Moscow Society for the Study of Religions (http://www.mro.su/)
Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University
III International Online Conference on the Study of Religions
“RELIGION AND EVERYDAY LIFE: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE”
11 OCTOBER – 1 DECEMBER 2009
http://www.e-religions.net/2009

The aim of this conference is to explore the historical and contemporary relevance of religion to social life, through an examination of practice and belief. Religious beliefs affect how people view the natural and social world. Therefore, it is important to study religious beliefs and practices in the context of people’s everyday life rather than just as an abstract set of theological beliefs and rituals. A consideration of the relationship between religion and everyday life also allows an understanding of how religions themselves change or cause changes in other spheres of life. Changes in everyday life affect religious beliefs and activities. On the other hand, religious beliefs can also be used by people to interpret and come to terms with wider social, economic and political changes.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Prof. Peter Antes (University of Hannover, Germany)
“Islam in Germany Today: An Example for Religion and Everyday Life”

проф. Хенрик Хоффманн (Ягеллонский Университет, Польша)
“«Морфология повседневности» Влодзимежа Павлючука
как новый метод исследований религиозного мировоззрения”

Prof. Gustavo Benavides (Villanova University, USA)
“Metarepresentations, Labor and the Rise of Religion”

Prof. Marianna Shakhnovich (State Saint-Petersburg University, Russia)
“Teaching about Religion in School Curriculum:
Religion in Political History or Religion in Everyday Life”

доц. Михаил Юрьевич Смирнов (Санкт-Петербургский Университет, Россия)
“Современное российское религиоведение: повседневность и "сакральное"”

We invite submissions on the following topics:
• religions of the family, religions of the city, religions of the empire(s);
• contemporary religion:changing definitions;
• approaches to the study of religion in everyday life;
• religions in the frames of everyday life (time and space)
• religious and secular: religious experience in everyday life;
• religion and texts: reading in everyday life
• religion and media;
• religion and education;
• religion and bioethical debates;
• future of religion: aspects of everyday life.