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Event Description
Religions of Enlightenment, a panel discussion, is the second event of the Reasons to Believe conference.
Co-sponsors
Center for Culture, Society and Religion, University Center for Human Values, Princeton Centre d’Excellence
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Moderators/Discussants
- Yassine Ait Ali, FIT Graduate Student
- Flora Champy, Princeton University
- Sophia Millman, FIT Graduate Student
- Grace Yan, FIT Graduate Student
Panelists
- Charly Coleman, Columbia University
- Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, Princeton University
- Christophe Martin, Sorbonne Université
- Anton Matytsin, University of Florida
- Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth University
- Ourida Mostefai, Brown University
Program
1:30 pm
- New Readings, Renewed Beliefs: Religious debates within the French Enlightenment
- Chair: Grace Yan, Princeton University
- "Early Modern Paganism: Ancient Religions at the Académie des inscriptions"
- Anton Matytsin, University of Florida
- "Des droits inaliénables de la conscience : liberté de croyance et refus de la conversion forcée chez Pierre Bayle"
- Ourida Mostefai, Brown University
- "Concordia discors : dévotion tolérante et athéisme vertueux dans La Nouvelle Héloïse"
- Christophe Martin, Sorbonne Université
3:30 pm - Break
4:00 pm
- Religion Modernized: Belief and Secular Values
- Chair: Yassine Ait Ali, Princeton University
- "The End of Infamy: Inquisition, Dissent, and the Enlightenment in Spain"
- Yonatan Glazer-Eytan, Princeton University
- “Mystical Materialism, Or the Aleatory Origins of Enlightenment Atheism.”
- Charly Coleman, Columbia University)
- "Equality: A 'crazy Christian concept" at the heart of modernity? Thoughts on the religious roots of an Enlightenment ideal."
- Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth University
6:00 pm
- Concluding remarks
- Flora Champy, Princeton University
- Sophia Millman, Princeton University
- Reception
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