Fifth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society
- 2015 Special Focus: Social Movements and Faith
- 16–17 April 2015
- University of California at Berkeley, USA
Days of paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters, and colloquia.
Delegates from all over the world who attended the Fifth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society.
Countries represented.
Religious commitments are, as often as not, social commitments. In addition to its usual range of themes, this year’s special focus of the Religion and Society knowledge community is the relation of religion to social movements, ranging from movements for nominally “progressive” or “liberal” social change, to “fundamentalisms” whose religious practices are often explicitly or implicitly social and political. The conference will ask the questions: under what conditions and to what extent are religious communities socially activist, either in their doctrine or their practices? How do religious communities, support or align with other social movements?
The Fifth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Professor of Sociology, University of Washington, USA
"Religious Virtuosity, Spiritual Privilege and the Birth of the Modern Social Movement"
Professor and Chair of Sociology, Loyola University, Chicago, USA
"Religious Activism and the Making of 'American Exceptionalism'"
For each conference, a small number of Graduate Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students who have an active academic interest in the conference area. The Award with its accompanying responsibilities provides a strong professional development opportunity for graduate students at this stage in their academic careers. The 2015 Graduate Scholar Awardees are listed below.
University of Kansas, US
University of Hong Kong, China
Baylor University, US
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Drew University, US
University of Warwick, UK
University of California, US
UCLA, US
Pepperdine University, US