"Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State" on April 9
The Sawyer Seminar will feature a lecture by Mark Juergensmeyer, director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies and professor of sociology and religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, at 4 p.m. on April 9 in the Wilkins Room (215 HHH). Juergensmeyer is an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution, and South Asian religion and politics. His widely read book, Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence, is based on interviews with violent religious activists around the world—including individuals convicted of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, leaders of Hamas, and abortion clinic bombers in the United States.
