Conference Programme: Religion and Science

The programme of the Spring Conference "Religion and Science. New Questions on an Old Topic" of the Section Sociology of Religion of the German Sociological Association, hosted by Monika Wohlrab-Sahr together with Silke Gülker and Hubert Knoblauch has been published. Katrin Killinger, Sana Chavoshian and Mohammad Magout from our KFG will present papers at this conference.

Sana Chavoshian and Katrin Killinger will take part in the panel "Deutungskonflikte zwischen Medizin und Religion", the will present papers on "The Unconscious: A Problem-Space for Science and Islam" (Sana) and on "Säkularität im Kompendium des Caraka – Āyurvedische Unterscheidungen zwischen religiösem und medizinischem Diskurs im frühen klassischen Indien" (Katrin). Mohammad Magout will present his paper on "Social Sciences as a Resource for Religious Communities. The Case of Nizari Ismailism" in the panel on "Organsiationen zwischen Wissenschaft und Religion".

The conference will take place on 11 and 12 May 2017 at the Berlin Social Science Center (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, WZB), Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin.