Our 7 Neighbors: Religion and Resistance in America

InterReligious Institute at Chicago Theological Seminary

Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Against the rising influence of Christian nationalism and the persistent myth that the U.S. was founded as a singularly “Christian nation,” this series offers a corrective grounded in historical reality. Hosted by Reza Aslan.

  1. MAR 21

    Our 7 Neighbors Season 5 Trailer

    O7N Season 5 Religion and Resistance in America  Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Hosted by Reza Aslan.

    2 min
  2. Season 4: Ep.7 Queering Orishas

    12/11/2024

    Season 4: Ep.7 Queering Orishas

    Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres. Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Aurelis Troncoso, 2024-25 Miriam Jiménez Román Fellow at The Latinx Project NYU and a scholar-practitioner committed to centering Blackness, queerness and spirituality.

    39 min
  3. Season 4: Ep.6 The Religion of Hip Hop

    12/04/2024

    Season 4: Ep.6 The Religion of Hip Hop

    Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres. Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Daniel White Hodge. With 23 years of academic scholarship and teaching, he is a recognized Hip Hop Studies expert & rhetorical cultural literary scholar and professor of communications and department chair of the Communication Arts Department at North Park University in Chicago.

    39 min
  4. Season 4: Ep.5 Community as Resistance

    11/27/2024

    Season 4: Ep.5 Community as Resistance

    Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres. Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Amor Craun Reyes, an Indigenous, Latina, Mexican, and Muslim woman, who serves communities across the Americas.

    35 min
  5. Season 4: Ep. 4 Organic Orbits

    11/13/2024

    Season 4: Ep. 4 Organic Orbits

    Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres. Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Anandi Silva Knuppel who is a Salt Lake City-based independent scholar and the Strategic Initiatives and Projects Specialist for the American Institute of Indian Studies.

    35 min
  6. Season 4: Ep. 3 Where Do We Belong?

    11/07/2024

    Season 4: Ep. 3 Where Do We Belong?

    Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Laura Limonic, who discusses Jewishness, race, ethnicity, and immigration through the stories of Latinx Jews in the United States.

    27 min
  7. Season 4: Ep. 2 The Legal, the Political and the Ethical

    10/30/2024

    Season 4: Ep. 2 The Legal, the Political and the Ethical

    Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Nichole M. Flores. Dr. Flores researches the constructive contributions of Catholic and Latinx theologies to notions of justice and aesthetics to the life of democracy.

    36 min
  8. Season 4: Ep. 1 I'm Trying to Be Nonviolent Here

    10/23/2024

    Season 4: Ep. 1 I'm Trying to Be Nonviolent Here

    Our 7 Neighbors, Season 4: Diversifying the Narrative: Immigration and Religion in America, Hosted by Dr. José Francisco Morales Torres. Through an intersectional lens of Latinx voices, this season explores themes of immigration, mass migration and colonization and how diverse faith traditions can and do affect the story we tell. This episode features a conversation with Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre – international scholar, documentarian, novelist, academic author, and scholar activist.

    37 min
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Under the backdrop of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Our Seven Neighbors, season 5, explores the long, contested history of religious diversity in the United States—not as a feel-good celebration of pluralism, but as a hard-won achievement forged through conflict, exclusion, resistance, and moral struggle. Against the rising influence of Christian nationalism and the persistent myth that the U.S. was founded as a singularly “Christian nation,” this series offers a corrective grounded in historical reality. Hosted by Reza Aslan.

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