Gifford Lecture Series. Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King “Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and the world?”—Martin Luther King Jr. The religious defenders of tyranny and oppression bind religion to injustice. The remedy, Adam Lord Gifford thought, is not to secularize politics but to emancipate religion from arbitrary power. Religion is not going away. It will always have political effects. The effects are good if the religion is good and bad if the religion is bad. An ideal of ethical religion animated the abolitionists whom Gifford admired and many activists since. ‘Religion Unbound’ will trace the ideal’s history and explain how its defenders have defined and criticized religion. Public intellectuals often posit a Great Separation of religion from politics in modernity. They differ over how the Separation was achieved, whether its effects were good, bad, or mixed, and whether it was permanent or temporary. References to a recent ‘return of religion’ assume that a Great Separation in fact took place, that we know what it was, and that it set the terms in which politics was conducted where and while it lasted. Yet religiously motivated reformers and revolutionaries have been with us all along. How would our outlook need to change if we included Milton, Wilberforce, Mott, Emerson, Gandhi, and King in the story? These lectures are ticketed. Please click on the following link to register. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-jeffrey-stout-religion-unbound-tickets-31600521009 For further information, please contact Joachim.Belleza@ed.ac.uk May 01 2017 17.30 - May 11 2017 18.30 Gifford Lecture Series. Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King 1,2,4,8,9,11 May 2017, 5.30 - 6.30pm (Multiple Dates), Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9JS. Professor Jeffrey Stout, Professor of Religion at Princeton University, will give these lectures. Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9JS Map showing location of the Business School
Gifford Lecture Series. Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King “Is organized religion too inextricably bound to the status quo to save our nation and the world?”—Martin Luther King Jr. The religious defenders of tyranny and oppression bind religion to injustice. The remedy, Adam Lord Gifford thought, is not to secularize politics but to emancipate religion from arbitrary power. Religion is not going away. It will always have political effects. The effects are good if the religion is good and bad if the religion is bad. An ideal of ethical religion animated the abolitionists whom Gifford admired and many activists since. ‘Religion Unbound’ will trace the ideal’s history and explain how its defenders have defined and criticized religion. Public intellectuals often posit a Great Separation of religion from politics in modernity. They differ over how the Separation was achieved, whether its effects were good, bad, or mixed, and whether it was permanent or temporary. References to a recent ‘return of religion’ assume that a Great Separation in fact took place, that we know what it was, and that it set the terms in which politics was conducted where and while it lasted. Yet religiously motivated reformers and revolutionaries have been with us all along. How would our outlook need to change if we included Milton, Wilberforce, Mott, Emerson, Gandhi, and King in the story? These lectures are ticketed. Please click on the following link to register. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-jeffrey-stout-religion-unbound-tickets-31600521009 For further information, please contact Joachim.Belleza@ed.ac.uk May 01 2017 17.30 - May 11 2017 18.30 Gifford Lecture Series. Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King 1,2,4,8,9,11 May 2017, 5.30 - 6.30pm (Multiple Dates), Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9JS. Professor Jeffrey Stout, Professor of Religion at Princeton University, will give these lectures. Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9JS Map showing location of the Business School
May 01 2017 17.30 - May 11 2017 18.30 Gifford Lecture Series. Religion Unbound: Ideals and Powers from Cicero to King 1,2,4,8,9,11 May 2017, 5.30 - 6.30pm (Multiple Dates), Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9JS. Professor Jeffrey Stout, Professor of Religion at Princeton University, will give these lectures.
