Schedule

Introduction to Conference

(Dr Anita C. Ray)

Prof Francis X. Clooney

Prof Catherine Cornille

Dr Diego Cucarella M.Afr.

Breakout 1

Rev. Yesudasan Remias

End of day’s sessions.

Comments on previous day’s learning

(Prof Francis X Clooney)

Prof Marianne Moyaert

Dr Makoto Sawai

Breakout 2 (45 mins)

Breakout 3 (45 mins)

Dr Emmanuel Nathan

Concluding remarks: Executive Dean,

Faculty of Theology & Philosophy, Prof Dermot Nestor,

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Andrew Kingsford

Title: ‘Saiva Ritual Defended - and Repudiated? A Comparison of the views of Arumuga Navalar and J.M. Nallaswami Pillai.’

Dr Amanda Burritt (University of Melbourne) / Dr Katharine Massam (University of Divinity, Melbourne).

Title: ‘Stories of Faith’

Dr Albertus Bagus Laksana SJ. Title:‘Comparative Theology and Inter-religious Learning: Religious Identity and Citizenship in a Plural Society.’

Assoc. Prof John D’Arcy May. Trinity College Dublin, Australian Catholic University. Title: ‘Non-duality: A Christian Option?’

Prof Ismail Albayrak. Title: The notion of ‘spiritual narrowness’, ‘spiritual breadth’ and inner peace in the context of the believer’s life under hardship: with special references to Said Nursi and Aleksander Solzhenitsyn

Dr Christopher Longhurst. Lecturer in theology, The Catholic Institute of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Title: ‘Interfaith Dialogue through Comparative Theology in Abstract Pictorial Art.’

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Prof Michael Stoeber. Title: ‘Indigenous and Roman Catholic Canonizations of Nicholas Black Elk: Postcolonial Issues and Inter-religious Implications of Black Elk Speaks.’

Assoc. Prof John Dupuche

Title: ‘Comparative theology and religious education in Catholic Schools.’

Ven. A/Professor Alex Bruce Title: ‘Self & Salvation in Evagrius Ponticus and Tsongkhapa.’

Dr Suleyman Sertkaya. Title: ‘The Concept of Infallibility: A Comparative Approach.’

Philip Morrissey

Title: ‘”We have a Law now”: A story of Being from the Aboriginal tradition.’

Dr Antonia Pizzey Title: ‘I am Who I am because of Who We All Are’: Exploring Links between Comparative Theology and Receptive Ecumenism.’

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Mr Michael Atkinson. Doctoral Candidate, La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Title: ‘Reciprocal illumination: extending the theory.’

Prof Constant Mews, Director, Centre for Religious Studies, School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University, Melbourne. Title: ‘Songlines and Sacred Teaching: Aquinas, Charlesworth and renewing contemplative pedagogies

Prof Celestina Omoso Isiramen. Department of Religious Management & Cultural Studies, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria. Title: ‘Religious Identity: A Pedagogy for Interreligious Education among Nigerian Christians.’

Assoc. Prof. Amy Yu Fu. Dept. of English, Zhejiang University City College, Hangzhou, China. Title: ‘Selfhood and the “Unity of Knowing and Action”: Comparative Study of Wang Yang-ming and Swami Vivekananda’s Thought.’

Dr Hakan Coruh. Islamic Studies, Charles Sturt University, Sydney campus. Title: ‘The Notion of Wisdom (Hebrew hokhmah; Arabic hikmah) in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic Traditions.’

Mr Fatih Tuncer. Whittlesea City Council, Melbourne. Title: ‘Was Rumi a Comparative Theologian?’