On OCTOBER 21st at Plymouth Public Library about 60 people participated in a PNPFH sponsored talk by Peter Gottschalk, Professor of Religion at Wesleyan University entitled “Unacceptable: Themes of Religious Intolerance in American History.”
Peter Gottschalk is the author of “American Heretics: Catholics, Jews, Muslims and the History of Religious Intolerance” (Palgrave MacMillan 2013) and co-author with Gabriel Greenberg of Islamophobia: Making Muslims the Enemy (Roman & Littlefield 2007), among several other publications.
He writes both about Islamophobia in the United States and about Hindu-Muslim relations in India. At the heart of his work is a fascination with the dynamics of cultural interpretation and conflict.
Peter is interested particularly in understanding how assumptions of mutual antagonism form between groups despite evidence of commonalities.
Peter has appeared on CNN, Voice of America, and National Public Radio, while his work has been mentioned in USA Today and the On Faith website of The Washington Post.
