ISASR draft conference programme 2016
Fifth Annual Conference – Religion and Revolution
University College Cork
16th – 17th June 2016
Thursday 16th June
9.00-10.30: Registration and Coffee: Mary Ryan Room, G0.27B, O’Rahilly Building
10.30-12.00: Session 1
Theorizing Revolution: O’Rahilly Building G0.27A
Chair: Jenny Butler
Miriam M. Müller, Daesh’s Weltanschauung – Political or Religious Revolution?
Paul O’Connor, Religion and the Revolutionary Subject
Laurence Cox, Changing the World or Changing Yourself?: Historicising the Cliché
12.00-13.00: Lunch
13.00-14.30 Session 2
Ireland and Britain in the Revolutionary Decade: O’Rahilly Building G0.27A
Chair: Patrick Claffey
Amy Heath-Carpentier, Revolution and Revelation: Esotericism, Mysticism, and Conversion in the Lives of Maud Gonne and Ella Young
Malcolm P.A. Macourt, The remnant and Revolution?
Tony Walsh, Conservation and Change; the Challenge of Identity Maintenance for Religious Minorities
Brendan McNamara, Religion and Change: “Forgetting” Pre-First World War Religious Discourse
14.30-15.00: Coffee
15.00-17.00 Session 3
Panel 3A: Political Islam: O’Rahilly Building G0.27A
Chair: Yafa Shanneik
Akintunde E. Akinade, Engaging Boko Haram: Radicalization, Rebellion, and Revolution
Muhammad Al-Atawneh, Protest in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Practice: The Case of the “Arab Spring”
Abed Kanaaneh, Muqawamah and Jihad: Two Competing Political Theologies
Helena Walsh-Kiely, Identity in the Saudi Arabian Student Studying Abroad: Examining the Notion of its Change, Nature, and Likelihood to Influence Reform in Present Day Saudi Arabia
Panel 3B: The Politics of Revolution: O’Rahilly Building G0.27B
Chair: Laurence Davis
Pablo Bradbury, Liberationist Christianity in Argentina and the Responses to State Terror (1974-1983)
Sorin Gog, National Religious Identities, Democratization and the Issue of Religious Governance in the European Union
Patrick Claffey, Laicite: Value or Ideology?
18.00 – 19.00 Keynote lecture
The Role of Religion in the Arab Uprisings: O’Rahilly Building G0.27A
Dr Andrea Teti
Andrea Teti is Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, as well as Co-Director of the Centre for Global Security and Governance and the Centre for Modern Thought. His current work focuses on the politics of democracy in Euro-Mediterranean relations, and he is Scientific Lead on the FP7-funded Arab Transitions Consortium. He has also written on Egyptian politics, knowledge production in Social Science, and the work of Michel Foucault.
19.30-21.00: Conference Dinner: La Dolce Vita Restaurant, Crosses Green, Proby’s Quay, Cork (across from St Fin Barre’s Cathedral)
Friday 17th June
9.00-10.30 Session 4
Panel 4A: Religious Transformations: States and Technologies: O’Rahilly Building G0.27A
Chair: Brendan MacNamara
Roland Clark, Rethinking Divine Intervention under State Socialism
James Kapaló, Hidden Galleries: Secret Police Archives and Material Religion
Brad Anderson, Sacred Texts in a Digital Age: Exploring a Changing Landscape
Panel 4B: Gender and Identity Politics: O’Rahilly Building G0.27B
Chair: Amanullah De Sondy
Shai Feraro, Invoking Hecate at the Women’s Peace Camp: the presence of Goddess Spirituality and Dianic Witchcraft at Greenham Common during the 1980s
Marian Caulfield, The Causes and Consequences of the Death of the “Caoineadh na Marbh”: An Examination of the Loss of Women’s Lament in Ireland During the Formation of the New Irish State
10.30-11.00: Coffee
11.00-13.00 Session 5
Panel 5A: Worldviews, Divides, Cultures and Science: O’Rahilly Building G0.27A
Chair: Shai Feraro
Jenny Butler, Revolution in the Academy: Challenging the Scientific Paradigm in the Study of Religions
Amanullah De Sondy, Robert Burns of Scotland and Mirza Ghalib of India: Religious Enlightenment, Revolution, Cultural Divides and Hegemonic Masculinity
John (Jack) R. Lovell, Revolutionizing Neoliberal Hegemony via Combined Pathways of Cree and Celtic Indigenous Epistemology
Panel 5B: Religion and Revolution in Context: O’Rahilly Building G0.27B
Chair: Chris Heinhold
Stephen D. Glazier, Religion and Rebellion: The Baptist War in Jamaica, 1831-32
Lourdes M. Portus, Revolutionizing Religion: The Case of Ciudad Mistica
Aidan Cottrell-Boyce, The Traskites – Judaizing and Resistance in the 17th Century
Amin Sharifi Isaloo, The 1979 Revolution and Shia Religion in Iran
13.00-13.30: RE21 Book Launch
13.30-14.30: Lunch
14.30-16.00 Session 6
Panel 6A: Religion, Identity and Politics in Contemporary Ireland: O’Rahilly Building G0.27A
Chair: Brad Anderson
Hazel O’ Brien, Linkages of Faith and Family amongst Mormons in Ireland
Richard O’Leary, The Faithful Underground: Gay Christian Activism in Ireland, 1976-1993
Gerard Madden, Monitoring Suspected Revolutionaries: John Charles McQuaid and the Marine, Port and General Workers’ Union
Panel 6B: Shia Muslim Communities in the UK: Local and Transnational Dimensions: O’Rahilly Building G0.27B
Chair: Amin Sharifi Isaloo
Sufyan Abid, An Alternative Umma: The Construction and Development of Shia Globalism among South Asian Shia Muslims in London
Chris Heinhold, Constructing Sacred Space: Ritual and Knowledge Transmission in the Creation of Sacred Spaces
Yafa Shanneik, “It’s my own head”: Self-Flagellation among Shia Women
16.00-17.30: AGM: O’Rahilly Building G0.27A
Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (ISASR) 