Religion and Secularization in Europe?

Friday, April 24, 2009
9:30 AM - 7:00 PM (Pacific)

Stanford Humanities Center 424 Santa Teresa Street Stanford University

AGENDA

9:30AM	Welcome
10:00AM - 12:00PM	Morning Session “Religious Divisions After the Reformation: A Spur to Secularization?” Benjamin Kaplan (University College London) “Judaism in Europe” John Efron (UC Berkeley)
2:00PM - 4:00PM	First Afternoon Session “Secularism and Islam in Europe” John Bowen (Washington University, Saint Louis) “The Vatican, the EU, and the Enduring Dream of a ‘Catholic Europe” Tim Byrnes (Colgate University)
4:30PM - 6:30PM	Second Afternoon Session “American and European Exceptionalisms Revisited” Jose Casanova (Georgetown University) “Is there really a religious Europe? Some remarks on European diversity” Friedrich Wilhelm Graf (Universität München)
6:30PM - 7:00PM	Concluding Discussion

Co-sponsored by the Stanford Department of Religious Studies, the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, the Mediterranean Studies Forum, the Department of History, the Stanford Humanities Center,and the Forum on Contemporary Europe.

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