Autumn 2009 Doctoral Seminar

This academic year's first doctoral seminar (PDF) met this past week, and thanks are due to all who participated. Here's a list of topics discussed: 

• Laodicean Rhetoric in 17th Century Church Reform
• A Reflection on the Book “The Wounded Researcher”
• Re-investigating Paul’s “Powers”
• The Intolerance of Tolerance
• “Ethnic Religion”: Hervieu-Leger and the Study of Religious and National Identities
• The Politics of Religious Institutions in Lebanon
• Representation in Hegel
• A Review Carl Schmitt’s, The Concept of the Political
• Reconciling Schmitt and Metz
• Cacophony in Rights Discourse: Contrasting Agamben and Benhabib