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Benjamin E. Zeller<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of Religion at\u00a0Lake Forest College, in the Chicago\u00a0metro area (USA). He researches religious\u00a0currents that are new or alternative, including new\u00a0religions, the religious\u00a0engagement with science, and the quasi-religious relationship people\u00a0have with\u00a0food.\u00a0\u00a0He is author of\u00a0Prophets and Protons: New Religious\u00a0Movements and Science in\u00a0Late Twentieth-Century America\u00a0(NYU Press, 2010), and\u00a0co-editor of the forthcoming\u00a0Religion,\u00a0Food, and Eating in North America\u00a0(Columbia University Press, 2014)\u00a0and\u00a0The Bloomsbury\u00a0Companion to\u00a0New Religious Movements\u00a0(Bloomsbury, 2014), and co-general editor\u00a0of\u00a0Nova\u00a0Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions.<\/p>\n The title of Prof. Zeller’s lecture at the conference is: “Totem and Taboo in the Grocery Store”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Gunnar af H\u00e4llstr\u00f6m<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr Theol., Cand.Hum., Professor of Systematic Theology at \u00c5bo Akademi University and senior lecturer of early Christian literature at the University of Turku.<\/p>\n The title of Prof. H\u00e4llstr\u00f6m’s lecture at the conference is: “Daily bread or heavenly bread? The meals of the early church as reflections of Christian ideology and search for identity.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Graham Harvey<\/strong> is Reader in Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. He is <\/span><\/p>\n President of the British Association for the Study of Religions and an advisor to the Oxford <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Centre for Animal Ethics<\/span>. His research among Jews, Pagans and indigenous peoples has<\/span><\/p>\n resulted in numerous publications, including Food, Sex and Strangers: Understanding <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Religion as Everyday Life<\/em> and The Handbook of Contemporary Animism <\/em>(both published <\/span><\/p>\n by Acumen in 2013). Both these books seek to advance more academic interest in <\/span><\/p>\n relationality both as an empirical matter for theorisation and as a position for conducting <\/span><\/p>\n scholarly activities. He is also a vegan. <\/span><\/p>\n The title of Dr Harvey\u2019s lecture is \u201cRespectfully eating or not eating horses, pigs, ants or <\/span><\/p>\n carrots: defining religion as everyday food rules\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Benjamin E. Zeller is Assistant Professor of Religion at\u00a0Lake Forest College, in the Chicago\u00a0metro area (USA). He researches religious\u00a0currents that are new or alternative, including new\u00a0religions, the religious\u00a0engagement with science, and the quasi-religious relationship people\u00a0have with\u00a0food.\u00a0\u00a0He is author of\u00a0Prophets and … Continue reading ![\"gunnarafh\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.abo.fi\/donnersymposium\/files\/gunnarafh.jpg\")
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