MODES OF RELIGIOSITY:
THE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE
A Conference Sponsored by
The British Academy
The John Templeton Foundation
and
The University of Vermont
1 - 5 August 2002
The University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Thursday, 1 August
7:00 p.m. - OPENING RECEPTION, Waterman Manor
Friday, 2 August: MEMORIAL LOUNGE, Waterman
8:00 a.m. - Continental Breakfast
8:45 a.m. - Welcome: Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont
Session 1: 9:00-12:15 a.m., Brian Malley, University of Michigan, Presiding
9:00 a.m. -
E. Thomas Lawson, Western Michigan University
"The Wedding of Psychology, Ethnography and
History: Methodological Bigamy or Tripartite
Free Love"
10:00 a.m. -
Steven Mithen, Reading University
"The Development of Religiosity in the Prepottery Neolithic of Western Asia"
11:00-11:15 - BREAK
11:15 a.m. -
Karen Johnson, University of Michigan
"No Need to Write this Down: Primary
Emergence of the Doctrinal Mode in the Fifth and
Fourth Millenia in Southwestern Iran"
12:30 - LUNCH: Waterman Manor
Session 2: 2:00-6:30 p.m., Steven Hrotic, University of
Presiding
Vermont,
2:00 p.m. -
Douglas L. Gragg, Emory University
"Old and New in Roman Religion: A Cognitive
Accent
3:00 p.m. -
Roger Beck, University of Toronto
"Four Men, Two Sticks, and a Whip: Image and
Doctrine in a Mithraic Ritual"
4:00-4:30 -
BREAK
4:30 p.m. -
Anita Leopold, Aarhus University
"Syncretism and the Interaction of Modes of
Religiosity: A Formative Perspective in `GnosticChristian' Movements in Late Antiquity"
5:30 p.m. -
Keith Hopkins, King's College, Cambridge
"Why Did Early Christianity Win?"
7:00 p.m. -
DINNER: Waterman Manor
SATURDAY, 3 AUGUST: Memorial Lounge, Waterman
8:00 a.m. - Continental Breakfast
Session 3: 9:00-12:15 a.m., Todd Tremlin, Western Michigan
Presiding
9:00 a.m. -
University,
Anne Clark, University of Vermont
"Testing the two Modes: Some Observations on
Medieval Christianity"
10:00 a.m. -
Theodore Vial, Virginia Wesleyan College
"Modes of Religiosity and Changes in Popular
Religious Practices at the Time of the
Reformation"
11:00-11;15 - BREAK
11:15 a.m. -
Tom Sjöblom, University of Helsinki
"Storytelling: Narratives and the Modes of
Religiosity in early Irish Tradition"
12:30 - LUNCH: Waterman Manor
Session 4: 2:00-6:30 p.m., William E. Paden, University of
Presiding
2:00 p.m. -
Vermont,
Ilkka Pyysiäinen, University of Helsinki
"Revivalism as Counterbalancing the "Third
Mode Effect'"
3:00 p.m. -
Ulrich Berner, Bayreuth University
"Modes of Religiosity and Theories of
Conversion in Late Antiquity and in Modern
Africa"
4:00-4:30 -
BREAK
4:30 p.m. -
Weigang Chen, University of Vermont
"Modern Chinese Religion"
5:30 p.m. -
Kevin Trainor, University of Vermont
"Text and Imagery in Early Buddhism"
Sunday, 4 August: Waterman Manor
8:00 a.m. -
Continental Breakfast
Session 5: 9:00-12:15, Rebekah Richert, University of
9:00 a.m. -
Veikko Anttonen, Turku University, Finland
Virgina, Presiding
"On Modes of Religiosity within Prehistoric
Baltic Sea Cultures"
10:00 a.m. -
Patrick Hutton, University of Vermont
"Benjamin Remembers Blanqui: The Cult of
Memory and the French Revolution"
11:00-11:15 - BREAK
11:15 a.m. -
Shane Barney, University of Vermont
"Edith Cavell: Propaganda, Legend, Myth, and
Memory"
12:30 - BOX LUNCH (picnic on the green, weather permitting)
Session 6: 2:00-4:30 - Jeppe Sinding Jensen, Aarhus University, Presiding
2:00 p.m. -
Benson Saler, Brandeis University
"Finding Wayú Religion"
3:00 p.m. -
Donald Wiebe, Trinity College, Toronto
"Theoretical reflections on the `Modes' Theory"
4:00-4:15 -
BREAK
4:15 p.m. Belfast
Harvey Whitehouse, Queen's University of
"Concluding Remarks"
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7:30 p.m. - CLOSING BANQUET: Opaline Restaurant
One Lawson Lane, Burlington
(Cash Bar: from 6:00 p.m.)
RSVP by 6:00 p.m. Saturday, 3 August,
regrets only
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Monday, 5 August
7:30 a.m. - Continental Breakfast, Department of Religion,
481 Main Street