[Reader-list] B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture by Jose Casanova postponed to 30 Jan 2009

[Rajesh Ramakrishnan]

Due to unavoidable circumstances, the 13th B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture by
Professor Jose Casanova will not be delivered on 22nd December as announced
earlier. Professor Casanova will deliver the Lecture on Friday, 30th January
2009.

*Friday, 30th January, 2009*


Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS) cordially invites you to
the



*13th B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lecture** *



*`Western Secularisation and Globalisation'*



By *Professor* *Jose Casanova***


at *5 PM *at the *Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi – 110 054*

* *

*José Casanova* is one of the world's top scholars in the sociology of
religion. Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at
Georgetown University, he also heads the Berkley Center's Program on
Globalisation, Religion and the Secular. He has published works in a broad
range of subjects, including religion and globalisation, migration and
religious pluralism, transnational religions, and sociological theory. His
best-known work, *Public Religions in the Modern World* (University of
Chicago Press, 1994), has become a modern classic in the field.



Professor Casanova has taught at the New School for Social Research from
1987 to 2007, where he occupied numerous distinguished positions including
Chair of the Sociology Department and of the Committee on Historical
Studies. In addition to his primary appointments, he has held visiting
academic positions at New York University, at the Harriman Institute of
Columbia University, at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in
Vienna, at the Bellagio Center of the Rockefeller Foundation, at the
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and at the Central European University in
Budapest.



His most recent research has focused primarily on two areas: globalisation
and religion, and the dynamics of transnational religion, migration, and
increasing ethno-religious and cultural diversity. In studying religion and
globalisation, his research has adopted an ambitious comparative perspective
that includes Catholicism, Pentecostalism and Islam within its scope. His
work on transnational migration and religion explores the incorporation of
minorities and the construction of transnational networks, identities and
structures.



*B.N. Ganguli Memorial Lectures* are instituted in memory of the
distinguished economist-intellectual Professor B.N. Ganguli, former Chair,
CSDS Board of Governors. Earlier speakers in the series include Professors
Charles Taylor, Rodolfo Stavenhagen, Raimundo Panikkar, Bhikhu Parekh,
Ernest Gellner, Ali Mazrui, Roberto Unger, Michael Walzer, John Keane, Amit
Bhaduri, Giorgio Agamben and Bina Agarwal.