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The Canada Research Chair in Religious Diversity and Social Change presents: Critical Thinkers in Religion, Law and Social Theory

Hans G. Kippenberg: Defending God’s Own Community: Violent Scripts of Contemporary Religious Communities

Hans Kippenberg is professor emeritus of the theory and history of religions at Jacobs University Bremen. His research interests include the history of Religious Studies, the sociology of religion, Max Weber, ancient religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is the author of many standard works in the field, including Discovering Religious History in the Modern Age (2002). Kippenberg has held teaching and research positions at various international institutions, such as the Univeristy of Groningen, Heidelberg, the University of Chicago, Bar Ilan Univeristy (Isreal), the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the Max-Weber-Kolleg Erfurt. He served as first and second chairman of the German Association for the Study of Religions in 1993-1997 and 1997-2001. Kippenberg is a prominent expert on religious violence in a global context. His latest works on the topic include a co-edited volume, The 9/11 Handbook (2006), and the monograph Violence as Worship: Religious Wars in an Age of Globalization (2011).