Dr. Stefano Bigliardi (SSAH) participated in the Fourth World SangSaeng Forum International Conference at Daejin University, Korea, October 24-26.
This international conference was jointly organized by the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), the International Conference on Daoist Studies, Daesoon Jinrihoe’s Yeoju Headquarters Temple Complex, and Daejin University.
The theme of the conference, which brought together numerous scholars from Korea and around the world, was “Reconciliation, Mutual Beneficence, and Religion.”
Bigliardi, drawing on his recent book Islam and Pseudoscience (Cambridge University Press, 2025), gave a talk on October 25th titled “When Religion Meets Pseudoscience.” The talk was part of the panel titled “Boundaries of Religion, Science, and Knowledge.”
In his talk, as well as in the paper included in the Conference Proceedings, Dr. Bigliardi, who has served at AUI for nine years, including teaching courses on religion and science, emphasized the importance of developing a joint ethical-pedagogical vision for the collaboration of religious and non-religious critics of pseudoscience.