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Online
Start Date
10-2-2025 6:30 PM
End Date
10-2-2025 7:45 PM
Description
It is not possible to understand what is happening in Gaza, or in the US, without understanding the religious politics of American support for Israel. This lecture delves into the swirling mixture of religion, history, and politics that shape relations between these two states. The structure of that relationship also shapes what it means to be religiously free in the US today. Whose religion is free? And whose is defined as heresy, terrorism, or anti-Americanism? At a moment in which US-Israeli relations have come under unprecedented strain and scrutiny, it is helpful to approach this relationship from outside the demands of a secularist worldview--which insists on distinguishing between religious and political and instead examine the religious dimensions of the political life of US-Israeli relations.
Part II of "God and Country: The Rise of American Theocracy". Video is unavailable for this installment.
God and Country Part II - Hurd
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The Politics of U.S. Religious Freedom and the War on Gaza
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It is not possible to understand what is happening in Gaza, or in the US, without understanding the religious politics of American support for Israel. This lecture delves into the swirling mixture of religion, history, and politics that shape relations between these two states. The structure of that relationship also shapes what it means to be religiously free in the US today. Whose religion is free? And whose is defined as heresy, terrorism, or anti-Americanism? At a moment in which US-Israeli relations have come under unprecedented strain and scrutiny, it is helpful to approach this relationship from outside the demands of a secularist worldview--which insists on distinguishing between religious and political and instead examine the religious dimensions of the political life of US-Israeli relations.
Part II of "God and Country: The Rise of American Theocracy". Video is unavailable for this installment.
Comments
Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies and Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University where she co-directs the Global Religion & Politics Research Group. She studies the varied public and political careers of religion, including in US foreign and immigration policy, in the politics of secularism and religious freedom, in American borders, and in US actions in and representations of the Middle East.
She is the author of Heaven Has a Wall: Religion, Borders, and the Global United States (University of Chicago Press, 2025), Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (Princeton University Press, 2015), The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton University Press, 2008), and four co-edited volumes on religion and politics, including, most recently, At Home and Abroad: The Politics of American Religion (Columbia University Press, 2021).