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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

Map with all buildings that belong to the Jewish Museum Berlin. The W. M. Blumenthal Academy is marked in green

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.

Portrait photo of Leora Batnitzky

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.

Portrait photo of Anver Emon

Anver Emon; photo: private

Flyer for the lecture series

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With the kind support of

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Where, when, what?

  • When14 Jun 2018
  • Where W. M. Blumenthal Academy,
    Klaus Mangold Auditorium
    Fromet-und-Moses-Mendelssohn-Platz 1, 10969 Berlin
    (Opposite the Museum)
    See location on map

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