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The Religion Gap: Why Europe Dechristianizes and the U.S. Remains True to the Faith
FCE SeminarDate and Time
April 21, 2009
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Availability
Open to the public
RSVP required by 5PM April 20
Open to the public
RSVP required by 5PM April 20
Speaker
Josef Joffe - Stanford University
Tocqueville's insight still holds: America and Europe are both children of the Enlightenment, but modernity has not pushed aside
religion on this side of the Atlantic as it has in the "Old World." Why the
gap, and why does it persist almost 200 years later?.
Josef Joffe is publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit. Previously he was columnist/editorial page editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung (1985-2000).
Josef Joffe is publisher-editor of the German weekly Die Zeit. Previously he was columnist/editorial page editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung (1985-2000).
Abroad, his essays and reviews have appeared in: New York Review of Books, New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement, Commentary, New York Times Magazine, New Republic, Weekly Standard, Prospect (London), Commentaire (Paris). Regular contributor to the op-ed pages of Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Washington Post; Time and Newsweek.
Topics: Europe | United States
Location
CISAC Conference Room
Encina Hall Central, 2nd floor
616 Serra St.
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
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