[SydPhil] 1st Call for Participation: CONCEPTS OF GOD IN UNDERREPRESENTED RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS (online and in-person)

[FRANCISCO MARIANO]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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CONCEPTS OF GOD IN UNDERREPRESENTED RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS
Nord Luxxor Tambaú Hotel
João Pessoa, Brazil
February 6-7 and 12-14, 2025

Website: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/wb9WCK1DvKTr3r0M4FMfNI5OLHg?domain=god-and-consciousness.com
Registration: god.and.consciousness at gmail.com
Deadline: January 30, 2025

The conference "Concepts of God in Underrepresented Religious Traditions"
will be divided into two parts. Online talks on February 6 and 7, 2025, and
in-person talks on February 12, 13 and 14. Both parts will be broadcast via
Zoom.

To register, send an email to god.and.consciousness at gmail.com, with the
subject line “Registration at the João Pessoa Conference” by January 30,
2025. The body of the message should contain the following information: (1)
full name, (2) institution/country, and (3) type of attendance for the
second part of the conference (in-person or online). Attendance will be
guaranteed on a first come, first served basis. There is no fee to attend
the conference.

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KEYNOTE TALKS

• Gods, devata-s, and Postcolonial Philosophy of Religion, Purushottama
Bilimoria (University of San Francisco, USA)
• Ghosts, Gods, and Spirits in Chinese Discourses on Self-Cultivation, Leah
Kalmanson (University of North Texas, USA)
• Concepts of Divinity in Afro-Brazilian Religious Traditions, José Eduardo
Porcher (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
• Early Chinese Conceptions of Divinity, Kelly Clark (Ibn Haldun
University, Istanbul)
• Sacrality in Indigenous America: Camac and the Everpresent Sacrality of
Life in Andean Thought, Jorge Sanchez-Perez (University of Alberta, Canada)
• Concepts of God in Indian Religious Traditions, Alan Herbert (Oxford
Centre for Hindu Studies, UK)
• Freemasonry as Universal Religion, Benedikt Paul Göcke (Ruhr University
Bochum, Germany)
• Concepts of God in African Traditional Religions, Emmanuel Ofuasia
(National Open University of Nigeria, Nigeria)

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ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITEE

• Ricardo Sousa Silvestre, Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil
(co-chair)
• Dilip Loundo, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil (co-chair)
• Gabriel Reis de Oliveira, Saint Louis University, USA

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SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE

• Ananya Barua, University of Delhi, India
• Monima Chadha, Monash University, Australia
• Joanna Leidenhag, University of Leeds, UK
• Rodrigo de Azeredo Grünewald, Federal University of Campina Grande,
Brazil
• Swami Medhananda, UCLA and University of Southern California, USA
• Yujin Nagasawa, University of Oklahoma, USA
• Timothy O'Connor, Indiana University, USA

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ORGANIZATION

This is the second conference of the project “Concepts of God and the
Variety of Theisms in Indian Traditions: Towards a Theistic Theory of
Consciousness”, hosted by the Brazilian Association for the Philosophy of
Religion and supported by funding totaling $260,000 from the John Templeton
Foundation.

https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/Hr1VCL7EwMfYEY5wQsqhmIyi_Yt?domain=god-and-consciousness.com

The conference is hosted by the Federal University of Campina Grande, in
collaboration with the Graduate Program of Religious Studies at the Federal
University of Paraiba.
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