COST Action COREnet and International Society for the Sociology of Religion and Vytautas Magnus University V. Kavolis Transdisciplinary Research Institute are organising an international conference titled “Religion, Migration, and Conflicts in Polarized Societies” on June 30 – July 4, 2025, at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Topic of the conference
We live in a globalized world shaped by migration, geopolitical crises, and social polarization. Religion is closely entangled with these changes. Linking up with the theoretical debates in the sociology of religion about the role of religion in public life, we invite scholars to reconsider how religion, in terms of religious practices, discourses, imaginaries, organizations, and individuals, is involved in the context of a currently polarized society.
How does the potential of religious beliefs to counter or contribute to economic, political, and social polarization play out? How might sociological research illuminate the contributions of conflictual and peaceful aspects of religions to geopolitical crises? How do political conflicts, social polarizations, and religious responses change existing religion, politics, and state relations and their interpretations? How do they change the public perception of religion, religious identity, and individual religiosity?
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