Symposium / Colloque

Religious Experience

l’expérience religieuse

a symposium sponsored by Canadian Jacques Maritain Association
un colloque international co-parainé par l'association canadienne Jacques Maritain
in association with the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities 
en collaboration avec le Congrès des sciences sociales et humaines


June 3-4 juin, 2008

Locale /Conference Venue: 
University of British Columbia,
Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering Building, Room # 1206


For information on accommodation, click here or ici (format pdf)
For information on the programme of the Canadian Philosophical Association, which meets nearby, click here
For general information on the Congress, click here.
Pour des informations générales sur le congrès, cliquetez ici.

Tentative programme:

June 3, 2008
Morning Session: Religious Experience and God
9 am - 12:30
June 4, 2008
Morning Session: God and Politics
9 am - 12:30

Moderator: Chantal Beauvais
9.00 – 9.45    Richard Feist, Saint Paul University
A.N. Whitehead’s View of Experience in General and of God in Particular
9.45 – 10.30    Jonathan Lavery, Wilfrid  Laurier University, Brantford
Butler’s neglected account of moral agency and religious devotion
10.30 – 11.00    Break
11.00 – 11.45    Louis Perron, Saint Paul University
Transcendence fondamentale et experience religieuse
11.45 – 12.30    Phillip Wiebe, Trinity Western University, Langley
Grounding Theism in Religious Experience




Moderator:  Phillip Wiebe
9.00 – 9.45    Rajesh C. Shukla, Saint Paul University, Ottawa
            Religion, Politics and Liberal Democracy
9.45 – 10.30    Grant Havers, Trinity Western University, Langley
            The Politics of Religious Experience
10.30 – 11.00    Break
11.00 – 11.45    David Klassen, Independent Scholar, Vancouver
            Newman on the Role of Implicit Reason in Religious Belief
11.45 – 12.30    David Bellusci, Dominican University College
             Meister Eckhart: the Ascent to God
12.30 – 2.00    Lunch 12.30 – 2.00             Lunch
Afternoon Session: Religious Experience, Truth and Cognition
2 pm - 5:30 pm / 14h - 17h30
Afternoon Session: Religious Experience, Intuition and God
2 pm - 5:00 pm / 14h - 17h00

Moderator: Louis Perron
2.00 – 2.45    William Sweet, Saint Thomas University  Frederiction, NB
            Religious Experience, Truth and Demonstration
2.45 – 3.30    Thaddeus J. Trenn, University of Toronto
            We Are Not Our Own
3.30 – 4.00    Break
4.00 – 4.45    Chantal Beauvais, Saint Paul University
Edith Stein et Max Scheler : l’expérience de Dieu est-elle un fait d’ordre épistémologique ou moral?
4.45 – 5.30    Jon C. Miller, University of Ottawa
            Hume on Dreams and Miracles

Moderator: Richard Feist
2.00 – 2.45    Christopher Morrissey, Redeemer Pacific College, Langley
            Is the ‘Intuition of Being’ a religious experience?”
2.45 – 3.30    Gyongyi Hegedus, St. Xavier University, Antigonish
The Notion of the “Intuition of Being” in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Thought
3.30 – 3.45    Break
3.45 – 4.30    Leslie Armour, Dominican University College
            Religious Experience and Their Frameworks of Intelligibility
4.30 – 4.45    Closing Remarks by the President and other Officials of Maritain Association 


            



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For more information, please contact:

Dr Richard Feist,
Faculty of Philosophy, Université Saint-Paul / Saint Paul University
236 rue Main St., Ottawa, ON
tel: (613) 236-1393  poste/ext. 2459
























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