[eccr] Fwd: Critical Issues in Catholicism

>1st Global Conference
>Critical Issues in Catholicism
>
>Thursday 4th December - Saturday 6th December 2003
>Vienna, Austria
>
>Call for Papers
>(Please cross post where appropriate)
>
>In the post Vatican II era the Roman Catholic Church has undergone
>considerable change. For some the changes have caused concern over
>issues of continuity and uniformity, believing that the church has
>lost touch with the rituals, practices and language that had defined
>it for centuries. For such people Vatican II is seen to have
>contributed to the weakening of Catholic teachings and the
>undermining of the Church's authority. For others, however, the
>changes inspired by Vatican II have not been implemented fast enough,
>nor do they go far enough, believing that without further
>transformation the Church will increasingly be regarded as outdated,
>over-bearing and irrelevant.
>
>The conference will seek to provide a forum for the exploration and
>examination of critical issues and questions such as these, with the
>hope that the presentations and the discussion they provoke will be a
>focus for dialogue and progress.
>
>The conference is to be inter- and multi-disciplinary. Papers,
>presentations and workshops are invited on any of the following
>themes;
>
>1. The Clergy:
>What defines a priest?
>A priest forever? Attitudes towards clergy who leave their vocation
>Clerical celibacy and married Catholic clergy
>The decline of vocations in traditionally Catholic countries
>The role of the permanent deaconate
>
>2. The Laity:
>Lay involvement and responsibility
>'Movements' within the Church
>Education and evangelisation
>Attitudes to 'lapsed' Catholics
>
>3. The Church in the World:
>Unity in diversity - race and culture within the Catholic Church
>Poverty and excess - the Church's response to the divide between rich
>and poor
>Rendering unto Caesar - Church state relations
>Views of Catholicism from outside of the Church
>
>4. Issues of Sex and Sexuality:
>Attitudes towards homosexuality
>Attitudes towards women within the Church
>Divorce and remarriage
>Contraception and health
>Paedophilia and prejudice
>
>5. Exclusivity and Ecumenism:
>Relations with other denominations
>Relations with other faiths
>Excommunication and exclusion
>Sectarianism and suspicion
>
>Papers will be considered on any related theme. 300 word abstracts
>should be submitted to both the Joint Organising Chairs by Friday 1st
>August 2003; Full draft papers should be submitted by Friday 21st
>November 2003. Papers should be in Word, WordPerfect or RTF format
>and may be sent as an attachment or in the body of the email.
>
>Peter Day
>University of Bristol
>Email: (pete-day /at/ ukonline.co.uk)
>
>Maria Way
>University of Westminster
>Email: (M.D.Way /at/ westminster.ac.uk)
>
>The conference is sponsored by Inter-Disciplinary.Net and Learning
>Solutions as part of the 'Critical Issues?programme of research
>projects. It aims to bring together people from different areas and
>interests to share ideas and explore various discussions which are
>innovative and exciting.
>
>All papers accepted for and presented at this conference will be
>published in an ISBN eBook. Selected papers will be developed for
>publication in a themed hard copy volume. The project is also to be
>supported by an e-mail discussion group and ISSN e-journal.
>
>For further details about the project please see
>http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/rc/rc.htm
>For further details about the conference please see
>http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/rc/rc03cfp.htm

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