The History of Religious Freedom

Описание: Brandon Bayne is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His work focuses on European and indigenous encounters in the contact zones of the Americas.

Kevin J. Christiano is an Associate Professor of Sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Higgins Labor Studies Program at the University of Notre Dame. Christiano is the author or co-author of three books: Religious Diversity and Social Change: American Cities, 1890-1906; Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Reason Before Passion; and Sociology of Religion: Contemporary Developments, with William H. Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto.

The History of Religious Freedom panel was part of the Reasonable Accommodations & Minority Religious Freedom in the U.S. & Canada program originally held on November 20, 2014. This event was directed by the Duke Council for European Studies in collaboration with Council for North American Studies, the Duke Islamic Studies Center, the Kenan Institute for Ethics, and the Center for Jewish Studies, and funded by the Mellon Foundation and the Provost's Office , with additional support from the Canadian Studies Endowment and Duke Womens' Center.