Spirited Conversation: Dangerous Religion
Prof Douglas Pratt leads a no-holds-barred spirited conversation on fundamentalism, religious extremism, related violence and terrorism.
Douglas Pratt (currently Emeritus Professor, Auckland University, and recently retired Professor of Religious Studies, University of Waikato) will lead a Spirited Conversation in person on Dangerous Religion – the link between fundamentalism, its expression in terms of extremism, and related violence and terrorism.
Secular countries, like Aotearoa New Zealand, are not immune from these global phenomena. Dr Pratt will particularly focus on the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and emphasise that a distinctive and rigid form of exclusivity, and the rejection of diversity lies at the heart of religious extremism, resulting in hardening attitudes and violent behaviours.
This understanding also offers hope, however, that the affirmation of diversity may provide an answer to how extremism might be practically countered today.
Douglas Pratt (currently Emeritus Professor, Auckland University, and recently retired Professor of Religious Studies, University of Waikato) will lead a Spirited Conversation in person on Dangerous Religion – the link between fundamentalism, its expression in terms of extremism, and related violence and terrorism.
Secular countries, like Aotearoa New Zealand, are not immune from these global phenomena. Dr Pratt will particularly focus on the three monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and emphasise that a distinctive and rigid form of exclusivity, and the rejection of diversity lies at the heart of religious extremism, resulting in hardening attitudes and violent behaviours.
This understanding also offers hope, however, that the affirmation of diversity may provide an answer to how extremism might be practically countered today.
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