ABSTRACTS 2007

The following papers, workshops and presentations have been accepted and confirmed. Joint presentations appear under both names so are listed twice. All presentations are subject to change.

Abdelfattah, Hany: Out of the Wedlock: The Illegitimate Children as Beloved Sins in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter and Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, A Comparative Study

Rabbi Neil Amswych: "It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you free to neglect it" - Judaism and environmental change

Bishop, Jonathan: The Psychology of how Christ Created Faith and Social Change: Implications for the design of e-learning systems

Boyce-Tillman, June: The Hymn as Social Protest - a hymn writer reflects

Bullivant, Stephen: 'Son of God' or 'red son of a bitch'? John Steinbeck, Woody Guthrie & Left-wing Folk Christianity

Chapman, Victoria: Gerrard Winstanley: a seventeenth century quest for social change

Clark, Tim: The University and “Beaux-Arts” Modernity: Socio-Theological Practices, Remediation, and Sociopolitical Activism

Furney, Mandy and Klassen, Chris: Enchanting the City: Urban Pagan Discourses on Nature

Gardner, Fiona: Telling Places & Healing Spaces: theological reflections on projects that give a voice to those who have been silenced in the church

Gorski, Philip: 'Accursed Questions': radical religious dissent in the Russian novel

Grills, Nathan: Multilateral Organisational Schizophrenia: the conflicting motivations & ideals of multilateral organisations when engaging faith-based organisations

Haigh, Martin: Deep Ecology and the Sattvic Curriculum: An Alternative Education for a Self-sustaining Future

Hedges, Paul: Interfaith Dialogue and the Global Ethic

Hettiarachchi, Shanthikumar: Investing in the 'Faith Capital' as a means to Social Change

Hudoba, Peter, and Zhi Gang Sha: Soul Mind Body Medicine. A Complete Soul Healing System Using the Power of Soul [Workshop]

Indramohan, T. M. J.: Faith, Spirituality and Social Change: A Study in New Perspective

Inder, Deep: Organising Spiritual Protest in the Global Context

King, Anna: From Untouchable to Dalit: Gaining a Global Voice

Klassen, Chris and Furney, Mandy: Enchanting the City: Urban Pagan Discourses on Nature

Limb, Gillian: Change Your Feet! – a circle dance workshop

Logue Collins, Pauline: Silenced Wisdom: the systematic exclusion of the moral voice of inner city Dublin

Marjanic, Suzana: On the Subject of the Utopian Demand for Global Protest Against Geocide

Masaeli, Mahmoud: Globalization - The Return of Spirituality in International Relations

Miller, Hannah: Campaigning for Change: human rights vs. a moral mandate

Mahmoud, Samir: Sophia Perennis/Golden Chain in the Islamic Tradition : from Plato to Ibn ‘Arabi

Neal, Lucy: Dreaming the Impossible Dream: Mary Neal and the spiritual inspiration behind the English folk song and dance revival of the 20th century

Nwaomah, Sampson: Water in the Bible in the Context of the Ecological Debate in the Nigerian Delta

O'Brien, Clare: Mpira na Imani [Football and Faith]: the development of female football teams in Kenyan slums as unexpected venues for sustainable faith-based interventions

Osigwe, Uchenna: Problems with Religious Conceptions of the Environment

Stefan Pasti: Spiritually Responsible Investing: Integrating spiritual wisdom into the everyday circumstances of community life

Phillips, Tonya & Stewart, Graham: The Game of Now. [Workshop]

Scott, Jim: Surviving climate change - by force? persuasion? or enlightened self-interest?

Smith, John: Social Action by Local Faith Communities [Workshop]

Stewart, Graham & Phillips, Tonya: The Game of Now. [Workshop]

Terakunpisut, Jiranan (with N. Gajaseni as corresponding author): A study of local people knowledge on diversity and formation of Termitomyces spp. in Thong Pha Phum plantation, Kanchanaburi Province

Tomalin, Emma: Theology, Religious Studies and ‘Education for Sustainable Development': opportunities and limitations

Turnbull, Katherine: Gender, Islam and Spirituality in the Space of Western Consciousness

Umeh Onyinye Ifeoma: Holistic care of Christian nurses/midwives to pregnant Muslim women in the Northern Nigeria. A challenge to faith, spirituality and social change

Victorica, Guadalupe : Art for Social Change in Mexico and Art exhibit.

Victorica, Guadalupe: Presentation of De Nadie (No One) by Tin Dirdamal, a documentary film about Latin American migration

Walker, Brian: Peaceful Conflict [Workshop]

Wallis, Robert: Pagans, 'Sacred Sites' & Faith-based Social Change

Zaylia, Jessica: The Criminal Justice System, Women & Christianity in the US: women of faith surviving, but not reporting abuse

Zhi Gang Sha and Hudoba, Peter: Soul Mind Body Medicine. A Complete Soul Healing System Using the Power of Soul [Workshop]