My God, Your God, No God
Lecture Series: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights (video recording available)
Religious freedom includes the right to choose one’s own beliefs and to practice one’s chosen religion – but also the right not to belong to any religious community.
recording available
Where
W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
Klaus Mangold Auditorium
Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
(Opposite the Museum)
Video recording of the lecture My God, Your God, No God, 14 June 2018; Jewish Museum Berlin 2018
How do Judaism and Islam strike a balance between individual freedom of belief and a specific religion’s absolute claim on the truth? How do they respond if their adherents leave the religious community? How are people of other faiths viewed and treated?
A discussion with Leora Batnitzky and Anver Emon.
The event will be moderated by Léontine Meijer-van Mensch, Program Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin.
Leora Batnitzky
Leora Batnitzky is a professor of Jewish Studies and Chair of the Department of Religion at Princeton University. Her most recent book is Conversion Before the Law: How Religion and Law Shape Each Other in the Modern World.
Leora Batnitzky; photo: private
Anver Emon
Anver Emon is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Religion, Pluralism and the Rule of Law at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on premodern and modern Islamic legal history and theory.
Anver Emon; photo: private
Flyer for the lecture series
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Lecture Series 2017/18: Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights (6)
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Jewish and Islamic Perspectives on Human Rights
Our lecture series addresses controversial human rights topics arising in various walks of life and examines them from Jewish and Islamic perspectives. For every lecture, we invite two scholars who present their own positions and then engage in a dialogue.
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My God, Your God, No God
With Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University) and Anver Emon (University of Toronto)
Video Recording
14 Jun 2018 -
Equal before God and Humans?
With Susannah Heschel (Dartmouth College) and Katajun Amirpur (University of Hamburg)
Video Recording
3 May 2018 -
How Much Criticism Do Judaism and Islam Tolerate?
With Suzanne Last Stone (Yeshiva University) and Anshuman Mondal (University of East Anglia), in English and German
Video Recording
12 Apr 2018 -
The Right to Life
With David Novak (University of Toronto) and Jonathan Brown (Georgetown University)
Video Recording
8 Mar 2018 -
Human Rights Treaties and How They are Received
With Michael Galchinsky (Georgia State University) and Mashood Baderin (University of London)
Video Recording
25 Jan 2018 -
Human Rights and Religions – A Contradiction?
With Shaheen Sardar Ali (University of Warwick) and Jill Jacobs (Rabbi and the Managing Director of T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights)
Video Recording
23 Nov 2017
