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

*Contributions to and/or sponsorship of any event does not constitute departmental or institutional endorsement of the specific program, speakers or views presented.

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