Program

10.00: Coffee and welcome

10.15-12.00: Professor Johannes Van der Ven: What is empirical theology – presented through the study of the influence of religious conviction on the attitude towards human rights

12-13: Lunch

13-16: Short presentations of empirical studies within theology in Denmark

• 13-13.30: Assistant Professor Kirstine Helboe Johansen: The understanding of rituals among ministers and wedding couples in The Church of Denmark
• 13.30-14.00: Ph.d. Marie Thomsen: Show me what you do – congregational studies in Denmark
• 14.00-14.30: Ph.d. Marianne Gaarden
• 14.30-15: Coffee-break
• 15.00-15.30: Stud. Theol. Thomas Buelund: Praying in an experiment – to do theology on experiments within the psychology of religion
• 15.30-16: Ph.d. and research assistant Jakob Egeris Thorsen: The Charismatic challenge – when charismatic awaking and institutionalized Christianity converge.

16-17: Discussion