Sociological Research and Public Debate, Barcelona, septiembre 5-8 de 2008

First ISA Forum of Sociology
Research Committee on Sociology of Religion from the International Sociological Association
Sociological Research and Public Debate
Barcelona, Spain
September 5-8, 2008

Main theme
Religious Actors and Public Debates

Programme Coordinators

Roberto Blancarte
El Colegio de México
(blancart@colmex.mx)

Olga Odgers
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte
(odgers@colef.mx)

Sessions proposed

Session 1: Secular States, Civil and Religious Freedoms
Organizer: Roberto Blancarte
(blancart@colmex.mx)

Session 2: Migrants, Believers as New Socioreligious Actors
Organizer: Olga Odgers
(odgers@colef.mx)

Session 3: Ethnicity, Religiosity and Beliefs in Contemporary World
Organizer: Daniel Gutierrez
(dgutierrezcolmex@yahoo.fr)

Session 4: Alternative Religious Movements and Public Space
Organizer: Daniel Gutiérrez Martínez
(dgutierrezcolmex@yahoo.fr)

Session 5: Popular Religion and the New Media
Organizer: Adam Possamai
(A.Possamai@uws.edu.au)

Session 6: Religious Conversion
Organizer: Esmeralda Sanchez
(emysacnhez2001@yahoo.com)

Session 7: Religious Publics, Social Capital and Diasporas
Organizer: Afe Adogame
(a.adogame@ed.ac.uk)

Session 8: Transformation of Church-state relations in Europe
Organizer: Siniša Zrinščak,
( sinisa.zrinscak@zg.t-com.hr)

Session 9: Islamism: The Rise of a New Enemy?
Organizer: Riaz Hassan
(riaz.hassan@flinders.edu.au)

Session 10: Religious pluralism in the public debate and in the public area: similarities or tensions?
Organizer: Claude Proeschel
(claude.proeschel@wanadoo.fr)

Session 11: Challenges of the public in old and new forms of popular religion
Organizer: Eloísa Martín
(eloisamartin@hotmail.com)

Session 12: Joint Session RC13 & RC22
Leisure, Religion and Spirituality
Organizer: Ishwar Modi
(iiiss2005modi@yahoo.co.in)

For more information about the sessions, please check at
http://www.isa-sociology.org/barcelona_2008/rc/rc22.htm

For more information about the conference, please check at
http://www.isa-sociology.org/barcelona_2008/

Abstracts (no more than 300 words) with full correspondence address of the presenting author and institutional affiliation of all authors should be sent to Olga Odgers (odgers@colef.mx) and Roberto Blancarte (blancart@colmex.mx), plus the convener of the session most likely to include the paper, no later than January 11, 2008.

Convocatoria enviada por Olga Odgers (El Colegio de la Frontera Norte: odgers@dns.colef.mx )