Hawzah News Agency (Qom, Iran) - The research center for Islamic Philosophy and Theology organizes a conference on the following topics in order to explain religious doctrines related to the immortality of the soul:

۱. Concept of death

۲. Concept of immortality

۳. Criteria of personal identity

۴. Postmortem survival

• Historical origins of the belief in the survival
• The survival in different religions and denominations
• Types of survival
• Arguments for the survival
• Dualistic accounts
• Non-dualistic accounts

۵. Life after death

• Views about human fate after death
• Barzakh (inter_world)
• Resurrection
• Physical and spiritual resurrections
• Heaven and hell
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Deadline for submitting abstracts is May 31, 2018 and deadline for submitting papers is October 7, 2018. Papers should not exceed 8000 words. For registration and more information please visit the conference website.