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In collaboration with PANAFSTRAG (Pan-African Strategic and Policy Research Group), the Sociology of Religion Research Committee (RC22) of the International Sociological Association, held their Mid-Term International Conference from 27–30 January 2012 in Abuja, Nigeria.1 The theme of the Conference was, “Religion, Conflict, Violence, and Tolerance in Global Perspectives.” Roughly 50 scholars and observers assembled in this modern African city from a diverse cross-section of the globe, including France, Malaysia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Serbia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and Zimbabwe. Their range of vantage points and fields of study proved to be just as diverse, with participants bringing expertise in sociology, phenomenology, politology, historiography, jurisprudence, and public policy. The function of the Conference was to provide a cross-disciplinary platform of discourse, focused upon the intersections of conflict, violence, and tolerance within various religious traditions and historical epochs. As conventional explanations have been largely insufficient in both grasping local-global complexities and providing a comprehensive framework to approach and analyze the empirical social world, the Conference was organized in order to foster attention and further analysis into a popular, yet often misunderstood field of study.