An International Workshop
"Imagining an Alternative 'Post-Secular' State: Historicizing and Comparing National Struggles over Re-secularization"
Friday, February 17, 2017
Morning Session 10:00-13:00
Umut Azak, Okan University
"Rethinking the Republican Secularism, Secularization, and State Islam in Turkey"
Mohammad Rasekh, Shahid Beheshti University
"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
"Rethinking Desecularization: Insights from State-Religion Relations in Pakistan"
Naser Ghobadzadeh, Australian Catholic University
"Principled Distance and Re-depoliticisation of Shī'ite Jurisprudence"
Andrew March, Yale University
"Comments and Discussions"
Joint Reception 17:30-19:30
University Cafeteria (2nd floor)
Venue:
Conference Room (303), Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies [map]
*This workshop is not open to public. But interested researchers and advanced graduate students may join. Please contact: matsunaga@tufs.ac.jp
The funding for this workshop has been provided by the MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (1801) "Relational Studies on Global Crisis" Unit A01 "States and Institutions."