"Religions in the Indic Civilization"

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International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR)

 

Regional Conference

"Religions in the Indic Civilization"

 

The India International Centre, Delhi, India

18 December - 21 December 2003

 

 

 

The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), in

collaboration with India International Centre, will host a regional

conference of the International Association of the History of Religions

(IAHR) in New Delhi from December 18-21, 2003. Last date for submission

of abstracts: January 31, 2003.

 

The conference aims to encourage rigorous secular studies of religious

traditions in India: Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, Buddhism,

Christianity, Islam and Sikhism, including their various sects and

branches. Furthermore, in order to promote the study of religions in

India as a careful secular discipline, the conference hopes to establish

a process for bringing together, on a regular basis, scholars in India

who are working in the field of religion.

 

Topics might include, but are not limited to:

 

1) studies of traditional religious texts with a special focus on

notions of the common or public good; ideal forms of gender and familiar

relations; theories of justice and political authority; and relations

between deities and mortals, rulers and ruled, or nature and humans;

 

2) the interrelationships among religions theologies, canons,

philosophies, practices, and folk beliefs;

 

3) historical and contemporary studies of growth or decay of syncretic

traditions in religious texts and practices; the role and function of

pilgrimage centres, as well as the management of religious institutions;

and the rise, decline, and renewal of shramanic traditions within Indic

civilisation;

 

4) the politics of conversion in history or in contemporary India; and

the limits of religions authority and the role of dissenters and

outsiders;

 

5) the impact of nationalism on beliefs and practices; Gandhi's

religion; and Hindu-Muslim relations;

 

6) special methodological concerns in the study of Indic religions; and

 

7) the contributions of Indic religions to cosmological speculation in

20th century science.

 

Please see our website for proposal submission, registration, programme,

accommodation, and contact information: www.indicreligions.com

 

Or email: madhukishwar or madhuk

 

Sincerely,

 

Madhu Kishwar, Convenor

Email: madhukishwar

Website: http://www.indicreligions.com

 

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