5-Year Overview

Rethinking Religion in India forms a 5-year conference cluster. To achieve the overall objective of developing a new paradigm for the study of religion in India, the conference themes will be addressed at different levels. Each year, three main modules will approach the conference themes and questions from different angles: (1) Platform sessions; (2) Roundtable sessions; (3) Parallel Paper sessions. Alongside these sessions, a number of other sessions may be organised: In 2008 we had special IGNCA panels and a special IASR plenary session on 'Approaches to the academic study of religion in contemporary India'. In 2009, we will organise a number of "How to...?" workshops.

  PLATFORM SESSIONS ROUNDTABLE SESSIONS PARALLEL PAPER
SESSIONS
2008 Are there native religions in India? Colonialism and religion in India

(1) Evolutionary explanations of religion
(2) Indians are Aryans, so what?
(3) The caste system and Indian religion
(4) Colonialism and Indian religion

2009 Is secularism the solution to communal conflict in India
 Rethinking secularism (1) Indian Religion and the Issue of Conversion (2) The Caste System and Indian Religion (3) Colonialism and religion in India (4) Religion and law in India
2011 Monologue or Dialogue? The Indian Response 1)  Colonialism and religion in India (2) The Caste System and Indian Religion (3) Secularism in Europe and India (4) Said and Orientalism: dead or alive? (5) European Representations of India (6) What does the modernization of Indian traditions mean? (7) Islamic mysticism in European and Indian perspective
2012 Religion and law in India Religious conversion in India (1) The caste system and Indian religion (2) Does India know of religious rivalry? (3) Inter-religious dialogue & conversion in India
2013 Hinduism and the caste system Did Buddhism challenge Hinduism? (1) The Christian theological framework of the religious studies (2) The construction of Hinduism and colonial consciousness (3) Western representations of India and its religions

 

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