PRELIMINARY PROGRAM Monday, March 11 Liberation Theology in Latin America: Its Past and Its Future SYMPOSIUM Thursday, April 18 One Nation Under God? Religion and Politics in the U.S. Friday, April 19 Religion in Public Life Religion and the Media: Controversies and Coverage from Rushdie to Waco Religion and Media in the U.S. Religion and the Media: Controversies and Coverage from Rushdie to Waco Religion, Media and the World Symposium Welcome Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award and Address Defying Disenchantment: Religion and Modernity/Authority and Resistance The Future of Jerusalem: A City for all Religions Cultural Dialogues of Resistance Embodied Imperative: An Illustrated Essay on Martyrs and Martyrologies Saturday, April 20 Religion and Science Divine or International Covenant? Religion and Human Rights Religion: A Catalyst for Social Change? Belief Beyond Borders: Religion and International Politics Jerusalem: The Garden of Eden Beyond Intolerance: Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Beirut, Belfast, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, and Sarajevo Sunday, April 21 Landscapes of Terror and Memories: The Art of Samuel Bak Sacred Violence and Sacred Pacifism: The Paradox of Interpretation Religion and Conflict Resolution Music, Religion and Identity

What is the role of religion in today's world? Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, liberation theology in Chiapas, the involvement of the church in overthrowing Communism in Eastern Europe, China's challenge to the Dalai Lama's successor, the Waco siege, the suppression of the Islamic Salvation Front in Algeria, the threats against author Salman Rushdie -- all dramatically challenge prior assumptions about the diminishing influence of religion. What is the relationship between civil society and religion? Is modernization -- defined in terms of secularism and scientism -- incompatible with either tradition or religion?

Our eleventh international symposium convened a diverse group of believers and skeptics. As theologins, policymakers, historians, anthropologists, philosophers, scientists, international relation experts, and sociologists, they examined the resurgent status of religion on global and domestic politics.

They considered the geopolitics and the geoculture of the alleged "clash of civilizations" and explored the role of religion in conflict and peacemaking from Ireland to Guatemala, from Bosnia to South Africa. Studying the encounters between religious nationalisms and secular states, they looked at the destruction and plans for reconstruction of multiethnic, multireligious societies; at the religious roots of violence and pacifism; and at the selective interpretation of tradition and memory in confrontations from India's Ayodhya mosque to Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Additionally, they debated the contentious terms of "fundamentalism" and "syncretism"; the role of religion and ritual as cultural resistance; comparative religious ethics and cross-cultural attitudes towards human rights and human values; women and religion; science, faith and the search for order; and the role of religion in American politics.