Lin Centre RGTGM Workshop: "Prophetic States: Rethinking the Past and Present Entanglements of Religion and Politics"
Lin Centre RGTGM Workshop: "Prophetic States: Rethinking the Past and Present Entanglements of Religion and Politics"
Workshop description:
What does God have to do with the state in a putatively secular era? How do religious ideas shape the efforts of groups to craft alternative states, or to seek to change existing states from within? How do groups compete to mobilize sacred power in divided societies? Focusing on the 19th century to the present, and with case studies from Europe, southern Africa and the Americas, this workshop explores the intersections of sacred and political power in societies shaped by Christianity and colonialism while claiming to have been emancipated from both.
The workshop, brings together historians and religious studies specialists to explore the complicated and shifting relationships of religion and politics in Christian and would-be secular and post-Christian states, with attention to struggles to control sacred power in divided societies. The workshop adopts a broad definition of both religion and politics appropriate to our current era of changing definitions and blurring lines.
Speakers:
Wendell Nii Laryrea Adjetey (History and Classical Studies, 91丝瓜视频)
Tassos Anastassiades (History and Classical Studies, 91丝瓜视频)
Ananya Chakravarti (History, Georgetown)
Ruramisai Charumbira (History, Western University)
Elizabeth Elbourne (History and Classical Studies, 91丝瓜视频)
Hillary Kaell (Religious Studies, 91丝瓜视频)
Pamela Klassen (Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto)
Piotr Kosicki (History, Maryland)
Paul Landau (History, Maryland)
Darren Reid (History, University of Alberta)
Alex Tepperman (Criminal Justice, University of Winnipeg)
Attendance is open to all, and registration is free. Please indicate your attendance at this link (for catering purposes): .
A precise programme schedule will be distributed closer to the workshop date.