[Bilimsel Haber] "Monotheisms and Violence" - Conference at Harvard University 7th. – 8th. June 2012

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    *Monotheisms and Violence - Conference at Harvard University*
*Location:* 	Massachusetts 
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CALL FOR PAPERS - 7th. – 8th. June 2012
At Harvard University

RELIGION AND CIVIL SOCIETY: THE CHANGING FACES OF “RELIGION” AND 
“SECULARITY”. An international conference convened by the Culture and 
Society Institute of the University of Navarra and to be held at Harvard 
University Law School

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Mary Ann Glendon (Harvard University)
Rafael Alvira (Universidad de Navarra)
Carmelo Vigna (Università Ca Foscari de Venezia)
Allen Hertzke (University of Oklahoma)
Jan Bethke Elstain (University of Chicago)
Robert Royal (Institute for Faith & Reason, Washington, D.C.)
Russell Hittinger (University of Tulsa)

CALL FOR PAPERS
We invite proposals for presentations (maximum length: one page), along 
with a short CV (maximum length: two pages), *by April 15, 2012*. Papers 
will have a reading time of 20 minutes. A selection of abstracts will be 
made and the authors will be notified by the end of April.

Apart from other four others workshops, see: 
http://philevents.org/event/show/1419, here is presented a new one: WORKSHOP
“MONOTHEISMS AND VIOLENCE”

The affirmation of the existence of one God is the common characteristic 
of the monotheistic religious traditions, especial Judaism, Christianity 
and Islam. All three commonly affirm the unicity of God. This workshop 
is not intended to highlight the points of convergence or divergence 
between the three mentioned forms of monotheism, but rather to examine 
the immanent “logic” of the discourse of monotheism. The reason for 
choosing this topic is the diverse and intense debate under which 
currently surrounds monotheistic faith. Predominant and omnipresent 
criticism of monotheism is underway to the point that it is associated 
with intolerance, fanaticism and violence, presented as an uncontested 
yet often inadequately justified assumption, which constitutes a sort of 
cultural and social evidence. However, the workshop does not seek to 
deal with historical, but rather argumentative issues. The topic could 
be formulated in the following way: to what sort of dynamic would the 
assumption of an immanent logic of monotheism lead? To intolerance, 
exclusion and violence, or to freedom, inclusion and pacification?

The workshop is rather, restricted to specific issues related to the 
affirmation of monotheism as potentially violent or liberating on the 
contemporary political society. Given that the criticism of monotheism 
is not something entirely new, but rather in some way a prolongation of 
past judgments, special attention will be paid to the current debates, 
to better detect the new propositions and the cultural context unique to 
current times. Among the numerous aspects within this topic, the project 
will narrow in on those of particular relevance: the issue of violence 
related to the assumption of the truth of monotheism itself, as well as 
its legal and political consequences; the principal monotheistic 
religions and their eventual pretense of exclusive truth and the 
resulting political violence that they are assumed to generate; current 
polytheistic and non-religious humanistic positions if related with the 
main topic of the workshop; fundamentalisms versus tolerance in civil 
society, in those cases in which their origin is of a religious nature 
and are manifested through violence; monotheistic religions as a means 
of forming social and political identities and their possible role in 
building social peace. This workshop invites all those researchers who 
would like to submit a paper on any of the referred questions, or 
related ones. Both systematic papers and those focused on one particular 
author will be accepted. Papers will have a reading time of 20 minutes. 
Please send an abstract to: mvanney at alumni.unav.es, the accepted papers 
will be notified by the end of April.

	Alejandra Vanney
Austral University
+54-11-59218000 #8669
Email: mvanney at austral.edu.ar <mailto:mvanney at austral.edu.ar>

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