FRIFO-konferens 12-13/10 – innehåll och anmälan
Den 12-13 oktober anordnar Örebro teologiska högskola och Teologiska högskolan Stockholm en FRIFO-konferens i Örebro. En aktuell forskningskonferens med talare som Ingunn Folkestad Brestein, Robert Woodberry, Magnus Hagevi, Selina Stone och Arne Rasmusson utifrån temat “CHURCH AND DEMOCRACY IN A POST-SECULAR SOCIETY”.
Plats: Örebro teologiska högskola
Kostnad: 500 kr för hela konferensen (mat, fika och konferensdeltagande), 250 kr för endast en dag. Boende ordnas själv.
Sista anmälningsdag: 5 oktober
Anmälan: För att komma till anmälan – klicka här
Innehållet för dagen/The content of the day
(kan komma att ändras något)
Tuesday 12th of October
10:00 Coffe, drop-in
10:30-10:45 Welcome
Introduction: Church, democracy and politics
10:45 Introduction: Emma Henriksson, former parliament representant for Christian Democrats, Martin Tunström, Barometern, Elisabeth Sandlund, ledarskribent på Tidningen Dagen, Agneta Blom, senior lecturer at Örebro University in Political Science (The conversation will be held in Swedish)
12:00-13:00 Lunch at Kraka, Lunch hall at Örebro University
Theme 1: Historical perspectives on Free church and democracy
13:00-13:40 Does the State Have Better Citizens? Scandinavian Free Churches and Their Views on the Relationship between State and Religion – Ingunn Folkestad Brestein, professor and dean at Ansgar Høyskole
14:30 Coffee
Short paper session
14:45 Free Church Theology, Democracy and Gender, Mats Larsson, PhD
15:05-16:30 The State and the Free Churches: Changing Perspectives on Democracy, Linnéa Lundgren, PhD, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College
16:15 Refreshments
Theme 2: Democracy, religion and the state – perspectives from social sciences
Paper session
16:30 Why so Few Free church trumpists? Politics and Evangelicalism in the United States and Sweden, Joel Halldorf, docent, Stockholm School of Theoloy
17:10 Response
18:00 Dinner
19:30 Public lecture: The Religious Roots of Secular Democracy – Robert Woodberry, professor, Baylor University, Tx
Response: Magnus Hagevi, professor Linnéuniversitetet, and Lars Ströman, politisk redaktör Nerikes Allehanda
Wednesday 13th of October
Theme 3: Faith based social agency in a post-secular society
09:00 Keynote: Towards a Political Pneumatology – The Spirit, Inequality and Progressive Pentecostalism in Britain, Selina Stone, PhD Candidate, Birmingham University
09:40 Response
10:30 Swedish fika
Short paper session
11:00 A Spirit of Change – Swedish Pentecostal Social Engagement, Ulrik Josefsson, PhD, and Fredrik Wenell, PhD, Örebro School of Theology.
11:20 Development Cooperation and Faith-Based Agency: A Contested Space, Niklas Holmefur, PhD and Dean at Örebro School of Theology
11:40 Response
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Keynote: A Christian Contribution in a Post Secular Society – a Constructive Proposal, Arne Rasmusson, professor, Gothenburg University
14:10 Response: Magnus Hagevi, professor, Linnéuniversitetet
15:00 Concluding remarks: Robert Woodberry and Selina Stone
15:30 Swedish fika