Conference on the Impact of Religion: Challenges for Society, Law, Democracy 2018

Stockholm, Sweden. Uppsala will be the venue for the second conference on the impact of religion in April 2018

Do not miss out on the second international conference on The Impact of Religion: Challenges for society, law and democracy at Uppsala University, Sweden from 24 to 26 April 2018. There will also be a workshop for doctoral students on 23 and 24 April. This conference offers an interdisciplinary focus on the role that religion plays in both the public and private sphere of life, including local, national and international issues.

The call for abstracts is open on the following themes:
Religion and migration
Religion in the public sphere, media and politics
Religious diversity, non-religion, secularism
Religious freedom versus other human rights
Religion and youth, family, gender, sexuality
Religion and racism, discrimination, segregation
Religion and violence, terror and the security state
Faith based organisations as welfare providers, civil society, social capital
Existential health and well-being
Science and religion, relativism and absolutism

Comparative papers are particularly welcome. Theoretical, methodological and substantive issues will be given equal consideration. Thematic sessions will be organised out of the accepted abstracts. The conference language is English. 200 word abstracts must be submitted online before the 31st of October 2017.

If the themes are not enough to get you to start working on an abstract, the impressive list of keynote speakers might:

• José Casanova, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Department of Sociology, head of the Berkley Center's Program on Globalization, Religion and the Secular, Georgetown University, USA
• Grace Chang, Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Adam Dinham, Professor of Faith & Public Policy, and Director of the Faiths and Civil Society Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
• Elaine Howard Ecklund, Professor of Sociology and Director of Religion and Public Life Program in the Social Sciences Research Institute, Cornell University, USA
• Marie-Claire Foblets, Professor of Law and of Anthropology, Managing Director of Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
• Hans Joas, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Humboldt University, Berlin
• Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg, Professor of Private International Law, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Solange Lefebvre, Professor of Theology and Anthropology, University of Montreal, Canada
• Pamela Slotte, Associate professor in Minority Studies, Åbo Akademi University, Research Fellow of Academy of Finland
• Michaela Potancokova and Marcin Stonawski, Demographers, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Centre for Advanced Studies, Ispra, Italy.

We will soon be off to the ICDE conference in Toronto, Canada after two long years of waiting since the absolute awesome ICDE conference in 2015 at Sun City in South Africa.