migrants were of different social, economic, political and even religious backgrounds.  Their experiences were coloured by their end destinations which included the United Kingdom, North America, Australia and New Zealand, Argentina, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, Chile, Jamaica, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, India and continental Europe.  This symposium aims to tease out the significance of religion to Irish women at home and abroad. 

Within this framework of Irish women, Religion and Diaspora, topics could include, but are not limited to:

· Religious and social networks and the significance of place

· Religion and cultural transfer

· Material culture and Irishness

· Experiences of religion expressed through literature

· Irish women’s religious institutes and diaspora

· Irish lay women and faith-based organisations

· Irish women and global religious dynamics

· Diaspora, place and missions

· National and transnational religious networks

Each paper should be no longer than 20 minutes and 300 word proposals should be send to both Dr Maria Power (m.c.power@liv.ac.uk) and Dr Carmen Mangion (c.mangion@bbk.ac.uk) by 30th June 2013. 

Call for Papers

SCIENTOLOGY IN SCHOLARLY PERSPECTIVE

First International Conference on the Study of Scientology (and Antoinism)

24-25 January 2014

Venue: Faculty of Comparative Studies of Religions (FVG) - Wilrijk

(Antwerpen) Belgium

Sponsor: Observatoire Européen des religions et de la Laïcité (The European Observatory of Religion and Secularism)

Compared with other New Religious Movements, Scientology was largely ignored by religious studies scholars for decades. Following the groundbreaking work of Roy Wallis, The Road to Total Freedom (1976), and Harriet Whitehead, Renunciation and Reformulation (1987), one had to wait more than two decades for the next academic volumes on the Church to appear, Scientology (2009), edited by James R. Lewis, and The Church of Scientology (2011), by Hugh B. Urban. There are now positive signs that more and more researchers are involved in researching issues raised by various aspects of Scientology.

The Observatory thus feels it is time to hold a major international conference to bring this new scholarship to light. We seek to bring together researchers working on Scientology in the fields of theology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, literature, film et cetera, whether established academicians, doctoral students or master’s students. This will be the first academic conference devoted exclusively to Scientology.

The topics listed below are meant to be suggestive rather than exhaustive:

- Doctrinal characteristics

- Healing and therapy

- Sociological status: where does Scientology fits into the typology of religious groups?

- Judicial issues addressing Scientology’s religious status and ex-member lawsuits

- Membership: numbers, growth, sociological profile

- Recruitment, missions

- Organization of the Church and its networks

- Social and political conflict and exposés

- Media coverage

- Human rights and humanitarian programs run by the Church, etc.

The language of the conference will be English.

Organizing Committee: Chris Vonck, Professor of Religious Studies and Dean of the faculty of Comparative Studies of Religion at the University of Antwerp (Belgium); Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, Professor of North American Studies and Director of the Master’s Program in Religious Studies at the Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3 (France); James R. Lewis, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Tromsø (Norway); Regis Dericquebourg, Université de Lille-France, Group on the Sociology of Religion and Secularism-CNRS-Paris (France).

The committee will select papers based on their scholarly quality and non-partisan approach.

Papers will be considered for publication, with editorial details provided during the conference.

Keynote Speakers will be announced at a later date.

Additionally, Information on housing, transportation and tours will be provided later.

Deadline for proposal submissions: 30 September 2013.

Send a 10 line abstract, with a 5 line résumé of your previous work to:

regis.dericquebourg@univ-lille3.fr

[Antoinism - In order to benefit from the meeting of international scholars in Antwerp, the local organizers also plan a workshop on a major therapeutic new religion, Antoinism, which originated in Belgium at the beginning of the 20th century. To submit a proposal for the workshop, follow the same guidelines as set forth above.]

CALL FOR PAPERS

“Nationalism, religion and tradition in the Muslim world”

The 31ST Annual Conference of the

American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies

GEORGIA REGENTS UNIVERSITY

Augusta, GA

April 4-5, 2014

Suggestions for proposals include all of the following:

- The role of religion in the foundation of states (Israel, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia).

- The role of religion in legitimating governance in Muslim majority countries.

-The relationship between religious and national identities in specific Muslim communities (majority and minority).

- Notions of citizenship in Islam.

- Political, economic and social relations within and between the Muslim world and other communities.

- Political, economic, social and philosophical movements within the Muslim world.

- The impact of globalization on the Muslim world.

- The interplay of the religion of Islam with commerce, finance, technology and education.

- Religious minorities in the Muslim world and Muslims as minority groups.

- The press, social networks and communication within the Muslim world.

- Other topics not specifically mentioned.

Please note that Muslim world includes any place where Muslims reside.

Scholars from all disciplines of the humanities and social sciences are encouraged to submit proposals. Please include full name, title, and institutional affiliation with your proposal.

Please email your proposal (max. 250 words) to Robert Hazan at hazanr@msudenver.edu (Professor of Political Science and Chair, Metro State University of Denver)

· Deadline for submission of proposal: January 15, 2014.

· Notification of acceptance of papers: February 10, 2014.

· Participants must submit e-copies of their paper to mbishku@gru.edu by March 15, 2014. Michael B. Bishku (Professor of History, Georgia Regents University)

· Participants must register for the conference at www.acsis.us by March 15, 2014.