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A conference on Religion and Empire will be hosted by University College Dublin on 20-21 June. Religion has traditionally accompanied the expansion, and the overthrow, of empires but it is sometimes argued that religion was of little consequence to the British Empire . Yet, absent-mindedly perhaps, the religious cultures of the British Isles were seeded around the globe in the course of empire so that they endure as some of its most abiding artefacts, particularly in the settler societies of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa. This conference calls for papers which consider the many ways in which religion served, thwarted, transformed, mitigated and reinforced the bonds of empire in the colonised world during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We hope to attract speakers who will consider local colonial and metropolitan religious communities and bring together researchers addressing similar issues in different parts of the imagined British Empire.
Themes to be considered include:
Comparative and/or case studies of colonial religious cultures
Religious discourses of support and challenge to the imperial ideal
Roman and other religious empires from Dublin to Durban
Women as agents of imperial religious networks
Metropolitan and colonial religious communities
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