A blog series has been launched on the University of Notre Dame’s ‘Contending Modernities’ website. The series is a result of a joint Queen’s University-University of Notre Dame workshop, which was hosted by the Mitchell Institute in August 2023.

The posts explore ‘turbulent religions’, including the study of how religious actors, institutions, and discourses disrupt societal and political norms and practices, whether by contributing to violence or peacefully challenging injustices and inequalities.  They analyse religion’s role in historical and contemporary currents of violence – most notably around the themes of race and nationalism – and their relation to apocalyptic and conspiratorial thinking. 

In the latest blog, Mitchell Institute Fellow: Religion, Arts and Peacebuilding, Dr Tristan Sturm, writes on 'Christian Zionism and the Apocalyptic Landscape of Gaza'.

https://contendingmodernities.nd.edu/theorizing-modernities/christian-zionism-apocalyptic-gaza/

 

Dr Tristan Sturm

Dr Sturm is Lecturer in the School of Natural and Built Environment at Queen's University Belfast. His interests include critical geopolitics of religious movements, especially Christian Zionists, apocalyptic thought related to religious fundamentalism and climate change, nationalism and archaeology.