Joseph Stuart on Christopher Dawson, The Primacy of Religion, and Cultural Appreciation
October 28, 2022
Intercollegiate Studies Institute
In this episode:
- Joseph Stuart, professor of history at the University of Mary and a former ISI Weaver fellow, joins the podcast to discuss the work of 20th century historian of culture, Christopher Dawson
- why religion is at the heart of cultural identity, and how cultures that abandon their religion inevitably become captured by ideological “political religions”
- how to appreciate different cultures and have a rich, complex view of other civilizations without becoming a relativist
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