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Dr. Abdelmjid Kettioui (ENSAM, Moulay Ismail University, Meknès, Marokko) ist zur Zeit als Fellow der Humboldt-Stiftung zu Gast in der Religionswissenschaft und hält am Donnerstag, 22. Juli 2021, von 16:15-17:45 Uhr einen Vortrag über seine Forschung:

Moroccan Activist Nonreligion in the Diaspora: The Neoliberal Politics of a Subcultural ‘Non-Movement’

This talk aims to map out Moroccan nonreligious activism in the diaspora as a subcultural ‚non-movement’ (Bayat 2011). Emerging in the wake of the so-called Arab Spring in 2010/2011, these unorganized and marginalized voices of nonreligion have steadily encroached upon a religious field theretofore monopolized by the state and the Islamists. Based on interviews with key nonreligious activists and non-activists in Morocco and abroad, this paper takes pseudonymous activist Hicham Nostik (aka Kafir Maghribi or Moroccan infidel) as a case study. Nostik speaks and writes in the Moroccan dialect to demystify Islam’s sacred Arabic texts through ‘subcultural modes of knowledge production’ (Kettioui 2020). Articulating an oppositional and decolonial position vis-à-vis Islam’s religious authoritarianism and the Arab invasion of North Africa in the seventh century, Nostik reproduces the neoliberal and supremacist romance of New Atheism and remains reticent about state authoritarianism and the ‘coloniality of modernity’ (Mignolo 2018).

Aufgrund der aktuellen Lage und begrenzter räumlicher Kapazitäten laden wir Interessierte herzlich dazu ein, den Vortrag über Zoom zu verfolgen: https://uni-bayreuth.zoom.us/j/69799911176?pwd=TFM4WXk4SDVrRkl3WFVLSWJ2ZkZUQT09