Necmettin Erbakan University Faculty of Theology, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the establishment of its Faculty of Theology, will hold an International symposium on “Religious Studies and Global Peace”, to be held in Konya, the city of the great mystic thinker, Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, 16-18 May 2013.
The symposium will focus, among others, on the following topics:
• Religious Education in Higher Learning Institutions
• The Study of Basic Religious Sources in Modern Context
• Hermeneutics and Scriptures
• Religion and Social Problems
• Religion, Diversity, and Pluralism
• The Treatment of Social Problems in Religious Studies
• Religious Studies and Politics
• Religion and Environment
• Religion and Arts
• Training Religious Leaders