“Politics, Religion and Theology.” IPR lecture series co-sponsored by EWCJS
Many of this year’s Institute for Philosophy and Religion series on “Politics, Religion and Theology” are co-sponsored by the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies. For a full program, go to IPR.
The series explores several important facets of the contemporary relation between politics, theology and religious thought, including the specific notions of civil religion (in the broadest sense from Rousseau to Tocqueville to Robert Bellah) and political theology (in a comparative way, as it has been reflected especially in political thinkers whose work has been influenced by the three monotheistic traditions of Islam, Judaism and Christianity).
“HOW TO READ LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS”
Steven B. Smith, Department of Political Science, Yale University
Thursday, September 22, 5 pm
Boston University School of Law Barristers Hall
765 Commonwealth Avenue First Floor
Moderator: Michael Zank (Department of Religion, Boston University)
Respondent: Judith Swanson (Department of Political Science, Boston University)
“WORLD-DENIAL AND WORLD REDEMPTION: FRANZ ROSENZWEIG’S EARLY MARCIONISM”
Benjamin Pollock, Department of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
Wednesday, October, 26, 5 pm
Boston University The Photonics Center Room 206
8 Saint Mary’s Street Second Floor
Moderator: Michael Zank (Department of Religion, Boston University)
“MIRACLES IN AN AGE OF TECHNOLOGICAL REPRODUCIBILITY”
Benjamin Lazier, Department of History, Reed College
Wednesday, November 16, 5 pm
Boston University School of Law Barristers Hall
765 Commonwealth Avenue First Floor
Moderator: Michael Zank (Department of Religion, Boston University)
“CONFRONTING SPINOZA’S THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL TREATISE: HERMANN COHEN VS. FRANZ ROSENZWEIG”
Myriam Bienenstock, Department of German Philosophy, University François Rabelais at Tours (France)
Wednesday, December 7, 5 pm
Boston University School of Law Barristers Hall
765 Commonwealth Avenue First Floor
Moderator: Michael Zank (Department of Religion, Boston University)
“JÜRGEN HABERMAS AND THE SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF RELIGION”
Peter Gordon, Department of History, Harvard University
Wednesday, February 1, 5 pm
Boston University School of Law Barristers Hall
765 Commonwealth Avenue First Floor
Moderator: Michael Zank (Department of Religion, Boston University)
Respondent: Hugh Baxter, Department of Philosophy and School of Law, Boston University.
“POLITICS, RELIGION AND VIOLENCE: THE MACCABEAN WARS”
Jan Assmann, Departments of History and Sociology, University of Konstanz (Germany)
Moderator: Michael Zank (Department of Religion, Boston University)
Wednesday, April 4, 5 pm
Boston University School of Law Barristers Hall
765 Commonwealth Avenue First Floor