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  • 3 May 2011
    Moving religion from anti-modern to modern

    Why do religious communities which for a long time strenuously resisted the new, the modern, the contemporary, now most successfully adapt their expressions and employ or even exploit the manifestations of 'the modern' which they once opposed? Martin E. Marty opens up an apparent conundrum.

  • 25 Sep 2008
    Revisiting Marx: is Marxism still relevant?

    This event brings together leading social and political thinkers to debate the contemporary meaning and relevance of Marx's legacy on the occasion of the republication of The Communist Manifesto, with

  • 9 Feb 2008
    A God of One’s Own: individualisation and cosmopolitanisation of religion

    Religious modernity seen from the angle of societies that have adopted the autonomy of individuals, thereby creating a god of their own.