The OUP blog does a podcast series called the Oxford Comment that might be of interest to our readers. The latest one is about religion and features Christopher Hitchens, Tariq Ramadan, Nick Mafi, and David Sehat (yours truly). Hitchens and Ramadan talk about their debate at the 92nd Street Y from a few months back about whether or not Islam is a religion of peace. Mafi, whose great uncle was prime minister of Iran in the 1920s, talks about his changing views as a non-practicing Muslim-American after the September 11 attacks. And I situate the contemporary American debate about religion in public life within its wider historical and legal context by drawing upon my forthcoming book, The Myth of American Religious Freedom, which will be published next month. You can listen to podcast by clicking here.
U.S. Intellectual History Blog
One Thought on this Post
S-USIH Comment Policy
We ask that those who participate in the discussions generated in the Comments section do so with the same decorum as they would in any other academic setting or context. Since the USIH bloggers write under our real names, we would prefer that our commenters also identify themselves by their real name. As our primary goal is to stimulate and engage in fruitful and productive discussion, ad hominem attacks (personal or professional), unnecessary insults, and/or mean-spiritedness have no place in the USIH Blog’s Comments section. Therefore, we reserve the right to remove any comments that contain any of the above and/or are not intended to further the discussion of the topic of the post. We welcome suggestions for corrections to any of our posts. As the official blog of the Society of US Intellectual History, we hope to foster a diverse community of scholars and readers who engage with one another in discussions of US intellectual history, broadly understood.
Thanks for the link…and I’m looking forward to your book (my formal training is in Religious Studies and, in addition to Ratio Juris and The Literary Table, I blog at ReligiousLeftLaw.com).
If perchance you and/or your students would be interested, I’ve composed bibliographies for Judaism, Christianity, Islamic Studies, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Classical Chinese Worldviews (largely Mohism, Confucianism and Daoism). You can find them here: http://ratiojuris.blogspot.com/2010/10/online-research-bibliographies.html
Best wishes,
Patrick