UPCOMING EVENTS
2013 Sea of Faith Conferences
Religion & Sex
13 - 15 September 2013
Toowoomba, Queensland
Sex!
It’s fundamental; it leads to ecstasy and crime; it’s linked to love, freedom, jealousy, renewal, shame, repression, release, dysfunction, obsession, recreation, regulation and identity; without it there is no future.
Little wonder that sex has figured prominently in all religions in all eras. The 2013 SoFiA Conference offers a chance to hear four informed voices exploring the science, the history, the pathology and the current state of play regarding the intersection of religion and sex.
Register now!
Speakers:
Glen McBride (Emeritus Professor of Social Ethology in the Animal Behaviour unit, Psychology Department, University of Queensland) - ‘The Sexy Ape’
Rev. Dr Steven Ogden (Seminary Dean, St Francis Anglican Theological College, Brisbane) - ‘Hope: the chequered history of sex and the Church’
Stephen Smallbone (Psychologist and Professor, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University and Director of Griffith Youth Forensic Service) - ‘Trust betrayed: sexual abuse in religious settings’
Dr Leslie Cannold (Award-winning author, columnist, ethicist and researcher based at the Gender, Leadership and Social Sustainability Research Unit, Monash University) - ‘Religion & sex in contemporary Australia‘
Venue:
Picnic Point Conference Centre, Toowoomba
Indicative Program:
Friday 13 September (6.30pm start)
Registration
Multi-faith panel Q&A
Saturday 14 September (8.30am start)
Glen McBride: ‘The sexy ape’
Steven Ogden: ‘Hope: the chequered history of sex and the Church’
Stephen Smallbone: ‘Trust betrayed: sexual abuse in religious settings’
Workshop/seminar session 1
Sunday 15 September (8.30am start)
Leslie Cannold: ‘Religion & sex in contemporary Australia’
Workshop/seminar session 2
Plenary session Q&A
12.30pm finish
Toowoomba on Queensland’s Darling Downs is 90 minutes west of Brisbane. During the Conference the city will be resplendent as it awaits the start of the Carnival of Flowers festival (which officially begins Sept 21, 2013).
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