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International Academic Conference The Modern State and Religious Dissent 25-26 September, Ekaterinburg, UrFU, Lenina, 51, room 314

25 September 9.00 – 10.00 Registration 10.00 – 10.30 Opening Ceremony 10.30 – 11.30 Keynote Lecture “From Religious Dissenters to Religious Minorities? Developments in the Three Scandinavian Countries”. Lene Kühle, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. 11.30 – 12.00 Coffee Break 12.00 – 13.30 Session 1: Patrick Gnanapragasam, University of Madras, Chennai, India. The Principle of Religious Toleration in ‘Not-so Tolerant’ Modern States: The Indian Case. Valentina Isaeva, Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Science, St Petersburg, Russia. The Conversion of Russians to Buddhism - Religious Tradition or Religious «Dissent»? Andrei Ryazhev, Povolzhsk Orthodox Institute, Tolyatti, Russia. Catherine the Great’s Regulation for Catholics and Protestants 13.30 – 14.30 Lunch 14.30 – 16.00 Session 2: Elena Glavatskaya, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Religious Minorities in the Urban Landscape of Contemporary Russia: The Case of Ekaterinburg. Oksana Ivanova, Hieromonk Arkadii (Loginov), Museum of Sanctity and Profession of Faith, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Spiritual Samizdat in the Urals as Resistance to State Atheism in the Middle of the-20th Century. Elena Stepanova, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. The Protestant Contribution to Rehabilitation Programs in Russia. 16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break 16.30 – 18.00 Session 3: Elena Vorontsova, Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Radicalization and De-radicalization as Strategies of Survival among Various Old Believer Communities. Anna Mikheeva, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. The Liturgical Singing of Viatka Priestless Old Believers as an Essential Constituent of Their Identity. Natalia Litvina, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. Kilinsk Village in the Gornaya Shoria Region in the 1930s-1940s. The Relationship between Priestless Old- Believers-and the State According to Narratives from the Beginning of the 21st Century.

26 September 10.00 – 11.00 Keynote Lecture “Old Belief as a Channel for Orthodox Reform, 1858-1925”. James White. Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 – 13.00 Session 4: Badrinath Rao, Kettering University, Flint, Michigan, USA. Colonizing Faith and Criminalizing Dissent: Religion, State, and the Minorities in India. Basem Atieh, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Peaceful Modes to Secularize Islamic Radicalism. Olga Yakimova, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Factors in Xenophobia towards Ethnic Migrants: A Comparative Analysis 13.00 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 15.30 Session 5: Gunnar Thorvaldsen, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway / Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Who Were the First Dissidents outside the Norwegian State and Church in the 19th Century? Oksana Kuropatkina, Cross-Cultural Relations Center, Moscow, Russia. The Folk High Schools of Nikolaj Grundtvig and the Idea of Sophia as Holy Wisdom. Brian Kjaer Olesen, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Toleration, Fanaticism and Religious Dissent: Ludvig Holberg and the Enlightenment Ethos of Civility. 15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break 16.00 – 17.30 Session 6: Nassef Manabilang Adiong, University of the Philippines, Diliman, The Philippines. Muslim Governance and the Westphalian State System: Muslim Societies in a World of Nation-States. Iulia Borovik, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Commemoration Books as a Source for the History of the 20th-Century Old Believer Family in the Urals/ Alexander Palkin, Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Edinoverie in Contemporary Russia: A Minority within a Majority.