Our 7 Neighbors: Religion and Resistance in America
Our 7 Neighbors: Religion and Resistance in America
InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary
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.
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.
Jul 8
45 min
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.
Jun 23
41 min
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.
Jun 16
47 min
Season 5: Ep. 6 Heathens: Chinese Religion and American Exclusion
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. Jonathan Lee.
Jun 9
35 min
Season 5: Ep.5 Strangers at Home: The American Tradition of Antisemitism
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 5 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. Pamela Nadell.
Jun 2
43 min
Season 5: Ep.4 Rome and the Republic: Catholicism and Questions of Loyalty and Identity
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 4 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. John T. McGreevy.
May 26
46 min
Season 5: Ep. 3 From Slave Ships to 9/11: Islam and the Long Struggle to Belong 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.  Episode 3 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri.
May 19
42 min
Season 5: Ep. 2 Soul Wounds: Indigenous Survival and the Limits of Religious Freedom
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 2 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. Farina King. Farina King, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is the Horizon Chair of Native American Ecology and Culture and Full Professor of Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her research centers on Native American oral histories, especially among her Diné relatives and connections in Oklahoma. She received her Ph.D. at Arizona State University in History. She is the author of various publications, including The Earth Memory Compass: Diné Landscapes and Education in the Twentieth Century; co-author with Michael P. Taylor and James R. Swensen of Returning Home: Diné Creative Works from the Intermountain Indian School; and author of Diné dóó Gáamalii: Navajo Latter-day Saint Experiences in the Twentieth Century. She is a co-editor of The Lyda Conley Series on Trailblazing Indigenous Futures with the University Press of Kansas; co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Oral History; and Editor in Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Indigenous Studies. She is the past President of the Southwest Oral History Association (2021-2022).
May 12
51 min
Season 5: Ep. 1 The Myth of a Religious Freedom
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. Episode 1 features host Reza Aslan in conversation with Dr. Peter Manseau. Manseau is the Founding Director of the Center for Understanding Religion in American History at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
May 5
36 min
Our 7 Neighbors Season 5 Trailer
O7N Season 5 Religion and Resistance 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. Hosted by Reza Aslan.
Mar 21
1 min
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