The Bergen Workshop

Case Studies from 9 Western European Countries

Papers

Presenters (in alphabetical order):
• Prof. Dr. Lisbeth Mikaelsson (Bergen, Norway)
• Keynote address: Regional approaches to religion - some Norwegian examples
• Prof. Dr. Martin Baumann (Luzern, Switzerland)
• Religious Plurality Invisible and Visible.
• Prof. Dr. Marion Bowman (Milton Keanes, UK)
• Learning from Experience.
• Prof. Dr. Roberto Cipriani (Rome, Italy)
• Religion in Europe.
• Prof. Dr. Francisco Diez de Velasco (Tenerife, Spain)
• Multireligiousity in the Canary Islands.
• Dr. Steffen Dix (Lisbon, Portugal)
• Religious Plurality and Orientation within a Catholic Tradition.
• Dr. Marianne Fibiger (Århus, Danmark)
• The Danish Pluralism Project.
• Prof. Dr. Kim Knott (Leeds, UK)
• From locality to location and back again.
• Prof. Dr. Volkhard Krech (Bochum, Germany)
• What are the Impacts of Religious Diversity?
• Dr. Toumas Martikainen (Åbo/Turku, Finland)
• Religious Diversity Beyond the Cosmopolis.
• Prof. Dr. Pål Repstad (Kristiansand, Norway)
• A softer God and a more positive anthropology in Agder.

Information

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• RELIGION: Guide for authors
• Upload files for publication (download papers and audio)
• Gallery

Links

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• Center for Multireligiøse Studier
• Diaspora: Religions in a Globalising World
• Religionsvielfalt im Kanton Luzern
• Religion in der Schweiz/Religions en Suisse
• NCSR 2008

Program

Location
• Seminarrom 5, Dragefjellet, Map (Magnus Lagabøtes plass, nr. 1)

Tuesday, 26th
• 1900 : Welcome Party

Wednesday, 27th
• 0900-0915: Stausberg: Welcome
• 0915-1015: Mikaelsson: Keynote address "Regional approaches to religion - some Norwegian examples" and discussion
• 1025-1125: Knott: From locality to location and back again.
• 1140-1240: Diez de Velasco: Multireligiousity in the Canary Islands.
• 1240-1400: Lunch
• 1415-1515: Martikainen: Religious Diversity Beyond the Cosmopolis.
• 1530-1630: Baumann: Religious Plurality Invisible and Visible.
• 1645-1745: Dix: Religious Plurality and Orientation within a Catholic Tradition.
• 1745-1900: Relax
• 1900- : Dinner

Thursday, 28th
• 0915-1015: Repstad: A softer God and a more positive anthropology in Agder.
• 1030-1100: Krech: What are the Impacts of Religious Diversity?
• 1115-1245: Fibiger: The Danish Pluralism Project.
• 1315-1400: Lunch
• 1400-1900: Excursion: "The Sacred Sights and Sites of Bergen"
• 1900- : Dinner

Friday, 29th
• 0915-1015: Bowman: Learning from Experience.
• 1030-1130: Cipriani: Religion in Europe.
• 1145-1245: Final discussion, round up, publication session
• 1300- : Lunch