Defying Disenchantment: Religion and Modernity/Authority and Resistance

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Panelists:

Hugo Bedau
Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University; Author, Death is Different: Studies in the Morality, Law, and Politics of Capital Punishment; Editor, Civil Disobedience: Theory and Practice

Jean Comaroff
Professor and Chair of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Chicago; Co-Editor, Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa

Seyyed Ferjani
Leader, Shura, Islamic Renaissance Party (Al-Nahda), Tunisia

Stanley Tambiah
Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Author, Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics and Violence in Sri Lanka and Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality

Majid Tehranian
Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University; Author, Globalism and Its Discontents: Tradition, Modernity, and Postmodernity in a Fragmented World

Tu Wei-Ming
Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy, Harvard University; Author, Neo-Confucian Thought in Action and Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity

Moderators:
Lucas Kello and Sally Gindre
EPIIC Colloquium

Interlocutors:
Hugo Bedau and Majid Tehranian