Eighth International Conference on
Religion & Spirituality in Society
17-18 April 2018
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, 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
- 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
- Institutions
- Education
- Liturgy
- Prayer
- Leadership