Our group and then we will get started. 22 ago, there is a switch. Thank you. There is a switch on the mics. In a journal of American History article, john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted religions continuing importance in 20th century american politics deserves sustained attention and analysis. Scholarship in american religious history has proliferated over the past 15 years. In political history, religion has retained a jackinthebox quality, colorful, surprising, anomalous, idiosyncratic, but left on the periphery to pop up occasionally rather than systematically. Today, our roundtable will inress how religion matters american political history and we will do so in three ways. First, i blast each of our panelists to focus on a way in which religion matters, in their own research, how religion plays that they arees working on, but also how centering religion gives us a different narrative, different story than if it
American history article john butler challenged historians of modern america to Pay Attention to religion. In particular, he noted, religion of the continuing importance in 20th century american politics deserves sustained attention and analysis. Scholars of american religious history have proliferated over the past 15 years, yet in political history, religion has often retained a jackinthebox quality colorful, surprising, anomalous, idiosyncratic, but left on the periphery to pop up occasionally rather than systematically. Today, our roundtable will address how religion matters in american political history, and we will do so in three ways. First, i will ask each of our panelists to focus on a way in which religion matters that is, in their own research, how religion plays a role in spaces that they are working on, but also how centering religion in these spaces gives us a different narrative, a different story than if it were on the periphery or ignored in an way. Second, we will tal
Hello. Good evening everyone. Welcome again i am the director of religious programming and like to start by asking who is here for the first time tonight whether a first or a repeat offender we have a bunch of programs to check out with a conversation with dan pfeiffer to a concert with josh ritter. Went to see the things that drive us to drink im sure reality has something for us all we are undeniably into 2020 the most t polarized election of all time the 2016 election seemed we didnt know our country or communities or who we thought we did questioning those deep rooted values and with that divisive twoparty political system tonight we are thrilled to welcome ezra klein back to make sense of it all to hear his perspective how the polarization has been growing roots for decades and why we are polarized he asserts the system is a broken but working exactly as designed and how our identities the disastrous results with the bonds of older country together the editor at large in cofounder
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