The Global Conference on Religious Studies and Peace 2024 (GCRSP) stands as a paramount platform for scholars, theologians, and peace advocates to stimulate the exchange of knowledge and perspectives, addressing pressing concerns related to religious understanding and global peace. This conference emerges as an indispensable hub for leading voices in religious academia, interfaith dialogue, conflict resolution, spiritual studies, peace education, and religious art and culture to present their latest findings, engage in profound dialogues, and strategize for promoting global harmony.

At GCRSP, participants will have the opportunity to broaden their academic and professional horizons and discover innovative approaches to fostering religious understanding and peace. This gathering offers a conducive environment for attendees to gain invaluable insights, synergize with peers, and discover pioneering concepts and methods for nurturing interfaith harmony.

We warmly invite submissions of full papers and abstracts, which will be meticulously evaluated through a stringent double-blind peer review system. We also extend a heartfelt invitation to everyone involved in religious studies and peace endeavors to be part of this enlightening occasion. Be an integral part of an event that promises to shape global religious understanding and peace.

Religious Foundations

• Theological Understanding of Peace
• Interfaith Dialogue Techniques
• Historical Perspectives on Religion and Peace
• Religion in Post-Conflict Societies
• Spirituality and Nonviolence
• Religious Extremism and Peacemaking
• Art, Music, and Culture in Religious Peace
• Education for Peace in Religious Contexts
• Ethical Frameworks for Peace in Religions

• Religious values and aspirations
• Sacred sources: sites, narratives, texts
• Religious philosophies and philosophies of religion
• Theological sources and resources
• World sources: religious and secular cosmologies
• Creation accounts in science and religion
• World destinies: religious and secular eschatologies
• Reason and faith: congruencies and conflicts
• Traditional, modern, and postmodern orientations to religion
• Science and religion: congruencies and conflicts on the sources of design in the natural world
• Religious counterpoints: agnosticism, atheism, materialism, and secularism
• Religious prophets: their messages and their meanings
• Religiosity: measures, forms, and levels of religious commitment
• Religion and law
• Religion and commerce
• The natural, the human, and the supernatural
• Rites and sites of passage: birth, adulthood, marriage, death
• Medical ethics and bioethics
• Anthropologies, psychologies, and sociologies of religion
• Role of Religious Institutions in Peace building
• Women in Religious Peacemaking
• Youth, Religion, and Peace
• Media Narratives in Religion and Peace
• Religion and Environmental Peace
• Comparative Religious Studies on Peace
• Religion and Peace Education in Schools
• Rituals, Ceremonies, and Peace Celebrations
• Mysticism, Sufism, and Other Spiritual Traditions

Religious Community and Socialization

• Religious institutional governance
• Symbology in theory and practice
• Religious education and religion studies
• Religiously-based schools and religion in public schools
• Religion in ethnic, national, and racial identities
• Congregations and religious community
• Media for religious messages
• Evangelism and conversion
• Ritual, rite, liturgy
• Prayer, contemplation, and meditation
• Meditation as healing and therapy
• Religious ‘ways of life’ and lifeworld practices
• Religious art and architecture
• Pilgrimage, tourism, and the search for spiritual meaning
• Religious leadership

Religious Commonalities and Differences

• Comparative studies of religion
• Monotheism, polytheism, and immanentist religions
• Indigenous or first nation spiritualities
• Inter-religious harmony
• Interfaith dialogue
• Religious diversity, tolerance, and understanding
• Religions in globalization
• Centrifugal and centripetal forces: difference and interdependence
• Denominationalism: tendencies to fracture and recombination
• Literal and metaphorical readings of sacred texts
• Religion, identity, and ethnicity
• Interreligious education
• The nation state and religious exceptionalism
• Religious dual belonging
• Ecumenicalism
• Interfaith dialogue and international interfaith organizations

The Peace of Religion​

• Religion in politics and the politics of religion
• Modernity and religious frameworks
• Religious freedom in secular states
• Chaplaincies and the state
• Politics, society, and religion in religiously defined states
• Religious minorities and the state
• Social agendas for religion: sustainability, justice, peace
• Religious divisions and social conflicts
• Religiously inspired violence and non-violence
• Gender, sexuality and religion
• Women, patriarchy, and the sacred feminine
• Religion as a source of community cohesion or community dissonance
• Terrorism, political extremism, and religion
• Religion and human security
• Religion and global ethics
• Religion and human rights
• Religion and reconciliation
• The future of religion