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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

Living with Difference: Shared Religious Sanctuaries in the Ottoman Lands

Mecca's Perspective as Symbolic Form

March 14, 2017 / 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm / Add to Google
470 Stephens Hall

Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam, Columbia University; Robert Sterling Clark Visiting Professor at the Clark Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.

The “Sacred” and the “Holy” (haram in Arabic and, to some extent, al-quds or al-muqaddas), are Semitic words (see Herem and Kadosh in Hebrew) denoting the act of separation, parting, or setting aside, and imply the apparent human faculty of setting distinctive borders between holy and profane zones. Constrained to time, these spaces become chronotopes. […]

Between the World and the International: Thinking with Ottoman and Islamic Pasts

Colloquium: Of Mistakes, Errors, and Superstition: Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer

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