[GDC] International Workshop "Imagining an Alternative 'Post-Secular' State: Historicizing and Comparing National Struggles over Re-secularization"

10:00-17:00, Friday, 17th February 2017

Date Friday, February 17, 2017. 10:00-17:00
Venue Conference Room (303), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
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Program Morning Session 10:00-13:00
Umut Azak, Okan University (Turkey)
"Rethinking the Republican Secularism, Secularization, and State Islam in Turkey"

Mohammad Rasekh, Shahid Beheshti University (Iran)
"Traditional Secularism v. Modern Secularism: The Nature of Fiqh and the Related Constitutional System"

Yasuyuki Matsunaga, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
"Resisting Resecularization in Post-Khomeini Iran"

Afternoon Session 14:00-17:00

Sadia Saeed, University of San Francisco (U.S.A.)
"Rethinking Desecularization: Insights from State-Religion Relations in Pakistan"

Naser Ghobadzadeh, Australian Catholic University (Australia)
"Principled Distance and Re-depoliticisation of Shi'ite Jurisprudence"

Andrew March, Yale University (U.S.A.)
"Comments and Discussions"
Language English
Admission To participate, please contact Professor Yasuyuki Matsuanga
(at matsunaga[at]tufs.ac.jp *Please replace [at] with @. )
by February 16, 2017 .
For more Information Please visit GDC website
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