"Space for the Sacred in Care of the Sick"
March 13-15, 2022
Portland, Oregon
March 13-15, 2022
Portland, Oregon
Dear Friends,
On behalf of everyone working hard to put together this year’s Conference on Medicine and Religion, we wanted to reach out to confirm that we are still planning to have the Conference on Medicine and Religion in person. We know Omicron has disrupted life for a lot of people. We also know that many of you and us are looking forward to being together, sharing ideas and conversation, and seeing each other in the flesh for the first time in three years (!)
We have a terrific, full schedule of panels, individual papers, workshops, and plenary speakers. There will be time for folks to eat together (we are looking to identify venues with outdoor seating for those who prefer that), and time to take in the beautiful Portland scenery. Do join us.
We will be following the hotel's (and city and state) procedures for COVID-19. Currently that means we will mask indoors except when eating and drinking and within individual guest rooms. Speakers also will be permitted to remove their masks when giving their presentations (spacing will accommodate this).
If you have not registered yet, please do so. If you have not booked your hotel room, we recommend doing that as well. More info on registration and hotel can be found here on our website.
With gratitude and expectation,
The Planning Team
2022 Conference on Medicine and Religion
On behalf of everyone working hard to put together this year’s Conference on Medicine and Religion, we wanted to reach out to confirm that we are still planning to have the Conference on Medicine and Religion in person. We know Omicron has disrupted life for a lot of people. We also know that many of you and us are looking forward to being together, sharing ideas and conversation, and seeing each other in the flesh for the first time in three years (!)
We have a terrific, full schedule of panels, individual papers, workshops, and plenary speakers. There will be time for folks to eat together (we are looking to identify venues with outdoor seating for those who prefer that), and time to take in the beautiful Portland scenery. Do join us.
We will be following the hotel's (and city and state) procedures for COVID-19. Currently that means we will mask indoors except when eating and drinking and within individual guest rooms. Speakers also will be permitted to remove their masks when giving their presentations (spacing will accommodate this).
If you have not registered yet, please do so. If you have not booked your hotel room, we recommend doing that as well. More info on registration and hotel can be found here on our website.
With gratitude and expectation,
The Planning Team
2022 Conference on Medicine and Religion
Contemporary medicine, by all appearances, is a secular domain, governed by the norms of science and industry and ethical principles that are ostensibly separable from religious traditions. Is there space in the medical domain for the sacred? If so, what does this sacred space look like? What is sacred about the work of medicine? What kind of attention to the sacred is fitting for medical practitioners? What relevance does the sacred and sacred space have for patients and practitioners who consider themselves spiritual but not religious? Can good spiritual care be provided in religiously neutral terms? What stories would foster more space for the sacred in contemporary medicine? Does the modern bureaucracy of healthcare provide space for the patient-clinician relationships that historically formed the cornerstone of ethical medicine? What religious norms and relationships can reframe understandings of care and of the patient-physician relationship?
The 2022 Conference on Medicine and Religion invites clinicians, scholars, clergy, students and others to take up these and other questions related to the intersection of medicine and religion. We encourage participants to address these questions and issues in light of religious traditions and practices, particularly, though not exclusively, those of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The conference is a forum for exchanging ideas from an array of disciplinary perspectives, from accounts of clinical practices to empirical research to scholarship in the humanities.
The 2022 Conference on Medicine and Religion invites clinicians, scholars, clergy, students and others to take up these and other questions related to the intersection of medicine and religion. We encourage participants to address these questions and issues in light of religious traditions and practices, particularly, though not exclusively, those of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The conference is a forum for exchanging ideas from an array of disciplinary perspectives, from accounts of clinical practices to empirical research to scholarship in the humanities.