09/07/2025 08:30 - 10:45

HALL: Lecture Hall 21

Proponent: Bhamji T.

Speaker: Bhamji T., Pintimalli A., Sarvmaily M., Ucar E.

The panel aims to explore and analyse the varying modes and outcomes of theological endeavour practised within contemporary Muslim (minority) community and scholarly contexts. Exploring the varying processes of contextualisation, the panel will highlight the ways in which contextualisation of Islam has been conceptualised within varying intra-religious Islamic traditions. The discussion will highlight the significance of socio-cultural and political shifts, informed by secularisation, nation states and immigration, and how these changes contribute to the emergence and/or contextualisation of different Islamic traditions. Within the context of 'Religion and Socio-Cultural Transformation', through an interdisciplinary approach, this panel will also address and nuance the complex relationship between the various Islamic traditions and their respective developments. Participants will further seek to explore the intra-religious challenges these diverse Islamic traditions face, the hierarchies that continue to be negotiated, religious autonomy and what it means to seek a contextualised Islam in the Global North and beyond.