Teaching Fellow under Professor K. Healan Gaston, Harvard Divinity School
This course will examine, through a conceptual and linguistic lens, the efforts of politicians, public commentators, religious leaders, scholars, and activists to negotiate the twin realities of growing religious diversity and deepening political division in the United States since the 1970s. It will familiarize students with a range of religious, political, and scholarly views of what we might term “diversity ideals”—especially those most closely linked to religion, such as “tolerance,” “religious...
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