The Politics of Religion

• Translating Modernity into the Islamic Paradigm

  Salah Basalamah
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Church-State Relations, Nation-State Policies and New Challenges for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine

  Sergei Mudrov
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Nations under God

  Sasha Van Lammeren
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Close Encounters of a Different Kind

  Steven Green
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Modeling Madinah

  Dr. Muhammad Umar Riaz Abbasi
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Religious Toleration in a Time of Troubles

  Steven Zwicker
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Military Officers, Command Authority, and Liberal Democracy

  Christopher Eberle
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Culture War

  Francisco Batista
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Conceptualizing Spirits

  Sanaa Riaz
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Sacred Power, Secular Accountability

  Lucy Huh
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• “Le Devoir de Décolonisation”

  Didier Course
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Human Rights in Accordance with Islamic Injunction

  Muhammad Irfan, Mohamed Abdallah Turky
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• An Oxonian Thriller on which Philosophy Could Replace Religion

  Franco Manni
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Religious Extremism and Legal Gaps

  Russell Hoban
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• “De-Hinduizing” Indigeneity

  Rashid K Khadher
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Non-Muslim Minority Communities in Turkiye as Political Objects

  Muteber Yilmazcan
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Religious Freedoms in Egypt and Tunisia

  Mohamed Gamal Ali
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Provincializing the Colonial Gaze

  Adam Olowo
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• God's Resistance

  Brad Christerson
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Affluence and the Economy Behind Oracles - an Experiential Study of Klaros

  Recep Can Mert
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Bringing the Tabot into the House of the Qaalluu

  Ethan Key
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Politics of Faith

  Ashish Archer
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Pentecostal Struggle

  Tatiana Novotolskaia
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Black Manosphere

  Mutale Nkonde
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Social Reform Theory of Brazilian Liberation Theology in the 1970s and 1980s

  Ran Gao
  Poster Session

• Political Consciousness among Adivasis Regarding Sarna Religion

  Kumari Nayak
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Giving Patients a Voice

  Franziskus Knoll
  Workshop Presentation

• Religious Liberalism and Black Women's Political Thought, 1865-1915

  Christopher Cameron
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Spiritual Religion

  Madhumita Dutta
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Religious Populism

  Stavroula Koskina
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Reform or Restore?

  Jason Whitehead
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Religious Foundations

• Sacred Subjects in Popular Culture

  Heidi Rimke
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Holy Springs in Iran

  Mahmoud Amani
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Prayer as a Form of Resistance in Times of Social and Political Crisis

  Anjum Shah
  Innovation Showcase

• Sacred Sources Lead to Upliftment

  Kashish Pandey
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Reward and Punishment

  Bina Nir
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Science, Spirit and Secular Vulnerabilities

  Hatice Sena Arıcıoğlu Senaaricioglu
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Isn’t He Divine?

  Alfonso Gómez-Rossi
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Spiritual Practices and Re-imagining Health of People in Nepal

  Ram Prasad Aryal
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Ancient Eleusis and Modern Psychedelic Integration Groups

  Walter Ward
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Nones and Pleasure

  Kevin Grane
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Educating for the ‘Spirit’ in the Secular Public School

  Ariel Liberman
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Integrating Spiritual Healing Practices and Mental Health Services

  Rebecca Vicente
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Developing aTheory of Everything with the Foundations of Sanatan Dharma Tested with General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

  Susheel Kamotra
  Workshop Presentation

• New Forms of Religious Ideas and Practice in Contemporary Latvia

  Solveiga Krumina Konkova
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Religious Community and Socialization

• Semen est Sanguis Christianorum

  Miloš David
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Raising Consciousness

  Cynthia Elliott
  Innovation Showcase

• Vigil Prayer among the Aladura Pentecostals and Yoruba Tradition in Nigeria

  Adewale, Olukayode Ogunrinade
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Trinary Formula for Spiritual Unification as Illustrated in the Phenomenological Approaches of Father Pavel Florensky and Philosopher Edith Stein

  Sally Stocksdale
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Embodied Purity, Socialization, and Community

  Mugdha Yeolekar
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Othering in Religion, Values and Ethics

  Jasmine Jacques Butterworth
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Coming to Tokyo and Losing Faith

  Rebecca Babirye
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Megachurches and Public Life

  Joel Agpalo Tejedo
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Vulnerability and Resilience Towards Life, Marriage and Family

  Agnieszka Laddach
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Dual Vocations of Science and Religion

  Diana Fenton
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Spirituality in the Land of Forgetfulness

  Wayne Ewing
  Workshop Presentation

• Therapeutic Potency of the “Holy Mud and Water” in Selected African Initiated Churches in Nigeria

  Goka Mpigi
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• “What You Running From?”

  Shanice Cameron
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Abstraction and Application of Quranic Concepts in the Realm of Media

  Mohsen Ghamarzadeh
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Case of Shari'ah-compliant Economies in Emerging Religious Markets

  Alessandro Cupri
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Construction of Religious Meaning through Cultural Events

  Arif Budi Prasetya
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Religion an Alternative to Neoliberal Global Capitalism

  Slimane Douih
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Extraterrestrial Theologies

  Leonardo Breno Martins
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Transforming Faith Through Curriculum

  Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Art of Spiritual Transformation through Embodied Vulnerability

  Marina A. Smirnova, PhD
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• A Consideration of Jewish and Catholic Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps

  Eileen Lyon
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Experience and Expression of Ritual Ordering among the Yoruba Drummers

  Olusegun Oladosu
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• African Spirituality and Mental Health in Johannesburg, South Africa

  Alex Asakitikpi
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Second-generation Ethiopian and Eritrean Youth and Christianity

  Mary Goitom
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Construction of Identity of the Sapta Darma Believers in Indonesia

  Agus Danugroho, Muhammad Alhada Fuadilah Habib, Iwin Ardyawin
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Role of the Church to Protect Children in Tanzania

  Stephano Nzanga Masuluale
  Poster Session

• The Income-Religiosity-Happiness Nexus

  Muhammad Ichsan Fadillah
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Religiosity and Decision Making

  Sarah M. Farrell
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Witchcraft - an Exploration of Religious and Cultural Beliefs and Response In Post-Colonial South Africa and Zimbabwe.

  Juliet Chipo Sigauke
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• In the World but Not of It

  Tim Smith
  Poster Session

• Virtual Shambhala

  Jean-Paul Lafayette DuQuette
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Balancing Vulnerability and Resilience

  Anton Piyarathne
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Spiritual Wellness and Military Narratives

  Marissa Lemar
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Why Do We Say Thanks to God?

  Julianne Bryant
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• A Comparison of the Incidence and Function of Female Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context

  Deborah Gruber
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Sacred Sweet Tooth

  Constance Kirker
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Nexus of Marriage and Religion

  Loren Marks, David Dollahite
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Afro-Brazilian Spiritual Belief Systems to Address Racial Disparities in Sickle Cell Disease among Black Brazilians

  Anuli Njoku
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Comparative Manifestations of Religiosity in Christianity and Islam

  Brent Moore
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Filioque

  Cory Gloeckner
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Correlations between ESP and Chinese Buddhist Communities

  Yuxin Zhao
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Igbo Christians and Complexities of Ancestor Worship

  Mary Emilia Aboekwe
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Unpacking the Divinity Debate: Jesus and the Demi-Gods

  Essien Oku Essien
  Workshop Presentation

• Recommendations from Spiritual Care Providers

  Zanab Farooq
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• A Post-Secular Perspective on Grace and Authentic Leadership

  Joseph Markey
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Sufism Across Cultural Boundaries

  Patrick Laude, Salah Basalamah, Jiri Mesic
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Divine Transcendence in Traditional African and Christian Spiritualities

  William Orbih
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Biblical and the Qur’anic Versions of the Genesis-Narrative as Adam’s Transcendent-Bio-Graph

  Abdul Rahim Afaki
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Health Benefits of Salat Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

  Intan Sabrina
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Religion and Modern Technology

  Shoaib Rasool
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Religion and Internet Advertising

  Stover Eduardo Ezequias
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Prophets in Motion

  Yasmeen Aboujabal
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Trajectories of Gender Differences, Power and Spirituality in Contemporary Society

  Essien Essien
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Evolution of African Witchcraft as a Response to Misfortune

  Bidi Broderick
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Aztec and Maya Understandings of Christ's Descent from the Cross

  Mark Christensen
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• The Cult of Vulnerability and Wounds in Medieval Religious Practice and Iconography.

  Edit Ujvari PhD
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Plorabunt

  Alberto Melloni
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Reacting to the Irrationality Problem

  Ian Waller
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Who Can Be at the Altar

  Anna Sun
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Frailty and Finitude as Ontological Conditions for Religion

  Ricardo Santos Alexandre
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Vulnerability of Sunda Wiwitan as the Indigenous Religious Practice in Strengthening Religious Education’s Value

  Halim Wiryadinata
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• A Theological Reflection of Matthew 9:14 on the Ill-Treatment of Children in Mainline Evangelical Churches in Africa with its Implication on the Spirituality of Evangelical Church Winning All in Nigeria

  Henry Marcus Garba
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Transformative Power of Vulnerability

  June-Ann Greeley
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Millennial Rap

  Dr. Walter Hidalgo
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Idols - the Ancient Mnemonics to Preserve Knowledge

  Pramendra Srivastava
  Innovation Showcase

• What Can We Deduce From Contemporary Individual Prayer Entries?

  Rafał Cekiera
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Navigating Vulnerability

  Ephraim Ogugbuaja
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Religion, Warfare and Moral Injury

  Mary Brewer
  Workshop Presentation

• Global Education in the Jesuit Tradition

  Laura Spitz, Eduardo Penalver
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Fragility and Vulnerability in Feminist and Womanist Christian Theology

  Mary Marcel
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Vulnerability and Vocation

  Claire Wolfteich
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• A Vision of Transgression

  Yunus Valerian Hentschel
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Are Religious Functionaries Becoming Vulnerable?

  Solomon Appiah
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Missing Link

  Heath Grant
  Workshop Presentation

• Gender Ideology from Health and Religious Perspectives

  Rafidah Hanim Mokhtar
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Exploring the Impacts of Self-Compassion on Self-Efficacy in BIPOC Parents

  Aizaiah Yong
  Innovation Showcase

• Benchmarking the Salience of Religious Influence from a Religious Context

  Kelemu Fenta Gebeyehu
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Evangelical Exodus

  Nicol Michelle Epple
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Socio-Economic Vulnerability and Spiritual Vulnerability in the Hebrew Bible

  David Walker
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Surviving a Tragic Ailment

  Rachel Cope
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Fragility, Forgetfulness, and Failure

  Maroun El Houkayem
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Religious Experience of Homeless People in Drug Use Scenes

  Camila Chagas
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Encroachment on fhe ‘Pure And Sacred’

  Ebenezer Quaye
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• God, Man, and Superman

  Gian Pagnucci
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Fragile Community

  Corey Parish
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Imperatives of Vulnerability

  Fannie Bialek
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Information Structure of the Lord’s Prayer

  Martin Adam
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Resisting the Hegemony of Borders and Coloniality through Religious Care, Charity, and Activism in the United States

  Ivon Padilla Rodriguez, Melissa Borja, Israel Dominguez, Barbara Sostaita
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Vulnerability and Spirituality within Christian Community in Nigeria

  Peace Ngwoke
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Stilling the Storm

  Stephen W. Need
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Gradations of Deceptions

  Kelston Cort
  Workshop Presentation

• Venice's Votive Churches and Post-Epidemic Grief, Trauma, and Healing

  Michelle Laughran
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Hydrological Insights from the Ramayana

  Jyoti Yadav
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Mission as Oppression

  Eugene Baron
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Spirituality of Listening with a Narrative Ear

  Paul Butler
  Workshop Presentation

• Witnessing Other Worlds and Tending to Homeplace

  Anthony Cruz Pantojas
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Dandi Sanyasi in the Sacred City of Kashi

  Vineet Kumar
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Creative Uses of Lived Ancient Religion

  Alexis Landau
  Innovation Showcase

• Uncertainty and Vulnerability

  Juan Dejo Bendezú
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Fulfillment Theology of Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Anugrah Brij
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Photography, Religion and Social Change

  Roddy MacInnes
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Sacred Circuitry

  Shawn Fisher
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Churches and Civil Society in Ukraine

  Cyril Hovorun
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• The Case for an Integrative Rationale for Presumed Undue Influence

  Craig Allen
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Saint Jesus Malverde

  William Calvo Quiros
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Spiritual Alchemy of the Voice

  Kristina Packman
  Workshop Presentation

• Fostering Inclusivity and Empathy in Multifaith Classrooms

  Angela Collins
  Workshop Presentation

• Religious and Spiritual Parenting of Teens

  David Dollahite
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Indigenous Women’s Textile Depicts the Vulnerability of the Sacred Mountain

  Annapurna Pandey
  Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

• Translating Modernity into the Islamic Paradigm

  Salah Basalamah
  The Politics of Religion

• The Church-State Relations, Nation-State Policies and New Challenges for the Orthodox Church in Ukraine

  Sergei Mudrov
  The Politics of Religion

• Nations under God

  Sasha Van Lammeren
  The Politics of Religion

• Sacred Subjects in Popular Culture

  Heidi Rimke
  Religious Foundations

• Close Encounters of a Different Kind

  Steven Green
  The Politics of Religion

• Semen est Sanguis Christianorum

  Miloš David
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Afro-Brazilian Spiritual Belief Systems to Address Racial Disparities in Sickle Cell Disease among Black Brazilians

  Anuli Njoku
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Modeling Madinah

  Dr. Muhammad Umar Riaz Abbasi
  The Politics of Religion

• Comparative Manifestations of Religiosity in Christianity and Islam

  Brent Moore
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• The Cult of Vulnerability and Wounds in Medieval Religious Practice and Iconography.

  Edit Ujvari PhD
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Plorabunt

  Alberto Melloni
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Reacting to the Irrationality Problem

  Ian Waller
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Religious Toleration in a Time of Troubles

  Steven Zwicker
  The Politics of Religion

• Vigil Prayer among the Aladura Pentecostals and Yoruba Tradition in Nigeria

  Adewale, Olukayode Ogunrinade
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Military Officers, Command Authority, and Liberal Democracy

  Christopher Eberle
  The Politics of Religion

• The Trinary Formula for Spiritual Unification as Illustrated in the Phenomenological Approaches of Father Pavel Florensky and Philosopher Edith Stein

  Sally Stocksdale
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Holy Springs in Iran

  Mahmoud Amani
  Religious Foundations

• Who Can Be at the Altar

  Anna Sun
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Frailty and Finitude as Ontological Conditions for Religion

  Ricardo Santos Alexandre
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Embodied Purity, Socialization, and Community

  Mugdha Yeolekar
  Religious Community and Socialization

• The Vulnerability of Sunda Wiwitan as the Indigenous Religious Practice in Strengthening Religious Education’s Value

  Halim Wiryadinata
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Sacred Sources Lead to Upliftment

  Kashish Pandey
  Religious Foundations

• A Theological Reflection of Matthew 9:14 on the Ill-Treatment of Children in Mainline Evangelical Churches in Africa with its Implication on the Spirituality of Evangelical Church Winning All in Nigeria

  Henry Marcus Garba
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• The Transformative Power of Vulnerability

  June-Ann Greeley
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Millennial Rap

  Dr. Walter Hidalgo
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Culture War

  Francisco Batista
  The Politics of Religion

• Conceptualizing Spirits

  Sanaa Riaz
  The Politics of Religion

• The Filioque

  Cory Gloeckner
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• What Can We Deduce From Contemporary Individual Prayer Entries?

  Rafał Cekiera
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Othering in Religion, Values and Ethics

  Jasmine Jacques Butterworth
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Coming to Tokyo and Losing Faith

  Rebecca Babirye
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Correlations between ESP and Chinese Buddhist Communities

  Yuxin Zhao
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Sacred Power, Secular Accountability

  Lucy Huh
  The Politics of Religion

• “Le Devoir de Décolonisation”

  Didier Course
  The Politics of Religion

• Navigating Vulnerability

  Ephraim Ogugbuaja
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Megachurches and Public Life

  Joel Agpalo Tejedo
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Reward and Punishment

  Bina Nir
  Religious Foundations

• Global Education in the Jesuit Tradition

  Laura Spitz, Eduardo Penalver
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Human Rights in Accordance with Islamic Injunction

  Muhammad Irfan, Mohamed Abdallah Turky
  The Politics of Religion

• Fragility and Vulnerability in Feminist and Womanist Christian Theology

  Mary Marcel
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Vulnerability and Vocation

  Claire Wolfteich
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• An Oxonian Thriller on which Philosophy Could Replace Religion

  Franco Manni
  The Politics of Religion

• A Vision of Transgression

  Yunus Valerian Hentschel
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Science, Spirit and Secular Vulnerabilities

  Hatice Sena Arıcıoğlu Senaaricioglu
  Religious Foundations

• Are Religious Functionaries Becoming Vulnerable?

  Solomon Appiah
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Gender Ideology from Health and Religious Perspectives

  Rafidah Hanim Mokhtar
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Religious Extremism and Legal Gaps

  Russell Hoban
  The Politics of Religion

• Vulnerability and Resilience Towards Life, Marriage and Family

  Agnieszka Laddach
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Dual Vocations of Science and Religion

  Diana Fenton
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Isn’t He Divine?

  Alfonso Gómez-Rossi
  Religious Foundations

• Benchmarking the Salience of Religious Influence from a Religious Context

  Kelemu Fenta Gebeyehu
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• “De-Hinduizing” Indigeneity

  Rashid K Khadher
  The Politics of Religion

• Evangelical Exodus

  Nicol Michelle Epple
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Socio-Economic Vulnerability and Spiritual Vulnerability in the Hebrew Bible

  David Walker
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Therapeutic Potency of the “Holy Mud and Water” in Selected African Initiated Churches in Nigeria

  Goka Mpigi
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Igbo Christians and Complexities of Ancestor Worship

  Mary Emilia Aboekwe
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• “What You Running From?”

  Shanice Cameron
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Abstraction and Application of Quranic Concepts in the Realm of Media

  Mohsen Ghamarzadeh
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Non-Muslim Minority Communities in Turkiye as Political Objects

  Muteber Yilmazcan
  The Politics of Religion

• Surviving a Tragic Ailment

  Rachel Cope
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• The Case of Shari'ah-compliant Economies in Emerging Religious Markets

  Alessandro Cupri
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Religious Freedoms in Egypt and Tunisia

  Mohamed Gamal Ali
  The Politics of Religion

• Fragility, Forgetfulness, and Failure

  Maroun El Houkayem
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Spiritual Practices and Re-imagining Health of People in Nepal

  Ram Prasad Aryal
  Religious Foundations

• The Religious Experience of Homeless People in Drug Use Scenes

  Camila Chagas
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Provincializing the Colonial Gaze

  Adam Olowo
  The Politics of Religion

• The Construction of Religious Meaning through Cultural Events

  Arif Budi Prasetya
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Recommendations from Spiritual Care Providers

  Zanab Farooq
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Encroachment on fhe ‘Pure And Sacred’

  Ebenezer Quaye
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Ancient Eleusis and Modern Psychedelic Integration Groups

  Walter Ward
  Religious Foundations

• God, Man, and Superman

  Gian Pagnucci
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Religion an Alternative to Neoliberal Global Capitalism

  Slimane Douih
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Fragile Community

  Corey Parish
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Extraterrestrial Theologies

  Leonardo Breno Martins
  Religious Community and Socialization

• God's Resistance

  Brad Christerson
  The Politics of Religion

• The Imperatives of Vulnerability

  Fannie Bialek
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Transforming Faith Through Curriculum

  Aretha Oluwakemi Asakitikpi
  Religious Community and Socialization

• The Art of Spiritual Transformation through Embodied Vulnerability

  Marina A. Smirnova, PhD
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Nones and Pleasure

  Kevin Grane
  Religious Foundations

• A Consideration of Jewish and Catholic Resistance in the Nazi Concentration Camps

  Eileen Lyon
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Affluence and the Economy Behind Oracles - an Experiential Study of Klaros

  Recep Can Mert
  The Politics of Religion

• Educating for the ‘Spirit’ in the Secular Public School

  Ariel Liberman
  Religious Foundations

• A Post-Secular Perspective on Grace and Authentic Leadership

  Joseph Markey
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Integrating Spiritual Healing Practices and Mental Health Services

  Rebecca Vicente
  Religious Foundations

• Information Structure of the Lord’s Prayer

  Martin Adam
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Resisting the Hegemony of Borders and Coloniality through Religious Care, Charity, and Activism in the United States

  Ivon Padilla Rodriguez, Melissa Borja, Israel Dominguez, Barbara Sostaita
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Sufism Across Cultural Boundaries

  Patrick Laude, Salah Basalamah, Jiri Mesic
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Bringing the Tabot into the House of the Qaalluu

  Ethan Key
  The Politics of Religion

• Vulnerability and Spirituality within Christian Community in Nigeria

  Peace Ngwoke
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• The Experience and Expression of Ritual Ordering among the Yoruba Drummers

  Olusegun Oladosu
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Stilling the Storm

  Stephen W. Need
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Venice's Votive Churches and Post-Epidemic Grief, Trauma, and Healing

  Michelle Laughran
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Divine Transcendence in Traditional African and Christian Spiritualities

  William Orbih
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• African Spirituality and Mental Health in Johannesburg, South Africa

  Alex Asakitikpi
  Religious Community and Socialization

• The Biblical and the Qur’anic Versions of the Genesis-Narrative as Adam’s Transcendent-Bio-Graph

  Abdul Rahim Afaki
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Health Benefits of Salat Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

  Intan Sabrina
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• The Politics of Faith

  Ashish Archer
  The Politics of Religion

• Hydrological Insights from the Ramayana

  Jyoti Yadav
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Religion and Modern Technology

  Shoaib Rasool
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Mission as Oppression

  Eugene Baron
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Second-generation Ethiopian and Eritrean Youth and Christianity

  Mary Goitom
  Religious Community and Socialization

• The Pentecostal Struggle

  Tatiana Novotolskaia
  The Politics of Religion

• Religion and Internet Advertising

  Stover Eduardo Ezequias
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• The Construction of Identity of the Sapta Darma Believers in Indonesia

  Agus Danugroho, Muhammad Alhada Fuadilah Habib, Iwin Ardyawin
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Witnessing Other Worlds and Tending to Homeplace

  Anthony Cruz Pantojas
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Dandi Sanyasi in the Sacred City of Kashi

  Vineet Kumar
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Uncertainty and Vulnerability

  Juan Dejo Bendezú
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• The Fulfillment Theology of Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Anugrah Brij
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• The Income-Religiosity-Happiness Nexus

  Muhammad Ichsan Fadillah
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Religiosity and Decision Making

  Sarah M. Farrell
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Witchcraft - an Exploration of Religious and Cultural Beliefs and Response In Post-Colonial South Africa and Zimbabwe.

  Juliet Chipo Sigauke
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Virtual Shambhala

  Jean-Paul Lafayette DuQuette
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Balancing Vulnerability and Resilience

  Anton Piyarathne
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Spiritual Wellness and Military Narratives

  Marissa Lemar
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Why Do We Say Thanks to God?

  Julianne Bryant
  Religious Community and Socialization

• The Black Manosphere

  Mutale Nkonde
  The Politics of Religion

• Political Consciousness among Adivasis Regarding Sarna Religion

  Kumari Nayak
  The Politics of Religion

• Prophets in Motion

  Yasmeen Aboujabal
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Trajectories of Gender Differences, Power and Spirituality in Contemporary Society

  Essien Essien
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• New Forms of Religious Ideas and Practice in Contemporary Latvia

  Solveiga Krumina Konkova
  Religious Foundations

• The Evolution of African Witchcraft as a Response to Misfortune

  Bidi Broderick
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Photography, Religion and Social Change

  Roddy MacInnes
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Sacred Circuitry

  Shawn Fisher
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Churches and Civil Society in Ukraine

  Cyril Hovorun
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• A Comparison of the Incidence and Function of Female Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context

  Deborah Gruber
  Religious Community and Socialization

• The Case for an Integrative Rationale for Presumed Undue Influence

  Craig Allen
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Aztec and Maya Understandings of Christ's Descent from the Cross

  Mark Christensen
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Religious Liberalism and Black Women's Political Thought, 1865-1915

  Christopher Cameron
  The Politics of Religion

• Saint Jesus Malverde

  William Calvo Quiros
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Sacred Sweet Tooth

  Constance Kirker
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Spiritual Religion

  Madhumita Dutta
  The Politics of Religion

• The Nexus of Marriage and Religion

  Loren Marks, David Dollahite
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Religious Populism

  Stavroula Koskina
  The Politics of Religion

• Religious and Spiritual Parenting of Teens

  David Dollahite
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Indigenous Women’s Textile Depicts the Vulnerability of the Sacred Mountain

  Annapurna Pandey
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Reform or Restore?

  Jason Whitehead
  The Politics of Religion

Innovation Showcase

• Raising Consciousness

  Cynthia Elliott
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Prayer as a Form of Resistance in Times of Social and Political Crisis

  Anjum Shah
  Religious Foundations

• Idols - the Ancient Mnemonics to Preserve Knowledge

  Pramendra Srivastava
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Exploring the Impacts of Self-Compassion on Self-Efficacy in BIPOC Parents

  Aizaiah Yong
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• The Creative Uses of Lived Ancient Religion

  Alexis Landau
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

Workshop Presentation

• Religion, Warfare and Moral Injury

  Mary Brewer
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• The Missing Link

  Heath Grant
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Spirituality in the Land of Forgetfulness

  Wayne Ewing
  Religious Community and Socialization

• Unpacking the Divinity Debate: Jesus and the Demi-Gods

  Essien Oku Essien
  Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Gradations of Deceptions

  Kelston Cort
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• The Spirituality of Listening with a Narrative Ear

  Paul Butler
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Developing aTheory of Everything with the Foundations of Sanatan Dharma Tested with General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics

  Susheel Kamotra
  Religious Foundations

• Giving Patients a Voice

  Franziskus Knoll
  The Politics of Religion

• Spiritual Alchemy of the Voice

  Kristina Packman
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

• Fostering Inclusivity and Empathy in Multifaith Classrooms

  Angela Collins
  2025 Special Focus—Fragile Meanings: Vulnerability in the Study of Religions and Spirituality

Poster Session

• The Role of the Church to Protect Children in Tanzania

  Stephano Nzanga Masuluale
  Religious Community and Socialization

• In the World but Not of It

  Tim Smith
  Religious Community and Socialization

• The Social Reform Theory of Brazilian Liberation Theology in the 1970s and 1980s

  Ran Gao
  The Politics of Religion

Unpacking the Divinity Debate: Jesus and the Demi-Gods

Essien Oku Essien
Workshop Presentation

This interactive workshop would explore a unique, interdisciplinary approach to a provocative question in comparative religion: Wasn’t the Earthly Jesus a Demi-God? We’ll dive into perspectives from religion, Greek mythology, and modern media to unpack this debate, drawing insights from ancient texts, myth theory, and mediatization theory. Participants will engage with contrasting viewpoints sourced from Greek mythological publications, biblical narratives, and popular screen interpretations, including Netflix’s The Legend of Hercules (2014). This session would use textual analysis and critical discourse techniques, focusing on the New Testament (King James Version) and key Greek myths. Participants will analyze how modern media shapes public perceptions of divinity and myth, comparing ancient portrayals of Greek demi-gods with New Testament depictions of Jesus (with references to Jesus’ images with Catholic-centric and Orthodox ideals). This session provides a hands-on exploration of how ancient and contemporary narratives influence each other, creating fresh insights into ongoing religious and cultural debates. Workshop Outcomes: 1. Gain Comparative Insights: Understand the contrasts and connections between Jesus’ divinity and Greek demi-god narratives. 2. Media Influence Analysis: Assess how platforms like Netflix mediate ancient myths for contemporary audiences. 3. Collaborative Discourse: Engage with peers in analyzing and debating these perspectives, fostering a critical approach to media and religion. The 15th International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society presents an ample opportunity to explore in-depth, this timely debate, where ancient history meets modern discourse to shed light on one of comparative religion’s most intriguing questions.