Copy of the Workshop Schedule

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
This workshop aims to explore the nature and different aspects of spiritual dissent. It is an open ended and collective exploration on dissident spirituality. The present exploration has been taking place at various levels for the last three years. The internet workshop (spiriutaldissent.blogspot.com) involving a number of scholars/practitioners from different corners of the world has revealed the complexity and diverse angles of the phenomenon of spiritual dissent. They have aroused a need for serious attention towards the issue instead of going for any hasty conclusion and judgment. This demands a silent, intimate, and informal mode of interaction. The presentations are meant for initiating intensive and elaborate discussion. Following are some of the topics, which would be presented by way of initiating the discussion:

Dr. Anantha Kumar Giri: Practical Spirituality and the calling of compassion and confrontation.

Dr.Partha Sarathi Mondal: Implications of the study of spiritual dissent.

Dr. P. Madhu: Conceptual Difficulties involved in the notion of ‘dissident spirituality’

Swami Vinaya Chaitnya: Spirituality of dropouts.

Dr. Ajay Sekhar: The politics of spirituality. The dissident spiritual practice of Poykayil Appachan and the shared legacy of Kerala Renaissance.

Dr. M. Gangadharan: Dissident streams of spirituality in the History of Kerala.

Parnab Mukherjee: Unbound-a performance project on Mahatma Gandhi's Hind Swaraj.

Dr. Jose George: Theatricality of spiritual performance.

Dr. Giorgio De Martino: Spirituality of Alternative Consciousness.

Maciej Kara Sinski: Integrating antagonistic Paths- Is Sri Vidya a dissident stream in Kaula Tantra?

Fr. Dr. George Joseph: Tribal cosmology- A dissident stream in spirituality.

Jeevanasi: Spirituality as everyday commitment.


Other participants:

A Mohankumar, Dr. S. Raju, Dr. V Dinesan, Dr. Iswar Dost, Sumanta Chakraborty,Dr. Rati Saxena, Laura Silvestri, Dr. Linda, Adi, Dr. K. J. Gsper, Dr. T. V. Madhu, Swami Sat Swarup, Dr. Vinod Chandran, …….