Valparaiso University Ethics Chair Lecture Explores the Relationship Between Religion and Violence

Christ College — The Honors College at Valparaiso University will hold a lecture titled “Rethinking Religion, Secularism and Violence” on Monday, Sept. 15 at 6:30 p.m. at the Mueller Hall Refectory. The lecture, by Thomas Howard, Ph.D., professor of humanities and history and Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics, will center on his book “Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History.”

This event is free and open to the public.

“The public will hear an accessible lecture on the complex, often fraught relationship among religion, secularism, and violence,” Professor Howard said. “As the tagline on my book says: ‘A sweeping history of violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century.’”