Religious Minorities’ Self-Representations: Claims of Difference and Sameness in the Politics of Belonging.

Date: 11–13 October 2017,
Location: Utrecht University.

During the last decades, there has been growing debate about religious and cultural diversity in modern Western nation states. The question of how people of different faiths and backgrounds can live together as a multiple “we” is considered by many to be one of the most urgent challenges to contemporary society.

In this conference, we want to explore how dominant perceptions of specific religious minorities feed into the ways in which these minorities represent themselves and/or their religion. We aim to focus on identity content, rather than on identity labels.

Deadline for paper abstracts: 1 May 2017

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