Course calendar

Programme

Monday 25/9

10.00-10.15 Welcome, VID Aula
10.15-12.00 Marta Bivand Erdal,
Transnationalism, migration and religion, VID Aula
12.00-13.00 Lunch, VID Cantina
13.15-14.00 Group discussions (25 min), Q and A (20 min), VID Aula
14.15-15.00 PhD-group session, parallel groups, allocated rooms
15.00-15.30 Coffee break, VID Cantina
15.30-18.00 PhD-group session, parallel groups, allocated rooms
18.15 Departure to Solastranden with bus
18.30-19.30 Walk on the beach and/or relax in the bar
19.30 Dinner at Sola Strand Hotel (Sola Beach Hotel)
21.45 Return to Stavanger (Comfort Hotel Square and VID Stavanger)

Tuesday 26/9

9.15-11.00 Afe Adogame,
Religion and Migration: Contemporary Hybridities, VID Aula
11.15-12.00 Group discussions (25 min), Q and A (20 min), VID Aula
12.00-13.00 Lunch, VID Cantina
13.15-15.00 Steven Sandage
The Humility of Intercultural Competence: Religious Barriers and Pathways, VID Aula
15.00-15.30 Coffee break, VID Cantina
15.30-16.30 Cracks and in-betweens, VID Aula
17.00-18.30 PhD group session, parallel groups, allocated rooms
19.30 Dinner at N.B. Sørensen 3.etage (downtown Stavanger)

Course requirements

• you will be expected to read and familiarize you with the course literature
• a short paper must be delivered by 10 September ( uploaded on Fronter)
• if you want to obtain the 3 ECTS for the course you will have to deliver a longer paper after the course.

About the speakers

Marta Bivand Erdal, Senior Researcher PRIO is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO). She is a Human Geographer and conducts research in South Asia (mainly Pakistan), Norway and Poland. She combines research on migration and transnational practices, with research on living together in culturally and religiously diverse societies.

Afe Adogame, Professor Princeton Theological Seminary is Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Christianity and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary, a leading scholar of the African Diaspora. He holds a PhD in history of religions from the University of Bayreuth in Germany. He focuses on interrogating new dynamics of religious experiences and expressions in Africa and the African Diaspora, with a particular focus on African Christianities and new indigenous religious movements; the interconnectedness between religion and migration, globalization, politics, economy, media and the civil society.

Steven Sandage, Professor Boston University is Albert and Jessie Danielsen Professor of Psychology of Religion and Theology at Boston University and Director of Research at the Danielsen Institute. He has received rewards for combining theology and psychology in research on topics like forgiveness, spiritual development, family therapy and relational development, and he is also a licensed psychologist practicing at the Danielsen Institute.