Join us in beautiful San Francisco as keynote speakers Mark Juergensmeyer (UC Santa Barbara), Saskia Sassen (Columbia), Nayan Chanda (Yale)—and ten other presenters -- explore the dynamics of globalizing forces on the established and emerging religions of South and East Asia. How do communication technologies, capital flows, security issues, transnationalism, immigration and migration, and identity politics contribute to social conditions in which some kinds of religious belief and practice prosper and proliferate, while others are adversely affected? Additional themes and issues can be found on our website at http://www.pacificrim.usfca.edu/religionandglobalization.html.

If you wish to present a paper, please submit a 200 word abstract and brief CV to the CFP address listed on our website no later than August 30, 2008. Each presenter will be awarded an honorarium of $350 to help defray travel and conference expenses. Open registration for the conference--which will be limited to 120 participants--will begin August 15 and end November 30, 2008. Sponsored by the USF Center for the Pacific Rim.