Track Code
RC43
Track Chairs
Prof. Giorgiandrea (Giorgio) Shani
Prof. John A Rees
Prof. Keiko Sakai
RC43 - Religion and Politics focuses on global, regional and local interactions between religion and politics throughout the world. Political ideas and policies relevant to different religions (particularly, but not exclusively, those with global adherents) are examined. Public religion in contemporary culture and society is studied, particularly in relation to peace, development, human rights, environment, political processes, political organizations, and identity.
Open Panels
- Civilizational Politics: Identity, Legitimacy, and Political Order
Chair: Dr. Giray Gerim - Parallel Power Structures: Civil Society, Religious and Traditional Authorities, and the Uncertain State in Africa
Chair: Ms. Lucie Calléja - Religion and Political Parties: Beyond Old Concepts and Outdated Models
Chair: Prof. Luca Ozzano - Religion, Gender, and Contested Rights: Faith-Based Mobilization and Bodily Autonomy
Chair: Dr. Priyadarsini Sahu - Religions and Welfare Regimes
Chair: Dr. Laura Welty - Sacred Communities: Religion and Nationalism as Competing Global Cosmologies
Chair: Prof. Giorgiandrea (Giorgio) Shani - Secularism Under Strain: Rethinking State–Religion Relations in Plural Societies
Chair: Ms. Ishita Maity - The Politics of Exclusion: Far-right, Religion, and Minority Rights amid Democratic Backsliding
Chair: Dr. Fabio Bolzonar - War and the Reconstitution of Religious-Political Order: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
Chair: Dr. Naser Ghobadzadeh
