23/05/2024 14:00 - 17:30

HALL: FATESI - DI GIOVANNI

Proponent: Loland O.J.

Chair: Rapisarda D.L.

Speaker: C. Camargo C., Hovorun C., Kloster S.T., Loland O.J., Lynch T., Rapisarda D.L., Stålsett S., Strømmen H.

Politics and religion are deeply intertwined, also in today's secular Europe. Behind various public and societal institutions, imaginations and practices there can be traced religious ideas or presuppositions - some more explicit than others. For example, religious ideas that undergird conceptions of economy, nature, culture, people, Europe, family, time, violence, war and peace, equality and liberty, authority, foreign vs familiar, to mention a few. What, then, are these political theologies and what are their functions? What kind of interests do they serve, and how do they contribute to legitimize, naturalize, unite, delegitimize or conceal power?
This open panel invites scholars to share analyses of political theologies that undergird, or are produced by, political and public practices or imaginations in contemporary European societies