Tuohy Lecturer Kelsay on 'Religion & Politics'

John Kelsay, professor and chair of Religious Studies at Florida State, this week delivered the second of six Tuohy Lectures entitled "Religion and Politics:  The American Way and World Order."  The series resumes on Tuesday night (October 23) at 8 p.m. in the Jardine Room of the Lombardo Student Center and continues on the four succeeding Tuesday evenings.

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 Professor John Kelsay

Professor John Kelsay

'Religion & Politics: The American Way and World Order'

Introduction (9 min.)
First part of lecture (32 1/2 min.)  Second part (15 1/4 min.)

Questions & Answers

1. How did Islam protect its followers? (1:26) 2. How does Islam explain the cultural oppression of women? (2:56)
3. Can Islam change, and if it can't, doesn't that restrict its followers' intellectual lives and make them tend to use violence to balance things? (2:39) 4. How does Islam protect its "orthodoxy?" Roman Catholics look to the Vatican. What is it over the centuries of Islam that's kept it unified? (3:34)
The first lecture: The Children of Abraham in North America Return to Timely Coverage