Dr Anna Strhan, from the Department of Religious Studies, and Dr David Garbin, from the School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research (SSPSSR), are co-organising a symposium entitled ‘Religion and the Global City’, to be held on Friday 11 September 2015, with funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the Department of Religious Studies, and SSPSSR.

This symposium adopts a non-reductive stance in exploring city dynamics of religious presence in global contexts. How to religious groups make space and ‘take place’ in the global city? What kind of spatial models, morphologies and ‘religeopolitics’ do they produce and adopt? To what extent does religion contribute to the ‘hyper-diversity’ of multicultural cityscapes? What kind of religious centralities and peripheries are produced or reproduced on global cities?

The day will consist of four sessions on ‘Power, Visibility, and the Politics of Space’, ‘Centralities, Peripheries, and Religious Reterritorialisation’, ‘Religious Media, Publics, and Global Cultural Flows’, and ‘Global Migration, Everyday Multiculturalism, and Religious Place-making’. Phil Hubbard (Kent), Paul-François Tremlett (Open University), Jeremy Carrette (Department of Religious Studies, Kent), and John Eade (University of Roehampton) will be discussants for the event.

The event is free, but spaces are limited. To book, please email the event organisers, David Garbin (D.Garbin@kent.ac.uk) and Anna Strhan (A.H.B.Strhan@kent.ac.uk).

The workshop will follow on from the British Association for the Study of Relgions’ Annual Conference, ‘Religion in the Local and Global’ earlier the same week.

For the full programme of the symposium, please see the page here: http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/thrs/events/index.html?eid=13555&view_by=month&date=20150902&category=&tag=religious