This video is part of a series this week from the Oecumene project's second symposium. All of the videos will appear on the Oecumene: Citizenship after Orientalism partnership page, funded by the Oecumene Project and the Open University.
Religious liberty, the minority problem and geopolitics
In a keynote lecture from the Oecumene project's second symposium, Saba Mahmood shows that religious liberty is a mechanism of statecraft and discusses the implications for religious minority populations.
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Saba Mahmood
Saba Mahmood
Saba Mahmood is an associate professor of social cultural anthropology at UC Berkeley. She was awarded the 2013 Axel Springer Berlin Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin. Her books include Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (2011).