José Casanova – God in a Cold Climate. Religion in the Secular Public Sphere: Challenges and Responses
God in a Cold Climate. Religion in the Secular Public Sphere: Challenges and Responses – Lecture by José Casanova
Date: Thursday, March 10, 2011, 20.00 – 22.00 hrs
Venue: Aula Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
The great religions of the world are no longer content with merely promoting the piety of their believers. Within Catholicism, Protestantism, and Islam there are movements which claim a prominent role in society. They are very critical of the dominant cultural, political and sexual mores of Western societies. Within these societies, some of which are secular through-and-through, their activities cause a raw climate of conflicts and tensions. But the success of these religious movements proves that modernity and religion are far from mutually exclusive phenomena and that modern secularized society must find a way of integrating them in its fabric.
Speakers
Prof José Casanova is a prominent en highly respected scholar in the sociology of religion. He is professor of Sociology at Georgetown University and director of the Berkley Center’s Program on Globalization, Religion and the Secular. He has published on a broad range of subjects, including religion and globalization, migration and religious pluralism, and modernity and secularization. His Public Religions in the Modern World (1994) has become a classic on the latter subject.
Prof Evert van der Zweerde is professor of Political Philosophy at Radboud University Nijmegen and academic advisor to the Soeterbeeck Programme. He will chair the meeting.
Admission fee € 9,50 | Faculty and alumni RU € 7,- | Students free admission
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Contact: info@soeterbeeck.ru.nl | 0031.24.361.55.55 | www.ru.nl/sp /english
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSnNAc3hGgc]God in a Cold Climate. Religion in a Secular Society – Seminar with José Casanova
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 15.00 – 17.00 hrs, Radboud University Nijmegen
Preceding his evening lecture José Casanova will deliver a seminar on the position of faith and religion in secular Western societies. During this small-scale seminar there will be ample opportunity to exchange ideas with Prof Casanova on this subject.
Admission fee: € 15,- | Faculty and alumni RU € 7,50 | Students free admission www.ru.nl/sp/english/seminarcasanova
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In Dutch:
Lezing José Casanova over religies in de seculiere samenleving
Door felle kritiek te uiten op de heersende culturele, politieke en seksuele moraal proberen stromingen binnen het katholicisme, het protestantisme en de islam ook in seculiere westerse samenlevingen invloed te krijgen. Daardoor ontstaat een guur klimaat waarin wrijvingen en conflicten niet kunnen uitblijven. José Casanova, een van de meest vooraanstaande godsdienstsociologen ter wereld, spreekt hier over tijdens een lezing van het Soeterbeeck Programma van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. De lezing vindt plaats op donderdag 10 maart 2011 van 20.00 – 22.00 uur in de Aula van de Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Comeniuslaan 2.
De grote religies in de wereld nemen geen genoegen meer met de vroomheid van individuele gelovigen. Een centrale rol in de samenleving, dat is wat stromingen binnen het katholicisme, het protestantisme en de islam claimen. Het succes van die religieuze stromingen bewijst dat moderniteit en religie elkaar niet uitsluiten.
