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Visita guiada "Córdoba: Hogar de tres religiones"
Punto de encuentro: Al inicio del puente romano
Mesa de inscripción abierta y Café de Bienvenida
Universidad de Córdoba
Palabras de bienvenida (en español y en inglés)
Universidad de Córdoba y Online
Experiencias biográficas
Sesión asincrónica de acceso permanente
La diversidad religiosa del Indostán de mediados del siglo XIX en la correspondencia y los diarios de Claudina Motte y María Ana Emilia Dominica Howard, misioneras católicas
Almudena Soler Sanchez, Student, Ph.D. , Loyola University, Granada, Spain
Educación en valores y formación de profesores: Actualidad del pensamiento educativo de Andrés Manjón
Andrés Palma Valenzuela, Profesor Titular de Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales, Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain
Análisis de las religiones contemporáneas
Sesión asincrónica de acceso permanente
Procedencia e iniciación al conocimiento del mensaje islámico desde la concepción ortodoxa salafí
Faysal Mohamed Al Lal, Student, DOCTORADO, UNIVERSIDAD DE MÁLAGA, Málaga, Spain
El lugar de las Casas de Adoración Bahá’í en la construcción de sociedad
José David Roldán Sánchez, Docente del programa de Música, Escuela de Ciencias Sociales Artes y Humanidades ECSAH, Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia UNAD, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Karem Sánchez De Roldán, Full Tenure Professor, Administración y Organizaciones, Universidad del Valle, Valle del Cauca, Colombia
Minorías religiosas en Irán: El caso del zoroastrismo
Maritza Eridania Espejel Pineda, Profesora, Centro de Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Inauguración del Congreso (en español y en inglés)
Universidad de Córdoba y Online
Sesión plenaria de Antonio Piñero Sáenz (en inglés) - "Historical and Literary Issues regarding the Pseudo-Clementine Writings"
Universidad de Córdoba y Online
Mitologías
Sesión asincrónica de acceso permanente
Tsuchigumo: De humanos marginados a arañas antropófagas
José Enrique Narbona Pérez, Estudiante de doctorado, Departamento de Lenguas Modernas, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Espiritualidad y consciencia
Sesión asincrónica de acceso permanente
El milagro como fenómeno saturado
David Humberto Urdaneta Durán, Doctoral fellow, SCIENCE, REASON AND FAITH GROUP (CRYF), Universidad de Navarra (UN) (Navarra), Navarra, Spain
Inversiones espirituales: Entender una iglesia cristiana como un espacio de consumo en América Latina
Fabio Andrés Medina Ostos, Maestrante, Universidad Central, Colombia
Ecoespiritualidad: Un espacio de intersección entre ecología y espiritualidad
Talia Jiménez Romero, Student, Master, ENS Lyon, Rhône, France
Hacia una identidad de la conciencia: Trascendencia límbica o matriz cuántica
Zoé Jiménez Corretjer, Catedrática, Humanidades, Universidad de Puerto Rico en Humacao, PR, Puerto Rico
Pausa para el café
Universidad de Córdoba
Mesa redonda (en español) "Tema destacado 2022—Textos viajeros: De las tradiciones a las religiones"
Universidad de Córdoba (solo presencial)
Análisis e interpretación de textos
Universidad de Córdoba
Las versiones eslavas orientales del Apocalipsis de Pseudo-Metodio: El viaje de un texto escatológico medieval por tierras eslavas
Enrique Santos Marinas, Associate Professor, Department of German Philology and Slavic Philology, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Los paratextos prologales como textos viajeros: La conformación de una comunidad retórica en el Mediterráneo
Jose Marin, Profesor Titular, Instituto de Historia, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile, Valparaíso, Chile
Diego Melo, Profesor Titular, Departamento de Historia, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Región Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile
Análisis del cristianismo en América
Sesión asincrónica de acceso permanente
La Iglesia católica en defensa de libertad religiosa en Cuba: Los límites en la Revolución Cubana
Caridad Castellanos Machado, Student, Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales y políticas, Universidad Iberoamericana , Distrito Federal, Mexico
Abandono de la identidad católica en el Chile contemporáneo: Transmisión religiosa y efecto edad, época y cohorte
Lili Almási-Szabó, PhD candidate / Teacher, Social Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Región Metropolitana de Santiago, Chile
Simbolismo del retablo estípite en la Nueva España
Martha Fernández, Investigadora, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas , Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México , Distrito Federal, Mexico
Religión en la Nueva España y México
Universidad de Córdoba
Religión popular en el Valle de Toluca en los siglos XVII y XVIII: Hechicería, superstición, población colonial y juzgados eclesiásticos
Francisco Laguna álvarez, Investigador Postdoctoral Margarita Salas, Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Estudios Latinoamericanos de la Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain
La Orden de san Camilo de Lelis en México : Enfermedad, caridad y muerte en el siglo XVIII
Berta Gilabert Hidalgo, Profesora de Carrera, Historia, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Almuerzo
Universidad de Córdoba
Interdisciplinariedad
Solo presencial
El sinsentido de la trascendencia en la deshumanización de lo humano: Propuesta teológica en la deshumanización de lo humano
Carlos Hernando Zamora Jimenez, Profesor, Teología, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cundinamarca, Colombia
El imaginario religioso en la producción periodística de Gabriela Mistral: La construcción de una nueva imagen de México para Latinoamérica
Juan Manuel García Fernández, Student, PhD in Spanish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, United States
Mesa redonda online
Solo online
Cena del Congreso
La Taberna del Río
Mesa de inscripción abierta
Universidad de Córdoba
Noticias del día
Universidad de Córdoba y Online
Sesión plenaria de Frank Feder (en inglés) - "Non-Canonical Texts and Canonicity in the Eastern Churches"
Universidad de Córdoba y Online
Sesión plenaria de María Ángeles Gallego (en inglés) - "Religious identity and Language use among the Jews of al-Andalus"
Universidad de Córdoba y Online
Pausa para el café
Universidad de Córdoba
Elementos simbólicos
Solo presencial
Los gemelos-pez y la jícara para el cacao
Karla Sandoval, Doctoranda en Humanidades y profesora universitaria en la Facultad de Humanidades, Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Anáhuac., Facultad de Humanidades, Universidad Anáhuac, México, Mexico
Cúbreme a dos metros bajo tierra: Visión del suicidio como ruptura con el rito de la muerte en la obra "El sabor de las cerezas" de Abbas Kiarostami
José María Toro Piqueras, PhD Student, Departamento de Filologías Integradas, Universidad de Sevilla & Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Córdoba, Spain
Rasgos zoomórficos de las tradiciones indoeuropeas: Una aproximación al chamanismo indoeuropeo y a la sacralización de los animales
A. Manuel Mayo López, Doctorando, Departamento de Filología Clásica, Francesa y Italiana , Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Spain
Religión en España e Iberoamérica
Solo presencial
La Inmaculada Concepción y su devoción en la Baeza moderna
Victoria López Gámez, Doctoranda, Departamento Patrimonio Histórico, Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain
La Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca (1962-2019): Protagonistas, obras y gestión
Marco Antonio De La Ossa Martínez, Profesor Asociado , Facultad de Educación de Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
Sarita Colonia: Una nueva escritura espiritual
Rafael Fernández Hart, Student, Doctorate, Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Peru
Clausura del Congreso
Presencial y online
Cóctel de despedida
Solo presencial
Book Presentation
Asynchronous Session
Online Engagement Session
Live - Online Only
Conference Tour
Córdoba: Home of Three Religions
Online 'Think and Drink' Welcome Reception
Live - Online Only
Conference Registration and Welcome Coffee
University of Cordoba
Shifting Understanding (Asynchronous - Online Only)
Contested Pilgrimages: How and Why the Underworld God was Replaced by the Fertility Goddess in Sixteenth Century Chinese Taishan?
Meng Chi Hsueh, Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Tunghai University, Taiwan, Taichung Municipality, Taiwan
The Perception of Christian Religion in the Austrian Society (19th-century) through and According to two of Stifter's Tales : To What Extent Does Religion Interfere and Influence on Characters' Behaviour? How May God Be Indirectly Depicted?
Paula Quijano, Student, PhD Candidate, European University of the Atlantic, Cantabria, Spain
The Pulpit and the Pen: The Traveling Texts of George Whitefield's 1740 New England Preaching Tour
Lisa Smith, Assistant Professor of Teaching of English, Humanities and Teacher Education Division, Pepperdine University, California, United States
Fondrako: The Oral Text of the Nias Religion and Its Influence on Contemporary Social Life
Sonny Zaluchu, Student, Doctoral, Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Baptis Indonesia Semarang, Jawa Tengah, Indonesia
Collective Belief in Religion
Tiffany Zhu, Student, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, California, United States
Evolving Communities (Asynchronous - Online Only)
The Russian Public Image of Orthodox Christian Communities during the 2020 Lockdown
Liubov Klepikova, Associate Professor, Philosophy, Russian University of Transport, Russian Federation
Spirituality, Morality, and Social Order
Mark Webb, Professor, Philosophy, Texas Tech University, Texas, United States
Women as Community Developers: A Case of the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe Women Projects
Simbarashe Munamati, Principal, Theological School, Murray Theologicalc College, Zimbabwe
Reformulation of Religious Concepts in Post-9/11 Islamic Peace Initiatives
Nadia Hindi, Assistant Teacher, Semitics Studies, University of Granada, Spain
Conference Welcome Session
University of Cordoba
Conference Opening
University of Cordoba
Plenary Session: Antonio Piñero Sáenz "Historical and Literary Issues regarding the Pseudo-Clementine Writings"
University of Cordoba & Online
Garden Conversation: Antonio Piñero Sáenz
University of Cordoba
Poster Session (Asynchronous - Online Only)
Modern Buryat Buddhist Pilgrims to Tibet: In Search of Self
Bato Dondukov, Senior researcher, Department of Philosophy, Culture and Religion Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
Galina Dondukova, Junior Researcher, Department of Literary and Folklore Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
Identity as the Beloved: Response to Negative Core Beliefs and Self Rejection
Constance Salhany, Director, Cognitive Therapy of Staten Island/ Emmaus CBT, New York, United States
Focused Discussions (Asynchronous - Online Only)
The Role of Judaism and Torah Study in an Elementary School Student's Academic Performance at a Large Jewish Day School in the Southeast United States: The Role of Non Secular education and Torah Study in Orthodox Judaism
Jared Bucker, Associate Professor & Institutional Review Board Representative, Fischler College of Education & School of Criminal Justice, Nova Southeastern University, Florida, United States
The Source of Creativity: The Inner-God as Knowledge Making
Gil Dekel, Associate Lecturer, Open University, United Kingdom
Conspicuous Correlations : Counterculture, Christianity, and the Climate Crisis
William Underland, PhD Student , English, University of Mississippi, Mississippi, United States
Death, Dying, and the Afterlife: The Spiritualization Thesis
Heidi Rimke, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Talking Circle
Religious Commonalities and Differences/ The Politics of Religion
Talking Circle
Traveling Texts: From Traditions to Religions
Talking Circle
Religious Foundations/ Religious Community and Socialization
Texts Over Time
Digital Dolls : Reciting Scripture in the Robot's Body
S Brent Rodriguez Plate, Professor, Religious Studies, Hamilton College, New York, United States
The Transcended Texts: Giving Wings to Words (in Captivity)
Anne Lamont, Head of Piano, Music Department, University of the Free State, Western Cape, South Africa
Political Perspectives
Religious Freedom and Public Health: The Case of Vaccination in Pandemic and Epidemic Context
Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor, School of Law, Saint Louis University, Missouri, United States
As Above, So Below: Female Self-Transformation and Healing in a Global Spiritual Business
Stephen Christopher, Marie Curie Postdoc, Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies, University of Copenhagen, København, Denmark
Divine Ideals
Marianismo, Virgen de Guadalupe, and Juan Luis Vives
Alba Elizabeth Melgar, Professor of Spanish, World Languages and Literatures, Texas State University, Texas, United States
Gloria Velásquez, Senior Lecturer, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Texas State University, Texas, United States
Interpretation of Armenia's Religious Heritage in Tourism Practices
Pawel Plichta, Assistant Professor, Institute of Intercultural Studies, Jagiellonian University, Malopolskie, Poland
Anna Duda, Assistant Proffessor, Institute of Intercultural Studies, Jagiellonian University, Malopolskie, Poland
Foundational Growth (Asynchronous - Online Only)
Mary’s Fiat : An Interpretation of the Mother of Christ’s Agency from a Catholic Perspective
Alfonso Gómez-Rossi, Teacher, Education, Instituto Universitario Boulanger/UMIS, Puebla, Mexico
Persuasion or Manipulation: Employing Pathos as a Persuasive Strategy in Protestant Sermons
Martin Adam, Associate Professor, English Language and Literature, Masaryk University, Jihomoravský kraj , Czech Republic
The Natural World as Unscripted Sacred Text: When Faith and Rocks Come Together
Mary Ann Casanova, Student, Doctor of Philosophy and Religion, California Institute of Integral Studies, California, United States
Kepler’s Star of Bethlehem Miscalculation: Zoroastrian and Judeo-Christian Text That Disagree with Kepler and Modern Planetary Conjunction Theorist
Robert William Weber, Teacher, Social Studies, FSD145, Freeport, Illinois, United States
Influential Ties (Asynchronous - Online Only)
You Should Be Buddhist and Nationalistic: Religions in Thai Textbooks and Creation of “Good” Citizens
Kakanang Yavaprabhas, Lecturer, Anthropology, Thammasat University, Thailand
The Influence of Virgin Mary in Early Christianity in Religious Rivalries
Yanqing Cao, Student, M.Div. Candidate, Harvard Divinity School, United States
Police Chaplains Standing in the Crossroads Between the Community and Government
James Farnsworth, Student, PhD Candidate Organizational Leadership, Alvernia University, Pennsylvania, United States
Alienation, Asceticism, and the Entrepreneurship of the Self: Towards an Anthropology of Ascesis Today
William Tilleczek, Visiting Professor, Humanities and Social Sciences, Deep Springs College, California, United States
Review and Reflect
Our Sounds Reach the Other World: Sacred Musical Instruments and Their Spiritual Roles
Cara Schreffler, Assistant Professor, Music, Rocky Mountain College, Montana, United States
Blade Runner’s Posthuman Imago Dei: Retrieving Authentic Humanity in a World of Simulation
Jean-Pierre Fortin, Associate Professor of Practical Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael's College, Ontario, Canada
Verbal Relic and Verbal Reliquary - al-Fayyumi's Takhmis al-Burdah: Islamic Devotional Poetry in the Mamluk Age
Suzanne Stetkevych, Sultan Qaboos bin Said Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Department of Arabic & Islamic Studies, Georgetown University, District of Columbia, United States
Towards Understanding
Buddha Biography as a Traveling Text: The Case of P’alsangnok
Hyangsoon Yi, Professor, Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies, University of Georgia, Georgia, United States
Teaching Anne Frank as a Little Jewish Girl: Holocaust Studies Through an Interfaith Lens
Naomi Yavneh Klos, Rev. Bienvenu SJ Distinguished Chair of Humanities and Professor, Languages and Cultures, Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Experiences of Awe: A Bridge between Secular and Religious Spirituality?
John D. Copenhaver, Professor Emeritus of Religion and Philosophy, Department of Religion, Shenandoah University, Virginia, United States
Workshops (Asynchronous Session)
OutoftheBox - The potential of OutoftheBox to positively impact on education and wellbeing in the UK school context: Storytellers’ perceptions from a pilot evaluation
Kathryn Lord, entrepeneur and co-director, OutoftheBox Training, United Kingdom
Claire Dalpra, Freelance Researcher, Brendan Research, United Kingdom
Reflections (Asynchronous - Online Only)
When Pain becomes Love for God - the Self as Non-object : Phenomenological Analysis of Self-Inflicted Pain among Christian Monastic Ascetics in Central Medieval Europe
Roni Naor Hofri, Postdoctoral Fellow / Research Fellow, Centre for Medieval Studies / School of Philosophy, University of York / Tel Aviv University, United Kingdom
The Division between East and West and the Possibility of Reunification: Ut Unum Sint
Angelos Mavropoulos, PhD student and part-time lecturer, School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music, Dublin City University, Ireland
Music Performance as a Transpersonal and Integrative Spiritual Practice
Vanessa Cornett, Professor and Director of Keyboard Studies, College of Arts and Sciences / Music, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, United States
From Spiritual Society to Social Spirituality: A Critical Review of Sufi Methodology in the Subcontinent
Sultan Ahmed Ali, Chairman, MUSLIM Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan
Doing the Dishes or Becoming an Activist: Zen Buddhist Responses to the World's Suffering
Bishal Karna, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, Nazareth College, New York, United States
Interfaith Dialogue in Limbo: How Can Tradition Work against Religious Purposes?
Tudor Cosmin Ciocan, Lecturer, Theology, Ovidius University of Constanta, Constanta, Romania
Las Diosas y Las Fronteras: Liberating Lessons from the Syncretistic Mestiza Spiritualities of Gloria Anzaldúa’s "La Frontera" and Beyoncé’s "Black Is King"
David Von Schlichten, Associate Professor, Religious Studies/Coordinator, Gender and Women's Studies, Humanities, Seton Hill University , Pennsylvania, United States
Deocene Islands in an Anthropocene Ocean: Shifting the Conversation from Geoscience to Culture
James R. Fleming, Charles A. Dana Professor Emeritus, Interdisciplinary Studies/ Science, Technology, and Society, Colby College, Maine, United States
Community Links
Nature Worship: From Idolatry to Modern Paganism and Eco-spirituality
Pavel Horak, Junior Researcher, Department of Critical Heritage Studies, Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Devotional Literature and Songs of Worship as Complementary Texts for the Ismaili Muslim Community
Fahim Dhalla, Teacher/Director, Ismaili Bai tul ilm , Switzerland
Arif Babul, University Distinguished Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Shaheeza Lalani
Visions and Viewpoints
“Reestablishing” a Christian America
Steven Green, Professor of Law, Affiliated Professor of History and Religious Studies, Law, Willamette University, Oregon, United States
Is Nothing Sacred?: Christian Theology and the Rights of the Moon
Andrew Dutney, Professor of Theology, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, South Australia, Australia
Interpreting Joseph’s Dreams: Religious Hybridity in Poema de Yusuf (c. 1300, Spain)
Alexander Korte, Student, Ph.D. Hispanic Literatures and Cultures, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, United States
President Donald Trump - Christian Support and Criticism, and the Issue of Culture War
Kjell Olof Urban Lejon, Professor, Head of Division, Director of Studies, Deparment of Culture and Society (HKR/IKOS), Linköping University, Sweden
Social Responsibility and Sense of Mission through Online Religious Education: Actualizing Faith Through a Day of Service
Myra Patambang, Professor, Religious Education, De La Salle Medical and Health Sciences Institute, Cavite, Philippines
Religious Consciousness in Education: A Constitutional Relationship in the Greek Context
Iro Potamousi, PhD Candidate, Primary Education, University of the Aegean, Greece, Greece
Polikarpos Karamouzis, Professor, Sociology of Religion,, Primary Education , Aegean University , Dodekanisos, Greece
Marios Koukounaras Liagkis, Associate Professor, Pedagogy/Theology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
"Marriage Interview" as a Best Practice in Teaching the Course Marriage and Family
Reuel Rito Seno, Assistant Professor, Theology and Philosophy Area, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, Philippines
In Loneliness, the Encounter between Science and Religion : Ecological Accompaniment from Connectivity to Closeness
Gerard Ryan, Director, Master of Divinity and Master in Theological Studies Degrees and Assistant Professor of Political Theology , Theology, Regis College, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The Benedictines, Sugar, and Slavery: Material Culture, Texts, and Contexts from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic Worlds
James Krippner, Stinnes Professor in Global Studies,Professor of History, History Department, Haverford College, Pennsylvania, United States
The Architecture of Blame : Categories and the Present Sacrificial Crisis
Mary Marcel, Associate Professor, Experience Design, Bentley University, Massachusetts, United States
The Doctrine of εὐπάθειαι (Good Emotions) as a ‘Golden Chain’ of the Psychology of Philo of Alexandria
Maksim Prikhodko, Research Assistant, Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, Sankt-Peterburg, Russian Federation
Media Strategies of Religious Public Social Media Accounts in Oman
Sultan Al Azri, Student, PhD, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Reflecting on 500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines: 1521 to 2021 and Beyond
Teofilo Giovan III Pugeda, Lecturer, Theology, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Interplay of Religious Coping Mechanisms, Internalized Homonegativity, and Attitudes Towards Seeking Professional Help among LGBTQ African Americans within Christian Church Congregations
David Glover, Student, Doctor of Psychology - Human and Organizational Psychology, Touro University Worldwide, California, United States
Conference Dinner
La Taberna del Río Restaurant
Daily Update
University of Cordoba
Plenary Session: Frank Feder, "Non-Canonical Texts and Canonicity in the Eastern Churches"
University of Cordoba & Online
Garden Conversation: Frank Feder
University of Cordoba
Plenary Session: María Ángeles Gallego "Religious identity and Language use among the Jews of al-Andalus"
University of Cordoba & Online
Garden Conversation: María Ángeles Gallego
University of Cordoba & Online
Online Closing Talking Circle
Live - Online Only
Coffee Break
Focused Discussions
Five Approaches to Religion and Spirituality in the Psychoanalytic Setting: Sensitizing Clinicians to Their Patients' Spiritual Sensibilities
Samuel L. Pauker, M.D., Faculty, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research, Columbia University, New York, United States
Spirituality in Mental Health: Integrating Spiritual Healing Practices and Mental Health Services
Rebecca Vicente, Clinic Director, Counselor Education, Kean University, New Jersey, United States
Religious Community as Resilient Spiritual Experience Despite Social Distance: Testimonies of Parishioners in a Catholic Community of Lima during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Juan Dejo Bendezú, Vicepresident of Research, Philosophy & Theology, University Antonio Ruiz de Montoya, Lima, Peru
Evolving Connections
Beyond Words: Resilience in eSwatini
Robin Root, Professor, Sociology and Anthropology, Baruch College, New York, United States
The Relative Centrality of Life Domains among Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi), Traditionalist and Secular Women: The Israeli Case
Moshe Sharabi, Associate Professor, Department of MA Studies in Organizational Development and Consulting, Yezreel Valley Academic College, Israel
Avi Kay, Senior Lecturer, Business Administration, Senior Lecturer, Jerusalem College of Technology; and Research Fellow, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel
Orthodox Jewish Weddings in the 21st Century – Ritual vs. Reality
Julia Schwartzmann, Senior Lecturer, Multi-Disciplinary Studies, Western Galilee College, Israel
Contemporary Considerations
The Racial Politics of Conversion: Whiteness and Strategic Identity Performances of Polish White Female Converts to Islam
Anna Piela, Visiting Scholar, Religion, Northwestern University, Illinois, United States
Joanna Krotofil, Assistant Professor, Institute for the Study of Religions, Joanna Krotofil, Poland
Confucianism, Daoism, and Chinese Society Today: Max Weber Revisit
Xun Wang, Full Professor, Director of China Studies, Director of Child & Family Certificate Program, Sociology, Institute for China Studies, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Wisconsin, United States
Exploring the Nexus between Islam, Social Media and Youth : A Study of the Tripartite Connection
Iman Ismail, Student, MA in Contemporary Islamic Thought, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Bayan Khaled, Research Fellow, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
Angles and Approaches
Challenging Religion: Krishnamurti's Influential Critique of Conventional Religion
Hillary Rodrigues, Professor, Religious Studies, The University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Madness, Holiness, and the Other: A 16th-Century Account of a Spanish Martyr in Jerusalem
Michael Hammer, Associate Professor of Spanish, Modern Languages and Literatures, San Francisco State University, California, United States
The Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of Man in Joseph Ratzinger’s Eschatological Theology: Implications for Political Visions of Worldly Redemption
Emmanuel Ojeifo, Student, PhD Theology, University of Notre Dame Indiana, Indiana, United States
Earthly Understanding
Medicine, Spirits, and the Socioreligious Organization in the Wind River
Aaron Atencio, Research Curator of Cultural Collections, Anthropology & History, Milwaukee Public Museum, United States
Extra-special Care: Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" as Liturgy
Gabriel Colombo, Student, Master in Architecture I, Harvard University Graduaute School of Design, Massachusetts, United States
Shmita: A Biblical Vision for Conservation, Environmentalism, and Stewardship
David Krantz, National Science Foundation IGERT-SUN Fellow, Arizona State University, United States
New Beginnings
Religion in Deed: Alcoholics Anonymous Organization as a Functional Equivalent of Religion
Mahmoud Sadri, Professor, Sociology, TWU, Texas, United States
Phillip Pierce, Professor, Social Sciences, Texas Woman's University, Texas, United States
Question of Freedom: Muslim Women and Image Reproduction in the West
Nada Alfeir, Assistant Professor, College of Sciences and Literature, Human Communication Skills, King AbdulAziz University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Unfolding the Religious-social Practices on the Sustainability of Culinary Business During COVID-19 Pandemic: Empirical Evidence From Indonesia
Muhamad Fadhil Nurdin, Professor, Sociology, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jawa Barat, Indonesia
Bintarsih Sekarningrum
Gigin Basar, Lecturer, Sosial Wellfare, Universitas Padjadjaran, Jawa Barat, Indonesia
Hadiyanto Rachim, Senior Lecturer, Sociology, Universitas Padjajaran, Jawa Barat, Indonesia
Tofan R Zaky, Student, Phd Student, Universitas Padjajaran, Jawa Barat, Indonesia
Lunch
Workshop
Religious aspects of capitalism: Spiritual challenges of mangement
Dušan Kučera, Head of Center for Business Ethics, Assistant Professor, Management, Prague University of Economics and Business, Praha, hlavní mesto, Czech Republic
Innovation Showcases
Self-healing: Using Ancient Energy
Alexandra Solnado, Owner, Conversas Infinitas School of Meditation, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Posters
Science with the Sisters: Contributions and Collaborations of Women in Science in the Monastic Community at the College of St. Benedict
Diana Fenton, Associate Professor, Education, College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, Minnesota, United States
Religious Charities in Local Welfare Mixes: The Construction of Evangelically Inspired Solidarities in Ghent and Antwerp
Lise Dheedene, PhD Student, Sociology, University of Antwerp, West-Vlaanderen (nl), Belgium
Workshop
The Actor as Conduit: Connecting to Sacred Text
Candace Vance, Seattle Pacific University
Expanding Insights
Religion and Spirituality in the Cascadia Bio-Region : Secularity, Nationalism, and Nature Religion in New Perspective
Paul Bramadat, Director and Professor, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Piety, History, and Nostalgia: Neo-Ottomanism in Islamist Women's Journals and Magazines in Turkey
Petek Onur, Postdoc, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
The Call for a Liberal Islam: Between Reformers and Dissenters
Anouar El Younssi, Assistant Professor, Humanities, Oxford College of Emory University, Georgia, United States
Religious Extremists’ Use of Islamic Concepts: Jāhiliyya and Hākimiyya in ISIS’s Perspective
Mohammed Alruwaili, Lecturer, Saudi Electronic University, Saudi Arabia
Plans and Pathways
Interfaith Dialogue - an Unintended Consequence of the Commodification of the Camino de Santiago and Kumano Kodo
Nicky Gutierrez, Student, Master of Arts in Theopoetics and Writing, Bethany Theological Seminary, Indiana, United States
Finding God in the Wilderness: The Construction of the Oracular and the Poetics of Belief in Select Modern and Contemporary American Poets
Alan Soldofsky, Professor of English; Director of the Creative Writing Program, English and Comparative Literature Department, San Jose State University, California, United States
Theorizing Experience from Spiritual Formation to Vocation Discernment: Narratives of a Hong Kong Chinese Seminarian-to-be
Ming-chun Sinn, Independent Researcher, Christar Ensemble, Hong Kong
Testing the Spirits: The Tensions and Transformations of Evangelical Christian Yoga
Leah Mernaugh, Student, PhD student, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada