NMAR Folklife Festival Panel Discussion - Foundations of Religious Freedom

In the first of a two-part series co-presented with the National Museum of American Religion, scholars of American history and religious studies discuss the development of religious freedom, American pluralism, and religious identities during the colonial, revolutionary, and early republic time periods.
Moderator: Eric Williams, member of the Advisory Board of The National Museum of American Religion & Director of the Office of Black Church Studies; Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies, Duke Divinity School (divinity.duke....)
Panelist: John Barry, member of the Advisory Board of The National Museum of American Religion & author of "Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty" (www.johnmbarry...)
Panelist: Kathleen Flake, Richard Lyman Bushman Professor of Mormon Studies, University of Virginia (mormonstudies....)
Panelist: Kate Carte, Professor of History, Southern Methodist University (www.smu.edu/De...)