Theology and Exclusion
The University of Manchester, Friday 27th March 2015
For the day schedule, please click here.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anna Rowlands, Durham University
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Joerg Rieger, SMU Perkins, Dallas, USA
How should theology respond to exclusion?
What scriptural and liturgical resources are available to address exclusion?
What do we understand by ‘exclusion’
For the day schedule, please click here.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Anna Rowlands, Durham University
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Joerg Rieger, SMU Perkins, Dallas, USA
How should theology respond to exclusion?
What scriptural and liturgical resources are available to address exclusion?
What do we understand by ‘exclusion’
Bringing together post-graduates and early career researchers from a variety of humanities disciplines – English literature, Philosophy, Religious Studies, Sociology, Theology and Biblical studies, Psychology and History - and a range of religious traditions ‘Theology and Exclusion’ seeks to address contemporary theology and religious studies in the context of marginalization.
Exclusion has been a recurrent theme in the Christian tradition, allowing believers to think critically about various cultural, social, political, ecclesiological and economic challenges. Yet in engaging with the theme of exclusion, both academic and religious communities continues to be presented with significant questions, not least: when we talk of exclusion from what is it that we have been excluded from? Furthermore, what particular resources are available to those doing theology/ies who are orientated towards the excluded and, secondly, how are they to proceed? And why historically have there been so many examples of theological traditions being complicit in the production and propagation of exclusion, and could it now be a force by which these are overcome?
We invite those who are interested in the relationship between theology, religious studies and ‘exclusion’, to submit a 100 words bio and a 250 word abstract for a twenty minute paper addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
Exclusion has been a recurrent theme in the Christian tradition, allowing believers to think critically about various cultural, social, political, ecclesiological and economic challenges. Yet in engaging with the theme of exclusion, both academic and religious communities continues to be presented with significant questions, not least: when we talk of exclusion from what is it that we have been excluded from? Furthermore, what particular resources are available to those doing theology/ies who are orientated towards the excluded and, secondly, how are they to proceed? And why historically have there been so many examples of theological traditions being complicit in the production and propagation of exclusion, and could it now be a force by which these are overcome?
We invite those who are interested in the relationship between theology, religious studies and ‘exclusion’, to submit a 100 words bio and a 250 word abstract for a twenty minute paper addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Defining Exclusion
- Categorizing exclusion
- Human dignity and theological anthropology
- Access to common goods
- Reconciliation and justice
- Exclusion in the life of the Church
- Interfaith perspectives on exclusion
- Exclusion and rights
- Sacraments and exclusion
- Exclusion and history/future
- Power and exclusion