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Life & Faith producer, Allan Dowthwaite, takes over the studio to mark 500 episodes of amazing conversations.Allan Dowthwaite, CPX's media director, normally runs the recording studio for the team. But in this special episode, marking twelve-and-a-half years of the podcast, he's commandeered the mic as your personal guide to Life & Faith's greatest conversations, organised into the following categories for your listening pleasure.Links are included to any episode you want to listen to in full.The cultural waters in which we swim, featuring Sydney Morning Herald Economics Editor Ross Gittins, political scientist Dale Kuehne, New York Times film writer Alissa Wilkinson, cultural critic Andy Crouch, and author Tim Winton.How Christianity explains our world, featuring cold case detective Jim Warner Wallace, author Marilynne Robinson, author Francis Spufford, and historian Tom Holland.Surprising stories, featuring Oxford mathematician John Lennox, Alex Gaffikin, who wintered on Antarctica for two years, Johnnie Walker, beloved authority on the Camino de Santiago, and the late scholar of African-American religion, Albert J. Raboteau.Indigenous Australians, featuring Yorta Yorta man William Cooper, Torres Strait Islander leader and pastor Gabriel Bani, and Aunty Maureen Atkinson, member of the Stolen Generation.Changing one's mind about faith, featuring ABC Religion & Ethics editor Scott Stephens and author Susannah McFarlane.Ordinary people, extraordinary acts, featuring Australian nurse Valerie...
Enjoy this short guided meditation from Sharon Suh, called, "Compassionate Touch Meditation."Guest:SHARON SUH is professor of Buddhism at Seattle University and author of Being Buddhist in a Christian World: Gender and Community (2004); Silver Screen Buddha: Buddhism in Asian and Western Film (2015); and Occupy This Body: A Buddhist Memoir (2019). She focuses on racialized trauma experienced by people of color and emphasizes the importance of embodiment. She's also President of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women. Her upcoming book, Emergent Dharma: An Anthology of Asian American Feminist Buddhist Women scheduled for Fall 2025.Links to social media:www.mindfuleatingmethod.com; @mindfuleatingmethodIn addition to books mentioned in bio: •. “Western Buddhism and Race,” co-authored with Joseph Cheah, Oxford Research Encyclopedia (Oxford University Press, May 2022).• “Jeong as the Expression of the Interrelationality of Self and Other in Korean Buddhist Cinema” in Edward Y. J. Chung and Jea Sophia Oh, eds. Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion: Confucian, Comparative and Contemporary Perspectives.” (Palgrave, 2022).• “Taking Refuge in the Body to Know the Self Anew: Buddhism, Race, and Embodiment,” Embodying Knowledge: Asian and Asian American Women's Contributions to Theology and Religious Studies, ed. by Kwok Pui Lan (Palgrave MacMillan).• “We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming to Bring You This Very Important Public Service Announcement . . .”: aka Buddhism as Usual in the Academy,” in Emily McCrae and George Yancy, eds., Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections (Rowman & Littlefield). •Suh. Sharon., “Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection” in Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, ed. by Cathy Vials-Schlund. (Fordham University Press, 2017).•Suh, Sharon. A., “Buddhism and Gender” in Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism, ed. by Michael Jerryson. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016):635-649.•Suh, Sharon A., “Buddhism, Rhetoric, and the Korean American Community: The Adjustment of Korean American Buddhists to the United States” in Richard Alba, Albert J. Raboteau, and Josh DeWing, eds., Immigration in America: Comparative Historical Perspectives. (New York: New York University Press, 2009):166-190.
A layered and engaging discussion with Prof. Sharon Suh on what "Asian American Buddhism can be defined as; including the refusal to be silenced.Guest:SHARON SUH is professor of Buddhism at Seattle University and author of Being Buddhist in a Christian World: Gender and Community (2004); Silver Screen Buddha: Buddhism in Asian and Western Film (2015); and Occupy This Body: A Buddhist Memoir (2019). She focuses on racialized trauma experienced by people of color and emphasizes the importance of embodiment. She's also President of Sakyadhita International Association of Buddhist Women. Her upcoming book, Emergent Dharma: An Anthology of Asian American Feminist Buddhist Women scheduled for Fall 2025. Links to social media:www.mindfuleatingmethod.com; @mindfuleatingmethodIn addition to books mentioned in bio: •. “Western Buddhism and Race,” co-authored with Joseph Cheah, Oxford Research Encyclopedia (Oxford University Press, May 2022).• “Jeong as the Expression of the Interrelationality of Self and Other in Korean Buddhist Cinema” in Edward Y. J. Chung and Jea Sophia Oh, eds. Emotions in Korean Philosophy and Religion: Confucian, Comparative and Contemporary Perspectives.” (Palgrave, 2022).• “Taking Refuge in the Body to Know the Self Anew: Buddhism, Race, and Embodiment,” Embodying Knowledge: Asian and Asian American Women's Contributions to Theology and Religious Studies, ed. by Kwok Pui Lan (Palgrave MacMillan).• “We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled Programming to Bring You This Very Important Public Service Announcement . . .”: aka Buddhism as Usual in the Academy,” in Emily McCrae and George Yancy, eds., Buddhism and Whiteness: Critical Reflections (Rowman & Littlefield). •Suh. Sharon., “Buddhist Meditation as Strategic Embodiment: An Optative Reflection” in Flashpoints for Asian American Studies, ed. by Cathy Vials-Schlund. (Fordham University Press, 2017).•Suh, Sharon. A., “Buddhism and Gender” in Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism, ed. by Michael Jerryson. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016):635-649.•Suh, Sharon A., “Buddhism, Rhetoric, and the Korean American Community: The Adjustment of Korean American Buddhists to the United States” in Richard Alba, Albert J. Raboteau, and Josh DeWing, eds., Immigration in America: Comparative Historical Perspectives. (New York: New York University Press, 2009):166-190.Host: REV. LIÊN SHUTT (she/they) is a recognized leader in the movement that breaks through the wall of American white-centered convert Buddhism to welcome people of all backgrounds into a contemporary, engaged Buddhism. As an ordained Zen priest, licensed social worker, and longtime educator/teacher of Buddhism, Shutt represents new leadership at the nexus of spirituality and social justice, offering a special warm welcome to Asian Americans, all BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, and those seeking a “home” in the midst of North American society's reckoning around racism, sexism, homophobia, and xenophobia. Shutt is a founder of Access to Zen (2014). You can learn more about her work at AccessToZen.org. Her new book, Home is Here: Practicing Antiracism with the Engaged Eightfold Path. See all her offerings at EVENTS
Avid reader and lifelong learner, Linda Stanbridge is back! In this episode, Linda sits down with host, Robin Linkhart, to discuss her Doctoral work on Social Justice and the Prophets. You're sure to be captivated by Linda's passion for helping Community of Christ members and friends become a truly prophetic people that are drawn to connect with marginalized people in the communities we serve. If you thought Social Justice was some relatively new concept … think again. This work is as old as the Hebrew Bible (aka Old Testament) Prophets! Linda's Reading Recommendations: Walter Brueggaman and Davis Hankins, The Prophetic Imagination, 40th Anniversary Edition, Fortress Press, 2018. Marvin McMickle, Where Have all the Prophets Gone: Reclaiming Prophetic Preaching in America, Pilgrim Press, 2019. Albert J. Raboteau, American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals and Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice, Princeton University Press, 2018. Stephen L. Cook, John T. Strong, and Steven S. Tuell, The Prophets: Introducing Israel's Prophetic Writings, Fortress Press 2022. Robert R. Wilson, Prophecy and Society in Ancient Israel, Fortress Press, 1980. Download TranscriptThanks for listening to Project Zion Podcast!Follow us on Facebook and Instagram!Intro and Outro music used with permission: “For Everyone Born,” Community of Christ Sings #285. Music © 2006 Brian Mann, admin. General Board of Global Ministries t/a GBGMusik, 458 Ponce de Leon Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30308. copyright@umcmission.org “The Trees of the Field,” Community of Christ Sings # 645, Music © 1975 Stuart Dauerman, Lillenas Publishing Company (admin. Music Services). All music for this episode was performed by Dr. Jan Kraybill, and produced by Chad Godfrey. NOTE: The series that make up the Project Zion Podcast explore the unique spiritual and theological gifts Community of Christ offers for today's world. Although Project Zion Podcast is a Ministry of Community of Christ. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are those speaking and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Community of Christ.
Invité a Solimar Otero para discutir su libro Archives of Conjure. Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (Columbia University Press, 2020) y nos embarcamos en una conversación diversa sobre las voces y los seres que nos acompañan, el legado colonialista en los campos de la antropología, la etnografía y el folklore y cómo revertir esa tradición de explotación a través de prácticas investigativas respetuosas como la "etnografía recíproca" de Elaine Lawless. Hay muchas notas al pie de lecturas y colegas que la acompañan en el empeño, mucha complicidad y mucha risa en este podcast. En Archives of Conjure. Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (Columbia University Press, 2020) Solimar Otero explora cómo los espíritus afrolatinos guían su trabajo como académica, activista y practicante de la religión a través rituales y la creación de cultura material. Al examinar el trabajo de médiums espiritistas a través de las poéticas interculturales del Caribe hispano, nos muestra cómo divinidades y ancestros sirven de agentes activos en la modelación de experiencias cotidianas de género, sexualidad y racialidad. Con el apoyo de más de diez años de trabajo de campo y archivístico en Cuba, este libro se centra en las prácticas narrativas de mujeres y personas LGBTQ afrolatinas que practican el espiritismo y las compara con representaciones literarias y performáticas de la región. El libro recibió el premio “Albert J. Raboteau” como mejor texto académico sobre religiones africanas publicado en 2021. Solimar Otero pertenece al departamento de Folklore y Etnografía de Indiana University (Blomington), donde enseña folklore, etnomusicología y estudios de género. Además, es editora del Journal of Folklore Research y miembro de la American Folklore Society. Sus investigaciones se enfocan en el género, la sexualidad, la espiritualidad afrocaribeña y la religión yoruba tradicional en el folklore, la literatura y la etnografía. Ha publicado otros tres libros: Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World (Boydell & Brewer, 2010) https://boydellandbrewer.com/9... Yemoja. Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas, en coautoría con Toyin Falola (State University Press of New York, 2014) https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/... Theorizing Folklore from the Margins. Critical and Ethical Approaches, coeditado con Mintzi Martinez-Rivera (Indiana University Press, 2021) https://iupress.org/9780253056...
Invité a Solimar Otero para discutir su libro Archives of Conjure. Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (Columbia University Press, 2020) y nos embarcamos en una conversación diversa sobre las voces y los seres que nos acompañan, el legado colonialista en los campos de la antropología, la etnografía y el folklore y cómo revertir esa tradición de explotación a través de prácticas investigativas respetuosas como la "etnografía recíproca" de Elaine Lawless. Hay muchas notas al pie de lecturas y colegas que la acompañan en el empeño, mucha complicidad y mucha risa en este podcast. En Archives of Conjure. Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (Columbia University Press, 2020) Solimar Otero explora cómo los espíritus afrolatinos guían su trabajo como académica, activista y practicante de la religión a través rituales y la creación de cultura material. Al examinar el trabajo de médiums espiritistas a través de las poéticas interculturales del Caribe hispano, nos muestra cómo divinidades y ancestros sirven de agentes activos en la modelación de experiencias cotidianas de género, sexualidad y racialidad. Con el apoyo de más de diez años de trabajo de campo y archivístico en Cuba, este libro se centra en las prácticas narrativas de mujeres y personas LGBTQ afrolatinas que practican el espiritismo y las compara con representaciones literarias y performáticas de la región. El libro recibió el premio “Albert J. Raboteau” como mejor texto académico sobre religiones africanas publicado en 2021. Solimar Otero pertenece al departamento de Folklore y Etnografía de Indiana University (Blomington), donde enseña folklore, etnomusicología y estudios de género. Además, es editora del Journal of Folklore Research y miembro de la American Folklore Society. Sus investigaciones se enfocan en el género, la sexualidad, la espiritualidad afrocaribeña y la religión yoruba tradicional en el folklore, la literatura y la etnografía. Ha publicado otros tres libros: Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World (Boydell & Brewer, 2010) https://boydellandbrewer.com/9... Yemoja. Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas, en coautoría con Toyin Falola (State University Press of New York, 2014) https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/... Theorizing Folklore from the Margins. Critical and Ethical Approaches, coeditado con Mintzi Martinez-Rivera (Indiana University Press, 2021) https://iupress.org/9780253056...
Invité a Solimar Otero para discutir su libro Archives of Conjure. Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (Columbia University Press, 2020) y nos embarcamos en una conversación diversa sobre las voces y los seres que nos acompañan, el legado colonialista en los campos de la antropología, la etnografía y el folklore y cómo revertir esa tradición de explotación a través de prácticas investigativas respetuosas como la "etnografía recíproca" de Elaine Lawless. Hay muchas notas al pie de lecturas y colegas que la acompañan en el empeño, mucha complicidad y mucha risa en este podcast. En Archives of Conjure. Stories of the Dead in Afrolatinx Cultures (Columbia University Press, 2020) Solimar Otero explora cómo los espíritus afrolatinos guían su trabajo como académica, activista y practicante de la religión a través rituales y la creación de cultura material. Al examinar el trabajo de médiums espiritistas a través de las poéticas interculturales del Caribe hispano, nos muestra cómo divinidades y ancestros sirven de agentes activos en la modelación de experiencias cotidianas de género, sexualidad y racialidad. Con el apoyo de más de diez años de trabajo de campo y archivístico en Cuba, este libro se centra en las prácticas narrativas de mujeres y personas LGBTQ afrolatinas que practican el espiritismo y las compara con representaciones literarias y performáticas de la región. El libro recibió el premio “Albert J. Raboteau” como mejor texto académico sobre religiones africanas publicado en 2021. Solimar Otero pertenece al departamento de Folklore y Etnografía de Indiana University (Blomington), donde enseña folklore, etnomusicología y estudios de género. Además, es editora del Journal of Folklore Research y miembro de la American Folklore Society. Sus investigaciones se enfocan en el género, la sexualidad, la espiritualidad afrocaribeña y la religión yoruba tradicional en el folklore, la literatura y la etnografía. Ha publicado otros tres libros: Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World (Boydell & Brewer, 2010) https://boydellandbrewer.com/9... Yemoja. Gender, Sexuality, and Creativity in the Latina/o and Afro-Atlantic Diasporas, en coautoría con Toyin Falola (State University Press of New York, 2014) https://sunypress.edu/Books/Y/... Theorizing Folklore from the Margins. Critical and Ethical Approaches, coeditado con Mintzi Martinez-Rivera (Indiana University Press, 2021) https://iupress.org/9780253056...
Some people spend years learning theology and studying the Bible, but experience little or no transformation in their lives. What have we gotten wrong? Dr. Jim Wilder is a neurotheologian—that means he studies theology and brain science—who says we’ve mistakingly made the gospel about knowledge when it’s actually about attachment. You don’t want to miss what he has to say about the importance of food, joy, and gratitude in spiritual formation. Also this week, how does having power—or not having it—influence our beliefs? David French says America is experiencing a religious fundamentalist revival, but it’s not Christian. And is the Holy Post guilty of being an echo chamber? Episode #412 Opinion | When Antifa Hysteria Sweeps America - New York Times - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/opinion/antifa-protests.html Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau America Is in the Grips of a Fundamentalist Revival — But it’s not Christian. - The Dispatch - https://frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/america-is-in-the-grips-of-a-fundamentalist Is Intersectionality a Religion? - Intelligencer - https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/03/is-intersectionality-a-religion.html
Steven Harris, Chelsea Patterson Sobolik, Travis Wussow, and Jeff Pickering process the events and protests of recent days following the horrific murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. The team discusses the brutality exposed in these stories and the history of race in America that brought us to this moment and how the church can move us forward. This episode is sponsored by The Good Book Company, publisher of Beautifully Distinct: Conversations with Friends on Faith, Life, and Culture, edited by Trillia Newbell Resources from the Conversation Timeline graphic Jeff mentioned | 1526-now: But Slavery Was So Long Ago Smithsonian museum Steven mentioned | National Museum of African American History and Culture Books Steven mentioned | The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau The Weight of Glory in a Time of Blood and Fear by Russell Moore Southern Baptist leaders issue joint statement on the death of George Floyd What George Floyd’s Death Should Remind Us About Justice and the Gospel by Russell Moore Conference Videos | MLK50: Gospel Reflections from the Mountaintop ERLC | Capitol Conversation Podcast
A confronting - and deeply personal - look at the roots of racial division in the US. --- “We still live under the long shadow of the plantation. Indeed, freedoms have been spread to a larger group of people over time, but that spread has been at the cost of ongoing oppression of black people in ways that have become very apparent thanks to video cams and cell phones that betray the brutality of the police state that we sometimes live in as black people.” With the events of recent weeks – the Death of George Floyd, the Black lives matter protests all over the U.S. and around the world, including here in Australia, we felt this episode would be a good one to revisit. When we first posted it, we were reflecting on the death of black teenager Travon Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman and the fallout from that tragedy. Sadly, it seems not much has changed. In this episode of Life & Faith, Professor Albert J. Raboteau from Princeton University, an expert in the African-American religious experience, walks us through the history of race relations in the US, and the deep roots of racial division – from the plantations to the Black Lives Matter movement today. But he’s not just an expert – Professor Raboteau has lived the reality of racism as well: “My father was killed by a white man in Mississippi, three months before I was born. The white man who killed him was never tried. He claimed self-defence and he wasn’t indicted even. … When I was 17 and getting ready to go off to college, [my mother and stepfather] sat me down and, for the first time, explained to me what had happened. They said, ‘The reason we didn’t tell you before was we didn’t want you to grow up hating white people’.” — For The Love of God: How the church is better and worse than you ever imagined is available here: https://www.publicchristianity.org/fortheloveofgod/
Mark and Matthew discuss the first Baptist Missionary George Liele and the influence of his ministry. Recommended reading on the topics discussed in this episode: Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South by Albert J. Raboteau The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness by H. Leon McBeth Missionaries You Should Know: George Liele by Lesley Hildreth
Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactions to it over the past twenty-five years, and how he would write it differently today. Using a variety of first and second-hand sources-- some objective, some personal, all riveting-- Raboteau analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity. He presents the narratives of the slaves themselves, as well as missionary reports, travel accounts, folklore, black autobiographies, and the journals of white observers to describe the day-to-day religious life in the slave communities. Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South is a must-read for anyone wanting a full picture of this "invisible institution."Albert J. Raboteau who came to Princeton in 1982, is a specialist in American religious history. His research and teaching have focused on American Catholic history, African-American religious movements and currently, he is working on the place of beauty in the history of Eastern and Western Christian Spirituality. He has written Slave Religion: The ‘Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South, A Fire in the Bones: Reflections on African-American Religious History, Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, and most recently American Prophets: Seven Religious Radicals & Their Struggle for Social and Political Justice. He was the first recipient of the J.W.C. Pennington Award from the University of Heidelberg and last Fall delivered the Stone Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary. He retired in June, 2013.Yvonne Chireau is the Department of Religion Chair at Swarthmore College and is an authority on African-based religions such as Santeria and Voodoo in America, religion and healing, and black American religion. She is also interested in religion and comics, manga, and graphic novels. The author of Black Magic: African American Religion and the Conjuring Tradition, she has also co-edited, with Nathaniel Deutsch, Black Zion: African American Religions and Judaism. She received her B.A from Mount Holyoke College, her M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School, and her Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Albert J. Raboteau, Ph.D., is the Henry Putnam Professor Emeritus of Religion at Princeton University and a leading expert on African American religious history. Before Raboteau was born, his father, Albert Jordy Raboteau (1899–1943), was killed in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, by a white man who was never convicted of the crime. His mother moved from the South, where she was a teacher, to find a better place for her children. She remarried an African-American priest, who taught Raboteau Latin and Greek and helped him to focus on church and education. Accepted into college at the age of sixteen, Raboteau was awarded a BA by Loyola University in 1964 and an MA in English from the University of California, Berkeley. He then studied at the Yale Graduate Program in Religious Studies, receiving his PhD in 1974. Raboteau's dissertation, later revised and published as the book Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South, was published just as the black studies movement was gaining steam in the 1970s. In 1982 Princeton University hired Raboteau, first as a visiting professor and then as full-time faculty. He is currently (2009) Henry W. Putnam Professor Emeritus of Religion.
Albert J. Raboteau, Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion Emeritus, Princeton University, gave the 2017 Ruth Knee Lecture on Spirituality and Social Work at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration on February 28, 2017. In June 2015, the murder of nine black church members in Charleston, South Carolina by a white supremacist as they attended an evening Bible study class shocked the nation. The reactions of some of the family members of the slain amazed many as they expressed forgiveness for the killer. Raboteau’s lecture examined the long history of forgiveness in the African-American Church tradition, stretching from slavery to the present day, to help explain their amazing act. Albert J. Raboteau is a specialist in American religious history. His research and teaching have focused on American Catholic history, African-American religious movements, and the place of beauty in the history of Eastern and Western Christian Spirituality.
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