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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T000000
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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/the-religious-demos-rethinking-poli
 tics-and-religion-in-global-antiquity/
SUMMARY:The Religious Demos: Rethinking Politics and Religion in Global Ant
 iquity
DESCRIPTION:BERKELEY\, CA\n\nThis conference brings together leading schola
 rs to take a new approach to politics and religion in the early societies 
 of Eurasia (c.1000 BCE-1000CE). Dominant groups in these societies\, espec
 ially monarchs and aristocrats\, have also dominated histories of religion
  and politics in global antiquity. This conference turns attention to mass
  populations – the demos\, the people – to recover different historie
 s of political religion and religious politics. The papers will ask signif
 icant questions: how do we see the configurations of religion and politics
  differently if we look beyond elites? How does religion define the demos
  and popular politics? Was there a politically consequential difference b
 etween mass religion and elite religion? How does popular politics affect 
 minoritized religious groups?\n\nThe conference aims to foster conversatio
 ns beyond particular historical cultures and typical disciplinary boundari
 es – especially when the histories and disciplines have different trajec
 tories. Cross-cultural comparison offers perspectives that may be unavaila
 ble in any one field or region. Speakers will address materials from a wid
 e set of geographical regions\, including East Asia\, South Asia\, the wid
 er Middle East\, and the Mediterranean\, and take a variety of disciplinar
 y approaches\, including archaeology\, art history and text-centered metho
 ds.\n\nThe Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion is hosting this confe
 rence as part of the Berkeley Democracy and Public Theology Program\, with
  generous support from the Henry Luce Foundation. The conference is co-spo
 nsored by the Berkeley Global Antiquity Project (BeGAP).\n\nhttps://events
 .berkeley.edu/cmes/event/308103-the-religious-idemosi-rethinking-politics-
 and-religio\n\n&nbsp\;
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LOCATION:David Brower Center\, 2150 Allston Way  Berkeley\, CA 94704\, Berk
 eley\, United States
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