20/05/2024 08:30 - 15:15

HALL: MARIONETTE - BIBLIOTECA

Proponent: Bénazech Wendling K., Biagini E.

Chair: Biagini E.

Speaker: Bénazech Wendling K., Biagini E., Brunner B., David P., Intan B., Malan P., Nash D., Popa L., Silomon A., Unlu N., Varoquier C.

The minority question is often discussed nowadays, and more particularly as religious minorities raise concerns about integration, assimilation, and domination. Minorities can be set aside by something in their behaviour, beliefs or collective identity that creates the perception - and the historical experience - that they are different from 'the majority', or by identifying some of their characteristics to a threat for the rest of society. This panel, organised by the research group "Protestantism as a minority religion" aims at offering space for comparison of multiple approaches and territories where Protestantism - broadly defined - contributed to a paradigm shift in community relations and the perception of other religious minorities, whether former Christian minorities or Jews (https://minorityprotestants.wordpress.com/).
It intends to examine the diverse relationship between Protestantism and domination, as well as the various forms of resistance that Protestant minorities have aroused, depending on its constitutional or social status. It offers an opportunity for a reappraisal of the Reformation as a driver of societal changes that partook in the emergence of modernity. To what extent, did the secularizing trend it introduced favour the emergence of religious freedom? With the spread of Protestantism worldwide, how do states and their majority populations deal with the phenomenon of conversion? Has it provoked shifting patterns in dealing with religious minorities?