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The Rule of Law and the Unruliness of Religion: Reflections on Legal Multiculturalism

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March 12, 2014 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
3335 Dwinelle

Benjamin Berger, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University

In a recent work on the nature of religious speech, sociologist Bruno Latour cautioned that “the more you make religion modern and acceptable, soft and digestible, the less you are faithful to its specific order of difficulty.” This talk aims to draw out that “specific order of difficulty,” exploring the way in which the prevailing […]

The Rule of Law and the Unruliness of Religion: Reflections on Legal Multiculturalism

Dreaming of Islam in Detroit: An Indian Entrepreneur in the American Religious Market

Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance
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November 22, 2013 / 10:00 am - 12:00 pm / Add to Google
340 Moffitt Library

Nile Green, Professor of History, University of Los Angeles

BCSR presents a colloquium with Prof. Green where he will be discussing “Dreaming of Island in Detroit: An Indian Entrepreneur in the American Religious Market.” The paper is a chapter from his forthcoming book, Terrains of Exchange: Muslim Encounters from India & Iran to America & Japan (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2014). This colloquium is […]

Enlightenment or Orthodoxy?: The Historicization of Theology, c. 1580-1700

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October 14, 2013 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
3335 Dwinelle

Dmitri Levitin, Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge University

It is commonly assumed that the historicization of religion and theology only occurred in the wake of an ‘early enlightenment’, and against the forces of confessionalisation and dogmatic theology. I will argue that in England the process occurred much earlier, and crucially, at the service of confessional identity. Due to structural changes in the nature […]