CSCMS Public Lecture Series

CSCMS Seminar Series 2009 / 2010

Per year, the Centre invites 4 to 6 leading academics in the social scientific study of Muslim societies to deliver public lectures. These lectures, aimed at academics, honours and postgraduate candidates, are also open to the wider public. All of the lectures will be recorded and made available on this site.

Islam, Empowerment and Power

The theme of the 2009/2010 publice lecture series is Islam, Empowerment and Power. Islam is the epitome of a religion on the move in the 21^st century. Through the flow of capital, identities, culture and migration processes, this is a religion in constant flux within and across Christian, Muslim and/or secularist states. At the macro level, these processes can create tensions that can lead to demonstrations of power from and against the state, civil society and various Muslim and non-Muslim social movements/networks. At the micro level, people can gain or lose a sense of power through the practice and/or the concealment of their religion.

These 21^st century demonstrations of power at the macro and micro levels require further analysis from a social scientific and global perspective. This series of public lectures for 2009-2010 invites internationally recognised scholars in the field of religion to discuss issues of power both imposed from above and contested from below, and will be published in an edited book in 2010-2011. This project is organised in conjunction with the Integrative Session on Islam and Power which will take place at the next World Congress of Sociology in Sweden in July 2010.

October 8, 2009

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm  Building 23 Room 40 (Conference 1)

Bankstown Campus, University of Western Sydney

Julia Day Howell, Griffith University, Griffith Asia Institute

Topic: Popular Religion in Indonesia's Islamic Growth Movement

You can listen to an audio recording of the event below or download the audio file [83MB].

You can listen to an audio recording of the event below or download the audio file [85MB].