This spring, Religions and Public Life at KIE launched a speaker series in tandem with the graduate course “A Paradoxical Politics? Religions, Poverty, and the Re-imagining of Citizenship within a Globalizing World,” taught by KIE Senior Fellows Luke Bretherton (Divinity) and Ebrahim Moosa (Religion). The speakers included:
Cardinal Francis George, OMI, Catholic Archbishop of Chicago: “Catholic Social Teaching and Economic Globalization”
Jose Casanova, Georgetown University: “Post-secularization, Globalization, and Poverty”
Ruth Marshall, University of Toronto: “Pentecostalism, Poverty & Power”
Katherine Marshall, Georgetown University: “Religion and Development”
Peter van der Veer, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity: “The Spiritual, the Secular and the Poor in India and China”
Susan Holman, Harvard Global Health Institute: “Public Health, Poverty & Patristics”
Video of each talk is available in the resources section.