Slavica Jakelić

Co-Director of Program on Religion, Culture, and Democracy

Research Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

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Slavica Jakelić is Research Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and Co-Director of the Program on Religion, Culture, and Democracy. Her work explores the importance of religion for people’s collective identities and the role of religion and religious institutions in the shaping of social order and social change. She is a co-editor of two volumes, The Future of the Study of Religion and Crossing Boundaries: From Syria to Slovakia, as well as a co-editor of The Hedgehog Review’s issue “After Secularization.” She has written for both academic and broader audiences on theories of religion, the public role of religions in modern societies, secularization and secularism, religion and violence, and religious dialogue. Professor Jakelić is presently working on a book entitled Religion as Identity: The Challenge of Collectivistic Religion in the Contemporary World, which explores the institutional roles and symbolic meanings of religion in collective identification.