Book launch: Religicide - with Georgette Bennett and Jerry White

Livestreamed from the Faculty of Divinity on 15 June 2023, this event features Professor Esra Özyürek in conversation with the co-authors of Religicide: Confronting the Roots of Anti-Religious Violence (Post Hill Press, November 2022).
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dr Georgette Bennett is an award-winning sociologist, widely published author, popular lecturer, and former broadcast journalist. A longstanding friend to the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, she is founder of the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding (1992-), the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees (2013-), and a co-founder of Global Covenant Partners. She has served on the U.S. State Department’s Religion and Foreign Policy Working Group, tasked with developing recommendations to engage religious actors in conflict mitigation. A former faculty member of the City University of New York and adjunct at New York University, in 2021 Bennett was selected as one of Forbes’ 50 over 50 Women of Impact.
Social entrepreneur, diplomat, and humanitarian activist, Jerry White is (since 2021) Executive Director of URI (the United Religions Initiative). His high-impact campaigns have led to three international treaties: the Cluster Munitions Ban, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, and the Landmine Ban Treaty (for which work he shares the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize).
ABOUT THE INTERVIEWER
Professor Esra Özyürek is an anthropologist of politics and religion. Based in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, she is the academic director of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme and Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths and Shared Values. Through ethnography focused on the experiences of individuals who embrace an ideology or belief system they did not inherit from their grandparents, Özyürek's research identifies and explores tensions between the universalism and particularism of globally-appealing religious and post-religious belief and value systems. Her research thus shows the porosity of religious, national and political boundaries. Her latest monograph explores the intentions and impact of Holocaust education initiatives among Muslim-background Germans, Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in post-war Germany (Stanford University Press, 2023).
Organised by the Cambridge Interfaith Programme.
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