Religare Conference 24-25 June 2010
The RELIGARE project is a three-year research project funded by the FP7 Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities Programme of the Directorate-General for Research of the European Commission. Dr Prakash Shah in the Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, is a participating member of RELIGARE.
RELIGARE explores increasing diversity of religions and other convictions that are transforming Europe into a new type of entity. The purpose is to identify which normative frameworks, case-law, and policies are best capable of holding together the countries’ diverse inhabitants in a democratic structure and, in so doing, the frameworks that should underpin and anchor Europe’s task to remain, across the Union, a zone of social peace, while maintaining respect for the rule of law and ensuring social justice for all.
Further details about the RELIGARE project can be found at www.religareproject.eu.
Religare Conference - Daytime Lectures
The event was introduced by Dr Prakash Shah and Professor Roger Cotterrell at Queen Mary, University of London.
Listen to a podcast and view slides of the Religare Conference 2010 daytime lectures (mp3)
- 'The Religion-Culture Distinction: Illuminating or Obscuring Legal Arguments?' by Dr Roger Ballard, Consultant Anthropologist, Centre for Applied South Asian Studies - CASAS
- 'Renegotiating Forum Internum and Forum Externum?' by Dr Peter Petkoff, Brunel Law School and Centre for Christianity and Culture, Oxford
- 'Sharia and State Justice: Lessons from Medieval Islam' by Dr Yossi Rapoport, Department of History, Queen Mary, University of London
Religare Conference - Evening Lecture (plenary)
Listen to a podcast and view slides of Professor Menski's Religare lecture
- ''Fuzzy Law and the Boundaries of Secularism' by Professor Werner Menski, Professor of South Asian Laws, SOAS, University of London