Our 7 Neighbors: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America

About Our 7 Neighbors: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America

Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Against the rising influence of Christian nationalism and the persistent myth that the U.S. was founded as a singularly “Christian nation,” this series offers a corrective grounded in historical reality. Hosted by Reza Aslan.

Publisher

InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary

Category

religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

19 Feb 2020

Latest episode

8 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

41 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Jul 2026

   Season 5: Ep.9 Divided: White Christian Nationalism, MAGA and Where We Are Now

   Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Episode 6 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. Pamela Cooper-White.

2. 

   23 Jun 2026

   Season 5: Ep. 8 Freedom FROM Religion: The Right Not to Believe in a Nation of Faith

   Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Episode 8 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. Leigh Eric Schmidt.

3. 

   16 Jun 2026

   Season 5: Ep. 7 The Price of Belonging: How America Decides What Counts as Religion

   Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Episode 7 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. Kathleen Flake.

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