A Conversation with David Lloyd, Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian about the recent volume When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism, published by Cambridge University Press in May 2021. Nadia Abu El-Haj will moderate the conversation.
This event is organized by the Center for Palestine Studies and co-sponsored by the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life.
About When Politics are Sacralized
Over the years, there have been increasing intersections between religious claims and nationalism and their power to frame and govern world politics. When Politics Are Sacralized interdisciplinarily and comparatively examines the fusion between religious claims and nationalism and studies its political manifestations. State and world politics, when determined or framed by nationalism fused with religious claims, can provoke protracted conflict, infuse explicit religious beliefs into politics, and legitimize violence against racialized groups. This volume investigates how, through hegemonic nationalism, states invoke religious claims in domestic and international politics, sacralizing the political. Studying Israel, India, the Palestinian National Movement and Hamas, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Iran, and Northern Ireland, the thirteen chapters engage with the visibility, performativity, role, and political legitimation of religion and nationalism. The authors analyze how and why sacralization affects political behaviors apparent in national and international politics, produces state-sponsored violence, and shapes conflict. Read more.
Speakers
David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at University of California Riverside. Read more.
Nadim N. Rouhana is Professor of International Affairs and Conflict Studies at Tufts University. Read more.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Global Chair in Law- Queen Mary University of London. Read more.
Moderator
Nadia Abu El-Haj is Ann Whitney Olin Professor in the Departments of Anthropology at Barnard College and Columbia University. Read more.