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Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State

Lecture | February 7 | 12 p.m. | Stephens Hall, Geballe Room

Speaker/Performer: Mark Juergensmeyer, Author of "Terror in the Mind of God" and Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, UCSB

Sponsors: Religion, Politics and Globalization Program (RPGP)), International Studies, Institute of

Professor Mark Juergensmeyer, author of "Terror in the Mind of God" and Director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at UCSB will open our Spring 2008 Lecture Series on "Religion and Nationalism". His work reflects an attempt to understand why religion is part of the contemporary rise of rebellious political movements around the world. Based on first hand interviews with activists from al Qaeda to the Christian militia, and from Iraqi activists in Iraq to Buddhist terrorists in Tokyo, Juergensmeyer attempts to answer the questions of why these rebellions are occuring now, and what religion has to do with them.

Event Contact: 510-642-7747