CALL FOR PAPERS
Conference participants are invited to submit an abstract of their potential presentation(s) (400 words). Keynote speakers (1 hour, plenary) will be invited as a rule based on submissions, and all others will be considered for presentation (45 minutes including discussion) in parallel sessions. Please mention explicitly if you do NOT wish to be a keynote speaker. While an important criterion for selection of keynotes will be the focus on the theme of the conference, papers related to empirical studies in religion which do not fit explicitly in this (wide) framework are also more than welcome. Papers for parallel sessions could focus on these sub-themes: religion and ecology (interdependence, intergenera-tional sustainability, …), religion and solidarity (poverty, socioeconomic inequality, …), and religion and human flourishing (personal identity, ethno-cultural issues, …). A special panel session will be dedicated to innovative use of empirical methods in theological research. For the presentation of emerging projects, particularly of Ph.D. or doctoral students, a poster session is also foreseen.
NOTE: On registering for the conference, together with the abstract the doctoral students can indicate whether they would like to do a Poster/ppp/Pecha-kucha presentation for not more than 10 minutes. If they wish to present a full length paper, the possibility will depend on the theme, quality and availability of slot. At the moment of acceptance, the organizers will confirm whether they can present full paper or Poster/ppp/Pecha-kucha presentation!
Call for papers is not limited to ISERT members: all scholars or students working in the described field and with those interests can submit a proposal.
The organizers will offer after the Conference the possibility to publish in the Springer Series New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion a selection of the submitted and edited papers.
Please note the deadline for submitting or re-submitting a conference abstract, panel or poster is the 15th April 2022.
Everyone will receive a response within two weeks so if you need feedback earlier you will simply have to submit earlier.
In April 30 2022 all participants will be notified if their paper/poster is accepted (or not).
Consider that the Organizers are able to provide a limited number of places for students at discount cost. We will decide on the basis of the submitted papers and earlier registration.