Islam and Politics: the Sacred and the Secular Lecture Series

2006-7 Academic Year

Sponsored by

Dean's Office, College of Arts and Sciences

Political Science Department

Theology Department

Islamic World Studies Minor

November 1, 2006 3pm

Damen Hall Room 532

Nelly Van Doorn-Harder

Valparaiso University

Islamists in Egypt and Indonesia: Living the Secular, Practicing the Sacred

February 7, 2007 4:30pm

Simpson Living-Learning

Charles Taylor

Northwestern University

Islam in an Age of Religious Mobilizations

March 14, 2007 3pm

Crown Center Auditorium

 

Juan Cole

University of Michigan

Islamist Movements and the Iraq Crisis

April 16, 2007 3:30pm

Crown Center 334

Natana DeLong-Bas

Boston University

Wahhabism Past & Present: Continuity and Change in Saudi Religious Thought

 

Organized by Gunes Murat Tezcur (Political Science) and Marcia Hermansen (Theology).

Direct inquires to gtezcur@luc.edu.