Faculty members in the Department of Religious Studies will be presenting and participating in panel discussions on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics at the 2023 American Academy of Religion annual meeting.
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Why do we contrast ordinary states of consciousness with non-ordinary ones? Why do we presume that there are any ordinary or normal states of consciousness? The current curiosity about altered states of consciousness and the therapeutic value of so-called psychedelic substances begs the question of what is considered to be “normal.”
Attendees can expect to question their basic beliefs, and to leave transformed and transfigured.
There is healing power in using your voice.
That was one of the lessons of “A Theology of Voice: VOCAL and the Catholic Clergy Abuse Survivor Movement,” an article by Brian Clites, Ph.D., chosen by Fordham’s Curran Center for American Catholic Studies in May as the winner of its third annual New Scholars essay contest.
The article traces the origins of VOCAL (Victims of Clergy Abuse Linkup), which was among the first and most prominent advocacy organizations for American survivors of childhood clergy sexual abuse. It was a predecessor of the currently active SNAP, (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), and was notable, Clites said, because its leaders explicitly recognized the spiritual dimensions of the abuse they suffered, which they called “soul murder.”
Dr. Kathryn Lofton is a 2023 Hildegarde and Elbert Baker Visiting Scholar in the Humanities. Dr. Lofton will be giving a talk on Wednesday, October 19 at 4:30 PM in Clark Hall Room 206.
Register HERE.
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
4:30 PM
Tinkham Veale University Center, Ballroom C
Troubling Intimacies focuses on the unique subjects of Sacajawea and York, an Indigenous woman and a Black man, indentured and enslaved participants in the 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery expedition. The Corps expedition is revered as an iconic example of American identity. Yet the presence of Sacajawea and York have been problematic for how the expedition is narrated, understood, taught, and marketed. Is the Corps a site of remorse or celebration? What happens when we retrace the expedition alongside complex relations of gender, slavery and conquest? And how do we do intersectional scholarship that is intersectional?
Sponsored by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program
October 27, 2021 at 4:30 PM
Clark Hall Room 206
11130 Bellflower Road
Registration requested. Click HERE to register.
This lecture will also be live-streamed at www.case.edu/livestream/s2.