This event is free and open to the public. It will take place at 110 Monroe Hall on the Grounds of the University of Virginia.
The era from the 1970s until now has been the era of the “Religious Right.” Almost all major forces and events for American Christianity in this era were either from, or in response to, the rise and dominance of the Religious Right. The question is, what comes after this period? The demographics of Christianity point to a religious community that is increasingly immigrant and people of color. What will that look like and what it will mean?
Respondent: William J. Everett, Herbert Gezork Professor of Christian Social Ethics, Emeritus, Andover Newton Theological School
Charles Mathewes is the Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and the inaugural Director of the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion. He is the author of Evil and the Augustinian Tradition and A Theology of Public Life, both with Cambridge University Press; Understanding Religious Ethics from Wiley-Blackwell; and The Republic of Grace, from Eerdmans. Among other edited volumes, he was the Senior Editor for a four volume collection on Comparative Religious Ethics: The Major Works for Routledge Publishers. He is currently co-directing a major grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, on “Religion and its Publics.”
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