Religious and Secular Dynamics of Social Thought: A Conversation with Hans Joas

Please RSVP by 10:00 a.m. EDT on July 16 to receive the Zoom link to this webinar: RSVP () As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to limit social interaction while simultaneously raising enormous societal and economic challenges, the Global Religions and Secular Dynamics  () discussion series brings together prominent scholars online to facilitate ongoing intellectual conversation. The series examines modern secularization and competing theories of global religious revival as interrelated dynamics. Contemporary issues such as the resurgence of exclusionary populisms and self-enclosed nationalisms, transnational religion, migration, and increasing ethno-religious and cultural diversity, are discussed in public conversations moderated by Berkley Center Senior Fellow José Casanova, one of the world's top scholars in the sociology of religion. This conversation will feature Hans Joas, Ernst Troeltsch Professor for the Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Joas has long served as an interlocutor and intellectual bridge between American and European social thought, both in…