Lunch Series on Religion and Nationalism: India

March 3, 2020
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. EST
Location: Berkley Center Third Floor Conference Room Map

Part of the Politicization of Religion in Global Perspective project, this series of events will focus on questions surrounding the politicization of religion in India, China, Russia, Syria, and Turkey. Using qualitative and quantitative data, this project has identified patterns of politicization of religion across traditions in various national and international contexts. The main findings will be accessible in a book authored by Jocelyne Cesari and published by Cambridge University Press in spring 2021.

In this conversation, Jocelyne Cesari was joined by Irfan Nooruddin, director of Georgetown University's India Initiative, to engage in a discussion on the ways religion has both served India's nation-building and been changed by it. They considered the specifics of Indian secularism, the long history of Hindu-Muslim tensions dating back to the nationalist movement, the Ayodhya dispute, and the challenges of the Modi regime.

Lunch was served.

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