Join us for a presentation by Anna Bigelow, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University, In the wake of the Hagia Sophia’s opening as a mosque in July 2020, many observers have drawn comparisons between Turkey’s assertion of ascendant religious nationalism through the use of sacred space and the breaking ground in August 2020 for the building of a Hindu temple at a contested site of a destroyed mosque in Ayodhya, India. The ruling political parties in both countries are redefining their constitutional secularism to prioritize the conservative religious sensibilities of their political bases and both have deployed sacred spaces as means of mobilizing and signaling their agendas to their constituents. Bigelow will discuss several key questions in these emerging case studies: Why are sacred sites so central in the public debates about the nature of the Turkish and Indian polities? How does the status of shared sacred space work to establish the status of religious minorities? Are their particular features of these sites (the Hagia Sophia and the Babri Masjid/Ramjanmabhumi in Ayodhya) that make them especially potent vectors for religious majoritarian politics? Does the erasure through destruction of the Ayodhya mosque create different possibilities for Hindu nationalist politics than does the more conservative (and conservation-oriented) approaches towards the Hagia Sophia undertaken by Muslim nationalists in Turkey? REGISTER HERE.
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