#  CAPS: Civil Evasions: Slavery, the Founders, and Rules of Religious Tolerance | Christopher Beneke 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **November 2, 2016** 

 06:30PM - 07:30PM EDT 

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  **K262, CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge St.**  



 

 



 

**Civil Evasions: Slavery, the Founders, and Rules of Religious Tolerance**

Join us for the CAPS Seminar with Christopher Beneke as he presents his talk, "Civil Evasions: Slavery, the Founders, and Rules of Religious Tolerance."

This talk is free and open to the public.

**Chris Beneke** is associate professor of History at Bentley University. He is the author of*Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism* (Oxford, 2006), and co-editor of *The First Prejudice: Religious Tolerance and Religious Intolerance in Early America* (Penn Press, 2011), *Profane: Sacrilegious Expression in a Multicultural Age*(University of California Press, 2014), and *The Lively Experiment: Religious Toleration in America from Roger Williams to the Present* (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). His talk will be drawn from a book he is writing called *Free Exercise: Five Histories of the First Amendment’s Religious Clauses* (forthcoming with Cornell University Press).



 

 



 

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