The 6th Annual
International Conference
Religions and their Ways of Coping with Secularization and Modernization: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
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Wednesday, December 21
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| 15:30 |
Gathering and refreshments
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| 16:00 |
Greetings: Prof. Aviad Heifetz, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs,
The Open University of Israel
1st Session (Opening): Modernization and Religion: Social Aspects
Chair: Prof. Mustafa Kabha, Director, Center for the Study of Relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims (JCMcenter)
Dr. Tehila Kalagy, Teaching Fellow, Conflict Management & Resolution Program Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
The Encounter Between Modernity and Traditionalism: A Case Study of educational attainment among the ultra-Orthodox and Bedouin Women
Prof. Yael Latzer, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences, University of Haifa; The Institute for the Treatment and Study of Eating Disorders in the Psychiatric Division at Rambam Health Care Campus; Prof. Chishinski Orna, Behavioral Science Department, Yezreel Valley College; Prof. Faisal Azaiza, Faculty of Social Welfare & Health Sciences, University of Haifa
Eating Disorders among Arab Youngsters in Israel: A Culture in Transition,
or Exposure to Western Norms? |
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| 17:30 |
Coffee break |
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| 18:00 |
2rd Session: Guest Lecture (Session in English)
Chair: Prof. Haim Saadoun, Dean of Academic Studies, The Open University of Israel |
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Prof. Mark Silk, Director, Leonard Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life and Professor of Religion in Public Life, Trinity College, Connecticut
The Discovery of the Abrahamic Tradition in Modern Times |
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| 19:30 |
Reception for conference participants
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Thursday, December 22
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| 09:30 |
Gathering and refreshments
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| 10:00 |
3nd Session: Modernization and Interreligious Encounters
Chair: Prof. Guy Miron, Chair, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel
Prof. Sylvie Fogiel Bijaoui, School of Behavioral Sciences, the College of Management - Academic Studies
Religion, Modernity and Post-Modernity: A Post-Secular Analysis of “the Family” in Israel
Dr. Avishai Ben-Dror, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel; The Harry S. Truman Research Institute
Jews and Muslims in the Shadow of the Cross: Processes of Modernization in Ethiopia, 1991-2016
Prof. Kais Firro, History of the Middle East Department, Haifa University
The Response of Arab Intellectuals to Modernization and Secularization in the Second Half of the 19th-Century |
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| 11:30 |
Coffee break
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| 12:00 |
4nd Session: The Response of Religious Leaders to Modernization
Chair: prof. Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies,The Open University of Israel; Director, Center for the Study of Yemeni Jewry, Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem
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Shraga Bick, The Program in Religious Studies, Department of Comparative Religion, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Radical there, conservative here: religious pluralism, secularization and questions of power in the thought of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
Dr. Yuval Haruvi, The Multidisciplinary Program in the Humanities, Tel Aviv University
The Longing for Religious Revival in the Writings of Rabbi Shalom Flah of Tunis and its Sources of Influence
Prof. Itzchak Weismann, History of the Middle East Department, Haifa University
Modernism and Secularism in the Thought of the Salafi Intellectual
Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi
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Lunch |
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5nd Session: Modernization, Religion and Nationality
Chair: Dr. Ishay Landa, Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies,
The Open University of Israel |
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Dr. Netanel Fisher, Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communications,The Open University of Israel
Dealing with the modern nation-state - Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Dr. Nitai Shinan, The National Library of Israel
The Religion of Liberty: Re-thinking 19th-centuty European Christianity
Dr. Joseph Lundin, Department of History, Orot Israel College
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" - The alliance between the economic right support and the religious community: case study of US evangelicals and religious Zionism in Israel in the late twentieth century |
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Participation is free. Pre-registration will be appreciated.
Please call *3337 (03-5114412) or press here
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