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Public lecture series in Ecclesiology: “Islam and/Versus Europe’, ‘Islam in Europe’ and ‘European Islam’: On Tracing Relationship Models in Today’s Scholarship” by Professor Najib George Awad
The Sankt Ignatios College, Stockholm School of Theology faculty lecture on Wednesday, May 26th will be delivered by Professor Najib George Awad. The title of his lecture is “Islam and/Versus Europe’, ‘Islam in Europe’ and ‘European Islam’: On Tracing Relationship Models in Today’s Scholarship.”
Over the past 15 years, Professor Awad has been studying the ways in which Islam relates to Western / European culture and has reflected deeply on how scholarship has framed this relationship. From a close study of particular examples he has concluded that scholars have taken three different hermeneutical approaches to understanding the complexities of this issue: the concept of ‘Islam and/versus Europe’, the concept of ‘Islam in Europe’ and finally the idea of ‘Islamic Europe’ or ‘European Islam’. In his lecture Professor Awad will attempt to unravel the notional, relational, hermeneutical and analytical connotations and implications of these approaches and suggest some ways in which our hermeneutical approaches to this issue should be framed.
These lectures are compulsory for Pastoral-pedagogical, Religious Educator program students, MA students in Eastern Christian Studies and MA students in International Relations and Ecumenism, but we encourage all of our students to take part. Students will be able to find the link to the lecture on Canvas.
These are public lectures and open to anyone who wishes to take part. If you would like to watch the lecture online, please fill in the form below and send it back to us with your email address. We will send a Zoom link to you 30 minutes before the lecture begins.
Read about the series of lectures and find the full program.