Conservative Conversations with ISI

Joseph Stuart on Christopher Dawson, The Primacy of Religion, and Cultural Appreciation

Intercollegiate Studies Institute

In this episode: 

  • Joseph Stuart, professor of history at the University of Mary and a former ISI Weaver fellow, joins the podcast to discuss the work of 20th century historian of culture, Christopher Dawson
  • why religion is at the heart of cultural identity, and how cultures that abandon their religion inevitably become captured by ideological “political religions”
  • how to appreciate different cultures and have a rich, complex view of other civilizations without becoming a relativist

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