“Religion and the City” – Religion in America Lecture Series

If you measure the importance of an institution by the height of its buildings, Wall Street has it over religion in New York City. Still, New York is a vibrant, crazy-quilt of religious ideas and practice.  Religion in NYC is a diverse, tolerant, disunited, immigrant-energized phenomenon that grew up under the benign eye of a mercantile sensibility.  Professor Ernie Rubinstein will explore with us those themes by way of three major lenses on religion in New York: statistics, history, and personal reflection.

Ernie Rubinstein teaches religion and philosophy at New York University’s School of Professional Studies.  For nine years, he was the theological librarian at Drew University, where he worked closely with the faculty and students of the  Theological School. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative religion from Northwestern University and has written on some of the areas of intersection between religion, literature, and philosophy.