Friday, March 13
8:45 Registration opens
Continental Breakfast
9:30 Welcome remarks, John Nelson, Conference Chair (University of San Francisco)
Barbara Bundy (Executive Director, USF Center for the Pacific Rim)
9:45 – 10:30 “Religious Ambivalence to Globalization in Asia”
Keynote address, Mark Juergensmeyer (UC Santa Barbara)
10:30 – 10:50 Discussion
(Note: Each presenter will have 40 minutes, divided into 25 minutes for the talk and the rest for discussion.)
11:00 – 11:40 “Political and Economic Possibilities for Religious Dialogue between China and India”
Eric Hanson (Santa Clara University)
11:45 – 12:25 “Spiritual Economies: Islam and Globalization in Contemporary Indonesia”
Daromir Rudnyckyj (University of British Columbia, Victoria)
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
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2:45 – 1:30 “Happy Birthday Mazu: Empress of Heaven, Goddess of the Sea” [FILM]
Introduction by filmmaker Jonathan H.X. Lee (UC Santa Barbara)
(Please bring your lunch to this event)
1:40 – 2:20 “In Search of the Pure Land: Globalization and Buddhist Revival in Contemporary China”
Keping Wu (University of Hong Kong)
2:30 – 3:10 “Globalizing the Religious Market in China: How Incoming Foreign Religions Affect State
Religious Policy”
Noam Urbach (University of Haifa)
3:15 – 3:45 Break
3:45 – 4:30 “Buddhism and Globalization: The Rise of Early Asian Identity”
Keynote address, Nayan Chanda (Yale University)
4:30 – 4:50 Discussion
5:00 – 5:45 “Gender and Moral Visions in Indonesia”
Rachel Rinaldo (Kiriyama Fellow, USF Center for the Pacific Rim)
6:00 – 7:00 Reception
An international symposium presented by the USF Center for the Pacific Rim and Cosponsored with the USF Department of Theology & Religious Studies
Religion and Globalization in Asia:
Prospects, Patterns, and Problems for the 21st Century
Saturday, March 14
8:30 – 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 – 9:45 “The World’s Third Spaces: Novel Assemblages of Territory, Authority, and Rights”
Keynote Address, Saskia Sassen (Columbia University)
9:45 – 10:05 Discussion
10:10 – 10:50 “Localizing Global Patterns in Islamic Communities in China”
Michael C. Brose (University of Wyoming)
10:55 – 11:35 “Globalization, Nationalism, and Korean Religion in the 21st Century”
Don Baker (University of British Columbia, Vancouver)
11:40 – 12:20 “Asian New Religions and Global Soft Power”
Nancy Stalker (University of Texas, Austin)
12:20 – 12:30 Concluding Remarks, John Nelson, Conference Chair