Provisionally Accepted Open Panels in RC43 Religion and Politics
- Civilizational Politics: Identity, Legitimacy, and Political Order
Chair: Dr. Giray Gerim - Parallel Power Structures: Civil Society, Religious and Traditional Authorities, and the Uncertain State in Africa
Chair: Ms. Lucie Calléja - Religion and Political Parties: Beyond Old Concepts and Outdated Models
Chair: Prof. Luca Ozzano - Religion, Gender, and Contested Rights: Faith-Based Mobilization and Bodily Autonomy
Chair: Dr. Priyadarsini Sahu - Religions and Welfare Regimes
Chair: Dr. Laura Welty - Sacred Communities: Religion and Nationalism as Competing Global Cosmologies
Chair: Prof. Giorgiandrea (Giorgio) Shani - Secularism Under Strain: Rethinking State–Religion Relations in Plural Societies
Chair: Ms. Ishita Maity - The Politics of Exclusion: Far-right, Religion, and Minority Rights amid Democratic Backsliding
Chair: Dr. Fabio Bolzonar - War and the Reconstitution of Religious-Political Order: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives
Chair: Dr. Naser Ghobadzadeh
