USA Re-Enchanting Medicine The 2017 Conference invites health care practitioners, scholars, religious community leaders, and students to address questions associated with the theme, "Re-Enchanting Medicine," by relating its questions to religious traditions and practices. We welcome an array of disciplinary perspectives, from empirical research to scholarship in the humanities to stories of clinical practice. 2017 marks the centennial of Max Weber's lecture, "Science as Vocation," in which he claimed that the modern world had lost its enchantment. Modern people, Weber argued, are socialized to see the world as merely material, without intrinsic meaning. This disenchantment leads modern cultures to treat nature, including human nature, as substance to be manipulated and controlled, using the latest scientific knowledge and technique, organized by bureaucracy and market forces. The 2017 Conference on

USA Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Annual Meeting The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion 2017 Annual Meeting will take place at the Marriot Wardman Park, Washington DC, 13-14 October 2017. See the Society's website for more information.

Greece The First International Conference of SOW (Science and Orthodoxy Around the World) The conference focuses on the nature of the relationship between modern Science and Orthodox Christianity with its centuries-old tradition. Orthodoxy today shares a variety of 'sometimes ambiguous' attitudes towards modern Science shaped by the texts of the Church Fathers, medieval and modern theologians and scholars, as well as contemporary social realities. On the other hand, modern Science, which sprung from the seventeenth-century quest by Western-European philosophers for rationality, is faced with crucial and uneasy questions about the meaning of life and the position of Humankind within the natural world. The main goal of the Conference is to define the patterns of the Science-religion relationship in the Orthodox world, especially in the light of the most

International Conference: Education, Science, and Religion: ISSR-UPAEP-DECYR The International Society for Science and Religion, the Centre for Studies on Science and Religion (UPAEP, Mexico), and the Foundation for the Dialogue between Science and Religion (DECYR, Argentina) invite ISSR members, as well as non-members, to submit abstracts related to the major themes of this International Conference. The conference will take place at the Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP), Puebla, Mexico. Plenary speakers include Profs Michael Reiss (UK), Celia Dean-Drummond (US), Juan Arana (Spain), Claudia Vanney (Argentina), José Funes (Argentina), Gianfranco Basti (Italy), and Juan José Blázquez (Mexico). Goals To present innovative educational strategies for the science and religion dialogue To establish research on the social function of the science and religion dialogue To strengthen the cultural