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Religion and politics: A difficult relationship?
Seminar with Andreas Jacobs
Speaker: Andreas Jacobs
Date: November 4, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Duration: 2 hours (online)
Key areas:
What separates and unites religion and politics? – Definitions and concepts
Prophets and politicians: The origins of monotheistic religions
- From the Kingdom of God to the secular rule of law: changing conditions
- Politics in God's Name: Religious Extremism and the Politicization of Religion
- From state church law to the Islam law: Religious policy in Europe
Objectives: To convey definitional, conceptual, and historical classifications of the relationship between politics and religion; to demonstrate the conditions and forms of religious fundamentalism and the politicization of religion; to clarify current challenges facing state religious policies.
Andreas Jacobs is Deputy Head of the Analysis and Consulting Department at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) in Berlin. Between 2013 and 2017, he worked at the NATO College in Rome. From 2007 to 2012, he headed the KAS office in Egypt. He studied political science and Islamic studies, is a founding member of the Expert Initiative on Religious Policy (EIR), and a member of the advisory board of the Protestant Central Office for Worldview Issues (EZW).
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