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Call for Papers: "Religion, Migration, and Conflicts in Polarized Societies"
38th biennial ISSR (International Society for the Sociology of Religion) conference, Kaunas (Lithuania), 30 June-4 July 2025
We live in a globalized world shaped by migration, geopolitical crises, and social polarization. Religion is closely entangled with these changes. Linking up with the theoretical debates in the sociology of religion about the role of religion in public life, the conference invites scholars to reconsider how religion, in terms of religious practices, discourses, imaginaries, organizations, and individuals, is involved in the context of a currently polarized society. The role of religion in social and political conflicts within polarized society, as well as religious contributions to their mitigation and overcoming, is a timely and relevant scientific and social question. When moving to new places to escape violent conflicts, entire religious communities struggle with integration into host societies. One issue arising concerns the ways the modified religious landscape is socially constructed and accepted. How do diverse social formations contribute to the integration of migrating religions and their communities and how do the conflicts change the relationship to established religions and society in general?
Salomé Okoekpen and Federico Carducci, both members of the SGAS, will coordinate the session "Religious Practices and Political Mobilizations in Africa".
Submission deadline: 20 December 2024
