CALL FOR PAPERS

"Religion and Globalization in Asia:
Prospects, Patterns, and Problems for the Coming Decade"

March 13 &14, 2009

Join us in beautiful San Francisco as keynote speakers Mark Juergensmeyer (UC Santa Barbara), Sassia Sasken (Columbia), Nayan Chanda (Yale)—and ten other presenters—explore the dynamics of globalizing forces on the established and emerging religions of South and East Asia.

One of our central concerns will be to understand “the dialectical tension of codependence and codeterminism between religion and globalization.” How do communication technologies, capital flows, security issues, transnationalism, immigration and migration, and identity politics contribute to social conditions in which some kinds of religious belief and practice prosper and proliferate, while others are adversely affected? Additional themes and issues can be found on the conference web page.

If you wish to present a paper, please submit a 200 word abstract and brief CV to nelsonj@usfca.edu no later than August 30, 2008.

Each presenter will be awarded an honorarium of $350 to help defray travel and conference expenses.  

Open registration for the conference will begin August 15 and end November 30, 2008. The total number of conference participants is limited to 120.

Download a pdf of this Call for Papers to post or send to colleagues.

Presented by
The Kiriyama Chair for Pacific Rim Studies at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim

Sponsored by
The Department of Theology and Religious Studies
The Asian Studies Degree Program
The Leo T. McCarthy Center for Public Service and the Common Good
at the University of San Francisco