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St. John’s University’s Division of Mass Communications will host the Social Communications and Theology Project (SCTP) Conference September 16-18 in Bent Hall on the University’s Queens campus. 

The SCTP Conference addresses the importance of associating theological studies with communication studies, especially on developing a communicative theology in the context of a popular culture, popular religion.

The main purpose of this conference is to engage in interdisciplinary study, which would enrich our understanding of communication and theology. This conference is intended to nudge scholars in newer thinking about the evolving subject of communication and explore its theological dimension, and, at the same time, to reflect on the discipline of Theology being challenged by the developments in Communication.

The program for the three days will focus on exchanging ideas and having interdisciplinary conversations during five conference sessions: Theological and Philosophical Context for Communication; Methodology of Communicating Theology; Theology in the Public Square; Theology Expressed in the Arts and Finding God in the Virtual World.

For media inquiries, please call Elizabeth Reilly, Assistant Director of Media Relations at St. John’s University, at (718) 990-5789, or by e-mail to reillye@stjohns.edu.