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Dear list members,
A conference on Religious Innovation in East
Asia will be held at ANU in November 28-30, 2007.
Kind regards
AABS Executive
Call for Papers: Religious Innovation in
East Asia
International Conference. The Australian National
University, Canberra, Australia. November 28-30, 2007
In the last few decades, the religious scene across East Asia
has changed in fundamental ways. Changes in government
administration, communications technologies, the degree of
urbanisation, levels of education, and increasing wealth have
run parallel to a burgeoning of religious life. These years
have seen a growth in new religious movements, new varieties
of existing religions and new forms of religiosity. They have
also seen an increased public presence and awareness of
religious groups through involvement in mainstream politics,
in opposition to the state, and by violent interventions as
well as simply becoming more visible on the streets, in the
media and on the web.
This conference seeks to explore these changes in China
(including Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau), Japan, South Korea
and Vietnam and amongst their diasporic communities, and the
background to them. Some of the themes on which papers may be
suggested are:
- New religious movements
- New formations of Buddhism, Islam and
other established religions
- Cultivation and self-cultivation,
especially qigong and related activities
- Religious innovation in the diasporas
- Theoretical and methodological issues
related to religious innovation
- Popular religion in contemporary
societies
Major speakers will be invited from China, Japan and South
Korea. Suggestions for papers should be submitted to
Anthony.Garnaut@anu.edu.au by May 31, 2007. Some travel
funding is likely to be available for participants, including
graduate students, from Australia and New Zealand.
Organizing Group: John Jorgensen (Griffith
University), Benjamin Penny (The Australian National
University), Judith Snodgrass (University of Western Sydney),
Philip Taylor (The Australian National University).
We acknowledge support from the East Asia
Forum, ANU
Dr Benjamin Penny
Research Fellow, History of China
Division of Pacific and Asian History
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra, ACT, 0200 Australia
benjamin.penny@anu.edu.au
t: +61 2 6125 6158
f: +61 2 6125 5525
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