Thursday, November 21 / 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM • LaSalle 3 (Floor 7)

Session 61
Religion and State Formation

Chair: Sorcha Alexandrina Brophy, University of Chicago
Discussant: Juan Wang, McGill University

1. Bringing Religion Back in: Cultural Practice and Post-Revolutionary Institution Building in Iran (1979-80) • Maryam Alemzadeh, University of Oxford.

2. Religion, Classification Struggles, and State Exercise of Symbolic Power • Sadia Saeed, University of San Francisco.

3. Decentered Despots: Law and the Making of the Religious Subject in the Colonial State • Hanisah Sani, University of Michigan.

4. The Contingency of Secularization in the Early Modern West: The Case of Institutional Chaplaincies • Samuel Nelson, McGill University.

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