This document provides information about the 2012 Australian Association for the Study of Religion Conference to be held from September 28-30 at the University of Western Sydney Parramatta Campus. It calls for individual paper and panel proposals on the topic of "Multiple Religious Modernities" by May 31, 2012. Submissions should include a 200-300 word abstract and 50 word bio, and be emailed to A.Nixon@uws.edu.au. The conference will explore how religion impacts and is impacted by social processes at local and global levels in modern, secularizing societies.

1. 2012 Australian Association for
the Study of Religion Conference
University of Western Sydney
Parramatta Campus, 28-30 September 2012
Multiple Religious Modernities
Deadline for submissions of abstracts (individual paper or panel
proposals): 31 May, 2012
At the local and global level, religion is changed
through social processes, but religion also impacts
on societies at the structural and grass roots levels.
As modernity and (de)secularisation are multilateral
processes, the conference explores the multiple types
of (de)centralisation, pluralism and voluntarism of
religious life.
First Call for Individual or Local Organising Committee
Julia Howell
Panel Presentations
Alphia Possamai-Inesedy
• ndividual paper proposals (200-300 words)
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Adam Possamai
• anel proposals (200 word for the panel
P Judith Snodgrass
concept and 200-300 words on each panel Irena Veljanova
paper).
• each paper, please provide a bio (up to
For Programme Committee
C
arole Cusack, University of Sydney
50 words) of the presenter(s).
J
amila Hussein, University of Technology, Sydney.
• lease submit your abstract to Alan Nixon
P Jay Johnston, University of Sydney and
at: A.Nixon@uws.edu.au University of New South Wales
P
aul Oslington, Australian Catholic University.
Adam Possamai, University of Western Sydney
Malcolm Voyce, Macquarie University
The event is hosted by the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies,
the School of Social Sciences and Psychology and the School of Humanities and Communication Arts.
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