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Next ISSR conference will be held in Melbourne, Australia, 3-7 July, 2017 under the title Religion, Cooperation, and Conflict in Diverse Societies.

Religion’s role in conflict has been the subject of recent media and academic scrutiny, while religion’s part in peace building has received comparatively less attention. This conference analyzes the multiple ways in which religion may contribute to fostering cooperation and conflict in diverse societies. Religion can be a source of tension and conflict just as it can be a resource for resolving societal tensions. And cooperation and conflict on a societal level may have themselves important impacts on the emergence or diminishing of religious diversity and vitality. Some of the questions examined at the conference are :

• What different kinds of influence can religion (religious ideology, religious groups, individual religiosity, lived religion) have on the creation or resolution of societal tensions and conflicts? Under what political/economic conditions are such influences to be observed?
• How and under what conditions does religion intersect with other factors (e.g. ethnicity, gender, politics, social structure, social closure) in creating or resolving such tensions and conflicts?
• What are the specific potentials of religion for the furthering of cooperation and peace in society and under what conditions may such potentials be activated?
• What different types of influence can religious diversity have under different conditions on the creation of tension and conflict or the cooperation and peace?
• How does religious diversity intersect with other factors in its influence on cooperation or conflict under different conditions?
• How, and under what conditions, can the state, politics, communities and law govern tensions in religiously diverse societies?
• What is the relationship between religious cooperation/conflict and religious vitality under different societal conditions?
• How do various religions interact with democratic ways of political participation, in secular or non-secular arenas within diverse societies?
• Do different ways of emergence of religious and cultural diversity (e.g. migration, globalization, post-colonial state-formation) correlate with different types of conflict / cooperation between religions?

These questions, and others like them, will be the focus of our 2017 conference. We welcome papers on these and other topics of interest to sociology of religion and the social sciences of religion more generally.

The call for thematic session proposals is now open. You may propose a Thematic session, Working Group session, New Researchers' Forum, and Author Meets Critics session HERE.

Before doing so, please consult the instructions for registration at the online conference system and for submitting proposals.

The deadline for submitting proposals is 15th September 2016.

We are pleased to share the link to the open conference system hosting our conference -  RELIGION, COOPERATION AND CONFLICT IN DIVERSE SOCIETIES  http://sisr-issr-conference-submission-2017.com/index.php/test/rccds2017

Please click on the Log in button and then on the link » Not a user? Create an account with this site in order to start.

During the first step, you will need to provide general information. The sign * stands for mandatory fields that have to be filled out in order to continue. When you are done, please tick the box by category Author: Able to submit items to the conference and press the button Create.

After completing this first step you will be redirected to the User Home page where you can proceed with your submission. In order to do so please choose [New Submission].

First, please choose Session Type (Thematic Sessions, New Researchers' Forum, Working Groups, Author Meets Critics) depending on the nature of your submission. Then please click Save and Continue and you will be redirected to the next and final step where you will be able to submit you abstract.

If you are co-authoring a submission for a  session, and you want to add author(s) your will need to click Add Author and enter general information on your co-author(s) such as their First name, Last name, Email and Affiliation. 

The following step is to submit your proposal by entering the title of your presentation and then the abstract (200-250 words).

However, since we require bilingual proposal submissions please DO NOT click on the button Save and Continue yet. First, please go to the top of the page and in the category Form Language, choose the secondary language, from the drop down menu  (if you have started the registration process in English you are now required to select French or if you have started the registration in French you are now required to select English). As you proceed the Title and Abstract fields will be empty. Do not worry, the system has saved your entry. Now, insert the Title and Abstract in a secondary language. Only after completing your secondary language submission you may proceed by clicking Save and Continue. With that, your submission will be completed. Thank you for registering and should you need any further technical assistance please contact: adminisration [AT] sisr-issr [DOT] org