Thu, Oct 16 from 7:00pm
to 8:30pm
TBA
Topic: “Secularist Violence in Modern History”
Enlightenment philosophers promised that secular politics would do away with faith-based violence. What they did not expect was that secularist governments and political movements could themselves at times turn to violence to punish religious individuals and communities all over the globe: France, Mexico, Spain, the former Soviet Union, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Mongolia, China—the list is longer than many realize.
Dr. Thomas Albert Howard, Professor of Humanities and History and the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University (the Chair formerly held by Gilbert Meilaender) and author of “Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History” (Yale University Press), will present this talk open to the public.
