American Lectures in the History of Religion Lecture: With Liberty and Justice For All: Recentering Our Work as Scholars of Religion

The fourth and final ALHR lecture, “With Liberty and Justice For All: Recentering Our Work as Scholars of Religion.” My aim in this final lecture is to make use of a main idea from each of the previous lectures—scholarship and teaching that are focused on creating greater spaces of justice and hope, a robust commitment/recommitment to democracy making, and growing our scholarship large in such a way that we speak directly to the challenges we are facing in higher education and our larger society that is currently leaning toward deadly polarizations that we both decry and maintain.  I explore how we can employ our knowledge and skills as scholars of religion to build a better world for all.