An important book for challenging times, God in Action presents a universal message rooted in the Catholic philosophical tradition that is impossible to ignore. Please send your questions and comments to mipodcast.byu.edu and thanks for listening. One of the responses is just in terms of the organization itself. I was lucky enough to get a job and I did it anyway because it just—I had to do it, and the tragedy to me, that really worries me, is that there’s so many gifted young emerging scholars who don’t have the right kinds of institutional settings awaiting them. What is the biggest challenge facing the religion today? Lying along important trade routes connecting southern and eastern Asia to Europe and the Middle East, Afghanistan has long been a prize sought by empire builders. The Freedom From Religion Foundation filed suit on October 10, 2018, in D.C. district court challenging the preferential exemption of churches and related organizations from reporting the Form 990 annual information returns required of all other tax-exempt groups. Found insideThis book explores the Pentecostal and charismatic movements, tracing their development and their variety. TWEED: It’s interesting to think about values in the history of the study of religion. So theologians might fall back on appeals to authority, like their religious tradition or scripture. And in that, part of what I try to challenge, for those who think it was always framed as an impartial value-free enterprise—and some folks did talk that way. So it’s quite large, about 15% maybe are from other parts of the world or outside of the United States. So I’m setting that aside and at that, I’m hoping that part of the folks gathered under the tent relax a little bit. HODGES: Then you get into some of these more concrete reasons. The student of religion faces a number of challenges on embarking upon the close examination of any given religion. And we all need some kind of generosity that we can’t just do giving or taking. People can also check out the contribution that you made Tom to the Mormon’s Studies Review volume one. While scientific discoveries test religious dogma, religious and paranormal experiences … Worldwide - English. The same can be said about religious studies. "Grounded in data and enriched with narratives of abused women, abusive men, and those who walk alongside them, Religion and Intimate Partner Violence examines how lived religion both helps and hinders the journey towards justice, ... But then I’m trying to make the next step to say there’s still a certain kind of value talk, and that’s really the focus. Are they at least living up to the sort of standards that they’ve set for their own type of practice? HODGES: I want to begin by talking about some of the challenges that face the academic study of religion right now. So it doesn’t mean that everything relaxes, I think, but I think the other side here is you could actually attend a religious service at Notre Dame and see students there and they wouldn’t be surprised to find that. The best way to judge how you might feel about your prospective therapist is to ask for a preliminary phone call (you can do this with our vetted Zencare therapists). Zencare is the simplest way to find your ideal therapist. The reflections on these questions in the collected lectures and essays of this volume derive from an academic discourse between German and South African scholars that took place within the German-South African Year of Science 2012/13. HODGES: Is it kind of like state department stuff, and maybe high school type education, like what kind of places are people looking? So people, when talking about, it could be an article in the newspaper or could be scholarship about a sacred text, will criticize or praise something because it doesn’t all hang together. And then there’s others, those who would identify themselves as theologians who are working from and for religious communities. TWEED: Thanks, Blair. TWEED: There are traditions around the world when somebody says that they want to join a religious community of sort of challenging people to go away. Practice imagining your ideal future with the Best Possible Self visualization. The declaration teaches about the nature of religious freedom, truth, and the relationship between the Church and government. HODGES: Where do you recommend people go to follow news on this sort of thing if they’re looking at the job market and looking, where do you direct people? HODGES: And when they talk about increasing knowledge for its own sake as one of the justifications, I mean, I guess you could say that about pretty much anything, though. But like many academic fields, religious studies faces some challenges. But I still have found that if folks say too much about their own of what they’re teaching, it just gets in the way of student learning. And the way I’ve tried to approach this argument and tried to persuade people, I begin outside the study of religion by saying “look, scientists and mathematicians talk about the elegance of a formula. To make it a bit easier, we've put together this self-care assessment guide. Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America provides an indispensable resource for understanding the range of issues confronting the continent, offering Catholic as well as Protestant perspectives, and trenchant analyses of the ... People who have limited knowledge of Islam, especially the people from West think that … While one may express spirituality through religion, spirituality is generally held to be a broader sense of connection to nature, the Contact Hotline. Clark then discussed challenges facing religious freedom in the United States. And I think that’s one of the things that the American Academy of Religion is doing now and wants to do even better in the years ahead. There’s the sense that they need to justify the pursuit in general, especially when they’re looking at things like the economy. Why do they like this proof in mathematics more? God, the Father, sent His only Son to satisfy that judgment for those who believe in Him. I’m not saying—And this is where some folks who would identify themselves as either not religious or feeling constrained in public university that they can’t really talk about religious values—I’m not saying everybody can or should talk about religious values. %PDF-1.5 And I would say some theologians have been perhaps more warm in receiving this than I had thought. He was the president of the American Academy of Religion in 2015 and he’s currently the Welch Professor of American Studies and a professor of history at Notre Dame. /ProcSet [/PDF /Text ] The first challenge is how to negotiate the relationship of religious communities to a rapidly evolving Canadian society. Being willing to admit fault or that they’re fallible. %���� They may worry about discrimination or think that therapists might not understand their beliefs. And for those folks who are not really activists, who are not going to be on the front lines in any protests or doing volunteer in the community, some of them would say “you don’t have to do that of course.” Because the very act of engaging in scholarly study of religion when done well will already prepare individuals to do the right kinds of things in the society. Let’s talk a little bit more practically, because your presidential address gets into some practical discussion about how we go about talking about values when they seem to differ. So for example if one part of a book doesn’t agree with another part of a book almost everybody would say “that’s incoherent. Which of course is true. It’s human nature. My job is to make you more authentically you. HODGES: We’re speaking today with Thomas Tweed. In any case, religious beliefs—and beliefs about religion—inevitably shape social values and political power, in both the secular societies of the global North and the deeply religious cultures of the global South. Like something should fit together, yeah. Commonly experienced mental health challenges include: It is difficult to tease out the exact relationship between mental health challenges and religion. Seeing people with different habits and lifestyles makes it harder to practice our own unreflectively. And those are virtues to cultivate, I think, and if people are not open in that way, if they assume they could not be wrong or they’re only there to talk, it’s not going to end up being a conversation. Challenges and Responsibilities for the Public Scholar of Religion. Gautama addressed materialism, morality, "uncertainty and … This book examines how prisons meet challenges of religious diversity, in an era of increasing multiculturalism and globalization. >> What I argue—and I think legal historians would support this—is that what actually happened is that some scholars of religion in particular places, including public universities in the 60s and later, started to say that the distinctions that Supreme Court decision made between studying religion and studying about religion, that’s a good way to talk about it some people thought. But I think it sort of opened up some conversations with other folks that I might not have talked with before. TWEED: I think that’s right, and that’s why it can help with just kind of baby steps. Sunni Muslim (state religion) 99%, Christian and Jewish 1%: American Samoa: Christian Congregationalist 50%, Roman Catholic 20%, Protestant and other 30%: Andorra: Roman Catholic (predominant) Angola: indigenous beliefs 47%, Roman Catholic 38%, Protestant 15%: Anguilla And that was the first step to say “don’t you recognize yourself in some of this conversation?”. And so to some extent what I was doing, although I felt awkward about it, was sort of challenging my colleagues on both sides of those kinds of issues. All of those kinds of stands on social issues can be highly controversial in public universities. But the flip side of that is schools like this—and I don’t know how much it’s like this at Notre Dame, maybe you can speak to that—but there’s also a certain expectation of orthodoxy. We have a pragmatic view of religion in our society that relegates our faith to the private sphere of … Lifeline at 1 (800) 273-8255 or use these resources. I think we should help poor people. One person actually asked before it was published, “Could we please use it at a faculty retreat so we can have some grounds to talk with one another?”. There are divisions between people who would identify as scholars of religious studies who would see their work almost entirely in conversation with colleagues in other disciplines across the universities, so they want colleagues in history or philosophy or sociology to take seriously what they’re doing and are less interested in the implications for their work for religious communities themselves. They didn’t all talk objective talk. A substantial introduction to the religion, and Muslim beliefs, practices and history, from the BBC. And I think that actually there are some values that people share, and that is a kind of better beginning place because we’re not about to convert anybody to completely different worldviews, but I don’t think we need to do that. And I thought the theologians sometimes can close down conversations by appealing only to scripture and tradition and not reason and not human experience and so on, and not really engage scholarship across the discipline as fully as they could—including religious studies scholarship about their own tradition. /Resources << And of course I was such a person. Jehovah’s Witnesses are well-known for their … Are they the right kinds of members of LDS community? Yeah. When you’re sitting down with a perspective student of religious studies who’s just entering into the academy, what’s a sound piece of advice that you find yourself giving to students as they’re considering entering that field? I’m Blair Hodges. Does funding play a big part in why scholars have to defend the study of religion? Found insideThis volume provides background to the current 'science and religion' debate, yet focuses as well on themes where recent discussion of the relation between science and religion has been particularly concentrated. AS & A level Religious Studies is designed to enable learners to develop their interest in, and enthusiasm for, a study of religion and its place in the wider world. The opportunities it offers and the challenges it poses, as well as the question of how we can ensure that ideally all pupils are able to benefit from a religious … Faithful Narratives presents the work of twelve eminent scholars whose research has exemplified compelling strategies for negotiating the difficulties inherent in this increasingly important area of historical inquiry. Theologians can also fail to live up to these virtues that you talk about. So I think the key thing that folks overlook is that there’s no general answer to that, and so my thought was always focused on what’s the institutional setting, what is the mission of my institution? I could be wrong. And then you offer some suggestions about how to tighten those up a little bit. HODGES: So these are some of the challenges that come from the university or from different state legislatures or from outside the actual field itself. Call the 24h National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1 (800) 273-8255 or use these resources. Some may experience discrimination or internal conflict because of their beliefs. HODGES: We’re talking with Thomas Tweed today about studying religion in the academy and values. TWEED: Or where legislators might interpret that as being unpatriotic. /Contents 4 0 R TWEED: Yeah. So if you’re a religiously inclined person who is dialoguing with more scientifically inclined people—not that those two categories can’t overlap, but you know what I mean—people within your tradition might say “Oh, you’re selling out.” And the same with someone who’s got a lot of atheistic or scientific friends who are seeing you talk to theologians and they’re saying “What are you doing and why are you wasting your time with fairy tales?” So you can start to get hits from your own side, so to speak, when you do some of these things. Never right, actually, about things. I think this is sort of where people can get stuck. To some extent, what I really wanted to do is just talk about my research. Many of such challenges for religions, Buddhism included, may be consequences of our crowded, frenetic world. TWEED: Well, I think it’s impacted my work in some ways because people who have read it know this about me more, and probably resituate my work in some ways. In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, 65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, … Globalisation and religion with furthering challenges: Globalisation also brings negative impacts on religion by breaking traditional beliefs as people are more … So I would say that has worked. If you listen to how mathematicians talk, they say ‘it’s elegant.’ Well, that’s beauty talk. And most people would date the origins of the academic cross-disciplinary study of religion from around the 1870s—it happened in Britain, in the United States, in the Netherlands and so forth. Thomas A. Tweed is the Harold and Martha Welch Professor of American Studies and Professor of History. HODGES: [laughs] Some of the discussion I’ve heard revolves around the idea that teaching at a religiously backed institution in some ways opens up a little bit more freedom even as it constrains in other ways. And that’s where I think everybody get stuck, including me. So in Buddhist contexts, you knock and then they go away and you have to knock three times, “are you sure?” I do another version of that, where my standard has been for lots of years to say “before we continue with this conversation you should know a few things: There are not many jobs. It’s just not an elegant or a beautiful book. TWEED: Yeah. The unity of the Christian church is one of the most significant challenges that … Is that a fair picture that some religious bodies have that religious studies is just a secular enterprise that’s sort of out to almost debunk or explain religion? /F3 12 0 R And that’s one of the divisions that fragments conversations and really shuts down talk. TWEED: Yeah. HODGES: In your experience, you talk about how you’ve gone from not really speaking about your own religions commitments in school settings to being more open about them. And whether it’s intended or not, one kind of concomitant or unintended consequence—sometimes it’s intended because it just prepares people to be better global citizens. The unity of the Christian church is one of the most significant challenges that Christians face today. So I think we all need a kind of humility. In Hashmi v.City of Jersey City, (D NJ, Sept. 7, 2021), a New Jersey federal district court allowed a Sunni Muslim police officer to move ahead on some, but not all, of his challenges to a Jersey City Police Department order.The Order (later amended) required officers who wear beards for religious reasons to maintain them at no more than one-half inch in length unmanicured. His proposed solution to these challenges might sound surprising. He says religious studies scholars should think and talk more to each other about values. While the Religious Right has received considerable scholarly attention and media coverage in recent years, the story of the growing number of Secular Americans—those who identify themselves as atheists, agnostics, or as not having any ... Just a fancy way of saying values about what constitutes truth. And I think that’s a good argument. And it’s an issue across the humanities. Religion in Igbo traditional society partakes fully of all the features of world traditional religion, including its beliefs, sacred myths, oral qualities … Level. As an educator, you are confronted with a challenge that educators in previous centuries seldom faced —religious diversity. And we’re also going to talk a little bit about values discussions as a way to approach disagreements about how to study religion. In Indonesia, there are six officially recognized religions, and some religious denominations. Many experts warn that the rate of new infectious diseases such as COVID-19 is bound to increase, especially as climate change remains a global challenge. Some of the arguments are is that emphatic understanding of other worlds, understanding what it means to be Muslim and Buddhist and Jewish and Hindu and Christian and atheist can help make people more tolerant, can lead to less violence, and more inclined to step in. Let’s see if we can agree on a couple of values, epistemic values, say. That the study of religion advances knowledge. Explore the relationship between religion and a variety of social and political issues, from economic inequality to immigration. I know this will be a a revelation to you and to listeners—. The problem is—part of my view is that we have to cultivate certain kinds of virtues to be worthy and effective participants in those kinds of conversations. While Education, Religion and Diversity is directed to a British audience the issues it raises and the alternative it proposes are important for those educators in the United States who believe that the public schools have an important role ... The discussion centered on values and the study of religion, as well as the challenges that face today's religious scholars. If people persist after that, I sometimes I give them numbers and advice about stuff, but I think I usually try to talk to people out of it and then I find that there are some people that just care deeply about it. And so the strategy to some extent was to say, if that’s what you’re worried about, if you think you don’t make judgments about what people should do or think, then I think you’re basically mistaken. However, some face a unique set of challenges in society as a result of their religious beliefs. As Southern Baptists begin to grapple with sexual abuse, looming challenges remain One week after the convention closed, an advocate for sex abuse survivors posted to … Found inside – Page 1The Atlas of Religion also locates the origin, the heartland, and the sacred places of each of the major religions and provides essential background with a valuable table showing the fundamental beliefs of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, ... … Some of these challenges come from the outside, like when schools and governments and religious traditions want to know why religious studies ought to be pursued … Its capital and largest city is Kabul. HODGES: You see this kind of language come out especially most obviously in book reviews and things like that. Our women-led team is based in Brooklyn, NY. File name:- But at the same time, as I was saying before, taking too strong a stand about what kind of Catholic or Presbyterian people should be can actually inhibit that. Why are some people wary of values talk? But I think the study of religion is devalued or ignored in public life. But to some extent what somebody said to me once that I think might be right is, you know, “how dare you decide how someone should live a meaningful life? Ways to contact OIG Hotline. >> Manage your orders. I was challenging folks who identify with the social sciences, with the natural sciences, who think they’re being scientific and objective to just acknowledge that they also have certain kinds of values at stake and that maybe they could be open to multiple ways of understanding the world. Though for those who’ve never thought seriously about their faith, any kind of systematic reflection of course can be occasionally disorienting. We want empirically rich things. And then the other side of it, they have to defend to deans and presidents and provosts and donors why the source of revenue at the resources new faculty lines support of all sorts should actually go to those studying religion. (1) Values and religious issues in psychotherapy and mental health, (2) A test of faith in God and treatment: The relationship of belief in God to psychiatric treatment outcomes, (4) Religious Struggle: Prevalence, Correlates and Mental Health Risks in Diabetic, Congestive Heart Failure, and Oncology Patients, (5) Religious and Spiritual Factors in Depression: Review and Integration of the Research. TWEED: Yeah. We should talk about what our fundamental values are, and then we should begin to think about both what we share with others and what we don’t. Enter the password to open this PDF file. Select a Section 1 /0. Thank you so much for taking the time to talk about these issues. What I decided to do was just focus on how people talk and not any highfalutin’ things about any other judgments—”How is reality really structured” or something. And in some classes nobody comes and other classes one person would come. TWEED: They wouldn’t be doing it. Challenges of religious life. Study of religion - Study of religion - Problems and directions: The foregoing, a necessarily rather selective account of some of the principal developments and … Defining religion is challenging due to both the depth and breadth of the construct. Pacific School of Religion is a member of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU), an interreligious consortium of seminaries and institutes in the San Francisco Bay Area. Besides the outside challenges—which in public universities includes legislatures that want to do away with the study of religion, public agencies that don’t take it seriously—among those who already study that, and the AAR is one organization, the American Academy of Religion, which is along with the society for Biblical studies of things, the SBL, bring about 10,000 people to an annual meeting every year, which is maybe hard to imagine for other people. In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law. The book: surveys the development of research on media, religion and culture through the lens of key theoretical and methodological issues and debates within gender studies. includes case studies drawn from a variety of countries and ... Chapters explore the status, value, and challenges of religious liberty around the world—with illustrations from a wide range of historical situations, contemporary contexts, and constitutional regimes. Like I get why it’s hard for everybody to do, including myself so—. And you’re constantly evaluating and being evaluated. I think there’s both. And that’s really all I wanted to do, and some people would think that’s a pretty low bar and maybe it is, but I’m not sure it was. Or else they wouldn’t be doing it I guess. Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Right Honourable Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, has stressed the need for the youth to be responsible and lead … So like some other religious groups, some Muslims argue that coronavirus was created by God to warn and punish humanity for consumerism, … << In 2015, U.S. food processing company Cargill fired 150 Muslim workers from its beef processing plant in Colorado after a dispute over prayer breaks. The trusting working relationship between you and your therapist, known as the “therapeutic alliance”, can have a huge impact on the efficacy of therapy. This unique volume collects some of the best recent work on the philosophical challenge that religious diversity poses for religious belief. So would it still be fair to say that even though there were these different sort of exercises going on at that time, there was also this sense that those value judgments, those prescriptive or normative judgments, had some sort of eternal verity about them as well. It could be things— yeah, I think there’s an enormous range of the different kinds of jobs people who work in non-profits, in the state department, in higher education, but not as tenure track people. I think sometimes in a couple of places in the south—in Alabama, Oklahoma, Texas, there are some programs that have actually either maintained or grown. Special conditions are applied to such orders. 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