Indigenous Peoples and Religious Modes of Othering: A Comparative History of Religions Perspective

Workshops, conferences 2023

  • Date: May 24, 2023
  • Time: 09:00 AM - 06:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
  • Location: MPI-MMG, Hermann-Föge-Weg 11, Göttingen
  • Room: Library Hall
Indigenous Peoples and Religious Modes of Othering: A Comparative History of Religions Perspective
A joint initiative by: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen · Diversity Studies Centre Oslo (DISCO), Oslo Metropolitan University · Indigenous Values Initiative, Syracuse University Henry Luce Project, American Indian Law Alliance

Two workshops 24 and 30/31 May 2023

Registration: https://tinyurl.com/mpi-disco

For more details please contact adomeit(at)mmg.mpg.de.

download flyer


These two workshops examine othering, which is the conceptualization of certain categories of fellow humans as irreconcilably different, most often in depreciative and derogatory ways. Othering provides the basis of social attitudes, interactions, linguistic forms, political strategies, and legal rulings throughout history that have served to colonize, disempower, dominate or destroy groups of people categorized on the basis of various principles of differentiation, including skin color, language, and religion. The workshops will engage the voices of Indigenous Peoples to focus on the specifically Christian bases of othering, i.e. those positing Christianity as a superior norm and non-Christian religious traditions and experiences as inferior.

Go to Editor View