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Dear SOCREL friends, The Faith and Peaceful Relations Research Group at Coventry University's Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations are hosting Leverhulme Trust visiting professor Ina Merdjanova (Trinity College Dublin) this year. She is delivering a lecture at Coventry Cathedral as part of her fellowship and you're warmly invited to attend. Do share with interested colleagues, friends and students. Best wishes, Kristin Leverhulme Lecture Dr Ina Merdjanova Orthodox Christianity in a Pluralistic World Tuesday 16th October, 19.00 - 20.30 followed by refreshments, Coventry Cathedral In this presentation Dr Merdjanova will address important questions about her own faith tradition, Orthodox Christianity, and how it relates to the increasingly pluralistic world in which we live today. As religious pluralism is intimately linked to the processes and realities of globalisation, she will first look at globalisation and at how it generates religious and cultural diversity. She will then discuss the relations between the Orthodox Christianity and religious pluralism, which have often been marked by an attitude of 'ambiguity', in the apt description of Elizabeth Prodromou. She will explore the historical and sociĻ-political developments that fostered such ambiguity, and will conclude by referring to the work of several Orthodox theologians, which bespeak a slowly emerging sea-change in Orthodoxy's engagement with contemporary pluralism. Ina Merdjanova is Leverhulme visiting professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University & senior researcher and adjunct assistant professor in religious studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. She had held visiting fellowships at Oxford University, New York University, Freiburg University, Birmingham University, Edinburgh University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Central European University in Budapest, Radboud University in Nijmegen and Helsinki University. She is the author of four books and numerous articles on religion and politics in post-communist society. Her recent publications include Religion as a Conversation Starter: Interreligious Dialogue for Peacebuilding in the Balkans (with Patrice Brodeur; Continuum, 2009, paperback 2011), and Rediscovering the Umma: Muslims in the Balkans between Nationalism and Transnationalism (Oxford University Press, 2013, paperback 2016). To book your free place or for any further information please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 1st for Overseas Student Experiences based on student trips abroad - HESA 2015/16 UK, published 2017 2nd for Teaching Excellence Times Higher Education UK (TEF) metrics ranking 2017 - Gold winner 5th UK Student City QS Best Student Cities Index 2018 13th in Guardian University Guide 2019 of 121 UK institutions ranked NOTICE This message and any files transmitted with it is intended for the addressee only and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. Unauthorised use is strictly prohibited. If you are not the addressee, you should not read, copy, disclose or otherwise use this message, except for the purpose of delivery to the addressee. Any views or opinions expressed within this e-mail are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Coventry University. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the SOCREL list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=SOCREL&A=1