Third International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in ... - AWID

8-9 March 2013

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Theme 1: Religious Foundations

On the sources, modes and manifestations of religiosity.

• Religious values and aspirations
• Sacred sources: sites, narratives, texts
• Religious philosophies and philosophies of religion
• Theological sources and resources
• World sources: religious and secular cosmologies
• Creation accounts in science and religion
• World destinies: religious and secular eschatologies
• Reason and faith: congruencies and conflicts
• Traditional, modern, and postmodern orientations to religion
• Science and religion: congruencies and conflicts on the sources of design in the natural world
• Religious counterpoints: agnosticism, atheism, materialism and secularism
• Religious prophets: their messages and their meanings
• Religiosity: measures, forms and levels of religious commitment
• Religion and law
• Religion and commerce
• The natural, the human and the supernatural
• Rites and sites of passage: birth, adulthood, marriage, death
• Medical ethics and bioethics
• Anthropologies, psychologies and sociologies of religion

Keywords:?Religion, Values, Sacred Texts Theology, Cosmology, Eschatology, Science, Atheism, Rites, Ethics.

Theme 2: Religious Community and Socialization

On learning religious ways, spiritual ways of life and religious institutions.

• Religious institutional governance
• Symbology in theory and practice
• Religious education and religion studies
• Religiously-based schools and religion in public schools
• Religion in ethnic, national and racial identities
• Congregations and religious community
• Media for religious messages
• Evangelism and conversion
• Ritual, rite, liturgy
• Prayer, contemplation, and meditation
• Meditation as healing and therapy
• Religious ?ways of life? and lifeworld practices
• Religious art and architecture
• Pilgrimage, tourism, and the search for spiritual meaning
• Religious leadership

Keywords:?Religion, Institutions, Education, Liturgy, Prayer, Leadership

Theme 3: Religious Commonalities and Differences

On variations in religious forms and the relationships between different religions.

• Comparative studies of religion
• Monotheism, polytheism and immanentist religions
• Indigenous or first nation spiritualities
• Inter-religious harmony
• Interfaith dialogue
• Religious diversity, tolerance and understanding
• Religions in globalization
• Centrifugal and centripetal forces: difference and interdependence
• Denominationalism: tendencies to fracture and recombination
• Literal and metaphorical readings of sacred texts
• Religion, identity, and ethnicity
• Interreligious education
• The nation state and religious exceptionalism
• Religious dual belonging
• Ecumenicalism
• Interfaith dialogue and international interfaith organizations

Keywords:?Religion, Comparative Religion, Religious Identity, Religious Diversity, Cultural Differences, Interfaith.

Theme 4: The Politics of Religion?

On the relations of religion to the state and civil society.

• Religion in politics and the politics of religion
• Modernity and religious frameworks
• Religious freedom in secular states
• Chaplaincies and the state
• Politics, society and religion in religiously defined states
• Religious minorities and the state
• Social agendas for religion: sustainability, justice, peace
• Religious divisions and social conflicts
• Religiously inspired violence and non-violence
• Gender, sexuality and religion
• Women, patriarchy, and the sacred feminine
• Religion as a source of community cohesion or community dissonance
• Terrorism, political extremism and religion
• Religion and human security
• Religion and global ethics
• Religion and human rights
• Religion and reconciliation
• The future of religion

Keywords:?Religion, Politics, Religious Freedom, Social Agendas, Ethics, Human Rights, Reconciliation.

Presentations at the conference, as well as the journals and books created in this knowledge community, are grouped around the themes listed here. Submissions are welcomed that cross more than one thematic area. Keywords are only indicative - please add your own keywords as you think necessary. The range of ideas listed in each thematic grouping and associated keywords is continually reviewed and revised by the participants in this knowledge community. Please suggest additions and changes.

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