Event organised as part of the Luiss Religions in Dialogue Forum.

Today practically all Christian communities - especially in Europe and North America - are faced with the challenge of how to respond to an increasingly vocal retrieval of the idea that national and Christian identity are or should be interwoven. Although the modern nation-state has its origins in largely secular modes of thought, many Christian communities have focused afresh both on their historic role in the formation or preservation of a national tradition, and on the aspiration of some kind of integration of state and Church. Examining the varieties of Christian approaches to national identity in the past and the present is a very evident priority in understanding more accurately some of the most powerful political currents of our age.

Welcome
Andrea Prencipe Rector, Luiss University

Speakers
Rowan Williams Emeritus Archbishop of Canterbury and Honorary Professor of Contemporary Christian Thought, University of Cambridge
Tamara Grzdelidze Professor of Religious Studies, Ilia State University, Tbilisi
Brian Farrell Bishop and Former Secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for promoting Christian Unity

Moderator and Organiser
Kristina Stoeckl Professor of Sociology, Luiss University

Registration