by Sophia Jaworski
Alumni Hall, Victoria College, University of Toronto, January 17th & 18th, 2019
The Connaught Initiative, Entangled Worlds: Sovereignty, Sanctities and Soil emerged from an ethnographic moment, an emplacement in Toronto’s landscape, wherein which a whole set of spiritual devotees were mobilized by the conjoining of the relic of the arm of St. Francis Xavier with the language of theodicy, warding off evil in the Church. This expression bore vast political implications as the Cardinal preached from the pulpit of Toronto’s Cathedral, thereby sparking the themes of this Initiative (see previous blog post) and the very topic of the Connaught’s first research workshop. [Read more…] about Expressions of Sacred Legitimacy and their Political Implications