Unsettling Secularism: The Politics of Religion in the 21st Century
Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd – Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois (USA) presents the first of three Albert Moore lectures
The idea that religion is disappearing or privatising is the premise of most accounts of secularism. It does not fit with the realities of experience in most parts of the world. Today, a generation of scholars is exploring new ways to pluralize and globalize the study of secularism, religion, and public life.
This lecture explores these challenges, preparing the way for a different approach to the study of religion in politics described in the lectures that follow.