Politics and Religion in South Asia – 1

Colloque organisé conjointement avec le Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud et avec le soutien de la Direction de la prospective du MAEE

30 JUNE    COMPARATIVE TRAJECTORIES

9h30 – 13h00  Chair: Alain Dieckhoff, CNRS/Sciences Po-CERI
Introduction: Christophe Jaffrelot, CNRS/Sciences Po-CERI
                   Aminah Mohammad-Arif, CNRS-CEIAS
India: secularism on trial – Rajiv Bhargava, CSDS, Delhi
Religion and politics in Nepal – Gérard Toffin, CNRS-Centre d’études himalayennes
The construction of political buddhism in Sri Lanka and its implications – Eric Meyer, INALCO

Discussant: Janaki Bakhle, Columbia University

14h30 – 19h00    Chair: Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University

Trajectories of secularization without secularism in Pakistan – from Islam as «ethno-nationalism» to «sectarianism» – Christophe Jaffrelot, CNRS/Sciences Po-CERI
Political islam in Bangladesh: between stigmatization and legitimization – Jérémie Codron, CERI-Ecole doctorale, Sciences Po

Discourse, actors and institutions : the Afghan revolutionary pattern – Gilles Dorronsoro, Carnegie Endowment for Peace, Washington
Discussant: Zoya Hasan, JNU-CPS

Key note address by Mrs Chandrika Kumaratunga, Former President of Sri Lanka and Founder President of SAPRI
Discussant: Arnaud d’Andurain, Direction de la Prospective, ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes

Manifestation organisée dans le cadre du cycle CERI / Direction de la Prospective du ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes, “Religions et mondialisation”.

Le colloque se poursuit le 1er juillet à l’EHESS – Paris 13ème – Programme