Religion in the American Experience
nationalmuseumofamericanreligion
4.7from 39 ratings
- 111
- Episodes
- 31
- Transcribed
- 39
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
About Religion in the American Experience
Learning from scholars and every day Americans about what religion has done to America and what America has done to religion, helping all of us better comprehend and perpetuate the American experiment in self-government, including what is perhaps its greatest innovation and the essence of the American project: religious freedom as defined by the Constitution’s Article VI and First Amendment religion clauses.
- Publisher
- nationalmuseumofamericanreligion
- Category
- education · history
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 19 Oct 2020
- Latest episode
- 30 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
31 of 111 episodes have a transcript.
30 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Religion of Muhammad Ali
23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The History of Measuring America's Religiosity
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Religion of John and Abigail Adams
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The Religion of Muhammad Ali
Published 30 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And Elijah Muhammad succeeded Fard and became the leader at a time of enormous growth for the Nation of Islam. They reached out and grew their membership primarily by educating people who were incarcerated, black men who were incarcerated. But the movement was spreading by the 1950s when Muhammad Ali learned about it. There were people selling newspapers on street corners in many black neighborhoods around the country. At a time when the civil rights movement was just beginning to percolate in the 50s, this was an alternative for a lot of people who believed that integration was a waste of time, that it was never going to get anywhere, that white people were never going to give up power and share and offer any kind of real justice for black people. […]
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