Programme  

Thursday, June 14

8.30 - 9.15 Registration

9.15 - 9.30 Opening by René Smit, President of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Session I

9.30 - 10.45 Keynote address by Prof. Ronald Inglehart (University of Michigan, USA): “The Intertwining Trajectories of Religion and Economic Development”, followed by discussion

11.15 - 12.45 Workshop I: Prof. Thorleif Pettersson (Uppsala University, Sweden): “Religion in Contemporary Western Society: Eroded by Human Well being, Supported by Cultural Diversity and Indifferent to Global Development?”

Workshop II: Prof. Mansoor Moaddel (Eastern Michigan University, USA): “Foreign Occupation, Religious Parties, and Value Change: The Rise of National Identity and Secular Politics among Iraqis”

14.00 - 15.15 Keynote address by Prof. Scott M. Thomas (University of Bath, England): “The Global Resurgence of Religion: Bridging the Gap between Social Scientific and Interpretative Approaches to the Study of Religion in International Relations”, followed by discussion

15.45 - 17.15 Workshop I: Prof. Paul Freston (Calvin College, Michigan, USA): “Latin American Religion, Modernization and Development”

Workshop II: Dr. Kirsteen Kim (University of Birmingham, England): “Christianity and modernisation in twentieth-century Korea: new religious movements and the revitalisation of society”

18.30 Conference dinner offered by VU University Amsterdam

Friday, June 15

Session II

9.30 - 10.45 Keynote address by Prof. Frans Wijsen (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, the Netherlands): “Indigenous Spirituality and Sustainable Development in Africa”, followed by discussion

11.15 - 12.45 Workshop I: Prof. Juan Sepúlveda (Comunidad Teológica Evangélica de Chile, Santiago, Chile): “Pentecostalism and Modernization in Latin America”

Workshop II: Prof. Dirkie Smit (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa): “Mainline Protestantism in South Africa - and modernity?”

Session III

14.00 - 15.15 Keynote address by Prof. Oscar Salemink (VU University Amsterdam): “Faith-Based Development Initiatives as ‘Prosperity Religions’? Reflections on religion and development”, followed by discussion

15.30 - 17.00 Workshop I: Dr. Philip Quarles van Ufford (em. VU University Amsterdam): “Religion and Development: Transforming relations between some Indonesian and Dutch protestant churches (1945 -2007)”

Workshop II: Prof. Ananta Kumar Giri (Madras Institute for Development Studies, India): “Beyond Religion and Development: The Calling of Practical Spirituality”

17.00 Conference closure, followed by reception