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Happy Easter to all who are celebrating!
Chag pesach sameach to all those celebrating !
On April 19, “A Quarter Century of Public Religions” will feature Hans Joas and panelists Craig Calhoun, Mirjam Künkler, Rajeev Bhargava, Jocelyne Cesari, Charles Taylor, Nilüfer Göle, and Most Rev. Borys Gudziak. Lunch will be served.
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On April 19-20, “A Quarter Century of Public Religions” is more than a celebration of the 1994 publication of “Public Religions in the Modern World,” by Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova. This conference is an invitation to examine the global transformations of religions in the public sphere in the last 25 years.
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“It was, rather, a paradox: How could they embrace the Western form of nationalism without Westernization that paralyzed their true independence?” Mustafa Gurbuz (Department of Critical Race, Gender and Culture Studies) on Islamism and post-colonial psyche.
“While the pharaoh was both a political and religious ruler, now leaders of nation-states would unify their people through a civic rather than sacred nationalism.” Brian Haggard and Landon Schnabel (Cornell University College of Arts and Sciences) on what god-kings can teach us about balancing religion and politics.
“The empire is understood as the rightful successor of the Roman Empire and ipso facto global in its scope and ambition: A Christian Rome is meant by God to rule the world.” Katherine Kelaidis on understanding religious nationalism as alternative modernity.
in 2021, author and Jesuit Fr. James Martin, SJ talked with Paul Elie, author and Berkley Center senior fellow, about the challenges in writing about the interior life and the notion of writing itself as spiritual practice.
Watch their conversation on our website:
“The conception of nationalism that emerged from this democratic consolidation upheld the collective political unity of India’s diverse people.” Shaunna Rodrigues (Columbia University in the City of New York) on the dependence of secularism on nationalism in Indian democracy.
“Maybe it is the imperial rather than the national character of these diverse societies that keeps them together, the mutual relations of citizens defined by neither love nor hatred but by indifference.” Faisal Devji (University of Oxford) on religious violence and national founding.
On Literary Hub, Senior Fellow Terrence L. Johnson and Jacques Berlinerblau dissect James Baldwin’s landmark essay “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White” on the fifty-fifth anniversary of its publication and argue that, in spite of all the outrage (and confusion) the piece created, it was prescient in many ways.