The annual Conference on Medicine and Religion is a leading forum for discourse and scholarship at the intersection of medicine and religion. It exists to enable health professionals and scholars to gain a deeper and more practical understanding of how religion relates to the practice of medicine, with particular attention to the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The forum is intended in a spirit that builds bridges between theory and practice, science and theology, the academy and lay communities, the various health professions, and the Abrahamic religious traditions.
Each year, the conference is organized by its advisory board of clinicians and scholars who work at the intersection of medicine and religion. Each conference features both keynote speakers and peer-reviewed paper sessions, panels, workshops, and posters. The inaugural conference, held in Chicago, May 23-25, 2012, was entitled "Responding to the Call of the Sick: Religious Traditions and Health Professions Today". Subsequent conferences were as follows: "What Does It Mean to Care?", (Chicago) 2013; "Responding to the Limits and Possibilities of the Body" (Chicago) 2014; "Spiritual Dimensions of Illness and Health" (Boston) 2015; "Approaching the Sacred: Science, Health, and Practices of Care" (Houston) 2016; "Re-Enchanting Medicine" (Houston) 2017; "Examining the Foundations of Medicine and Religion" (St. Louis) 2018; "My Pain is Always With Me" (Duke) 2019, "True to Tradition? Religion, the Secular and the Future of Medicine", (Virtual), 2021; "Space for the Sacred in the Care of the Sick" (Portland) 2022; and "At the Limits of Medicine: Caring for Body and Soul" (Columbus, Ohio) 2023.
2025 Event Details:
DATE:
April 6 - 8, 2025
LOCATION:
Loma Linda, CA