Storie Family Lecture Series: Rethinking Religion, Secularism and Violence with Tal Howard

Academic Building Classroom AS 158A

Event Name: Storie Family Lecture Series<br>Event State: Confirmed<br>Organization: History Department<br>Event Locator: 2025-AATBNS<br><br><p>Tal Howard outlines three forms of modern secularism since the Enlightenment—passive, combative, and eliminationist—arguing that the latter two are often violent. Westerners tend to view passive secularism as typical, but a global perspective reveals a more complex picture. By examining diverse historical contexts and case studies from countries like the former Soviet Union, Turkey, Mexico, and China, Howard challenges the common view of modernity as a peaceful triumph of secularism over religion.<br><br></p>

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