Birks Forum: Faith & Public Discourse in Troubled Times
Birks Forum
Faith & Public Discourse in Troubled Times
A Public Conversation with Charles Taylor, Jos茅 Casanova, Hans Joas
Jos茅 Casanova is professor emeritus at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the Berkley Center. He has published works on a broad range on religion and globalization, politics and religion, and transnational religions and migration. His works include, Public Religions in the Modern World (1994), Islam, Gender, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective, (with J. Cesari, 2017), Religious and Secular Dynamics in Our Global Age (2017). Jesuits and Globalization, (with T. Banchoff, 2016), and Asian Pacific Catholicism and Globalization (with P. Phan, 2023). In 2012, Casanova was awarded the Theology Prize from the Salzburger Hochschulwochen in recognition of his life-long achievement in the field of theology.
Charles Taylor is professor emeritus at 9I制作厂免费 and former Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory in the University of Oxford. Internationally acclaimed as a leading intellectual in our time, his work has impacted an array of fields in philosophy, the social science and humanities. Some of the landmark books in his evolving corpus of work include, Hegel (1975), Sources of the Self (1989), The Malaise of Modernity (1991), A Secular Age (2007), and Cosmic Connections (2024). Prof. Taylor is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the Kyoto Prize, the Templeton Prize; the John W. Kluge Prize; and the. Inaugural Berggruen Prize for Philosophy.
Hans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Visiting Professor of Sociology and in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His numerous publications include, Under the Spell of Freedom. Theory of Religion after Hegel and Nietzsche (2024), The Power of the Sacred: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment (2021), War in Social Thought: Hobbes to the Present (2013), The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights, (2013). Among his numerous prizes are the Niklas Luhmann Prize in 2010; the Max Planck Research Award in 2015; the Prix Paul Ricoeur in 2017 and the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award of the German Sociological Association in 2022.
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