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Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit and Religion and Politics Unit
Call for Proposals
Religion, Violence, and Surveillance
Co-sponsored by Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit and Religion and PoliticsUnit
Religious communities are both targets of and consumers of surveillance. State monitoring of faith groups has a lengthy history, with particular strategies deployed in different periods and unique contexts. Yet academic analysis of religious practice as a site of and for violent or violence-inducing security surveillance remains in its infancy. This panel seeks to encourage discussion about the ways in which religious identity is invoked by socio-political authorities as a justification for its surveilled gaze of "others"; how some members of religious groups or other agents deploy surveillance tactics, like social media "trolling," to advance their own agendas and possibly silence vulnerable members of society; and the complicity of technology companies in engaging in overt and covert surveillance, oftentimes supported by the state apparatus. Ideally, these and other topics will be explored across a range of geographical contexts and faith traditions.
Sponsors
Chairs
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John D. Carlson, Arizona State University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian College1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Diane Fruchtman, Rutgers University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Rachel M. Scott, Virginia Tech1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
Steering Committee Members
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Amarnath Amarasingam, University of Waterloo1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Katharine Batlan, University of Alberta, Augustana1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Chad Bauman, Butler University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Vincent Biondo, Humboldt State University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Ann Duncan, Goucher College1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Fredrik Gregorius, Linkoping University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Michael Jerryson, Youngstown State University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Sara Kamali, University of California, Santa Barbara1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Dana Lloyd, Washington University, St. Louis1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Elias Ortega, Meadville Lombard Theological School1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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John Soboslai, Montclair State University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Najeeba Syeed-Miller, Chicago Theological Seminary1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Chase L. Way, Claremont Graduate University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025