Religion, Identity and Conflict

20/10/2020

As a spinoff of the Research Network Religion and Socialism in the Twentieth Century, Todd Weir organized a conference in 2017 at the British Academy together with fellow historians Hugh McLeod and Benjamin Ziemann. We are happy to announce the publication in December of the proceedings with Oxford University Press: "Defending the Faith: Global Histories of Apologetics and Politics in the Twentieth Century" Check out the OUP website for the table of contents. Contributors include QUB historian Peter Bowler

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/defending-the-faith-9780197266915?cc=nl&lang=en&.

This volume explores the many ways in which conflicts between secular worldviews and religions shaped the history of the twentieth century. It introduces the notion of 'apologetics' to highlight a common feature of these conflicts: both secular and religious groups employed a mixture of learned argu...

04/02/2020

The research network "Religion and Socialism in the XX Century" was founded at Queen's in 2014/15. We held our first conference there on the interwar period in 2015. That conference produced a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History.

Our second conference was in Groningen in 2017 on the long 1960s. I'm very happy to announce that the special issue on the subject is coming out now with Contemporary European History in early access. Check it out!
https://www-cambridge-org.proxy-ub.rug.nl/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/firstview
https://www-cambridge-org.proxy-ub.rug.nl/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/firstview

23/06/2019

The Queen's-Groningen connection continues!

Most of the students and staff of the first CRH summer school "Religious Heritage in a Diverse Europe". The cosponsoring partners were Bar-Ilan, Duke, Southhampton, Groningen, Uppsala Universities and the Reinwardts Academy. Students also joined from Queen's Belfast, Louven, King's College, Exeter, Finnland and Denmark. The summer schools involved two days of seminars, followed by three days of conference participation, excursions and group projects. Here we are standing in front of the Aa-Kerk, where students took part in the conference dinner on Thursday night.

26/05/2019

First collaboration of Groningen and Queen's! Hope that there are many more. Sean O'Connell to lecture tomorrow.

Recent decades have seen waves of publicity worldwide, as cases of past abuse in Catholic institutions have come to light. As individuals bring their stories of sexual abuse or forced labour to the public, the trauma of the individual has, to a certain extent, become a collective trauma. Communities...

05/03/2019

The Department of Christianity and the History of Ideas at the University of Groningen is hiring a Philosopher of Religion. Please circulate!

Founded in 1614, the University of Groningen enjoys an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative centre of higher education offering high-quality teaching and research. Balanced study and career paths in a wide variety of disciplines encourage the 31,000 students and researchers to develo...

05/03/2019

We are hiring! Please tell any philosophers of religion you may know!

Founded in 1614, the University of Groningen enjoys an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative centre of higher education offering high-quality teaching and research. Balanced study and career paths in a wide variety of disciplines encourage the 31,000 students and researchers to develo...

11/12/2018

This is the A-Kerk in Groningen, one of the venues for our conference in June! Good reason to submit and abstract for a panel.

International conference organized by the University of Groningen, Stichting Oude Groninger Kerken (Groningen Historic Churches Foundation), Museum Catharijneconvent, Future for Religious Heritage Brussels, Jewish Cultural Quarter.

08/11/2017

Why study the immanentist tradition? One good reason is it can throw light on the quiet wave of naturalistic monism now coursing through the humanities. I am not referring here...

14/09/2017

One week left till the conference at the British Academy with participation with two former QUB staff, Peter Bowler and Todd Weir! Not too late to register! Sept 21 and 22, 2017, London

This conference brings together scholars of Europe, North America and Asia for a comparative exploration of the struggles between secularist ideologies and religious faiths over the past century. Participants will approach the dynamic effects of these struggles by focussing on ‘apologetics’, i.e. th...

29/06/2017

Participants in the 2017 Conference in Groningen "Religion and Socialism in the Long 1960s". See the program in the previous post. Left to right in back: Arie Molendijk, Arno Muenster, Mark Ruff, Brenda Bartelink, Clemens Six, Gerd Rainer Horn, Justine Buck Quijada, guest, Victoria Smolkina, Helena Toth, Sabine Rousseau, Kim Knibbe. Front row: Cornelius Casey, Udi Greenberg Todd Weir. Thanks to everyone for a great three days!