Religion

Program 8: Religion in the Schools

John Cogley leads a Center staff discussion of the Supreme Court decision on prayers in public schools. Although Mr. Cogley...

Program 35 : Pacem in Terris: The Pope's Encyclical

John Cogley leads a Center discussion on the nature and possible impact of Pope John XXIII's encyclical of April 1963...

Program 38: German Catholics and Hitler's Wars

Gordon Zahn, of Loyola University, asks why German Catholics did not resist Hitler's wars, and suggests that it is necessary...

Program 65: Civil Rights in Israel

Viscount Edwin Samuel, of Hebrew University, offers an account of the contributions of Turkish and British customs to the development...

Program 90: An Establishment of Religion

Robert M. Hutchins leads a staff discussion on the Supreme Court's controversial decision banning religious exercises in public schools. With...

Program 130: Beauty for Ashes

A series of excerpted speeches tells the story of the Committee of Concern, an inter-faith and inter-racial organization...

Program 141: Is Curly Jewish?

Paul Jacobs, the Center's staff director of the Study of the Trade Union, speaks with Frank K. Kelly about his...

Program 185: Witness.

A portrait is presented of the Catholic activist Dorothy Day, noted anarchist and editor of The Catholic Worker, through excerpts...

Program 261 : Buddhism and Communism

Raghavan N. Iyer, of the University of California Santa Barbara, gives his analysis of the tensions between Buddhism and Communism...

Program 272: Today's Crisis in Religion

An address by Bishop James A. Pike, in which he argues that religion, dogma, and doctrine must accommodate new scientific...

Program 429: The Bishop Is Expelled

Episcopal bishop C. Edward Crowther testifies before the United Nations, giving a personal account of his experiences as a white...

Program 685: The Religious Dimensions of Judaism

For Gershom G. Scholem, of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, no single body of thought can be regarded as authentic...

Program 686: The Concept of Justice in Jewish Law

Justice Haim Cohn, of the Supreme Court of Israel, claims that justice must be individualized according to time, place, and...

Program 687: Jewish Ethnicity: Ideology and Reality

A discussion of the question of whether the Jews, although having regained their freedom as individuals in the wake of...

Program 688: The Jewish Experience

A discussion of the many problems confronting modern Jews, addressing such questions as: Is the concept of the Halakah an...

Program 689: Jewish Virtues and the Good Life

A debate on whether Judaism commits one to certain specifics of virtue and the good life which are grounded in...

Program 690 : The Relevance of Judaism Today

A discussion of Judaism as a living entity, constantly evolving historically and transforming itself spiritually. Panelists assess the “new” ethnicity...

Program 691: The Universal Implications of Judaism

Rabbi Robert Gordis, of Temple University, argues for pluralism and tolerance, maintaining that these modern values from the beginning were...

Program 688: The Jewish Experience

A discussion of the many problems confronting modern Jews, addressing such questions as: Is the concept of the Halakah an...

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CSDI Audio Archive Information

The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI.

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