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Religion and Nation
The Political Consequences of a Modern Differentiation
Jocelyne Cesari, Ph.D.
Jocelyne Cesari, Ph.D.
About the Author
Jocelyne Cesari holds the Chair of Religion and Politics at the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. At Georgetown University, she is a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Since 2018, she has been the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Visiting Professor of Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding at Harvard Divinity School.
President-elect of the European Academy of Religion (2018-19), her work on religion and politics has garnered recognition and awards: 2020 Distinguished Scholar of the Religion section of the International Studies Association, Distinguished Fellow of the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs and the Royal Society for Arts in the UK. Her most recent publications are We God’s People: Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism in the World of Nations (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and What is Political Islam? (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2018).
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