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\n “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become god simply to appear worthy of it.”
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Even though Nietzsche declared God dead more than a hundred years ago his shadow still seems to be more than just looming. More than 80 percent of the world\u2019s population has a religious affiliation. In secular states religion continues to play an important role in public and intellectual life. Politics and international relations can\u2019t be understood without accounting for the element of religion in cultural contexts. Indeed, in order to understand ourselves we need to understand religion.<\/p>\n

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This conference will investigate the role religion plays in society today and in the past. We will examine religion in relation to the human condition and religion as individual experience. Or as William James put it in one of his Gifford Lectures in 1901: religion as \u201cfeelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Starting in the Near East we will discuss the early religions and what their existence tells us about ancient societies and the needs of human beings of past civilisations. We will analyse the existence of a \u201csacred economy\u201d in the Uruk culture, the notion of \u201cordered chaos\u201d in ancient Indian thought and religion as collective practice in the Hellenistic and Roman worlds. We will continue with a conversation on the many varieties found within the Abrahamic tradition and what it means for our view on Judaism, Christianity and Islam today.<\/p>\n

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The second day of the conference will concentrate on religion in relation to the fundamentals of the human condition. How has religion dealt with human experiences such as suffering, violence or love? And how has the sensation of the divine been interpreted outside the confines of orthodox religion? We conclude the day with an overview of how cognitive sciences and neurology understand religion and the way religious belief can be viewed in light of evolutionary theory.<\/p>\n

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Understanding in what ways religion matters and why we are religious also means looking at its role in current politics. Using the situation in the Middle East as a lens the conference will highlight the problems and possibilities of religion in international relations. Furthermore, we will discuss religion\u2019s role in modern society, a society that maybe more accurately should be referred to as \u201cpost-secular\u201d. Is God back? Or did he just never leave?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\n Reza Aslan: Muhammad and Monotheistic Pluralism <\/p>\n

\n Associate Professor of Creative Writing, University of California, Riverside, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Esther Benbassa: Suffering as Identity: the Jewish Paradigm <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Modern Jewish History, \u00c9cole Pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes, Sorbonne, Senator in the French Senate, France <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Benedetta Berti: Religious Identities, Political Islam and Sectarianism in the New Middle East <\/p>\n

\n Fellow and Lecturer, Institute for National Security Studies and Tel Aviv University, Israel <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Jessica Frazier: Religion and Passion <\/p>\n

\n Fellow, Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Armin W. Geertz: Whence Religion? Reflections on the Origins of Religion, Cognition and Culture <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Ariel Glucklich: Religion and Self\u00adDirected Violence <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Department of Theology, Georgetown University, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Martin Goodman: Variety in Judaism <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Janne Haaland Matlary: The Catholic Church\u2019s International Role: The Ideological Basis of Its Diplomacy <\/p>\n

\n Professor, University of Oslo and the Norwegian Defence University College, Norway <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Wouter Hanegraaff: Open Access to the Absolute: Hermetic Gnosis and the Concept of Religion <\/p>\n

\n Professor of History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Hugh N. Kennedy: Deconstructing the \u201cClash of Civilisations\u201d: How the Study of History Can Help <\/p>\n

\n Professor, SOAS, University of London, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Gary Lachman: Mystical Experience and the Evolution of Consciousness <\/p>\n

\n Writer, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Julius J. Lipner: \u201cOrdered Chaos\u201d in Ancient Indian Thought <\/p>\n

\n Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Diarmaid MacCulloch: Rethinking the Shape of the Christian Past, Present and Future <\/p>\n

\n Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Simon May: Love as Religion <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Philosophy, King\u2019s College London, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Richard Miles: Tough Love: Correcting Sinners in the Early Christian Church <\/p>\n

\n Associate Professor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney, Australia <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Candida R. Moss: The Redemption of Suffering and the Birth of Christianity <\/p>\n

\n Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, University of Notre Dame, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Robin Osborne: Collective Practice as Individual Experience <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n William O\u2019Reilly: Religion and the Secular State <\/p>\n

\n University Lecturer, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Elaine Pagels: Variety in Early Chris\u00adtianity <\/p>\n

\n Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, Princeton University, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Wolfgang Palaver: The Complex Relationship Between Violence and Religion <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Department of Systematic Theology, University of Cambridge, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Marco Pasi: Esoteric Experiences and Critical Ethnocentrism <\/p>\n

\n Associate Professor in the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Daniel T. Potts: Accounting for Religion: Uruk and the Origins of the Sacred Economy <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad: Reading Religion Today and Tomorrow: Two Interrelated Patterns <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Department of Politics Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n G\u00f6ran Rosenberg: Judah at the Cross\u00adroads: Jews and Judaism between Zion and Diaspora <\/p>\n

\n Writer and Journalist, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Malise Ruthven: The Islamic Search for Gnosis <\/p>\n

\n Independent Writer, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n John Scheid: Religious Practice in the Roman World <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Chair in Religion, Institutions and Society in Ancient Rome, Coll\u00e8ge de France, France <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Mona Siddiqui: Suffering \u2013 the Price of Being Alive: An Islamic Perspective <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, Edinburgh University, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n P\u00e4r Stenb\u00e4ck: Religion and Politics in the Middle East <\/p>\n

\n Minister, Finland <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Jayne Svenungsson: Divining History, the Visionary Potential of the Biblical Legacy <\/p>\n

\n Associate Professor of Systematic Theology, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Harvey Whitehouse: Ritual, Community, and Conflict <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n A. N. Wilson: Dante and European Religion <\/p>\n

\n Writer, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n David Sloan Wilson: How Can the Same Sacred Text Give Rise to so Many Religions? <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Departments of Biology and Anthropology, Binghamton University, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Adrian Wooldridge: Is God Back? <\/p>\n

\n Management Editor, The Economist, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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