NOREL CIVIL SOCIETY MEETING 

May 31 – June 1 2011 

Tampere, Finland

 

Tuesday May 31

09:00-09:15 Kimmo Ketola: Welcome. Practical information.
09:15-10:00 Inger Furseth: Civil society group – research aims, sub-themes and indicators. Goals for the meeting.
10:00-10:30 Tour of The Church Research Institute. Coffee
10:30-12:00 Kimmo Ketola: Religious pluralisation in Finland.
Lars Ahlin:
Membership rates in religious organizations.
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:30 Annette Leis-Peters: Preliminary findings and research situation in Sweden.

Bjarni Randver Sigurvinsson:
Religion and civil society.

14:30-14:45 Coffee
14:45-15:30 Inger Furseth and Pål Repstad: Preliminary findings and research situation in Norway.
15:30-17:00 Research situation, available data, progress, future timetables and publication plans. Discussion
18:30 Dinner

 

Wednesday June 1

09:00-10:30

Inger Furseth: The leadership study – possible avenues for comparable data.

Inger Furseth and Pål Repstad: NOREL study of leaders.

Lars Ahlin: The status in Denmark.

Kimmo Ketola: Views on the relations between faith and worldview communities in Finland: A progress report.

10:30-10:45 Coffee

10:45-12:00

Annette Leis Peters: The status in Sweden.
Bjarni Randver Sigurvinsson: The status in Iceland.

Research situation, goals, future timetables and publication plans. Discussion

12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Inger Furseth: Conclusions from the meeting. Goals, timetables and publication plans.