{"id":453,"date":"2020-03-04T00:34:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T00:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=453"},"modified":"2020-03-04T00:34:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T00:34:28","slug":"butler-religion-and-global-affairs-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/03\/04\/butler-religion-and-global-affairs-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler Religion and Global Affairs Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 3<sup>rd\u00a0<\/sup>I attended an event put on by Butler\u2019s seminar on religion and global affairs.\u00a0This event was part of their series about incarceration.\u00a0 Specifically, tonight\u2019s event talked about incarceration nationalism and religious identity in China. \u00a0Unlike the other seminars in this series, tonight\u2019s presentation had three speakers who all spoke for an equal amount of time.\u00a0 The first speaker was Professor Gross.\u00a0 Professor Gross is an associate professor of china studies at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.\u00a0 His work has been published in the China journal and also on CNN.\u00a0 One of his more well known pieces is a book titled Negotiating Inseparability.\u00a0 He started off his presentation by going into detail about a significant event that greatly impacted how religion was looked at in China.\u00a0 In 2016 Xi Jinping delivered a speech in which he demanded all religions in China merge their doctrines with Chinese culture and laws.\u00a0 This speech had a great impact on religion in China.\u00a0Since this speech mosques have been destroyed in the Gansu province, religious buildings were destroyed in the Sichuan Province, and more than 1,700 crucifixes were removed from churches across China.\u00a0 Professor Gross then pointed out that China\u2019s constitution states that people are allowed to enjoy freedom of religious belief.\u00a0 However, the constitution says nothing about the freedom of expressing these beliefs.\u00a0This gives the government a way to control the religious ideas of the people without implicitly saying so.<\/p>\n<p>The second speaker was Professor Anderson.\u00a0 She has dual PHD\u2019s from Indiana University in which she recently graduated in the last year. In her introduction it was mentioned she is a vocalist, musician, dancer, and even had an appearance in a musical reality TV show in China. \u00a0She is currently working at the Uyghur Human Rights Project and wanted to really focus more on Uyghur. \u00a0She talked about the individual oppression that is currently going on in the North West part of china (Xinjian region)<\/p>\n<p>The third speaker was a professor from Purdue.\u00a0 He has focused his studies over the years on the sociology of religion and immigration\/religion in the United States.\u00a0 It was interesting to hear his ideas on the various topics and how they relate to what we have talked about in class this semester. \u00a0I really enjoyed the three speakers and it was really interesting to see how their speech differed from Dr. Fleet Mauls that I attended earlier in the semester.\u00a0 This series that Butler put on exposed me to new and different ideas that I most likely would have never heard if I had not attended event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 3rd\u00a0I attended an event put on by Butler\u2019s seminar on religion and global affairs.\u00a0This event was part of their series about incarceration.\u00a0 Specifically, tonight\u2019s event talked about incarceration nationalism and religious identity in China. \u00a0Unlike the other seminars in this series, tonight\u2019s presentation had three speakers who all spoke for an equal amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions\/454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}