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This dissertation develops a theoretical vocabulary to interpret and discuss ‘sociocultural interventions.’ This term refers to acts of public, political expression other than deliberative argument, such as rallies, public fasts, street art and vigils, which performatively alter elements of the social imaginary that structures political life. Although sociocultural interventions can profoundly affect the relationships between differently positioned political actors as well as the outcomes of collective decision-making processes, they have not typically received the political philosophical attention that they deserve. This is due in part to the great influence of theories of the public sphere that almost exclusively focus on the public justification of political positions by means of deliberative argument. Taking sociocultural interventions into account helps us to approach the public sphere not exclusively as a site where citizens seek to convince people subscribing to other points of view, but also as a site where political actors engage with historical traditions of existential meaning-making in creative, innovative ways. This is also important from the vantage point of a commitment to principles of democratic equality. Sociocultural interventions can serve to challenge widely held perceptions of which social groups are recognized as equal members of society and as legitimate participants in public debate. Moreover, they can also change the way in which resonant cultural elements that play an important role in political discourse are widely understood. Finally, sociocultural interventions can enable political actors belonging to marginalized groups within society to strengthen the resolve, sense of purpose and collective identity within these groups. Drawing upon Hannah Arendt’s reflections on action, authority, and augmentation, the dissertation argues that political actors stand in a dual relation to the perceived authority of the cultural elements that their so

Race and Religion. Re-membering their Displacements, Supersessions, and Geographies The racial dimension of ‘Europe’s Muslim Question’ is often conceptualized in terms of ‘racialization of religion’: meaning that religious markers start to function as ‘race’. Race and religion then are approached as two separate formations, in which the one can obtain characteristics of the other. This dissertation however, departs from (re)conceptualizations of ‘religion’ (as coupled to the secular), and ‘race’ that takes seriously the theological underpinnings of both formations: of race-making (Anidjar 2014, Jennings 2010, Heschel 2008, Topolski 2018, Maldonado-Torres 2014, Chidester 2016) and of religio-secularism as the separation between ‘religion’ and the ‘secular’ ( Asad 2003, Masuzawa 2005, Carter 2008, Jansen 2013, Mahmood 2015). The crux is that religio-secularism makes ungraspable these very connections, since it separates theology (religion) from politics (secular) and religion from race. To re-member these divides, this dissertation centers a theological concept, Christian supersessionism, as a lens to establish new relationalities between political formations such as race/whiteness, religion/secularism, gender/sexuality, coloniality, ‘secular’ scholarship, and property in the re-making of ‘Europe’, the ‘New World’, (diasporic) ‘Africa’ and the ‘Orient’. The dissertation introduces amalgamated terms such as 'racial supersessionisms', 'supersessionist geographies', and 'supersessionist religio-secularisms' to re-connect theology and its political implications. This not only helps to investigate the interrelations between Christian supersessionism, race, gender, coloniality, and religio-secularism. These terms also help to differentiate between what is now merged under the rubric of ‘religion’: enabling distinctions between Christian supersessionism (as implicated in race-making and religio-secularism) and non-Christianity, or non-‘proper’-Christianity, as possible sourc

Hovedresultaterne fra satsningsområdet Religion i det 21. Århundrede er samlet i denne antologi med centrale bidrag fra teologisk, religionsvidenskabelig, juridisk, samfundsvidenskabelig og naturvidenskabelig side. Bogen påviser, hvordan religionens synlighed udfordrer intellektuelt, herunder i forhold til videnskabsbegrebet. Der fokuseres på de ændringer, der sker mellem religioner (ikke mindst islam) og statslig/juridisk regulering og på sekularisme-begrebet. Endelig stilles skarpt på 'muhammed-krisen'.

Hovedresultaterne fra satsningsområdet Religion i det 21. Århundrede er samlet i denne antologi med centrale bidrag fra teologisk, religionsvidenskabelig, juridisk, samfundsvidenskabelig og naturvidenskabelig side. Bogen påviser, hvordan religionens synlighed udfordrer intellektuelt, herunder i forhold til videnskabsbegrebet. Der fokuseres på de ændringer, der sker mellem religioner (ikke mindst islam) og statslig/juridisk regulering og på sekularisme-begrebet. Endelig stilles skarpt på 'muhammed-krisen'.