Conversations in Practical Theology

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart interview Owen Griffiths on practical theology for everyday life.Owen mentions a clothing charity in which he is involved in Ebbw Vale. It's Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560055527372The conference and retreat centre Owen mentions is Coleg Trefeca: Coleg Trefeca | Stay in Mid Wales | Coleg Trefeca College Lane, Trefeca, Brecon, Powys, LD3 0PP. https://www.trefeca.org/

Saiyyidah Zaidi & Eric Stoddart in conversation about the benefits of inperson rather than online encounters.

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart discuss uncertainty and its relationship in religious and other perspectives to faith, certainty and doubt.

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart discuss spirituality when it's memory loss and cognitive decline that is of concern.They make reference to the work of John Swinton whose publications can be found at: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/profiles/j.swinton#publications 

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about autoethnography - one of the research methods sometimes used in practical theology. 2 November 2023.Resources:'Invitation to Research in Practical Theology' by Zoë Bennett, Elaine Graham, Stephen Pattison, Heather Walton. Published by Routledge in 2018. https://www.routledge.com/Invitation-to-Research-in-Practical-Theology/Bennett-Graham-Pattison-Walton/p/book/9781138478565# 'Ethics in Autoethnography and Collaborative Autoethnography' by Judith C. Lapadat in the journal  'Qualitative Inquiry' vol 23, issue 8, 2017. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077800417704462

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about gardening.

Saiyyidah Zaidi interviews Mandy Carr.Mandy Carr is a dramatherapist, former senior lecturer and a scholar of Practical Theology on the Cambridge Theological Federation/Anglia Ruskin University Professional Doctorate programme. As a drama and language teacher in inner London secondary schools, Mandy became inspired by the profoundly enabling and democratic theatre techniques of Augusto Boal. She was fortunate enough to train with Boal himself in 1995, before training as a dramatherapist at Roehampton University from 1997-2000.In her work towards a professional doctorate in Practical Theology, Mandy explores the relationship between religion, belief, spirituality and dramatherapy. In her research project, dramatherapists from different religious/spiritual backgrounds and none, explored the following questions:To what extent do dramatherapists feel able to express their religious iden22es within the dramatherapy profession?To what extent do therapists feel competent working with clients from a variety of faiths and none?What are the implications for future practice?Along with tradiitonal methods, Mandy invited the therapists to respond to the questions through drama, specifically adapting techniques from Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal, who utilised the arts to help people feel empowered when faced with dictatorship.Mandy Carr's recent publication:Dokter, D., & Carr, M. (2018). Dramatherapy and Religion: (Un) Comfortable Bedfellows? in Honour of Dr Roger Grainger. Dramatherapy, 39(1), 16–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/02630672.2018.1436718

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about making space that is material, psychological, emotional and spiritual.  2 May 2023

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk with Prof. Elaine Graham about practical theology and her recent work. Recorded 6 March 2023

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about letting go.

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about jubilees and anniversaries.

Saiyyidah Zaidi & Eric Stoddart talk about religious conversion.

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk to Prof. Nicola Slee.https://www.queens.ac.uk/people/academic/nicola-slee https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nicola-Slee/e/B001HD30YW%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about the connection between practical theology and concern for the environment.

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart speak to Rev. Owen Griffiths,  minister of Carmel Chapel, Blaenllechau in Wales, and chair of BIAPT (the British & Irish Association for Practical Theology).

SaSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about how restrictions on gathering and movement help us rethink what is of most importance for worship practices.

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about pilgrimage; its spirituality and connectedness, from major once-in-a-lifetime events to small walks.

Saiyyidah Zaidi, Harrie Cedar and Eric Stoddart talk about new beginnings from their respective religious traditions of Islam, Judaism and Christianity.

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about group identities, tribes, and the categories into which we place ourselves - and others place us. They ponder how their respective faith traditions (Muslim and Christian) help them think through identity and its potential to alienate others.

Harrie Cedar and Eric Stoddart discuss prayer from their respective Jewish and Christian perspectives.

Saiyyida Zaidi talks to Eric Stoddart about his Christian practical theology research in surveillance and human flourishing. Eric is currently writing another book on surveillance. This time it's on the common good and surveillance. The Common Gaze will be published by SCM in late 2020.

Saiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart in conversation with Anthony Reddie about his new book, Theologising Brexit: A Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique (Routledge, 2019). https://www.routledge.com/Theologising-Brexit-A-Liberationist-and-Postcolonial-Critique-1st-Edition/Reddie/p/book/9780367028886

Saiyyidah Zaidi in conversation with Eric Stoddart about her recent participation in this summer school in Oxford, UK.

Saiyyidah Zaidi & Eric Stoddart in conversation about the recent BIAPT (British and Irish Association for Practical Theology) conference, held in Liverpool, England, 8-11 July 2019.

Saiyyidah Zaidi & Eric Stoddart in conversation about competitiveness in life and particularly in spirituality.

Saiyyidah Zaidi & Eric Stoddart in conversation about freedom, what it is, what it is for.

A discussion of the differences between religion and spirituality, with some diversions into technology, quick-fixes to life's challenges, and spirituality and loneliness.

Conversation on religion, national identity and practical theology.

Conversation on religion and physical space, how to affects our interactions.

Discussing relationships of authority and influence within Christianity and Islam.

Some aspects of how religions use and generate money; sometimes turning spiritual activities into commercial activities.