[Past Event] Religion and America's Founders | Livestream Zoom + Recorded

Course Description:

Many of the founders of the United States believed in a god. But, their beliefs were unconventional—they didn't necessarily belong to a religious community or follow the ideas of traditional theology. Why was this? What did these individuals think about God and religion? Why did their beliefs go against the grain? And, do these ideas even matter today? Religious studies scholar Jason Hensley tackles these questions and more as he examines the religious views of our nation's early male and female influencers as well as the views of later American icons who helped shaped our nation, including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.