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DESCRIPTION:Dr Benjamin Schewel\, Duke University\, will speak on: Imaginin
 g the Islamic Ecumene: Marshall Hodgson as Philosopher of History\n\nHoste
 d on Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/s/8266062657\n\nFebruary 17\, 2021\, 2:0
 0 PM EST (UTC-5).\n\nThe Keenan Chair of Interfaith Studies and the James 
 51�Թ���Professor of Islamic Philosophy are collaborating in a reflection o
 n religion\, Islam\, and cosmopolitanism associated with McGill’s academic
  tradition of Islamic Studies\, and epitomized by scholars such as Wilfred
  Cantwell Smith\, Fazlur Rahman\, and Toshihiko Izutsu.\n\nIn preparation 
 for the Keenan Conference on World Religions and Globalization\, to be hel
 d in Montreal in May 2022\, we are hosting an online lecture series titled
  ReOrienting the Global Study of Religion: History\, Theory\, and Society.
  While the study of the Islamosphere has stimulated a critical reconceptua
 lization of the notion of religion\, we would like to extend this reflecti
 on to how religious concepts have been embedded in broader views of histor
 y and society\, including the Western colonial construction of the “Middle
  East” as the cradle not just of Islam but of all Abrahamic religions.\n\n
 The fifth speaker in the series will be Dr Benjamin Schewel\, Duke Univers
 ity. The title of the lecture\, which will be followed by a Q&A\, is Imagi
 ning the Islamic Ecumene: Marshall Hodgson as Philosopher of History.\n\nA
 bstract: Ibn Khaldun's studies of the rise and fall of Islamicate empires 
 have proven to be of widespread and enduring relevance within broader fiel
 ds of social scientific research.\n\nIn the same vein\, this lecture argue
 s\, the insights that Marshall Hodgson derives from his far-reaching study
  of the origins and evolution of the Islamicate ecumene should figure cent
 rally in the ongoing efforts of philosophers\, social theorists\, and huma
 nistic scholars of various sorts to reconceptualize world history through 
 a non-Western-centric and more spiritually sympathetic lens.\n\nIn order t
 o advance this claim\, the presentation situates Hodgson's major world-his
 torical arguments within the discourse on the nature and implications of t
 he Axial Age (800-200 BCE)\, an approach that he consciously utilizes to o
 rient his analyses in The Venture of Islam.\n\nBenjamin Schewel is a Senio
 r Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University and Director
  of the Center on Modernity in Transition (COMIT). He additionally serves 
 as an Affiliate Member of the School of Religious Studies at 51�Թ���Univer
 sity and as an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in C
 ulture at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Seven Ways of Lo
 oking at Religion\, published by Yale University Press in 2017\, and is cu
 rrently finishing a second book\, also to be published by Yale University 
 Press\, entitled\, Encountering the Axial Age.\n
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SUMMARY:ReOrienting the Global Study of Religion - Benjamin Schewel
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