Jonathan Sarna, 2016 Greenberg Distinguished Fellow, Provides New Insight on Jews & American Politics
by Andrew Walsh Evidence is emerging that Jewish voters were mobilizing to participate in American political campaigns far earlier than
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Events
David Gibson reports on pope’s American tour
By William Winter ’18 Tight security, careful orchestration, and anticipated criticism kept Pope Francis from indulging his usual penchant for
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David Hollinger on “Secularization and the Future of American Christianity”
For the last several decades, the United States looked like an outlier among industrial nations in the North Atlantic West, remaining a robustly religious country while its European peers moved into ever deeper secularization. But the recent trajectory of decline among those holding liberal religious beliefs strongly suggests that the long-term trend in the United States is toward pervasive secularism on the European model as well, the intellectual historian David A. Hollinger told audiences at Trinity College in Hartford this week.
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What Do You Teach the Kids, Nones?
Twenty percent of the adult American population now say they have no religion. Call them unaffiliated or call them
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To Print Or Not To Print
At a lunchtime forum on free speech and blasphemy in the Trinity chapel February 5, a mostly student audience was told there would be a vote to determine whether to display some of the cartoons that provoked the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris. Three faculty panelists then proceeded to explore the relevant legal, Islamic, and journalistic issues.
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Borden Painter discusses his book on the New Atheists at the Greenberg Center
by Mark Silk The last Public Values lunch of the semester was devoted to a discussion of The New Atheist
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