{"id":33699,"date":"2025-04-16T15:21:39","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/?p=33699"},"modified":"2025-04-16T15:42:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T19:42:19","slug":"buying-out-the-market-how-states-co-opt-religionduring-democratic-backsliding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/2025\/04\/16\/buying-out-the-market-how-states-co-opt-religionduring-democratic-backsliding\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying out the Market: How States Co-opt ReligionDuring Democratic Backsliding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\ud83d\udcda <strong>Guest Lecture Announcement<\/strong> \ud83d\udcda<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join us for a compelling lecture with <strong>Dr. Brendan Szendro<\/strong>, Faculty Lecturer at McGill University, as he explores how state policies can co-opt religion and contribute to democratic backsliding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\uddd3 <strong>Friday, April 25, 2025<\/strong><br>\ud83d\udd51 <strong>2:00 PM<\/strong><br>\ud83d\udccd <strong>Washburn Hall #111, 80 Upper College Rd., Kingston, RI 02881<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his talk, <em>&#8220;Buying out the Market: How States Co-opt Religion During Democratic Backsliding,&#8221;<\/em> Dr. Szendro will draw from case studies in Israel and Hungary to discuss how both support and restriction can distance religious groups from civil society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presented by the URI Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\udcda Guest Lecture Announcement \ud83d\udcda Join us for a compelling lecture with Dr. Brendan Szendro, Faculty Lecturer at McGill University, as he explores how state policies can co-opt religion and contribute to democratic backsliding. \ud83d\uddd3 Friday, April 25, 2025\ud83d\udd51 2:00 PM\ud83d\udccd Washburn Hall #111, 80 Upper College Rd., Kingston, RI 02881 In his talk, &#8220;Buying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5060,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5060"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33701,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33699\/revisions\/33701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/nonviolence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}