Neal Keating, visiting assistant professor of religious studies, presented a paper titled "Indigenous Territories, Sacred Space, and Global Foreclosure" at The Creation & Contestation of Sacred Space symposium, held at The College of New Jersey in Ewing on Feb. 9.
The symposium brought together six noted scholars whose work explores sacred spaces as they have been conceived and disputed among religious traditions. The speakers, who hailed from a range of disciplines provided rich and varied perspectives on the role of sacred space across religious traditions. Keating's paper examined the contestation of sacred space in Canada, focusing on Kanohnstaton, "the protected
place," which is part of the ongoing Haudenosaunee land reclamation at the Six Nations Reserve in southern Ontario.
Other speakers included Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Maria Subtelny of the University of Toronto; Zeff Bjerken of The College of Charleston; Catherine Asher of the University of Minnesota; and Bernard Haykel of the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University.
The symposium brought together six noted scholars whose work explores sacred spaces as they have been conceived and disputed among religious traditions. The speakers, who hailed from a range of disciplines provided rich and varied perspectives on the role of sacred space across religious traditions. Keating's paper examined the contestation of sacred space in Canada, focusing on Kanohnstaton, "the protected
place," which is part of the ongoing Haudenosaunee land reclamation at the Six Nations Reserve in southern Ontario.
Other speakers included Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Maria Subtelny of the University of Toronto; Zeff Bjerken of The College of Charleston; Catherine Asher of the University of Minnesota; and Bernard Haykel of the Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University.
