- Spring 1997 Symposium: Religious Freedom: Persecution and Toleration
- Spring 1998 Symposium: Religious Freedom and Political Conflict in America
Symposium: Religious Freedom: Persecution and Toleration
In the spring of 1997, the Center offers its first academic course. In conjunction with the course, ten public lectures were offered, along with six additional “Conversations” on current topics or issues of religious freedom.
Kant and the Limits of Religious Freedom
January 28, 1997
Dr. Steven M. Emmanuel, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Wesleyan College
De Tocqueville on Liberty and American Civic Religion
February 4, 1997
Dr. E. Del Carlson, Professor of Political Science, Virginia Wesleyan College
Contemporary Issues in Religious Freedom
February 11, 1997
Panel discussion presented by members of the Advisory Board and Faculty Steering Committee of the Center for the Study of Religious Freedom
Spirituals: African-American Responses to Persecution
February 18, 1997
Dr. Benjamin D. Berry, Professor of American Studies and History, Virginia Wesleyan College
Today’s Heretic, Tomorrow’s S aint
March 4, 1997
Dr. Clayton J. Drees, Assistant Professor of History, Virginia Wesleyan College
Inventing a Christian Life: Women and Religious Freedom in Late Antiquity
March 25, 1997
Dr. Rebecca Harden Weaver, Professor of Church History, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
Moses Mendelssohn and the Development of the Idea of Religious Liberty in Modern Jewish Thought
April 1, 1997
Dr. Michael Panitz, Rabbi, Temple Israel in Norfolk
The Questions of German Culpability in current Holocaust Scholarship
April 8, 1997
Dr. Daniel W. Graf, Professor of History, Virginia Wesleyan College
Early Sufism as a Reaction to Inter-Muslim Racial Discrimination
April 15, 1997
Dr. Ehsan S. Salek, Associate Professor of Management, Business and Economics
Caesar’s Things and God’s Things: Understanding Images of Religious Liberty in Film
April 22, 1997
Dr. William M. Jones, Professor of Political Science, Virginia Wesleyan College
Symposium: Religious Freedom and Political Conflict in America
A semester-long symposium, including a four-part community forum partially funded by a grant from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy.
The First Amendment, The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Evolving Legal Standards Protecting the Free Exercise of Religion
February 3, 1998
Dr. Rodney Smolla, Professor of Law and Director of the Institute of the Bill of Rights, The College of William and Mary
Christian Reconstruction and the Religious Right
February 10, 1998
Dr. Julie J. Ingersoll, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Millsaps College
Black Churches and Political Conflict in America
February 17, 1998
Dr. Benjamin D. Berry, Professor of American Studies and History, Virginia Wesleyan College
The Rise of the Religious Right in America
February 24, 1998
Dr. Jeffrey Hadden, Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
The Christmas Controversies in America
March 3, 1998
Dr. Craig S. Wansink, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Virginia Wesleyan College
Religious Issues in Health Care
March 24, 1998
Dr. Hans Tiefel, Professor of Religion, The College of William and Mary
Church/State Issues and the Chaplaincy
March 31, 1998
Dr. Michael E. Panitz, Rabbi, Temple Israel in Norfolk
Santeria, an Afro-Caribbean Religion, and Public Perception
April 14, 1998
Dr. Mavel Z. Velasco, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Virginia Wesleyan College
Aspects of Religious Freedom and American Public Education
April 21, 1998
Dr. Henry Willett, Graduate Program Director and Associate Professor at The George Washington University’s Hampton Roads Center