Tel Aviv & Tuzba: International Conference “Religious Perspectives on the Public Sphere: Neutrality, Pluralism and the Secular” (12-15 dicembre 2011)

Monday, December 12th, 2011

20:00 Welcome Dinner in Tel Aviv

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

8:45 Leaving for Tzuba.

10:30 Silvio Ferrari, Shai Lavi & Suzanne Last Stone – Academic Committee
Opening remarks

11:00 Silvio Ferrari, University of Milan/RELIGARE
Religion and the Public/Private Divide

12:15 Suzanne Last Stone, Cardozo Law School New York

The Ambiguities of Public Space in Rabbinic Thought

13:15 Lunch

15:00 Gerhard Robbers, University of Trier

Public and Private in Protestantism

16:15 David C. Flatto, Penn State University

Religious Law and its Limits: A Study of Rabbinic Thought, in Comparison with Christian and Muslim Perspectives

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

9:00 Norman Doe, Cardiff University

Public/Private, Sacred/Secular Distinctions in the Laws of the Churches of the Worldwide Anglican Communion

10:15 Nikos Maghioros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Private and Public According to the Orthodox Canonical Tradition

11:30 Mathias Rohe, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg/RELIGARE

Religion and the Public Sphere in Islam: Concepts of Dominance and Pluralism in Past and Present

12:30Lunch

14:00 Mark Hill, Cardiff University

Public Ministry in the Law of the Church of England

15:15 Hasan Hacak, Marmara University

The Basis and Effects of Private-Public Law Division in Classical Islamic Law

16:30 Amos Israel, Tel Aviv University

Jewish Law and the Public/Private Divide: Religious Spatial Coping in the Modern/Secular World.

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

9:00 Marco Ventura, University of Siena

Catholic Canon Law: the Absolutist Rule that Made Pluralist Democracy Possible

10:15 Asher Maoz, Tel Aviv University

Neutrality in the Public Sphere – Between State and Religion

11:30 Pieter Coertzen, University of Stellenbosch

Religion in the Public Space of a Pluralistic Society – Reformed Theological Perspectives

12:45 Shai Lavi, Tel Aviv University

Religion and the Public/Private Sphere: Concluding Remarks

14:00Lunch

15:00 Round Table Discussion and Conclusion