Sat 2 May 2009

Church and mission in a multireligious third millennium

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From Peter Fischer-Nielsen via email:

A conference at Aarhus University, Denmark – January 27-29 2010

Website: http://www.teo.au.dk/churchandmission

One of the four main themes of this conference is "Church in Cyberspace." This section welcomes all papers examining the relationship between church, mission and the new media, especially the Internet. How do the new media affect the ways in which the church operates? What impact do secularization, globalization and multireligiosity have on the church in cyberspace? Does the Internet offer new alternatives to traditional approaches to mission? Can church and congregational communities be built in cyberspace? Both theoretical and empirical approaches are most welcome.

Read more in the call for papers on http://www.teo.au.dk/churchandmission/callforpapers.

 

Sat 2 May 2009

Lecture series on the role of art in faith

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From my mate Garry:

Friends of St Paul’s Cathedral, Melbourne, are hosting a three-part lecture series Beyond Angels and Demons: Illuminating Faith: The Role of Art in Religion. The first lecture will be given on Thursday 30 April 2009 at 6.30pm at St Paul’s Cathedral by Dr Felicity Harley-McGowan of the University of Melbourne on Early Christian Art. Dr Harley-McGowan will demonstrate how early Christians adopted and adapted symbols and pictorial types from the cultures around them to present their beliefs.

Future lectures will be given by Professor Margaret Manion (14 May) and Sr Rosemary Crumlin (11 June).