Religion and Democracy in the Age of Wokeness

This roundtable discussion will explore how might Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Thought and Open and Relational Theologies inform one another within the academy and outside of it. This distinguished panel will reflect on the relevance of their scholarship for articulating novel or contemporary social advances; examining how might we draw on these resources to address the contemporary movements and problems (e.g. Citizens United, BLM, MeToo, MAGA, Women’s rights, Ecology, the decline of humanities, etc.) or move beyond these paradigms.