The Rome Summer Seminars is a two-week program for graduate students, scholars and practitioners working at the crossroads of religion and global politics which is designed to draw on the unique religious and geopolitical resources of the city of....
Read More »The 13th Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy to be Held in Japan
The 13th Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion & Philosophy (ACERP2023), will be held in partnership with the IAFOR Research Centre at the Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP) at Osaka University, Japan....
Read More »War & Murder Raging in the Middle East by the Name of “Religion”
Ayatollah Mohaghegh Damad stated that unfortunately with unrealistic interpretations, misunderstandings and religious distortions, human beings have subconsciously turned to polytheism and fought with others in...
Read More »‘Science and Religion’ according to Ayatollah Jafar Subhani
based on our definitions of science and religion, science is at the service of religion and discovers the hidden organization of the world....
Read More »Webinar: Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: History, Material Culture, Politics and Religion
This international conference aims to progress the field of Fatimid studies by examining their political, cultural, artistic, social, economic and intellectual interactions....
Read More »What Religious Pluralism Is and the Difference between it and the Interpretations of Religion?
Religious pluralism means that felicity is not exclusively reserved for a particular religion or religious sect. Truth and felicity not being limited to a specific religion in its turn means that all religions have a certain amount of truth to...
Read More »Understanding the Relationship between Religion and State
From time to time, discussions about the relationship between state and religion become increasingly important. The role of Muslims and their position on this issue usually needs clarification given that the interaction between state and...
Read More »Call for Papers: “Religion on the Periphery”
The aim of this conference is to encourage scholars from Central and Eastern Europe, as well as Western scholarship, to reflect on the variety of such peripheries – in particular, peripheries in...
Read More »Religion and Human Rights in the Thought of W. E. Hocking
In this article the writer, Muhammad Legenhausen, reviews Hocking’s thinking on the foundations of human rights and their relation to the religious traditions of...
Read More »Book: Converting Persia Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire
The book explains how Iran was to acquire one of its defining characteristics: its Shi'ism. Under the Safavids (1501-1736 CE), Persia adopted Shi'ism as...
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