DSR Lecture Series: “Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt”

Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practice.

About the speaker

Mona Oraby is Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University. Since 2017, she has served as editor of The Immanent Frame, a digital publication of the Social Science Research Council that advances scholarly debate on secularism, religion, and the public sphere, broadly construed. A scholar with multidisciplinary and multimodal research interests, she is the author of Devotion to the Administrative State: Religion and Social Order in Egypt (Princeton University Press, 2024) and coauthor of A Universe of Terms: Religion in Visual Metaphor (Indiana University Press, 2022).