Civil Islam: How Muslim Societies Respond to Modern Challenges?
SETA PUBLIC LECTURE Professor Robert W. Hefner Director, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University Date: May 11, 2010 Tuesday Time: 16.00 - 18.00 Venue: SETA, Ankara
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Afghanistan 2009 Presidential Elections: Challenges and Opportunities
SETA PANEL Chair: Talip Küçükcan SETA Participants: Dr. Bashir Ansari Afghan intellectual and writer Prof. M. Nazif Shahrani Chair, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures & Central Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University, United States Date: August 13, 2009 Time: 11.00 Venue: SETA Foundation, Ankara
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A Brookings-SETA Policy Conference on Turkey University of California, Washington Center 1608 Rhode Island Ave, NW Tuesday, October 28, 2008
1-2 July, 2006 Ceylan Intercontinental Hotel, Istanbul / TURKEY
Current developments and recent social and cultural transformations under the forces of globalization indicate that the prophecy of traditional secularization thesis seems to have failed to capture the ongoing influence of religion. Proponents of secularization thesis established an unavoidable and casual connection between the beginning of modernity and the decline of traditional forms of religious life. Generally speaking theorists of secularization process argued that religion would lose its influence on social and political life once the society absorbs the values and institutions of modernization. For B. Wilson for example “secularization relates to the diminution in the social significance of religion”. L. Shiner on the other hand, argued that the culmination of secularization would be religionless society.
