On Wednesday night (Oct. 27), from 7 to 8pm, Boston University professors Stephen Prothero and Andrew Bacevich will discuss “the role played by religious ideas in U.S. public policy today, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ debate.” The event will be open to the public, and it will also be streamed live online. For more information, see the B.U. Department of Religion website here.
David Walker is Assistant Professor of American Religious History at the University of Santa Barbara. He earned his PhD from Yale University in 2013 and is a regular contributor to here & there. His work focuses on religion and land policy in the nineteenth-century American West, specifically looking at the ways in which 'religion' is evoked amidst debates over Utahn 'public land,' its development, and its cartography.