RGTGM: Prophetic states: Rethinking the past and present entanglements of religion and politics

Prophetic states: Rethinking the past and present entanglements of religion and politics

Friday May 8, 9-5.  

Room 160, McCall-McBain Arts Building, McGill University

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.  

Speakers:

Wendell Adjetey (McGill)

Tassos Anastassiades (McGill)

Ananya Chakravarti (Georgetown)

Ruramisai Charumbira (Western University)

Elizabeth Elbourne (McGill)

Hillary Kaell (McGill)

Pamela Klassen (University of Toronto)

Piotr Kosicki (Maryland)

Paul Landau (Maryland)

Darren Reid (University of Alberta)

Alex Tepperman (University of Winnipeg)

Organized by the Research Group on Transitions and Global Modernities, McGill University