Religion has profoundly influenced the sweeping American narrative, perhaps more than any other force in our history, from the time of the Indigenous Peoples to the present day. The National Museum of American Religion tells the surprising and compelling story of what religion has done to America and what America has done to religion, including the establishment of religious freedom in U.S. Constitution’s Article VI and First Amendment religious clauses.
The museum invites all people to explore the role of religion in shaping the social, political, economic, and cultural lives of Americans and thus America itself.
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Religion has profoundly influenced the sweeping American narrative, perhaps more than any other force in our history, from the time of the Indigenous Peoples to the present day. The National Museum of American Religion tells the surprising and compelling story of what religion has done to America and what America has done to religion, including the establishment of religious freedom in U.S. Constitution’s Article VI and First Amendment religious clauses.
The museum invites all people to explore the role of religion in shaping the social, political, economic, and cultural lives of Americans and thus America itself.
Join us as we follow scholars and others deep into America’s religious history and learn how it can inform and animate us as citizens grappling with complex questions of governance and American purpose in the 21st century.
Episodes will be released monthly on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you get your podcasts.
The Women and Men of American Religion. Story 8: Roger Williams
Religion in the American Experience
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The Women and Men of American Religion. Story 8: Roger Williams
One hears the terms “religious liberty” or “religious freedom” quite often in today’s public square. What does it mean? Where did it come from? Who put it together? In today’s episode we get to know Roger Williams, who is an outsized figure in America’s idea of religious freedom, now established in the Constitution’s Article VI (no religious test for office) and the First Amendment’s religion clauses (free exercise and no establishment).
Season 3, Episode 30: The Women and Men of American Religion. Story 8: Roger Williams
Guest Bio
Dr. Carrington-Farmer is a Professor of History at Roger Williams University, where she specializes in early American History. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 2010, and she has a keen research interest in dissent in seventeenth-century New England. Her book, Roger Williams and His World, sets Roger Williams in his wider Atlantic world context. She has published book chapters on two seventeenth-century dissenters, see: “Thomas Morton” in: Atlantic Lives: Biographies that Cross the Ocean and “Roger Williams and the Architecture of Religious Liberty,” in Law and Religion and the Liberal State. Building on her interest in Roger Williams, she has published an article on his wife, Mary Williams, entitled: “More than Roger’s Wife: Mary Williams and the Founding of Providence.” In the New England Quarterly.
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Podcast Support
Scholarly support provided by Dr. Lauren Turek, Associate Professor of History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
Technical audio and video assistance provided by Dr. Randall Stephens, a Professor of American and British Studies at the University of Oslo.
Religion in the American Experience is a podcast of the National Museum of American Religion, which tells the story of what religion has done to America and what America has done to religion.
Religion in the American Experience
Religion has profoundly influenced the sweeping American narrative, perhaps more than any other force in our history, from the time of the Indigenous Peoples to the present day. The National Museum of American Religion tells the surprising and compelling story of what religion has done to America and what America has done to religion, including the establishment of religious freedom in U.S. Constitution’s Article VI and First Amendment religious clauses.
The museum invites all people to explore the role of religion in shaping the social, political, economic, and cultural lives of Americans and thus America itself.
Join us as we follow scholars and others deep into America’s religious history and learn how it can inform and animate us as citizens grappling with complex questions of governance and American purpose in the 21st century.
Episodes will be released monthly on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Amazon, or wherever you get your podcasts.
