Dear students at CAS

On September 11^th at 15.30 the School of Culture and Society is hosting a lecture by Professor Jörg Rüpke. The lecture “Religion in an Urban World – Pasts and Futures” takes place at Aarhus University,  Nobelparken, auditorium 1482-105 and is part of  The Futures Lecture Series.

If you wish to participate in this lecture  You can sign up here. (Registration is necessary)

Doors will open app. 15.15.

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Abstract:
Planetary urbanization is a reality rather than a vision. Digitalization, physical connectivity, services for the body and integration into the body politick are part of planning that future across the globe. Religion is not. In research over the past decade we have demonstrated that religious practices and imaginations had been a facilitator rather than an antagonist to urbanization over the past 6,000 years. Religion has provided tools for intensified interaction and ethics for living closely together. Vice versa, religious networks and even religions have formed and changed under the influence of urban ways of life. Yet, the result seems paradoxical. Urbaneness and religiosity have gained profiles that tend to stress the other side’s irrationality or secularity. Today, religious actors seem to withdraw from the city or to support anti-urbane regimes. Have the urban and the religious parted ways? Is their co-evolution a past over and done with? A past perfect? Current research is deeply divided but thinking of religion as urban religion with a history will change the terms of that debate. 

Moderator: 
Professor Rubina Raja

Discussants: 
Professor Cordelia Heß
Associate Professor Thomas Brandt Fibiger