Until several thousand years ago, religious traditions were transmitted through oral, visual, and ritual practices rather than textual practices. However, over recent millennia the major world religions have transmitted their primary meanings via the written word. “Texts” in their original version or in translation have become an essential channel through which religions and belief systems transmit their core ideas. At the same time, these foundational texts have generated other religious and non-religious texts that have fulfilled the function of supplementing and differentiating religious traditions. Next to the founding texts, these complementary texts have provided the basis for specific religious models and practices. This year’s conference calls on researchers to shed light on understandings of the role of religious representational practices in broad historical context, the influence of communicative paradigms, and the social implications for this ideational flow of belief.
Center of Byzantine, Modern Greek and Cypriot Studies, University of Granada, Spain
Full Professor, Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Córdoba, Spain
The Twelfth International Conference on Religion & Spirituality in Society featured plenary sessions by some of the world’s leading thinkers and innovators in the field.
Professor Emeritus of Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
"Historical and Literary Issues regarding the Pseudo-Clementine Writings"
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Göttingen, Germany
"Non-Canonical Texts and Canonicity in the Eastern Churches"
Tenured Scientist, Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and the Near East of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research, CCHS - CSIC, Madrid, Spain
"Religious identity and Language use among the Jews of al-Andalus"
For each conference, a small number of Emerging Scholar Awards are given to outstanding graduate students and emerging scholars who have an active research interest in the conference themes. 2022 In-Person Emerging Scholar Award recipients are as follows:
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Arizona State University, United States
Associate Professor, St. John’s University & College of St. Benedict, USA
The 2022 Online-Only Emerging Scholar Award recipients are as follows:
University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
De La Salle-College, Philippines
Open University, England
Research Fellow, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Theology lecturer at the Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
Touro University, New York, USA
Córdoba, Spain
