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Is Religious Intolerance Racist? The “Heathen” and the White Savior in American History

Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance

February 02, 2023 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google
Social Science Matrix, 820 Social Sciences Building

Kathryn Lum, Associate Professor of Religious Studies in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity and History, Stanford University

What is the relationship between religious intolerance and racism? This talk focuses on the American history of attitudes toward the “heathen” and asks whether we might consider religious intolerance to be racist and the “heathen” to be a racial figure. Some scholars have maintained that race requires a perception that the Other is innately different […]

Is Religious Intolerance Racist? The “Heathen” and the White Savior in American History

The Secular State and Religious Tolerance

Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance

September 13, 2021 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google

Online via Zoom*
Registration is required for this event. Register here
*Please note this event has moved to an online only format

Denis Lacorne, Senior Research Fellow at CERI (Le Centre de recherches internationales), Sciences Po

Is secularism (laïcité) compatible with religious tolerance? In raising this question, Professor Lacorne will explore the impact of secular regimes on religious tolerance, emphasizing religious symbols and the space granted to religious symbols in the public square. In drawing examples from France, the United States, and Italy, he will attempt to demonstrate that a nominally […]

The Secular State and Religious Tolerance

Are Atheists Tolerable? American Nonbelievers and Irreligious Freedom

Berkeley Lecture on Religious Tolerance

March 12, 2018 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
UC Berkeley

Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley

Leigh Eric Schmidt, Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis.

Modern constructions of religious liberty often left atheists and nonbelievers out. Long after the ratification of the First Amendment, it remained an open question whether religious freedom included irreligious freedom. Counted an intolerable danger to the commonwealth, atheists were frequently denied equal rights and liberties; several states barred them from holding offices of public trust, […]

Are Atheists Tolerable? American Nonbelievers and Irreligious Freedom

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