Religious Liberty and the American Founding


Engage the Speaker Session for “Islam, Reason, and Freedom” (AU2021). Original Lecture description below. It is no secret today that Islam has authoritarian interpretations that reject the principles of human freedom. This includes imposing religion through state power, punishing people for “apostasy” or “blasphemy,” or degrading women or minorities. This lecture will delve into the …
Religious liberty is increasingly under attack—both globally and even in the United States. This panel addresses why religious liberty is such fundamental human right, explores religious persecution across the globe, and examines recent efforts in the United States to reduce religious liberty as a mere “right to worship” within the confines of a church rather …
It is no secret today that Islam has authoritarian interpretations that reject the principles of human freedom. This includes imposing religion through state power, punishing people for “apostasy” or “blasphemy,” or degrading women or minorities. This lecture will delve into the formative centuries of Islam to map out the roots of the problem, while also …
It is no secret today that Islam has authoritarian interpretations that reject the principles of human freedom. This includes imposing religion through state power, punishing people for “apostasy” or “blasphemy,” or degrading women or minorities. This lecture will delve into the formative centuries of Islam to map out the roots of the problem, while also …
In conformity with Nietzsche’s prophecy, the modern West is experiencing a radical desacralizing of the social order, unprecedented in world history. The great theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer described it as an era in which Westerners had learned to manage life without reference to God. American sociologist Philip Rieff refers to our era as one in which …
Do private property and religious liberty go hand-in-hand? Are they inseparable or not? Rev. Robert A. Sirico, president and co-founder of the Acton Institute, will talk about how you cannot have one without the other and that they truly are indivisible and inseperable in a free and virtuous society.