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Provisional Programme for Inform Anniversary Conference ‘Minority : Contemplating the Past and Anticipating the Future’ Friday 31 January – Sunday 2 February 2014

Friday 31 January 2014 15.00 Registration 15.30 Tour of the LSE Campus 16.30 Talk about the LSE by Simeon Underwood, Acad emic Registrar and Director of Academic Services 17.30 Welcome and Plenary Panel A : a Word from our “Stakeholders” 19.30 Launch of the Ashgate -Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements and Reception with refreshments (provided)

Saturday 1 February 2014 9.00 Registration 9.30 – 11.15 Plenary Panel B : Members or Former Members of New Religious Movements 11.15 – 11.40 tea/coffee 11.40 – 13.25 Parallel Session 1A Parallel Session 1 B Parallel Session 1 C 13.25 – 14.15 lunch (provided) 14.15 – 16.00 Parallel Session 2A Parallel Session 2 B Parallel Session 2 C Parallel Session 2 D Pa rallel Session 2 E 16.00 – 16.30 tea/coffee 16.30 – 18.15 Parallel Session 3A Parallel Session 3B Parallel Session 3 C Parallel Session 3D Parallel Session 3E 18.15 End of day 19.00 Inform Anniversary Dinner at Dicken’s Inn, St Katharine Dock . Cost of dinner is not included in the registration fee.

Sunday 2 February 2014 9.00 Registration 9.30 – 11.1 5 Parallel Session 4 A Parallel Session 4 B Parallel Session 4 C Parallel Session 4 D Parallel Session 4 E 11.1 5 – 11.40 tea/coffee 11.40 – 13.2 5 Parallel Session 5 A Parallel Session 5 B Parallel Session 5 C Parallel Session 5 D Parallel Session 5 E 13.25 – 14.15 lunch (provided) 14.15 – 16. 15 Plenary Panel C: a Word from the “Cultwatchers” 16. 15 Conference ends

Plenary Panel Session Speakers The Right Reverend Graham James, Lord Bishop of Norwich Dr Damian Thompson, Editor of Telegraph Blogs and a Director of the Catholic Herald Plenary Panel A: a Word from our Warwick Hawkins , Head of Communities Engagement , Integration Division, Department for “Stakeholders” Communities and Local Government Friday 31 January Nick Parke, former police officer 17.30 – 19.30 Philip Katz QC, Barrister Professor Conor Gearty, Professor of Human Rights Law, LSE

Richard Barlow, former member of the Plenary Panel B: Members or Former Members of New Religious Movements Abi Freeman, formerly a spokesperson and member of (TFI) Saturday 1 February Gauri das, executive secretary of ISKCON 9.30 – 11.15 Terrill Park, Freezone Dr of the International Cultic Studies Association Professor Gordon Melton of the Institute for the Study of American Plenary Panel C: a Word from the “Cultwatchers” Professor Eileen Barker of Inform Sunday 2 February Mike Kropveld of Info-Secte 14.15 – 16.15 Professor James T. Richardson of University of Nevada, Reno Dr Massimo Introvigne of CESNUR

Parallel Sessions Speaker(s) Title of Paper

Milda Ališauskienė Religious minorities in Lithuania: contemplating the present

Brigitte Knobel and Camille Gonzales Mapping of religious minorities in Geneva 1A Mapping Minorities Saturday 1 February Ringo Ringvee What do the censuses tell about minority religions? Some reflections 11.40 – 13.25 Changes in the field of new religions in the mirror of secular law - the Christiane Königsted example of the French legal practices

George D. Chryssides and ‘The Silent Majority’? beyond insider / outsider categories and Stephen E. Gregg understanding ‘apostate testimony’ in the future study of new religions 1B The Academic Study of NRMs Over Time Timothy Miller Are the wars over, and if so, who won? Saturday 1 February 11.40 – 13.25 Martyn Percy Church, and cult: a new look at some old categories Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi Why study NRMs? Amanda van Eck In good faith? Sarah Harvey Ayahusaca in limbo, the UK situation

1C Cult Reputations What are new religious movements good for? African Christianities and Saturday 1 February Afe Adogame the building of social and religious capital in Europe 11.40 – 13.25

'The Wall Between Us': American Sexual Exceptionalism and Minority Megan Goodwin Religions Different religion – different childhood: a comparison between the Osho Liselotte Frisk Movement and Jehovah´s Witnesses

2A Children in Sacred homeland, glorious ancestors and old-time language. Ethnic New Religious Movements Paulina Niechcial elements in the identity of the Zoroastrian religious minority in modern Saturday 1 February Tehran 14.15 – 16.00 Sanja Nilsson Schooling Krishna’s Swedish grandchildren Accelerated Christian Education: enforcing orthodoxy through loaded Jonny Scaramanga language

Vasudev Das Sex and leadership crisis: Vaisnava Vedantic approach Christian Scientists - pioneers or has-beens? A review of research on how Robin Harragin and Shirley Paulson migrated across the Atlantic at the end of the 2B Insider Perspectives I nineteenth century with views on its future Saturday 1 February 14.15 – 16.00 Eric Roux Scientology: from controversy to global expansion and recognition

Religion, social change and responding to persecution – the case of the Kishan Manocha Baha’i community in Iran

Linda Dubrow-Marshall, Rod Dubrow- Evolving to enhance efficacy: the RETIRN model of intervening in cult- Marshall and Steve K.D. Eichel related cases 2C Therapeutic Considerations The Love of community - reflections on membership of and recovery Gillie Jenkinson Saturday 1 February from an abusive -based NRM or cult 14.15 – 16.00 Enlightened or insane? The dilemmas and unique insights of having a Silke Steidinger sociologist hat and a psychotherapist hat Wendy Dossett Secularisation and the past, present and future of alcoholics anonymous

2D Spiritual Spaces Erin F. Johnston Anticipating the future: the growth of practice-oriented Saturday 1 February 14.15 – 16.00 Suzanne Newcombe The democratization of yoga in Britain

Yvette Taylor and Emily Falconer Queer religious youth: informal spaces of

David V Barrett Coping strategies for failed

2E The End of Time? Eugene V. Gallagher A guaranteed future for new religions Saturday 1 February Roland Littlewood The end of a religion 14.15 – 16.00 Faith, Nation and Destiny: apocalyptic themes in extreme nationalist Andrew Fergus Wilson discourse

Freedom of religion and the protection of religious minorities: has the Stephanie Eleanor Berry European Court of Human Rights lost its way?

Protecting Human and Minority rights in the era of global governance – 3A Legal Considerations Sadia Mir examining the methods and acknowledging the challenges, for a way Saturday 1 February forward 16.30 – 18.15 Religious freedom implications of recent Hungarian legislation: a case Jura Nanuk study of Hungarian evangelical fellowship and Jai Bhim Buddhist community Reengineering the basis of the community in a : François Xavier Baudiun how the internet and the concept of network has given to the Raelian movement a new breath 3B Minority Religions Mormons and the media. A historical analysis of a media history and the and New Media James D. Holt contextual framework for “I’m a Mormon” Saturday 1 February 16.30 – 18.15 Japanese ‘new religions’ and the media: dynamic and changes since the Erica Baffelli 1980s

Beth Singler No leader, no followers: the internet and the end of charisma?

Non-negotiable beliefs: making a useful distinction between the ‘sacred’ Matthew Francis and ‘religion’ Race, religion and conflict? Past practices the key to the future for 3C Minority Religions and Laurens de Rooji Conflict in the UK and Muslims in Britain Saturday 1 February Mistaken identity: facing the negative rebound of Islamism in a post 9/11 16.30 – 18.15 Hardeep Singh age in Britain - testimony and doubt Douglas J. Davies

Pavol Kosnáč Pop culture-based religions: Can it actually work? Game of Thrones: a good starting point for creating a new religious Cyriaque Benoist 3D Subversive Seekers movement? Saturday 1 February 16.30 – 18.15 Piera Talin Building sustainability in Santo Daime Ecovillage

Beneath the Underground: The Dissemination of The Church of The Christian Greer SubGenius Through the Marginal Press Norman Bonney The attitude of the UK state towards minority religions

3E Minority Religions J. Eugene Clay Religious liberty in Russia after 1997 and the State I In sharp relief: the study of new religious movements and radicalization in Saturday 1 February Jeff Gary 16.30 – 18.15 the UK

Titus Hjelm Paradoxes of religious legitimacy and authenticity in an age of expediency

Sarah Harvey, Suzanne Newcombe and New , changing contexts – how we make sense of it all Amanda van Eck 4A Inform: Anticipating the Future The changing scene: What might happen and what might be less likely to Sunday 2 February Eileen Barker 9.30 – 11.15 happen? Nick Parke Inform: Anticipating the future – the Director’s cut

Divine intervention?: the role of third-party religious actors in the Luisa Gandolfo Palestine-Israel conflict ISKCON – two decades in two (different) environments – Serbia and Danijela Milićević Croatia 4B Geographical Perspectives Sunday 2 February Religious minorities in democratic Spain: rekindle with the past and part Claude Proeschel 9.30 – 11.15 of the future

The Bektashi-Alevi Continuum from the Balkans to Iran: Sufi Minorities Stephen Schwartz and Politics Info: the use of internet technologies to promote John Allan remedial reform and constructive developments within minority religions

4C Insider Perspectives II The Role and Future of a Korean new religious movement: The Victory Han Gang-Hyen and Kim Young Suk Sunday 2 February Altar and the development of neo-humans 9.30 – 11.15 Religion and social justice: learning from the past, looking to the future. Shruti Kulkarni A Vedic perspective

Moojan Momen Change and development in the Baha'i Faith

The evolution of the status of Islam in Germany: what implications for the Sylvie Toscer-Angot future? 4D Minority Religions and the State II Communication breakdown: MOVE, the U.S. Court System, and critical Anthony Fiscella Sunday 2 February religion theory 9.30 – 11.15 New religious responses to police raids and state “persecution”: Susan Palmer collective memories, theological innovation and social reorganization Guillaume Roucoux Four generations of scholars researching les dites "sectes" in France

From Japanese Buddhist sect to global citizenship: past and Anne Mette Fisker-Nielson future Claire Borowik From radical communalism to virtual community: The Family 4E New Religious Movements International Over Time Sunday 2 February Coming In From The Cold: the use of faith -based social care and action as 9.30 – 11.15 John-Paul King a means of building social, symbolic capital and community integration for a once marginalised Christian NRM. Donald Westbrook Invitation to future research on the George D. Chryssides From deviance to devotion: the evolution of NRM studies

5A New Religious Movements: Steven Sutcliffe Scholarship on seekership: explaining traffic in and out of (new) religions Surveying the Literature Classical comments: treacherous new rites: writing on NRMS in the Sunday 2 February Margaret Z. Wilkins 11.40 – 13.25 ancient world Writing and researching on new religious movements: A view from the Benjamin E. Zeller American Academy

András Máté-Tóth and Gábor Dániel Empirical research among the membership of , Nagy Hungary and Switzerland

5B New Religious Movements and Ruth Bradby Worldwide but barely a minority: A Course in Miracles their Public Image Spiritual movements in times of crisis: an anthropological account of Sunday 2 February Eugenia Roussou 11.40 – 13.25 esotericism in Portugal and Greece.

A Neo-orthodox Buddhist Movement in Transition: the late-charismatic B Scherer status quo and the post-charismatic perspectives of the Diamond Way

Adam Anczyk Neopaganism in Poland from the 1990s till the Present

Is there a future for Neopaganism in the Holy Land? Past and present in 5C Shai Feraro the shaping of a community-building discourse among Israeli Pagans, Sunday 2 February 1998-2013 11.40 – 13.25 Paganism – from occult anomaly to Britain’s largest New Religious Melissa Harrington Movement in 50 years; contemplating the past, and anticipating the future Alessandro Amicarelli Islam in America: The Moorish Science Temple of America

Negotiating the generational and gender barrier in Louis Farrakhan’s Dawn-Marie Gibson 5D Negotiating Religious Identity Sunday 2 February You Can't Smash the Internet: Historical Analysis of the LDS's Efforts to 11.40 – 13.25 Jessica Finnigan Shape Technology, and how the Internet has Changed the Rules of the Game

Adviya Khan Black, female, Muslim and a Hip-Hop artist- a case study of conversion

Dinka Marinović Jerolimov, Ankica Is there emergence of anti-cult movement in Croatia? Marinović and Branko Ančić

5E Anti-Cult Movement Reactions Adam Klin-Oron and Rachel Cult, anti-cult and academia in Israel: ruminations on the past, reflections Sunday 2 February Werczberger on the future 11.40 – 13.25 Essi Mäkelä Religion and law meets new religiosity

Sebastian Năstuţă Anticipating the future evolution of Jehovah’s Witness in Europe