America's Religious Moderation
Document Type
Essay
Publication Title
Law & Liberty
Publication Date
3-29-2024
Abstract
(Excerpt)
Free Exercise: America’s Story of Religious Liberty, a new documentary film produced in connection with the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, recounts the history of religious freedom in our country from colonial times until today. Narrated by journalist and historian Richard Brookhiser, the film focuses on six episodes in which minority religious groups fought for their right to practice their faiths and participate as equal citizens: Quakers in seventeenth-century New Amsterdam; Baptists in eighteenth-century Virginia; and Black Christians, Catholics, Mormons, and Jews in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The film ends with a panel discussion on religious freedom today, when newly arrived communities like Hindus, Muslims, and Buddhists likewise wish to make their way in American society while remaining true to their religious heritage.
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Available at: https://lawliberty.org/americas-religious-moderation/