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Free To Be Me? The Forgotten Story of Religious Liberty
Richard Johnson Lectures
44 minutes 26 seconds
3 years ago
Free To Be Me? The Forgotten Story of Religious Liberty
In this episode you’ll hear Sarah Irving-Stonebraker’s 2020 lecture,
Free To Be Me? The Forgotten Story of Religious Liberty
"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion", reads the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. But how did we get here?
Freedom of religion - or of no religion - is grounded on liberty of conscience, an idea with a back-story most of us are unaware of. In recovering this story, historian Sarah Irving-Stonebraker takes us all the way back to the ancient Middle East, and on a whirlwind tour through Europe, the Americas, and Australia, and asks: does the notion of religious liberty still have currency today?
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Sarah Irving-Stonebraker is Senior Lecturer in History at Western Sydney University. She was awarded her PhD from the University of Cambridge, after which she was a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford then Assistant Professor at Florida State University. Her book Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire, published in 2008, was awarded The Royal Society of Literature and Jerwood Foundation Award for Non-Fiction.
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This episode is sponsored by International Justice Mission
Richard Johnson Lectures
The Richard Johnson lecture is an annual public event that seeks to highlight Christianity’s relevance to society and to positively contribute to public discourse on key aspects of civil life.
