A webinar with distinguished experts is organized by the Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute, in collaboration with the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University and the Ecclesiological Investigations International Research Network. It will take place on Monday, December 12, 12.00 p.m. East Time (6.00 p.m. СET, 7.00 p.m. EET). Speakers include:

1. Prof. Pamela Cooper-White, Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor of Psychology and Religion and former Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs, at Union Theological Seminary, New York.

2. Dr. Nicola Brady, General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI).

3. Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies

3. Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun, Professor in Ecclesiology, International Relations and Ecumenism at the Sankt Ignatios College, University College Stockholm.

Christian nationalism (by no means the only religious nationalism of importance today, but the framework that exerts the greatest pressure on contemporary American and European life) incentivizes efforts to overturn democratic civil norms in favor of government-imposed sectarian values, punishing those who do not capitulate with imprisonment, expulsion, or military violence. The webinar will attempt to shed light on the continuities, divergences, and strategies for Christian ethical, political, and theological sense-making, in response to the nationalistic culture and ideology in the churches. Taking as starting point the fact that while the entanglement of religious institutions with political agendas is as old as civilization, the modern world and its dominant political configuration, the nation-state, have engendered ideological frameworks that invite religious communities to seek and wield political power on behalf of an ethnoreligious faction framed as the sole authentic representative of national identity and destiny.

Further details on the webinar and free registration are available at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/christian-nationalism-in-international-perspective-lessons-and-legacies-tickets-451956212197