The global study of religious experience

The workshop on the study of religious movements in a global context will be convened January 11 2014 and is part of a collaborative project between the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and DIIS researcher Mona Kanwal Sheikh. The workshop, to be held at the Orfalea Center on the UC Santa Barbara campus, aims to provide platform for exchange of ideas on method and methodology in the study of religious movements in the context of a globalized world. Participants by invitation only.

Schedule

9:00-9:30 Welcome & Introductory Comments
Mark Juergensmeyer (Orfalea Center Director) & Mona K. Sheikh (UCSB/DIIS):
Sociotheology & Epistemic Worldview Analysis 

9:30-11:00 FIRST SESSION
Julie Ingersoll (UNF): Ethics, Worldviews, & Violence
Michael Jerryson (YSU): Perception, Trauma, & Narratives
Margo Kitts (HPU): Persistence and Perversion in Ritual Performance
William M. Sullivan (Wabash College): Exploring Self, World, and Calling

11.00-11:15 COFFEE BREAK

11:15-12:45 SECOND SESSION
John Sobaslai (UCSB): The Early Christian Martyr as Truth-Teller
Sara Kamali (UCSB): Epistemic Worldviews & Counterterrorism
Shawn Landres: Interstitial Religion

12:45-1:45 LUNCH
Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies

1:45-3:15 THIRD SESSION
Richard Madsen (UCSD): Humanistic Buddhism in Taiwan: Fragile Transcendence in a Fragmented World.
Ann Taves (UCSB): How to Study Eyes that See Things that are Not
Wade Clark Roof (UCSB): Religio-Political Ideology

3:15-3:30 COFFEE BREAK

3:30-4:30 CLOSING DISCUSSION