Religion and Democracy Seminar Series

Overview

Liberal Democracy is widely believed to thrive only where spheres of non-interference and mutual toleration between religious and political institutions have emerged. The seminar looks both at historical processes in which these spheres have been contested and ultimately legally sanctioned, and at contemporary processes in which new spheres of toleration are being negotiated.

In particular, the seminar gives recent PhDs, post-doctoral scholars and junior faculty the opportunity to present and discuss with senior faculty work relevant to questions of toleration, democracy and the negotiation of competency between religious and political authority.

The seminar is open to the public.

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