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Time-zone (GMT+01:00) Madrid

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12:10-13:10
13:10-14:50
Enhancing Credibility : Persuasive Strategies in Sermon Titles and Openings

Martin Adam, Associate Professor, English Language and Literature, Masaryk University, Jihoceský kraj, Czech Republic

13:10
The Spiritual Truth behind the Hindu and Nazi Swastika

Jayant Athavale, Founder, Spiritual Research, Maharshi University of Spirituality, Goa, India
Dragana Kislovski
Sean Clarke, Spiritual Science Research Foundation

13:50
13:10-14:50
The Multi-racial Experiment in Two South African Churches

Eugene Baron, Associate Professor, Christian Spirituality, University of South Africa, South Africa

13:30
Book of Esther and Symbols of Tree and Cross

Pawel Plichta, Assistant Professor, Institute of Intercultural Studies, Jagiellonian University, Malopolskie, Poland

13:30
13:10-14:50
The Voice and the Voiceless: Startling Sacred and Sacred Starting

Hermel Pama, Senior Lecturer III, Anthropology (UPD); Faculty of Philosophy, UST Graduate School (UST), University of Santo Tomas and University of the Philippines Diliman, Jawa Timur, Indonesia

13:30
13:10-14:50
13:10-14:50
Australian Multiculturalism and the Problem of the Religious "Other"

Gregory Macdonald, PhD Student, Centre for Islamic Thought and Education, University of South Australia

13:10
15:00-16:15
15:00-16:15
Violence and Torture in Religion and Human Rights in Mexico and El Salvador

Gloria Velásquez, Senior Lecturer, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Texas State University, Texas, United States
Alba Elizabeth Melgar, Professor of Spanish, World Languages and Literatures, Texas State University, Texas, United States

15:20
The Politics of Latinx Evangelicals in the Age of Trump

Liesl Haas, Professor, Political Science, California State University Long Beach, California, United States

15:40
15:00-16:15
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15:00-16:15
The Spiritual Disciplines Project: Increasing Student Engagement in the World Religions Course

Alice Wood, Associate Professor of Religion, Religion, Bethune-Cookman University, United States

15:40
16:20-17:35
16:20-17:35
Nature as Object and Symbol: Qur'an as a Source for Islamic Environmental Ethics

Jakub Koláček, Researcher, Lecturer, Department of the Middle East, Charles University, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic

16:40
16:20-17:35
16:20-17:35
16:20-17:35
16:20-17:35
Ways to Minimize the Challenge between Islamic Law and Modernity

Meysam Kohantorabi, Assistant Professor, Bozorgmehr University of Qaenat, Iran

16:20
The H2020 RETOPEA Project: Imagining Religious Toleration and Peace

Laura Galián
Nadia Hindi, Assistant Teacher, Semitics Studies, University of Granada, Spain

17:00
Envisioning the Khalsa State Modeled after the Vatican State: Seeking the Goodwill of the Indian Government

Tennyson Samraj, Head of Philosophy Department/ Philosophy Professor, Philosophy, Burman University, Alberta, Canada

11:20
11:40
11:00-12:40
The Rising Emphasis on Tolerance in the Middle East

C Donald Smedley, Senior Research Fellow; Director, Center for Track Two Diplomacy and Religious Freedom, Rivendell Institute at Yale University, Connecticut, United States

11:00
11:40
11:00-12:40
Identity Politics in India: The Case of Gujarat

Nahid Afrose Kabir, Adjunct Professor, School of Education, University of South Australia, South Australia, Australia

11:20
11:00-12:40
11:00-12:40
The Nexus of Religion and Culture: An Anthropological Analysis of Interpretation of Dreams in Pakistan

Latafat Aziz, Lecturer, Bahria University
Asim Muneeb Khan, Senior Lecturer, Humanities and Social Sciences, Bahria University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

11:00
Discursive Constructions of "God" in the Bible, the Qur'an, and the Baha'i Scriptures

Robert Bianchi, Associate Professor of English, Liberal Arts and Sciences, VCUarts Qatar, Qatar

11:20
Existence of Miracles

Samuel E. Moskowitz, Research Professor and Emeritus Professor of Applied Mathematics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

12:00
11:00-12:40
Back to the Future: Religious Thinking between Progress and Return

Piotr Sawczynski, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Education, Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland

11:00
Theological Elaboration of Missionary Catechesis from the Biblical Paul

Mary Erika Bolanos, Principal, Senior High School, University of Santo Tomas, Philippines

11:40
12:40-13:40
13:40-14:55
13:40-14:55
Dostoevsky and the Icon: Faith beyond Reason

Andrea Serra, Student, PhD, University of Cagliari, Italy

13:40
13:40-14:55
Testing the Limits of Diversity: What Does the Same-sex Marriage Debate Tell Us about Religion in Australia in the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century?

Andrew Dutney, Professor of Theology, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia

13:40
A Society without God? : On Secularity, Religiosity and Prosperity in Scandinavia

Kjell Olof Urban Lejon, Professor, Head of Division, Director of Studies, Deparment of Culture and Society (HKR/IKOS), Linköping University, Sweden

14:20
Voodoo Spiritualism and Ecology

Alan S. Weber, Professor, Premedical, WCM-Q, Ar Rayyan, Qatar

14:20
Concept of Spirituality among Millennials of De La Salle Philippines

Myra Patambang, Professor, Religious Education, De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute, Cavite, Philippines

14:00
Postmodern Theology as Spiritual Autobiography: The Joyful Suffering of Four Female Medieval Mystics

Jean-Pierre Fortin, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael's College, Ontario, Canada

14:20
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The Symbolic Language of Hindu Iconography and Its Impact on Indian Society

France Azema, PhD, Anthropology, EHESS - Toulouse -Paris, Haute-Garonne, France

15:05
Anatomy, Flesh, and Resurrection: Sculptures of the Supine Dead Christ in Counter-Reformation Spain

Ilenia Colon Mendoza, Associate Professor of Art History, School of Visual Art and Design, University of Central Florida, United States

15:05
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15:55-17:10
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From Design in Religion to Sacred in Design

Zoltán Körösvölgyi, Lecturer, Institute for Theoretical Studies, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME)

15:55
Spirituality, Transpersonal Psychology and Eastern Traditions: Interdependencies and Mutual Influences

Milica Zegarac, Student, PhD candidate - Integral and Transpersonal Psychology, California Institute of Integral Studies, California, United States

16:15
15:55-17:10
Aftermaths of Babel: Translation and the Abrahamic Faiths

Emad Mirmotahari, Associate Professor, English, Duquesne University, Pennsylvania, United States

16:15
15:55-17:10
Religion as a Source of Both Tolerance and Intolerance in Society

Quinn Galbraith, Sociology and Family Life Research Librarian, BYU, Utah, United States
Adam Callister

15:55
15:55-17:10
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The Islamic Traditions: Adaptation or Innovation?

Auranzaib Noor Ali, Adolescent and Youth Educator, Studies in Culture & Civilization, ITREB/Community Development Foundation (CDF), Sind (en), Pakistan

15:55
15:55-17:10
Sustainability in the Religious Sources of Western Culture

Bina Nir, A lecturer , Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, The Max Stern Yezreel Valley College, Israel

15:55