Dr. Peter Gottschalk will discuss “Patterns of Intolerance: America’s Struggle to Accept Jews, Catholics and Muslims”
Dr. Peter Gottschalk, a professor of religion at Wesleyan University, will deliver an address Sept. 30 at Niagara University as part of the Henry and Grace McNulty Lecture Series on Religion in the Modern World.
The title of Dr. Gottschalk’s talk, which will take place in the Castellani Art Museum at 5:15 p.m., is “Patterns of Intolerance: America’s Struggle to Accept Jews, Catholics, & Muslims.”
The event is free and open to the public.
The McNulty Lecture Series is devoted to questions of faith in the contemporary world, especially the topics of social justice and interreligious dialogue. The series was established by the late Rev. Thomas P. McGourty, C.M., a professor of religious studies at NU, in memory of his late aunt and uncle.
For more information, please contact Dr. Brian Bennett, chair of Niagara University’s department of religious studies, at ext. 8454 or bbennett@niagara.edu<mailto:bbennett@niagara.edu.