• Type: Seminar Series

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Implications of ‘Critical Religion’ for ‘Religious Education’
  Dr Alison Jasper (Stirling)

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Researching ‘religion’ in indigenous cultures
  Dr Suzanne Owen (Leeds Trinity)

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Conceptualising ‘religion’ in a globalising world: Muhammad ‘Abduh and his interlocutors
  Dr Ammeke Kateman (Amsterdam)

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Jewish tradition in a European straitjacket: some thoughts on the ‘nationalisation’ of Jewish identity
  Prof Yaacov Yadgar (St Anne’s, Oxford)

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Coloniality of ‘religion’ and ‘(secular) politics’: A Japanese case
  Prof Mitsutoshii Horii (Shumei)

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Managing ‘faith’ in a modern (devolved) State: ‘Time for Reflection’ in the Scottish parliament
  Dr Steven Sutcliffe (Edinburgh)

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Religions’ and their boundaries: How to study them?
  Dr Teemu Taira (Helsinki)

Wednesday 11 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Study of Religion: a national and nationalist project
  Prof Aaron Hughes (Bernstein Professor of Jewish Studies University of Rochester)