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Schedule
When
sending your registration please indicate your preference for the Saturday
morning and Saturday afternoon seminar sessions - attendance at these
seminars will be limited -- please indicate both a first choice and a
second choice for both morning and afternoon seminars.
There
will be a conference dinner on Friday evening at 7:30 at a great Italian
restaurant in downtown Santa Barbara. Vegetarians will be accommodated.
If you wish to come to the dinner, another $25 will be required.
| Friday,
February 23, 2001 |
Arnoldi's
Restaurant |
| 7:30pm |
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| Conference
Dinner: |
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Dinner
will cost $25 and participants should include this amount over
and above their registration if they wish to attend. |
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| Saturday,
February 24, 2001 |
McCune
Conference Room |
| 9:00am
- 10:30am |
IHC,
Humanities & Social Sciences Building |
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| Sacralizing
the Profane: |
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| Simonetta
Falasca-Zamponi |
Department
of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara |
"Politics
as Sacred: The College de Sociologie" |
| Thomas
Carlson |
Department
of Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara |
"Techno-science
and the Mystical" |
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| Saturday,
February 24, 2001 |
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| 10:45am
- 12:15pm |
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| Seminar-1: |
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| Karen
McCarthy Brown |
Drew
University |
This
seminar is full. No further conference attendees will be accepted
into this seminar.
<<download
(rich text format)>>
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| Mark
Juergensmeyer |
University
of California, Santa Barbara |
Introduction
from the book TERROR IN THE MIND OF GOD, available at the
UC Press Webpage
Terror
in the mind of God : the global rise of religious violence.
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2000.
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| Ed
Linenthal |
Edward M. Penson
Professor of Religion & American Culture;
The University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh |
selection
from the forthcoming book THE UNFINISHED BOMBING: OKLAHOMA
CITY IN AMERICAN MEMORY
<<download
(ms word)>>
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| Clark
Roof |
University
of California, Santa Barbara |
Chapter
Three of "Spiritual Marketplace"
Spiritual
Marketplace: Baby Boomers and the Remakeing of American Religion.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999.
<<download (ms word)>>
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| J.Z.
Smith |
University
of Chicago |
For his
seminar he would like people to read his book TO TAKE PLACE,
pg. 103 (beginning with Section II) and continuing through
the bottom paragraph of page 110 (ending with "The system
can never come to rest", 3 lines from the bottom of the page).
Smith,
Jonathan Z.. To take place : toward theory in
ritual. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1987
This
seminar is full. No further conference attendees will be accepted
into this seminar.
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| Saturday,
February 24, 2001 |
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| 12:15pm
- 1:30pm |
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| Lunch |
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| Saturday,
February 24, 2001 |
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| 1:30pm
- 3:00pm |
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| Seminar-2 |
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| Catherine
Albanese |
Department
of Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara |
"Reconsidering
Nature Religion: The Turn to Politics and Ethics."
<<download (ms word)>>
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| Jeffrey
Alexander |
Department
of Sociology
University of California, Los Angeles |
"The
Engorgement of Evil: The Holocaust War Crime to Trauma Drama"
<<download
(ms word)>> |
| Tom
Carlson |
Department
of Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara |
"Locating
the Mystical Subject"
<<download
(ms word)>>
and the introduction and the section on Joyce in "And Maker
Mates with Made: World and Self-creation in Eriugena and Joyce"
<<download (ms
word)>> |
| David
Chidester |
University
of Cape Town |
"Mapping
the Sacred in the Mother City: Religion and Urban Space in
Cape Town, South Africa"
<<download (ms word)>>
This
seminar is full. No further conference attendees will be accepted
into this seminar.
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| Roger
Friedland |
Departments
of Religious Studies and Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara
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"Money,
Sex and God: The Critical Logic of Religious Nationalism."
<<download
(ms word)>>
This
seminar is full. No further conference attendees will be accepted
into this seminar.
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Richard
Hecht
and Linda Ekstrom |
Department
of Religious Studies
University of California, Santa Barbara
Art Studio
University
of California, Santa Barbara
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"Unveiling
the Sacred in Contemporary Art: Interpreting Christian Boltanski,
Wolfgang Laib, and Anselm Kiefer"
<<download
(ms word)>>
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| Saturday,
February 24, 2001 |
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| 3:15pm |
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| Profaning
the Sacred: |
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| Ed
Linenthal |
Edward
M. Penson
Professor of Religion and American Culture,
University of Wisconson, Oshkosh |
"Violence
and the American Landscape" |
| David
Chidester |
University
of Cape Town |
"Blood
and Money: Elementary Forms of the Political Economy of the
Sacred" |
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E-mail:
CT@sscf.ucsb.edu
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