Northwestern Events Calendar

Jan
22
2015

Religion, Law & Politics Speaker Series - Ruth Marshall

When: Thursday, January 22, 2015
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM CT

Where: 1902 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Kari Harris Vandewalle   (847) 491-5364

Group: Department of Political Science

Co-Sponsor: Program of African Studies
Religious Studies Department
Equality Development and Globalization Studies (EDGS)

Category: Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Ruth Marshall, Associate Professor, University of Toronto


Title: “Global Spiritual Warfare: The Politics of Evangelism in the Global South”
Ruth Marshall is Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Political Spiritualities: The Pentecostal Revolution in Nigeria (U. Chicago Press, 2009) and numerous scholarly articles on the political implications of Pentecostalism and postcolonial politics in West Africa. She’s interested in the contemporary nexus between religion and politics and the challenge of clearing an analytical space in which the political productivity of religious discourse and practice may be analyzed non-reductively. She is currently undertaking two major research projects, one funded by the SSRC, investigating prayer as a form of political praxis, and the other studying the political implications of the evangelization of Europe and North America by Pentecostals from the Global South. In 2013-14 she was a Chancellor Jackman Fellow in the Humanities at the U of Toronto’s Jackman Humanities Institute where she began work on a new book which examines the renewed ethico-political force of religious language in the public sphere and the political challenge that global revivalism poses to democratic forms of life, while exploring the possibilities and limits of a post-secular politics of translation for articulating a new relationship between the religious and the political.

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