2025. 10. 9-10. | Budapest HUN-REN HQ

The SciFaiR 2025 – Science, Faith and Religion Summit is a pioneering event located in Budapest to create a dedicated intellectual space for scholars of different disciplines to converge at the intersection of science and faith.

SciFaiR 2025 will serve as a platform for meaningful, academically grounded dialogue between scholarly and religious thought. Recognizing the growing need for such an encounter, HUN-REN is bringing to Budapest internationally renowned thinkers who are leading voices in fields such as theology, philosophy, physics, genetics, biblical studies, and the study of religion.

This two-day international event, scheduled for 9-10 October 2025, endevours to facilitate dialogue between experts in various fields, including research, philosophy, and theology. As a one-of-its-kind initiative in Hungary, SciFaiR 2025 sets off to drive and facilitate shared reflection, academic networking, and mutual inspiration, contributing to a long-term dialogue between realms of science and faith on the national and international levels.

Planned to be a recurrent international event, SciFair 2025 is launched with the ambition to serve not only as a conference but also as a tradition.

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The Hungarian Association for the Academic Study of Religion was founded in 1992 by Mihály Hoppál, the world-known expert on forms and development of shamanism. Throughout the past decades, the Association has published a number of important monographs both in Hungarian and English, and organized scholarly meetings, discussions, and conferences.  The Association considers its vocation centered around the scholarly research of religious issues of various kinds, such as the historical studies of positive religious forms, comparative investigations, philosophical and theological problems, and also the political role religion-related forms have played in societies. Recently, one of the central subject matters has been the widespread phenomenon of religious persecution on religious and/or political grounds. In the future, the Association intends to pursue its research profile in the framework of the ‘Karl Kerényi Program’ named after the important figure of twentieth century scholarship of religious history, psychology and philosophy.

 

Elected leaders of the Hungarian Association for the Academic Study of Religion:

 

Prof. Dr. Balázs M. Mezei (president)

Prof. Dr. Ábrahám Kovács (secretary)