Description

The Fifteenth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society is dedicated to religion in the public sphere: from the ancient years to the post-modern era.

Topics

Religious Community and Socialization
- Symbology in theory and practice
- Religious institutional governance
- Religiously-based schools and religion in public schools
- Religious education and religion studies
- Congregations and religious community
- Religion in ethnic, national, and racial identities
- Evangelism and conversion
- Media for religious messages
- Prayer, contemplation, and meditation
- Ritual, rite, liturgy
- Religious `ways of life` and lifeworld practices
- Meditation as healing and therapy
- Pilgrimage, tourism, and the search for spiritual meaning
- Religious art and architecture
- Religious leadership
Religious Foundations
- Sacred sources: sites, narratives, texts
- Religious values and aspirations
- Theological sources and resources
- Religious philosophies and philosophies of religion
- Creation accounts in science and religion
- World sources: religious and secular cosmologies
- Reason and faith: congruencies and conflicts
- World destinies: religious and secular eschatologies
- Science and religion: congruencies and conflicts on the sources of design in the natural world
- Traditional, modern, and postmodern orientations to religion
- Religious prophets: their messages and their meanings
- Religious counterpoints: agnosticism, atheism, materialism, and secularism
- Religion and law
- Religiosity: measures, forms, and levels of religious commitment
- The natural, the human, and the supernatural
- Religion and commerce
- Medical ethics and bioethics
- Rites and sites of passage: birth, adulthood, marriage, death
- Anthropologies, psychologies, and sociologies of religion