Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, January 27th, 2014 Secularism and - TopicsExpress



          

Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, January 27th, 2014 Secularism and Islamism: What Future? - Islah Jad | Associate Professor at the Institute of Womens Studies, Birzeit University, Palestine Fragmentation of the Secular - Wael Hallaq | Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University, New York With the upheavals in the Arab world tensions have been growing between secular and Islamic conceptions of society. Both in political confrontations in Tunisia as well as with the recent military coup in Egypt or the war in Syria an unbridgeable separation between Islamic and as secular defined notions and ideas seems to have burned in. Under conditions of extreme poverty, war, and ongoing interventions an existing pluralism of societal designs seems to be obviously no longer negotiable. Basic ideas -- be it secular or be it Islamic- are subject to a logic of confrontation and are being used as an important weapon in political debates. Can there still be such a thing as Beyond Secularism and Islamism and how could that look like? Find out more about the Vienna Institute of International Dialogue and Cooperation (VIDC): vidc.org/
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:44:08 +0000

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