Public Lecture

Event Name
Public Lecture
Date
28 October 2014
Time
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Location
Bankstown Campus

Address (Room): Building 1, Room 1.223

Description

The Yezidis are currently facing serious threats of persecution, even extinction, in the contemporary Middle East. This lecture will attempt to explain how the special 'syncretic' configuration of Yezidi beliefs came to have its unusual characteristics. Yezidi choices to retain and develop their special beliefs will be analysed as recurrent reactions to impositions by dominant actors around them, the social environment of this ethno-religious minority clearly changing substantially over last stretches of time. The history of Yezidi ploys at group survival raises awkward questions about the right to reject normative religion and the limits of tolerance in modern (or modernizing) 'nation-states.'

Speakers: Prof Garry Trompf

Web page: http://www.uws.edu.au/religion_and_society/events

Contact
Name: Judy Fishman

j.fishman@uws.edu.au

Phone: 02 9772 6440

School / Department: SSAP