Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
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
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
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.
