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Browse the contents of Department of Religion Events:
- God and Country: The Rise of American Theocracy
- Fall 2024 and Spring 2025
This explores how religion is fueling disturbing changes to American democracy on issues of race, gender, and our basic rights and freedoms.
- Angry Religion: The Rise of American Theocracy
- Spring, 2022
This series explores how religion is fueling a rise of acrimony among the US polity on issues of race, gender, public health, and sources of information by examining three contemporary developments: the specter of white Christian nationalism, anti-mask and anti-vaccine stances, and the links between conspiracy theories and religious belief.
- Decolonize MSU
- Fall, 2021
During Native American Heritage Month, a campus-wide conversation was held about Montclair State University's Native Land Acknowledgement, which publicly acknowledges that MSU occupies the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape People. It also commits our University to be the urgent, difficult work of decolonization.
- Religion, Race & Environmental Activism After Standing Rock
- Spring 2021
This event explores the critical role that non-violent protest plays in US democracy—and how religion & race are shaping eco-activist, anti-pipeline movements today.
- Rioting for Resurrection: Masculinity, White Supremacy, and Religion at the U.S. Capitol Insurrection
- Spring 2021
During the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Trump, religion and religious symbolism were heavily on display. This discussion explores the layers of religious identity and ideology supporting the assault that cost five lives and threatened U.S. democratic institutions.
