The 2016 meeting will be held at The Catholic University of America, and will feature a special focus on “Religion in the Age of the Anthropocene: Towards a Common Cause?” which will explore various themes on religious foundations, communities, commonalities, and difference. Some of the questions addressed at the conference will include:
In the ‘age of the anthropocene’, how might faith (and explicitly non-faith) communities productively engage in critical discussions? Looking backward: could this be an opportunity for productive dialogues between principles of science, economics, and religion?
Looking forward: in what ways might faith communities and other communities of spiritual meaning set agendas for personal and community action? What principles of stewardship, compassion, or mutual obligation might they offer? How might they provide leadership on issues of the environment, ecological sustainability, and climate change?
Could addressing these concerns also offer a basis for productive inter-faith dialogue, a locus for the development of unified moral voice across differing belief systems?
Could the age of the anthropocene, as a focal interpretive mechanism for understanding the intersection of human action, science, and faith, become a site for joining into a ‘common cause’ and a place to share imaginations for the future of human development?
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