Touchstones of Democracy: Religion

Join us for a conversation on the role of religious thought in the shaping of American democracy and religious freedom with Jerome Copulsky, research fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University, and Adam Jortner, history professor at Auburn University. Copulsky’s American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order examines how religious criticism of liberalism, including during the founding period, continues to inform perspectives on the role of religion in American public life. Jortner’s A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom illuminates the centrality of Judaism to the debates over religious freedom. The conversation will be moderated by UVA religious studies professor Nichole Flores.