Learn about how Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America (1835), viewed democracy, freedom, and religion.
Learn about how Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America (1835), viewed democracy, freedom, and religion.
Consider how Christian churches confronted their legacy of antisemitism in the years following the Holocaust.
Examine the historical context leading up to the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and understand how Eleanor Roosevelt became involved in the process.
Explore the relationship between religious identity and belonging with these accounts of Asian migrants in Britain.
Four teenagers from different religious traditions reflect on their experiences of religious belief and belonging.
Investigate Eleanor Roosevelt’s description of the differences between the way Americans and Soviets viewed personal freedoms and rights in this excerpt of her speech delivered at the Sorbonne.
Eboo Patel reflects on how religion impacts his identity and a time in his past when he was a bystander.
Investigate the four fundamental freedoms that Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt proposed as the foundation of a civilized, moral world.
Very few of us can now claim to have just one national or ethnic identity. Increasingly, we share some parts of our identity with people who live elsewhere. Globalization has also changed our perception of who is like us and who is different. In this section we will explore how people’s sense of belonging and identity are changing.