[Csrfac] Fw: Buddhist-Christian Dialogue for Spirituality and Resistance Conference at Denison

[Center for the Study of Religion]

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From: K. Christine Pae <paec at denison.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 11:50 PM
To: Center for the Study of Religion
Subject: Buddhist-Christian Dialogue for Spirituality and Resistance Conference at Denison


Greetings from the Religion Department at Denison University!

I would like to share the exciting upcoming Goodspeed Conference, organized by the Department: Confronting Mara and Mammon: Buddhist-Christian Dialogue for Spirituality and Resistance (Feb. 13 to Feb. 16).



This multi-day conference will bring seventeen renowned engaged Buddhist scholars, activists, and Christian liberation theologians, including Womanist Buddhist Jen Willis, Womanist Ethicist Melanie Harris, Engaged Buddhist Scholars Sallie King and John Makransky, Liberation theologian Joerg Rieger, and Interfaith Pluralism Theologian Paul Knitter. Through the lens of religion and critical social theories, the speakers will discuss the five areas in human society that have created the collective injustice or human suffering, such as global poverty, environmental destruction, religious fundamentalism, war, and gender/race/sexuality-based discrimination. Their talks will engage how religion/spirituality can organize or motivate people to resist structural injustice.


The conference is beginning with a pre-conference talk, "Why interfaith dialogue for now?: Spiritual Journey and Social Justice" on Wednesday, February 13 (7 PM, Burton Morgan Lecture Hall), and will feature scholarly presentations on Thursday Evening (7 PM, Slayter Auditorium) and all day Friday (9:30 AM to 5:45 PM), and end with the Compassion, Love, Awakening Meditation retreat led by Ruben Habito and John Makransky (for more information about Lama Dr. Makransky’s publications and retreats, go to www.johnmakransky.org<http://www.johnmakransky.org/>).

John Makransky - Awakening Through Love<http://www.johnmakransky.org/>
www.johnmakransky.org
John Makransky is a professor of Buddhism and Comparative Theology at Boston College and a Tibetan Buddhist meditation teacher. John has practiced meditations of compassion and wisdom from Tibetan traditions for over thirty years and has developed new ways of bringing them into the worlds of social service and social justice by making them newly accessible to people of all backgrounds and faiths.





For more information about the biographies of the presenters and the conference schedule, please, go to the Goodspeed Conference website at https://conferences.denison.edu/goodspeed/



Please, forward this information with the affiliated faculty, students, and those who might be interested in this event. Should you have any questions regarding this conference, feel free to email me at paec at denison.edu<mailto:paec at denison.edu>. OSU's Center for the Study of Religion is also invited to the Goodspeed Dinner at 5:30 PM on 2/13 and on 2/14. If anyone from the center would like to join our dinner, please, make a reservation with Jodi Weibel at webelj at denison.edu<mailto:webelj at denison.edu>.


Sincerely,

K. Christine Pae

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Keun-Joo Christine Pae, Ph. D
Associate Professor of Religion/ Ethics
Chair of the Religion Department
Affiliated with Women's and Gender Studies Program and Queer Studies Program

Denison University
100 West College Street, Knapp 310 D
Granville, OH 43023, U.S.A.
1-740-587-5619/ paec at denison.edu
<mailto:paec at denison.edu>
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