Occupation
Assistant Professor
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ABOUT
Tom Woerner-Powell's (DPhil. Oxon.) interdisciplinary research examines religio-political dimensions of Islamic thought and Muslim experience in colonial and post-colonial contexts, exploring confluences and boundaries between ostensibly religious and political practices, ideas, and frames of reference. It engages with on-going representations of Islam and Muslims through the category of ‘religion’ in the modern period, with particular focus upon the political effects and hermeneutic contexts of discourses on mysticism, religiously sanctioned violence, and principled pacifism.
Tom Woerner-Powell is Principal Investigator in an international AHRC-funded research project exploring varieties of pacifism and nonviolence in modern Islam.
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Arab Studies
Colonialism
Globalization
Theory
Middle East/Near East Studies
History Of Religion
Human Rights
Political Economy
Modernization
Maghreb Studies
World History
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Maghreb
Mashreq
Specialties
Political Philosophy; Religious Studies; History O
Languages
English (native)
German (fluent)
Gaelic (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
French (intermediate)
Education
DPhil
| 2014
| Oriental Institute
| Oxford University
MSt
| 2004
| Oriental Insitute
| Oxford University
BA
| 2003
| IMEIS
| Durham University
Abstracts
Many Paths to Peace: Islam, Pacifism, Decoloniality, and Interdisciplinarity
