Speakers & Topics

           

Dharma: Interface between Sacred and Secular
Name of the Speaker
Title of the Paper

1.                  Adaina K. C.
Do Notions of the Sacred Guide the Ethic of Reciprocity? A Case of Rongmei Indigenous Environmental Practices and Economic Behaviour
2.                  Anto Amarnad
Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bengaluru
Does God have a future? A Philosophico-theological Appraisal
3.                  Ajit Kumar Behura
Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad
Dharma in Purva-Mimamsa: Secular and Sacred
4.                  Anupama  Nayar
Christ University, Bengaluru
Joycean Novels: A Broad Secularizing Project
5.                  Aparna Vincent
University of Hyderabad
The Sacredness of Secular Symbols: A Reading from the Indian Experience
6.                  Ashok Sajjanhar
National Foundation for Communal Harmony, New Delhi
Peace and Development - The Indian Experience
7.                   Augustine Thottakkara
 Centre for Study of World Religions, Bangalore
The Process of Vidyā-dāna: The Discipline Proposed by the Upanisads
8.                  Biju K. Chacko
Christ University, Bangalore
Kolam Practice Among Christians - an Art Cuts across Religious Boundaries
9.                  C. F. John
Bangalore
Body. Art. Spirituality
10.               Chae Young Kim
Sogang University, Seoul
Granville Stanley Hall and Carl Gustav Jung on Religious Experience
11.              David Lewin
Liverpool Hope University
Heidegger East and West: Philosophy as Educative Contemplation
12.              Davis Panadan
Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore
Constitutionality of Personal Laws and Uniform Civil Code in India
13.              Davis Varayilan
Samanvaya, Bhopal
Theological Education in the Living Context: A Samanvaya Model
14.              Davis Vithayathil
Institute of Philosophy, Calvary, Thrissur
Interface between Sacred & Secular: A Call Within Metaxological Mindfulness
15.             Divya Pradeep
Economic Underpinnings of Religious Giving
16.              Duane Williams
Liverpool Hope University
The Why and What of Philosophy of Religion: Towards a New Methodology for Pedagogical Practice
17.              Edwin George
Don Bosco Youth Centre, Chennai
Sacred and Secular: An Interpretation with Panikkarian Vision and Dallmayrian Concerns
18.              Erik Meganck
Catholic University, Leuven
Secularisation and Violence
19.              Etienne Rassendren
St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore
Religion and Literature: Of Cultural
Hegemonies and Discursive Resistances
20.              Francis Arackal
St. Joseph’s College, Bangalore
Media - the all pervasive being/entity of our times
21.              George Karuvelil
Jana Deepa Vidyapith, Pune
Philosophy and Religious Diversity: Epistemological Explorations
22.              Gerard Rassendran
Christ University
Do Notions of the Sacred Guide the Ethic of Reciprocity? A Case of Rongmei Indigenous Environmental Practices and Economic Behaviour
23.  Ismath Ramzy
University of Malaya
Managing Domestic Violence: Religious Perspective with Special Reference to Islam
Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram
The Interface between Divine and Human in the Language and Imagery of Love in the Book of Hosea
Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore
Mercy as a Hermeneutic Principle in Catholic Canon Law: A Critical Analysis of Walter Casper’s Thinking
Centre for the Study of World Religions
Religion – Private Vis-a-Vis Public: Philosophical Investigations after Wittgenstein
Centre for the Study of World Religions
Evolution of Secularism and Its Impact on the Conditions of Religion: A Taylorean Perspective
Satya Nilayam Research Institute for Philosophy, Chennai
Mircea Eliade’s Philosophy of Religion: The Reality and its Relevance Today
Sacred Heart School, Amritsar
Religious Significance of the Literary Genre of Autobiography: A Study based on Confessions of St Augustine
Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore
Ecology vis- à-vis Human Ecology after Pope Benedict XVI
Economic Underpinnings of Religious Giving
St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai
Cosmogenesis: Healing our Disparity of Cult  through  Prophetic Speech
Christ University, Bangalore
Tamil Society’s Engagement with Secular and Sacred: An Overview of Multiple Traditions
Liverpool Hope University
Religious Diversity and the Feminist Subject:
A Perspective from Feminist Philosophy of Religion
35.  Paul Moyaert
Catholic University, Leuven
Praying with Icons Is Touching God in His Image
Chethana Music College, Thrissur
Karnatic Music and Christianity: An Ethnomusicological Approach
Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore
Celebration of the Holy Qurbana as a Comingling of Earth and Heaven
38.  Peter Tyler
St Mary’s University, London
Rabindranath Tagore and Ludwig Wittgenstein: Two Sentinels on the Borderlands of Modernity
St Francis College, Eluru
Dharmartha Marga: Path of Management Gurus with Success Mantras
Deakin University, University of Melbourne
Grief and Dharma: Secularisation of a Sacred Emotion
41.  Renu Paul
Benaras Hindu University
Towards a Dharmic Vision for Religion and Ethics
42.  Robert Pen
Divyadaan: Salesian Institute of Philosophy, Nashik
Understanding the Role of Religion in a Media-Centric Society
Christ University, Bangalore
Dharma as a Binary Identity
Indian School of Mines, Dhabad
Dharma in Purva-Mimamsa: Secular and Sacred
Darsana Institute of Philosophy, Wardha
Harmony of Theos and Cosmos in Tribal Religions
Dharmaram Vidya kshetram, bangalore
The Meaning of Sexuality: Can the Christian and Secular Approaches Meet?
Mahabodhi Centre for Theravada Buddhist Studies
Buddhist Monastic Education: The Living Legacy of Dhamma
Christ University, Bangalore
Littoral Drift: Intertidal Corporeal and Spiritual Selves in Akka Mahadevi
Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore
 History, Religion and Human Development in St. Ephrem the Syrian
Pontifical Institute Alwaye
Two Identity Builders in Amity and Enmity: Religion and Politics
Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore
Dismantling the Human Construct of Dichotomy between Secular and Sacred - A Wittgenstenian Way
Hong Kong Baptist University
Public Theology(ies) or Theologised by Public