Public Panel and Workshop

March 22-24, 2007
After Pluralism starts with the premise that religious interaction needs re-imagining. Two influential models, namely pluralism, which stresses tolerance across differences, and the more contentious frame of a clash of civilizations, both obscure the ways religions overlap, resist, and transform each other in spheres not necessarily considered to be "religious", whether the law, the media, or politics. Read more...

Public Panel – (thursday march 22 • 2007)

Rethinking Models of Religious Pluralism
3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Natalie Zemon Davis • Princeton Univeristy / University of Toronto,
"Difference, Likeness, and Exchange"

Tomoko Masuzawa • University of Michigan,
"Before Identity: When Religions Were Customs and Ceremonies"

Kenneth Mills • University of Toronto,
"In Between: Religious Interaction and Mobility in the Early Modern Spanish World"

• Public Reception

Registration

The Public Panel is free and open to the public by registration via the Munk Centre website. The Workshop is sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and attendance is by invitation only. Workshop chairs and presenters do not need to pre-register for the Plenary Panel.

Video

We will post video here of the first three lectures shortly following the event on March 22nd.

Sponsors

  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • Connaught Fund
  • Centre for the Study of the United States
  • Bissell-Heyd Chair
  • Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies
  • Department and Centre for the Study of Religion
  • Jewish Studies Program
  • Ethnic and Pluralism Studies