A Report on the 75th Annual Conference of the JARS<\/p>\n
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By The International Connections Committee<\/p>\n
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JARS held its 75th annual conference at Waseda University in Tokyo from September 9-11, 2016.\u00a0 A total of 627 people, including 75 non-member participants, attended.\u00a0 We owe the success of the conference to our conference organizers, and above all, to chief organizer, Professor Teruhisa Tajima.<\/p>\n
The theme of this year\u2019s opening symposium was \u201cBasic Problems of the Philosophy of Religion\u201d.\u00a0 Professor Emeritus Klause Riesenhuber of Sophia University made a public lecture entitled \u201cDie Frage nach dem Sinn: Zur Regrundung von Religionsphilosophie\u201d in Japanese, followed by two assigned commentators\u2019 comments and questions. Many participants attended them and enjoyed the presentations and discussions.<\/p>\n
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The conference organizers want to express their gratitude to the members for their kind collaboration.<\/p>\n
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You can find the texts of the presentations by the keynote speaker and the comments by the assigned commentators at the following URL: http:\/\/jpars.org\/annual_conference\/<\/p>\n
Speakers at the opening Symposium and their papers:<\/p>\n
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Public Lectures<\/p>\n
Basic Problems of the Philosophy of Religion<\/p>\n
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Klaus Riesenhuber (Sophia University), Die Frage nach dem Sinn: Zur Begr\u00fcndung von Religionsphilosophie<\/p>\n
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Masako Keta (Kyoto University), Report by Assigned Commentator: Dialogue between Professor Riesenhuber and Me<\/p>\n
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Hitoshi Minobe (Meiji University), Report by Assigned Commentator: The Absoluteness in the Meaning<\/p>\n
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