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.

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. 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.