Interreligious Studies Conference
Interreligious Studies Conference
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This podcast showcases some of the deep and inspiring conversations that take place in interreligious spaces. This season, our podcast focuses on “Religion and Thoughtful Activism,” the 2021 theme of the Vancouver School of Theology’s annual Inter-Religious Studies Conference.
Laura Duhan Kaplan Towards Healing Social Trauma: Activist Inter-Religious Education for Graduate Theological Study
Graduate theological students choose an ecumenical affirming seminary like Vancouver School of Theology partly because they want to be activist change agents in their religious communities. This episode explores how students as religious leaders want to contribute to healing, particularly in their awareness of three kinds of trauma: intergenerational trauma, moral injury, and spiritual abuse.  For more on VST’s mission and vision, go to https://vst.edu/about/vision-mission-values/  Martin Gotfrit’s music - To listen to Martin Gotfrit’s music, go to https://soundcloud.com/martin-gotfrit For more information about Religious Responses to Climate Change, click here
Apr 28, 2022
27 min
Violet Johnicker on Inter-Religious Public Advocacy: Best Practices from Illinois’ Successful Campaign to End Money Bond
This episode details the impact of people of faith who have been involved with this campaign, sharing best practices of faith-based policy advocacy organizations.
Apr 15, 2022
26 min
David Pfrimmer on A Public Ethic and Spirit of Pandemic Capitalism
This episode describes some of the successive variants of capitalism, the implicit dominant public ethic and spiritual imperative of each, and their implications for advocacy and activism.
Apr 14, 2022
24 min
Raanan Mallek on Interreligious Dialogue and how it can Contribute to Peacebuilding
The article seeks to determine how interreligious dialogue can contribute to peacebuilding within Israeli society.   Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism website: https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/ Spirit of the Galilee website: https://www.spiritofthegalilee.org.il/   For more information about Religious Responses to Climate Change, click here
Apr 13, 2022
19 min
Michael Karlberg on Radical Constructive Agency: An Exploration of Bahá’í Praxis
This episode examines salient elements of the Bahá’í community as a framework in relation to insights from the theory and practice of nonviolent social change.
Apr 12, 2022
18 min
Elana Brief on Singing to Salmonberries at Outdoor Elementary School: How the Seasons of the Coast Salish Lands Helped me Find my Place in the Jewish Calendar
With song and story, this episode tells how an outdoor school learning experience has gently brought back a relationship with the land that has given a place-based understanding of the Jewish Calendar.
Apr 12, 2022
38 min
Charles Kaplan on Activism Through Music: Jewish Musical Fusions that Promote Social Change
Throughout history, in both religious and secular settings, music has been a cultural form encouraging the transformation of individuals and existing social systems. In this episode, we will briefly examine several well-known secular and sacred activist musical genres, before exploring in more detail two activist genres that are specific fusions of Jewish music with the music of other traditions.
Apr 8, 2022
38 min
RK Wilkowski on Depicting God’s Justice in Children’s Bibles
This episode examines depictions of God’s justice in 3 Christian children’s Bibles - The Jesus Storybook Bible, The Big Picture Bible and The Children of God Storybook Bible.  You're welcome to reference RK's Academia.edu page here For more information about Religious Responses to Climate Change, click here
Apr 7, 2022
27 min