Professor Michael D. Driessen Lecture

Professor Michael  D. Driessen  (John Cabot University) will speak on: 

 “Revisiting A Revolutionary Faith: On Tradition, Innovation, and New Forms of Spirituality”

When: Thursday, February 6th at 3 PM

Where: Via Zoom (Meeting ID: 968 4206 0587 Passcode: 718041)

This Lecture is part of Dublin City University’s Theology, Philosophy, and Religious Studies Research Seminars.

Bio

Michael Driessen is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs and the inaugural Director of the MA program in International Affairs at John Cabot University. He also directs the Rome Summer Seminars on Religion and Global Politics. Michael received his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and has been a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Doha, Qatar as well as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. He has taught at John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Bologna and holds a research affiliation with Cambridge University’s Von Hügel Institute. He also serves as an advisor for the Adyan Foundation in Lebanon. 

Driessen’s books include The Global Politics of Interreligious Dialogue (Oxford University Press, 2023), Human Fraternity and Inclusive Citizenship: Interreligious Engagement in the Mediterranean (ISPI, 2021; co-edited with Fabio Petito and Fadi Daou), and Religion and Democratization (Oxford University Press, 2014). He has published scholarly articles in Comparative Politics, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Religion, Constellations and Democratization and essays in America Magazine and Commonweal.