Faculty Colloquia
2004-2005
Practicing Service: Forms of Daily Sustenance
November 2004Bobbi Patterson presented a chapter-in-progress from her emerging manuscript on spiritual practices as potential antitotes to the struggles associated with long-term engagement in practices of service.
The Early Development of the Christian Funeral
December 2005Tom Long presented a chapter of his developing book on the history, theology and current practice of the funeral in North America. He also introduced to the group some of his conversations with both pastors and funeral directors
Keeping the Dead in Place: Old and New Patterns of Consumption
February 2005Gary Laderman presented a chapter from his book, Rest in Peace, and engaged us in a discussion of the meaning of dead bodies and the development of the funeral industry as a cultural institution.
Dynamics of Religious Culture:
Ethogenic Method
March 2005Mary Elizabeth Moore presented an essay on her practice and teaching of "ethogenic method," which incorporates description, analytical interpretation, reflection and constrcutive contributions.
Liturgy, Aestetics and Imagination
April 2005Don Saliers engaged us in conversations about the relationships between feeling, imagination and liturgical practice, as well as the varied cultures in which liturgical practice is embedded.
2005-2006
Formation of Religious Traditions and Meaning in the Jamaican African Diaspora
October 2005Dianne Stewart presented a chapter from her recent book, Three Eyes for the Journey: African Dimensions of the Jamaican Religious Experience, and discussed with us some of her experience of engaging fieldwork.
Musical Practices in Latin America
November 2005Carlos Cardoza Orlandi presented some of his research on the movement of Christiainity in and through Caribbean, Latin American, and Latino cultures. He engaged us in conversation around the varied cultural influences upon the religious music from these regions.
Encountering the Other in Intercultural Pastoral Care
March 2006Emmanuel Lartey presented a chapter from his recently completed manuscript on intercultural pastoral care. Drawing on Levinas, he engaged us in a discussion of the benefits of maintaining difference between the caregiver and the other.
April 2006
Together, the faculty practices colloquium and the contemplatice practices group will sponsor a discussion with Geshe Lobsang Negi of the Drepung Loseling Institute and the Emory Department of Religion.