The Authoritarian's Playbook

Politicians across the globe are using religious nationalism as a tool for power and at times repression. India, the world’s largest democracy, is struggling with a nationalist insurgence, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi defining the Hindu religion as conjoined with all Indian culture, violently repressing Muslims in the process. Hungary’s prime minister, Victor Orbán, has called to secure his nation’s borders from mainly Muslim migrants “to keep Europe Christian.” In the United States, myriad elected officials are drawing support from the Christian nationalist movement, which promotes the idea that the nation was founded by and for conservative Christians.

Featuring IOP Pritzker Fellow and investigative journalist Rana Ayyub, investigative journalist Katherine Stewart, who is the author of "The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism," and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, professor of Religious Studies and Political Science and Crown Chair in Middle East Studies at Northwestern University.

Moderated by IOP executive director Zeenat Rahman.

Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center for the Public Understanding of Religion.

[Kamallohani]

Rana ayyub saying things for the sake of saying, she is not well read and distance from the fact and truth . If a educated indian person hear her, would be laughing because she lied a lot ...

[deadlyninja]

Tell her to release tapes of Modi in relation to Gujarat Riots which she said she has and promised to release. 😅. She is not even a credible person in India for God sake.

[jerryrhee]

56:02
There is a kind of incompetence associated with a recurring problem for those who wait.
I mean, even Kristin Du Mez (55:27) knows about such problems, already.

It can even be said that it is an 'older complex notion of elenchos’ to fail in the duty that we know,
when that duty is not to keep teaching, but of declaring remembering and making.

For who doesn’t know about the “fetter for the thousand necks”, already?
Even ‘Natural Right and History’ knows that! (p177, note 11)
I mean, what is Nihilism and what is to be remembered of it?

Come, tell me then, in Heaven's name,
—what would be the first law to be laid down by the lawgiver?

[jillfeatherman]

Funny how they didn’t bring up Israel and Palestine. Wonder why?

[aniruddhsinhdabhi]

Please rana speak about kanhaiya laal, kishan bharwad and amarawati case

[aniruddhsinhdabhi]

He always talk about 2002 riots but never talk about kashmiri pandit. Hypocrisy level 1000%