URBAN DIVERSITY AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS

13–15 August 2008, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

TUESDAY 12 AUGUST

18:00 Get-together for early arrivals at the boat restaurant Svarte Rudolf from 6 P.M. The address is Itäinen Rantakatu / Östra Strandgatan.

WEDNESDAY 13 AUGUST

09:00-17:00 Registration & Information – ARKEN
09:00-10:15 Coffee & Refreshments – CAFÉ ARKEN

10:15-11:45 Plenary I: chair Dr. Tuomas Martikainen – AUDITORIUM ARMFELT
Research Director Peter Nynäs – Words of Welcome
Dr. Pasi Mäenpää - Spirituality of Homo ludens urbanus
Commentator: Dr. Titus Hjelm

11:45-13:15 Lunch – CAFÉ ARKEN

13:15-14:30 Plenary II: chair Dr. Tiina Mahlamäki – AUDITORIUM ARMFELT
Prof. Inger Furseth: Social capital and immigrant religions
Commentator: Dr. Anne Birgitta Pessi

14:30-15:00 Coffee & Refreshments – CAFÉ ARKEN

15:00-17:00 Sessions 1

CAMERA OBSCURA	HELIKON	PARNASSOS	RADIATORN	SAUSSURE	WESTERMARCK
Local and regional secularization	Management of religious pluralism by public institutions	Religion and social problems	Religion and mass media	Youth and confirmation training in Europe	Social capital and religion
Chair: Straarup 1. Willander Is Sweden leading the spiritual revolution? 2. Thalén Extending methods for studying secularisation on the national level to the regional level 3. Kolkunova Paradoxes of religious self-determination 4. Rosen Talking about belief and religion	Chair: Le Gall 1. Kühle The management of religious diversity in Danish public schools 2. Stringer Public display and civic identity 3. Le Gall Religious diversity and frontline healthcare services in Québec 4. Lundberg Management Pentacostalism	Chair: Hjelm 1. Andersen & Lüchau Islam and labour market integration in Denmark 2. Konttori Headscarf Hysteria? A critical reading of the ”Debré Report” 3. Reintoft Christensen Religion in parliamentary debates	Chair: Sjöborg 1. Häger The Rock Mass 2. Bäck Religious organisations on the internet in Finland – a comparative study 3. Axner Public and private religion in the media	Chair: Niemelä 1. Pettersson What is the content and objective in the Church of Sweden’s confirmation training? 2. Innanen Confirmation training in the context of society and church live in seven Nordic and Central European countries 3. Niemelä Religious change from adolescence to emerging adulthood	Chair: Sundback 1. Davidsson Bremborg, Dahlgren & Hallonsten An idea for a project: “Religion and the family” 2. Vähäkangas Social capital of an Alpha support group 3. Szabados Buddha – Mind – Network 4. Hallonsten HIV & AIDS – The individual, church and society

18:00-19:30 Greeting of the City of Turku/Åbo by Mikko Lohikoski
CITY HALL, Aurakatu/Auragatan 2

THURSDAY 14 AUGUST

09:00-17:00 Registration & Information – ARKEN

09:15-10:15 Plenary III: chair Dr. Kennet Granholm – AUDITORIUM ARMFELT
Prof. Linda Woodhead: Locality Studies of Religion: Methods and Approaches
Commentator Dr. Andreas Häger

10:15-10:45 Coffee & Refreshments – CAFÉ ARKEN

10:45-12:00 Sessions II

CAMERA OBSCURA	HELIKON	PARNASSOS	RADIATORN	WESTERMARCK
Local and regional secularization	Management of religious pluralism by public institutions	Religion and social problems	Religion and mass media	Religion, gender and agency
Chair: Staarup 1. Dahlgren An old problem – with new answers? 2. Andersen, Gundelach & Lüchau Spirituality, a discussion of possible measurements	Chair: Le Gall 1. Martikainen Organising immigrant religions in a liberal welfare state: the case of Finland 2. von Brömssen That is sin, don’t you think?	Chair: Hjelm 1. Altinbas The visibility of mosques in Europe 2. Ndiaye The Daaras in Senegal	Chair: Sjöborg 1. Taira Media discourse on cemeteries: a window to Finnish modernisation and religion 2. Axelson Movies and meaning: studying audience, fiction film and existential matters	Chair: Utrianen & Tuomaala 1. Haakedal Gender and agency in religious education (RE) workbooks: collective memory, regional socialization and creative learning 2. Vorobjova On the way to toleance: women in modern religious Russia

12:00-13:15 Lunch – CAFÉ ARKEN

13:15-14:30 Plenary IV: chair Dr. Andreas Häger – AUDITORIUM ARMFELT
Sociology of religion as an academic discipline in the Nordic countries
Dr. Tomas Axelson, Sweden
PhD Fellow Henrik Reintoft Christensen, Denmark

Prof. Pål Repstad, Norway
Prof. Susan Sundback, Finland

14:30-15:00 Coffee & Refreshments – CAFÉ ARKEN

15:00-17:00 Sessions III

CAMERA OBSCURA	HELIKON	PARNASSOS	RADIATORN	SAUSSURE	WESTERMARCK
Contemporary changes in European and Nordic religion	Religion, migration and diaspora	Religion and politics	Religion as entertainment and pastime	Welfare, religion and values in Europe	Religion, gender and agency
Chair: Taira 1. Storm Halfway to heaven: four types of fuzzy fidelity in Europe 2. Ahlin The return of religion in the public sphere - crossing the third threshold of secularisation 3. Ketola Religious diversity in Finland: what can organizational data tell about religious change? 4. Turunen Charismatic Christianity Russianised – global Neo-Charismatic Movement in Post-Socialist Russia 5. Lannem Congregational development in the folk church: investigating change	Chair: Martikainen 1. Schwöbel Diasporic identity and religion 2. Angell How minority families adopt religious deversity and welfare system: to the Norwegiean welfare system and vice versa 3. Stirling Who am I now? Iranian and Turkish migrant women living in Australia 4. Foroutan Religion, migration and gender identity: empirical findings 5. Borup Religion and integration	Chair: Kanckos 1. Toivo Overcoming individualism: exploring the persisting religious organizations’ ways of keeping their position 2. Botvar Why alternative religion has so little impact on politics? 3. Warburg Globalisation and religious diasporas: a reassessment in the light of the Danish Muhammad cortoon crisis	Chair: Granholm 1. Moberg Metal music, religion and entertainment 2. Karjalainen Sports and hobbies linked to new world views 3. Skånby Big game as urband symbol carriers? The function of the power animals in neo-shamanism	Chair: Bäckström 1. Pettersson Values and religion in trasition – a case study of a Swedish multi-cultural public school 2. Pessi Happy and religious – why? 3. Sjöborg The church as an agent of welfare – opinions and attitudes: some results from a survey in the case of Gävle 4. Spännäri The elderly and religion in urban settings 5. Bäckström: The Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law and Democracy	Chair: Utriainen & Tuomaala 1. Kupari (The) Missing Kin 2. Trzebiatowska ”…and she saw habits in hell.” Disobedient nuns and Catholicism in Poland 3. Raunola Religion, gender and agency in Lightprayer-activity 4. Davidsson Bremborg Ritualization of a stillborn child

18:30-23:00 Excursion by s/s UKKOPEKKA and Evening Banquet, boarding time 18:45
Get-together at Restaurant VAAKAHUONEEN PAVILJONKI at 18:30 – Linnankatu/Slottsgatan 38

FRIDAY 15 AUGUST

10:00-17:00 Registration & Information – ARKEN

10:15-10:45 Coffee & Refreshments – CAFÉ ARKEN

10:45-12:00 Sessions IV

CAMERA OBSCURA	HELIKON	PARNASSOS	RADIATORN	WESTERMARCK
Contemporary changes in European and Nordic religion	Religion, migration and diaspora	Religion and politics	Religion as entertainment and pastime	Religion, gender and agency
Chair: Mahlamäki 1. Panteleeva Social basics for spreading of the messianic Judaism in Russia 2. Vilça Pilgrimages as a trait of contemporary rituals and new form spirituality 3. Helander Changing religious scene – a scholarly challenge	Chair: Martikainen 1. Halvardson Religions in encounter 2. Weigelt Vietnamese “boat people” in Switzerland 3. Le Gall & Meintel Religious mobility: a new look at religious diversity in Quebec	Chair: Kanckos 1. Lehtinen Community building and European Social Fund cooperative project work 2. Huber Politics and ifrapolitics of religion as a resource for the formation of moral action	Chair: Granholm 1. Jarnkvist Big and beautiful – the effect of marriage trends on church weddings 2. Repstad Christmas concerts as a contribution to vicarious religion	Chair: Utriainen & Tuomaala 1. Hovi Gender and agency in Neocharismatic Christianity 2. Rosen & Lundberg The connection between religiosity and sexual behavior in Sweden and Denmark

11:45-13:15 Lunch – CAFÉ ARKEN

13:15-14:30 Plenary V: chair Dr. Kimmo Ketola – AUDITORIUM ARMFELT
Prof. R. Stephen Warner: Parameters of Paradigms
Commentator Dr. Teemu Taira

14:30-15:00 Coffee & Refreshments – CAFÉ ARKEN

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