The BASR is pleased to be supporting the quinquennial IAHR conference in Krakow this year and we hope to see many of you there. As is our usual custom in an IAHR year, we will be running our annual conference for 2025 over a single day. This year, with thanks to the Open University for hosting, we have also chosen to run the conference online, in the hope that this will be as accessible to as many participants as possible.

We are therefore pleased to announce that the theme for this year’s conference will be, ‘Religion Space and Place’. Our keynote speaker will be Professor Lily Kong, a geographer who has written extensively on religion, with a focus on religion and urban change in Asian cities.

15-minute papers are welcome from all scholars, at any level of experience, on any dimension of

Religion Space and Place, including (but not limited to):

• Religion and pilgrimage;

• Religion and nationalism;

• Religion and populism;

• Religion and urban transformation;

• Religion and rural change;

• Religion, borders and stratification;

• Religion and tourism;

• Religion and architecture;

• Religion and virtual space;

• Religion, landscape and memory.

Papers are also welcome on any dimension of inter-disciplinary, theoretical or methodological reflection, including (but not limited to)

• Religious Studies and Geography;

• Theorising religious space and the places of religion;

• Feminist, post-colonial or post-humanist approaches to religion, space and place.

Submissions should be sent to basrconference2025@gmail.com by June 9 2025.