[Reader-list] Seminar- `Rituals of Respect: Sufis and Secularists in Senegal'

[Rajesh Ramakrishnan]

*Thursday, 23rd October, 2008*


*Alfred C. Stepan* will speak on



*Rituals of Respect: Sufis and Secularists in Senegal*


at *2:30 PM* in the *Seminar Room, CSDS, 29 Rajpur Road, Delhi – 110 054*



Alfred C. Stepan (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1969) taught at Yale
University for thirteen years (1969-82), later was Dean of the School of
International and Public Affairs (SIPA) at Columbia University (1983–1991),
the first Rector of Central European University (1993-1996), the Gladstone
Professor of Government at All Souls College, Oxford University (1996-1999),
and is now the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at SIPA and Director of
the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration and Religion at
Columbia. Stepan
is also a fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1991–present)
and a member of the British Academy (1997–present).



Stepan's teaching and research interests include comparative politics,
theories of democratic transitions, federalism, and the world's religious
systems, and democracy. His publications include: Alfred Stepan, Juan Linz,
and Yogendra Yadav, *Democracies in Multinational Societies: India and Other
Polities* (Johns Hopkins: 2007); Stepan, *Arguing Comparative
Politics*(Oxford: 2001); Linz and Stepan,
*Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South
America, and Post Communist Europe* (Johns Hopkins: 1996); and Linz and
Stepan, eds., *The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes* (Johns Hopkins: 1978).
His recent publications relating to religion and politics include "The
World's Religious Systems and Democracy: Crafting the Twin Tolerations", in
his Arguing Comparative Politics, "An 'Arab' More Than 'Muslim' Electoral
Gap" Journal of Democracy (July 2003) and a Forum debating this in JoD
(October 2004). Working with Yogendra Yadav and Juan Linz, Stepan helped
prepare the questions on religion and politics for the 50,000 person survey
of the five countries of South Asia in 2005-6 and Stepan and Linz cooperate
with Amaney Jamal, the PI, in the design of a Pew-sponsored Arab Barometer
study.