Zaid Shakir – Tinkering with Religion in the Garage

About this lecture

In this wide-ranging lecture, Imam Zaid Shakir challenges the notion that religion has been — or should be — removed from the public square, arguing that religion has always shaped American political life in both destructive and prophetic ways. He calls on Muslims and all people of faith to reclaim the tradition of moral activism, resist the forces of corporate consolidation and atomization that have stripped modern life of meaning, and give priority to the politics of cooperation over conflict. The lecture concludes with a powerful reminder that individual salvation and collective social responsibility are not in tension — but are two dimensions of the same divine calling.