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Secular Europe, Religious America:

Religion, Politics and the Transatlantic Divide Laying the Ground for an Intercultural Dialogue

This conference is devoted to understanding how the religiosity of American society vis-à-vis Western European societies exacerbates the tension between the United States and Europe.

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Sunday, October, 30 2005

7:30 pm

Session 1

Welcome

Dr. Ismar Schorsch, Chancellor, The Jewish Theological Seminary

Dr. Alan Mittleman, The Jewish Theological Seminary

Dr. Norbert Wagner, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Historical Trajectories of Politics and Religion in the US and EU

Hon. Mickey Edwards, Princeton University and the Aspen

Institute

Ministerpräsident a.D. Erwin Teufel, Member of the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg

Prof. Wilfred McClay, University of Tennessee

Prof. Michael Zoeller, University of Bayreuth

Chair: Dr. Norbert Wagner, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Monday, October 31, 2005

9:00 am

Session 2

Political Sociology of Religion in the US and EU

Prof. Barry Kosmin, Jewish Policy Research Institute, UK and Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Prof. John Green, University of Akron and the Pew

Research Center

Chair: Prof. Amy Uelmen, Director, Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer's Work, Fordham University School of Law

11:00 pm

Session 3

Attitudes toward the Authority of Science in the US and Europe

Prof. Dr. Manfred Marquardt, Theologisches Seminar

Reutlingen

Prof. Robert Pollack, Columbia University

Prof. Kent Greenawalt, Columbia University Law School

Chair: Prof. Jonathan Imber, Wellesley College

Luncheon speaker:

Dr. Mohammad Fadel, Ägypten/USA Director, National Association of Muslim Lawyers Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP

2:00 pm

Session 4

Religion and Foreign Policy

Prof. Otto Kallscheuer, Free University Berlin

Dr. Harvey Sicherman, Foreign Policy Research Institute

Dr. Luis Lugo, Pew Research Center

Chairman: Hillel Fradkin, Director, Center for Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World, Hudson Institute, Washington

3:30 pm

Concluding Roundtable on Religion, National Identity, and Intercultural Dialogue (especially with the Muslim world)

Prof. James Kurth, Swarthmore College

Dr. Peter Steinfels, Fordham University

Msgr. J.Anthony Mc Daid, Rome

Chairman: Dr. Alan Mittleman, The Jewish Theological Seminary

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New York

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Secular Europe, Religious America: Religion, Politics and the Transatlantic Divide Laying the Ground for an Intercultural Dialogue
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