Round table discussion with on religious and secular nationalism.

Moderator: Hagen Schulz-Forberg (Global Studies).

Participants: Mark Juergensmeyer (UC Santa Barbara), Mark Sedgwick (Arab and Islamic Studies), Morten Valbjørn (Political Science), Lene Kühle (Study of Religion).  

Mark Juergensmeyer is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Global Studies, Sociology, and affiliate of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was the founding director of the Global and International Studies Program and the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies. He is an expert on religious violence, conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics, and has published more than three hundred articles and thirty books.