Lecture on violence

YOUNGSTOWN

“The Global Rise of Religious Violence” is the topic of a lecture by Mark Juergensmeyer, distinguished professor of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 12:30 p.m. Thursday in the Chestnut Room of Kilcawley Center at Youngstown State University.

The free talk is part of the Dr. Thomas and Albert Shipka Speaker Series at YSU.

The lecture will analyze the rise of religious extremism around the world and explore why these movements are happening now on a global scale, and what religion has to do with it.

Juergensmeyer is the founding director of the Global and International Studies Program and the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara.