CENTRE FOR MULTIRELIGIOUS STUDIES

Preliminary conference programme

“Cultural Diversity and Religious Pluralism: the possible Dialogue in Europe”
19-20 October 2007,
Link Campus University of Malta, Rome -Italy

Friday 19th October

09:30 Arrivals and Registration

10:00 Opening and welcome
Prof. VINCENZO SCOTTI
President, Link Campus University of Malta
Prof. GIAN MARIA FARA
President, Eurispes
Prof. FRANCESCO FEDI
President, COST – European Cooperation
In the Field of Scientific and Technical Research
Introduction
Prof. Dr. VIGGO MORTENSEN
Director, Centre for Multireligious Studies, University of Aarhus
Coordinator, R.I.P.E. European Research Group
Megatrends & Models
Religious Transformations and innovations in the 21st. Century
Questions

11:30 Coffee break

First session: Papers and discussion

12.00 Prof. Dr. HOCK KLAUS

Universitaet Rostok, Theologische Fakultaet
Religionsgeschichte – Religion und Gesellschaft
Dawn of Religion? Secular Society,
Volunteerism and the Emergence of Religion
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12:30 Prof. TADEUSZ RACHWAL
Warsaw School of Social Psychology
Postmodernity, Religion and the Sublime
13.00 Prof. JORN BORUF
University of Aarhus, Faculty of Theology, Dept. of the Study of Religion
Pluraklism and identities in immigrant religiosity
Discussion

13:30 Lunch (Link Campus)

Second session: Papers and discussion

14:30 Dr.GIUSEPPE MOTTA

University of Bergamo
Dept of Slavistics – Chair of History of Eastern Europe
Religion and Nationalism in Eastern European Political Parties
15.00 Prof. ANDRAS MATHE’-TOTH
University of Szeged, Dept. for Scientific Study of Religion
Functions of Religion in Eastern-Central-Europe
15,30 prof. FEDERICO D’AGOSTINO
University of Rome – Roma III
The problem of religious identity between “critical regionalism” and
global culture in the European and russian context
16.00 Lic. KESTUTIS LIOBIKAS
Former President of the Lithuanian Community in Italy
Kaunas
Identity and integration: the role of religion to preserve a Lithuanian
identity in Italy
Discussion

16.20 Coffee break

16.40 Prof. PETER B. ANDERSEN

University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Islam and Labour Market integration in Denmark
17.10 Prof. Dr. ESER KARAKAS
University of Bahceschir, Istanbul
How to finance the religion service ?
17.40 Dr. YAHYA SERGIO YAHE PALLAVICINI
Vice President, CO.RE.IS – Religious Islamic Community in Italy
Milan
Islam in Europe: intercultural, interreligious and intrareligious dialogue
Discussion
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Saturday 20th October

First session: Papers with discussion

09:30 Prof. MARCO RICCERI

Eurispes, the Secretary General
Link Campus University of Malta
Presentation and summary of written contributions “in absentia”
09.45 Dr. ANNA LEUCHARS
CTR, Lunds University
Lund, Sweden
Striving against social exclusion. New Ways of tackling discrimination
through cooperation among Christian, Muslims and other organizations
10.15 Prof. PETER GUNDELACH
University of Cope - Department of Sociology
Copehagen
Democracy and denomination. Democratic values among ethnic groups
in Denmark
10.45 Prof. CRESCENZO FIORE
Reflexions on the book “Enlightenment and lighting: the occidental
reason and the Buddha teaching” by Giangiorgio Pasqualotto
11.15 Discussion

11.30 Coffee break

11.50 MORGANA
STICHTING Pagan Federation International
Al Zeist, The Netherland
Wicca, a modern nature Religion
12,20 PROF. REKA SZILARDI
University of Szeged, Dept. fro Scientific Study of Religion
Identity-patterns in the Hungarian neopagan movements
12.50 Dr. ANTONIO TRIBUZIO
Rome
Europe opened to the cultural and religious dialogue
12.10 Prof. EMANUELA C. DEL RE.
University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Religious terrorists’ profiling and related issues.
EU Strategies and counter-strategies, between migrations,
prevention and data storing.
Discussion

13:40 Lunch (Link Campus)

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Second session: Papers with discussion

14:40 Dr.NICOLA FERRIGNI

Eurispes, Research Department
I Information, communication: the media world and the interreligious dialogue
15.00 Prof. Dr.Dr. ASJA KOVACEV
University og Ljubliana
The challenge of confrontation with other cultures and religions
15.30 PROF. CARMELINA CHIARA CANTA
University of Roma - Roma III
Cultural and religious pluralism in Europe: a dialogue in the Mediterranean
16.00 Dr. MARCO EMANUELE
Link Campus University of Malta
From the interreligious dialogue to the dialogue on the
complexity
Discussion

16.30 Coffee break

16.40 Annual Meeting of the R.I.P.E.

Programs and Projects
S. NOCENTINI, D. GONZAGA, V. ZANETTI
The Implementation of the RIPE-PROJECT Web Site
Communication and dissemination initiatives

17,40 PROF. VIGGO MORTENSEN

Conclusions of the Conference

18:00 Departures