The purpose of the conference was to discuss the role of religion, literature, and culture in disseminating and/or transforming various kinds of normativity. 

Questions raised and discussed in the 13 panels

• Has modern literature replaced scripture and become the medium for finding norms for life, answers to ethical questions, material for new ethical thinking and for the construction of identity?
• Can a “rewritten Bible” - understood in terms of reception and transformation - be a new authoritative/normative text? If so, what is it in the text or outside the text that gives it this authority?
• Why are movies and images considered by some groups more dangerous to religion than words, while other groups see them as a fruitful or even necessary way to express religious ideas and feelings?
• Why are some religions more open to artistic renderings/creations of gods or holy persons than other religions?