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SUMMARY:Theology - For list of speakers see programme
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:Workshop organised by the Mellon-Funded Religious Diversity an
 d the Secular University project at CRASSH.\n\nParticipation is free and o
 pen to everyone\, but registration is required and scholars interested in 
 participating are asked to commit to attending the full two days. To regis
 ter please contact Judith Weik (jw571@cam.ac.uk)\n\nAt this international 
 workshop across two days\, we shall discuss work in progress by six world-
 class scholars of theology reflecting on the ways theology as a discipline
  has understood religious diversity and how it has understood and maintain
 ed its place in the secular university.\n\nReligious diversity – the mul
 tiplicity of religions and of religious confessions within religious tradi
 tions – has been a constant factor in the lives of Jews\, Christians and
  Muslims. Social historians have long studied religiously diverse societie
 s\, from ancient Palestine and Egypt to Medieval Spain to Early Modern Ams
 terdam and Philadelphia to the modern globalizing West. And scholars of re
 ligion have illuminated countless ways in which religious traditions inter
 act with others and indeed often define themselves in terms of others.\n\n
 But what of the academic discipline of theology? How has theology wrestled
  and come to terms with the multiplicity of religions? In the Middle Ages\
 , theology was one of the three original faculties of the university (alon
 gside Law and Medicine)\; in the early modern period\, faculties of theolo
 gy turned into central theatres for the confessionalization of European Ch
 ristendom. But how have the intellectual upheavals and transformations of 
 modernity that followed the Enlightenment – the political emancipation o
 f religious minorities\, the disintegration of confessional tests for coll
 ege admission\, and the secularization of science and academic research 
 – changed this ancient academic discipline? How\, in turn\, has the disc
 ipline of theology reacted to both the ongoing religious diversification a
 nd the secularization of the university and to the study of religion acros
 s the humanities and social sciences?  These and similar questions will gu
 ide our conversations. \n\n*Please note this workshop extends over two day
 s\, 20 & 21 September 2018.\nProgramme: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events
 /27718*
LOCATION:S1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Rd\, Cambridge CB3 9DT 
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