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Introduction

To date, debates about identity have tended to ignore religion, whilst debates about religion have tended to ignore debates about identity. This series of interdisciplinary seminars will enable a set of conversations which bring the two areas into fruitful connection with one another.

Discussions may reflect upon a range of issues – empirical and theoretical - including, but not limited to:

• the acts of marking and clarifying religious identity in and through economic, political and social processes that engage scales ranging from the body to the region.
• the practices, texts, and structures which simultaneously constrain and permit the expresion of religious identity
• the ways in which religious identities influence and mark out or subvert and conceal other markers of social difference such as race, class, gender, sexuality, age, disability and locality.
• the methods whereby debates previously couched solely in terms of ethnic and racial identity can be enriched by reference to the negotiation of religious identities

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