Description: This session explores the persistence of religious thought and practice within modern political formations. Discussants’ expertise ranges from Hindu nationalism to varieties of Puritanism to Zionism to twentieth-century fascism. With these various contexts in view, panelists consider conceptual categories by which postsecular political theologies might be made legible.

Speakers

Manisha Basu, U of Illinois, Urbana

Russell A. Berman, Stanford U

Jason A. Kerr, Brigham Young U, UT

Amanda Minervini, Colorado C

Abram Van Engen, Washington U in St. Louis

Presider

Feisal G. Mohamed, Graduate Center, City U of New York