08: Politik und Religion: Räume und Grenzen der Freiheit
Die Doktrin von der Trennung zwischen Religion und Staat (Kirche und Staat) scheint heute selbstverständlich, ist jedoch noch relativ jung. Jahrtausende lang waren Politik und Religion auf vielfältige Weise, oft untrennbar, miteinander verwoben. Religiöse Angelegenheiten beeinflussen auch heute noch den politischen Diskurs. Das Seminar wird diese komplizierten Beziehungen aus einer langfristigen Perspektive und über verschiedene religiöse Traditionen hinweg untersuchen: Judentum, Christentum und Islam. Da die Entwicklung von Religionen und von politischen Systemen ein langfristiger kultureller Prozess ist, liefert die historische Untersuchung einen Schlüssel zum Verständnis der gegenwärtigen Probleme. Dieses Seminar verbindet historische Expertise mit zeitgemäßer Relevanz.
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Masooda BANO
Professor of Development Studies, Oxford Department of International Development; Principal Investigator, Changing Structures of Islamic Authority, University of Oxford
| Professor Masooda Bano is Professor of Development Studies at the Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. She specialises in the study of political Islam and historical and contemporary evolution of major centers of Islamic learning. Professor Bano builds large scale comparative studies using ethnographic and survey data and has studied Islamic movements across the Middle East, South Asia and West Africa. She also has done extensive work on examining the role of women in spread of Islamic knowledge. She is the author of The Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan (Cornell 2012) and Female Islamic Education Movements: The Re-democratisation of Islamic Knowledge (Cambridge 2017). She has also edited many volumes including Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change (Vol. 1 and Vol. 2); these two volumes examine writings of leading Muslim scholars on the subject of Islam and modernity. Professor Bano did MPhil in Development Studies at University of Cambridge and DPhil at University of Oxford. She teaches on MPhil Development Studies and supervises doctoral students. |
Holger ZELLENTIN
Lecturer in Classical Rabbinic Judaism, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
| Holger Zellentin teaches classical rabbinic Judaism at the University of Cambridge. He holds a PhD from Princeton University, and has previously held faculty appointments at the Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley, and at the University of Nottingham, where he remains Honorary Associate Professor. He has worked on Hellenistic and Rabbinic Judaism and on the relationship of the Qur’an to Late Antique law and narrative. His publications include The Qurʾān’s Legal Culture: The Didascalia Apostolorum as a Point of Departure (2013) and Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature (2011), as well as two edited volumes, The Qurʾān’s Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the Origins (2019), and, with Eduard Iricinschi, Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity (2008). In his free time, he likes to climb rocks, ski, hike, cycle or spend time with his family, or, on a really good day, climb rocks, hike, or cycle with his family. |
