Religions in the Public Spheres

International Conference „Religions in the Public Spheres” Poznan 24-26 June 2010 Main conference venue: Poznan, Mielżynskiego Street No 27/29. Accomodation: University Hotel, “Jowita” Poznan 60-813, Zwierzyniecka Street No 7, tel. +48 (0)61 866 12 77

Program of Events

Thursday 24 June 2010

9,00- 10,15 Opening Session 9,00-9,15 Opening Ceremony

Moderator: Tadeusz Buksinski

9,15-10,15 Wilhelm Schmidt- Biggemann ( Free University of Berlin): How Political Theology brought Religion back into the Public Sphere

10,15-10,30; Coffee Break

10,30-11,00: John Farina ( George Mason University, Washington), Arguments for Religion in Contemporary Civil Society

11,00- 11,30: Tomka Miklos ( Catholic University in Budapest), Religiosity as motivation for social commitment

11,30-11,45 Coffee Break

11,45 – 12,15: Maciej Ziemba (European Centre of Solidarity, Gdansk) Seven Theses on Religion, Democracy and Open Society

12,15-12,45; Evanggelos Moutsopoulos ( Academy of Athens), Artistic Creativity: An Immanent Value reflecting Transcendence

13,00. 14-30 Lunch

Moderator: Edward Alan

15,00 – 15,30: Tadeusz Buksinski ( Adam Mickiewicz University), The Legal and Social Status of Churches in the Monoreligious Countries

15,30- 16,00: Sergey Nizhnikov (Peoples Friendship University of Russia, Moscow), The Problem of the Status of Religion in Russian Society Today

1 16,00- 16,15; Coffee Break

16,15- 16,45; Mihaela Pop ( University of Bucharest), Religious Art and its deviated forms during the transition from the communist regime in Romania

16,45-17,15; Gennadii Korzhov, (Makeyevka Institute of Economics and Humanities, Donetsk), Normative Legitimization of Religious Values : On the Specificity of Religious Life in Ukraine

17,30-18,00; Yaroslav Pasko ( State University, Donetsk), Religious and Secular Values: Pre-modern and Modern Dimensions

18,00-18,30: Xiao Li ((Sun Yat-sen University, Adam Mickiewicz University), On the Significance of Christians to the Construction of Chinese Public Sphere

19,00 Dinner

Friday 25 June 2010

Moderator: Tomka Miklos

9,00- 9,30; Manuel Jimenez-Redondo (State University,Valencia) Religion and public sphere; Remarks on the Discussions Habermas-Ratzinger

9,30-10,00 ; Andrew Cummings ( Mount Angel Seminary, Oregon), Religions in the Public Spheres. Remarks on Habermas’ View

10,00- 10,30; Janis Ozolins ( Australian Catholic University), Religious and Moral Values in a Consumer Society- A Christian Perspective

10,30-10,45 Coffee Break

10, 45- 11,15: Jan Hartmann, (Jagiellonian University, Krakow), Religiosity vs Modernity

11,15- 11,45; Piotr Juchacz, ( Adam Mickiewicz University), National and Transnational Public Spheres and their Content

11,45-12,15; Joachim Heil ( Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz), Religious Phenomena in Pop-Culture and the Question of Personal Commitment

2 12,15- 12.30; Coffee Break

12,30-13,00: Urlich Steinworth (Bilkent University Ankara, University of Hamburg), The Conception of God in Modern Cosmology and the Society of Religion

13,00- 13, 30; Valery Goryunov ( St Petersburg State Polytechnic University) Religions and Science: overcoming alternatives

13,30-14,30; Lunch

Moderator: Piotr Juchacz

15,00-15,30; Edward Alan ( Notre Dame University Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon), Religion in the Public Sphere: What the World can still learn from Lebanon

15,30- 16,00; Paulo Conceicao Faria ( University of Kent at Canterbury), Pope Benedict XVI’s Visit and Revival of the Angolan Public Sphere

16,30- 17,00; Yuriy Pochta ( Peoples Friendship University of Russia, Moscow); Muslims between Liberalism and Fundamentalism: Problem of Islamic Civil Society

17,00 – 17,30; Azhar Ibrahim ( National University of Singapore), Malay-Muslim Religious Discourse in Singapore: The Assertions of Religious Elites and Activists in Public Sphere

17,30-18,00; Mohammed Maarouf (Chouaib Doukkali Univ. El Jadida Morocco), From Fundamentalism to Islamism: Models of Cultural Resistance in Morocco

18,30- Dinner

Saturday 26 June 2010

Moderator: John Farina

9,00-9,30; Wilhelm Graeb ( Humboldt University, Berlin), Each Person a Special Case . Transformation of Religion in Modern Societies

9,30-10,00; Erwin Bader ( University of Vienna), Die Seligpreisungen. Ihre Reform der praktischen Vernunft konnte die Krise der Sekularen Gesellschaft uberwinden

10,00-10,30; Tomasz Raburski (Adam Mickiewicz University), Secularizing Effects of Legal Systems in Liberal Democracies

10,30-11,00; Bart Labushagne (Universiteit Leiden), Towards a new relationship: private, public and sacred

11,00 -11,15: Coffee Break

Moderator: Gennadii Korzhov

11,15-11,45; Edwin George ( University of Madras), Indian Polity and Implications of Indian Democratic Secular Attitude

11,45-12,15; Bommireddipali Bhanusree ( Andhra University Visakhapatnam), Attainment of Harmony in Human Life: A Paradigm of the Religious Life in Dayalbagh

12,15- 12,45; Seema Bose (University of Delhi), Religions in the Public Sphere; Some Considerations in the Indian Context

13,00- 13,30; David Xinsheng Wang (Fudan University, Shanghai), Outline of Some Observations and Reflections on the Religions in China Today

13,30- 14,00; Hu Yeping ( CRVP, Washington), Asian Wisdom

14,00 – 14,30; Michal Katafiasz ( Buddhist Community, Poznan) The Spiritual Identity in the Public Life

14,30-15,00 Closing Meeting

15,00- 15,45; Lunch

16.00--17,30, Guided Tour around Poznan Old Town

18,00 Dinner