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Sep 29 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
1/5 Scott Appleby’s #IFSB2022
'Religion & conflict' keynote: “Violent religious extremists &
nonviolent religiously inspired peacemakers & agents of healing &
reconciliation often hail not merely from the same religious tradition but
sometimes from within the same rel. ecosystem”
2/ Following Scott Appleby’s intriguing keynote, our @aberdeenuni @CASSIS_Bonn @KeoughGlobalND panel saw intriguing discussions of human agency in conflict & repair from conflict that is motivated, inspired, & guided by religion; & of
self-sacrificial redemptive militance, …
3/ & our #ISFB2022 panel
witnessed a moving intervention by Ukrainian Consul General Iryna Shum on the role of religion in the war in her country, as well as discussions of Putin’s Mount Athos speech & commitment to ‘Holy Russia’ ...
4/5 &, finally, the #IFSB2022 panel on
‘Religion, Conflict & Politics’ discussed what public policy is required to help break violent militant narratives, to turn them into narratives of contamination, and to foster an orthopraxy of repair from conflict as well as …
5/5 … how to get religious actors to buy into peace processes.
Thank you to Josefina Echavarría Alvarez, Scott Appleby, Colin Barr, and Ulrich Schlie for a fascinating discussion!

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1/ To understand Russia’s staged referenda, it is worth looking back at Nazi elections. In a forthcoming book, @RichterHedwig looks at Nazi plebiscites & I look at the orthopraxy of National Socialist illiberal democracy of National Socialism as a political religion ...
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1/ The fall of German historical literacy, attitudes towards Russian/Soviet aggression & the war in Ukraine: Here is a short 🧵on diminishing German engagement w. past Russian/Soviet aggression, which seems a specifically German phenomenon, if ngram data is to be trusted
2/ Since the mid-2000s, there seems to have been a steep fall in engagement w. the darker side of the Russian past. This is also supported by falling engagement with 'Stalin' and the June 17, 1953 uprising.
3/ This is,however,not a phenomenon specific to engagement w. the darker side of the Russian past. It's also matched by steep falls of engagement w. German aggression in the 20th century.
BTW,worrying that there might be sthg. wrong w. the data,I ran tests using non-history terms
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