Religion and Spirituality (Audio)
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Religion and Spirituality (Audio)
Explore both traditional religions and what it means to be spiritual in a rapidly changing and diversifying religious world.
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Righting Wrong When Sorry Isn’t Enough: Constructing an Asian American Theology of Reparations with Grace Yia-Hei Kao
How should federal governments attempt to right, or at least remedy, past wrongs? Is it appropriate for victims of group-based harms or their descenda...
Making a Refuge of Resistance: A History of the U.S. Sanctuary Movement with Lloyd Barba
Is sacred space protective space? This question lies at the heart of the Sanctuary Movement. From the 1980s to the present, this practice has protecte...
Rain of Ash: Roma Jews and the Holocaust
What paradoxes arise when victims of related persecution tell their stories next to, and after, each other? This question is at the heart of Ari Josko...
Addressing Antisemitism on Campus: Lessons from History Challenges for Today
John A. Pérez, Regent Emeritus of the University of California, sits down with Robert Williams, Ph.D., CEO and Finci-Viterbi Executive Director of the...
Falling in Love with Nature: The Values of Latinx Catholic Environmentalism
Through a focus on Spanish-speaking Catholics, Amanda Baugh sheds light on environmental actors hiding in plain sight. Drawing from ethnographic resea...
Dodging the Sisters: Why Queer Nuns Keep Going Viral
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence went viral in conservative media in June 2023 when the L.A. Dodgers announced plans to honor the local house of th...
Disenchantment of the World or Fragmentation of the Sacred with Philip Gorski
The modern world is not disenchanted. On the contrary, it is full of gods and heroes and myths and magic. In this talk, Philip Gorski sketches out a n...
Walter Capps and the Study of Religion (Part 2)
As part of a special series celebrating the legacy of humanist and professor Walter H. Capps, this program examines Capps’ scholarly contributions and...
Walter Capps and the Study of Religion (Part 1)
As part of a special series celebrating the legacy of humanist and professor Walter H. Capps, this program examines Capps’ scholarly contributions and...
The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism
In this program, Lerone Martin, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute...
Healing a Divided America with E.J. Dionne
Prominent journalist E.J. Dionne, known for his op-eds in The Washington Post and essays in Commonweal Magazine, advocates for bridging societal divid...
Walter Capps and the Value of the Humanities
What role do the humanities - history, art, philosophy, language, religion - play in the modern world? Prominent leaders of humanities organizations...
German Big Business and the Holocaust
Among the most striking exhibits at the Auschwitz museum are undoubtedly the mountains of loot stolen from Jews murdered upon arrival. Shoes, suitcase...
Finding the Common Good with Michael Sandel
Political philosopher and Harvard professor Michael Sandel talks about his latest book, "The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good?" Sandel re...
An Evening with Cornel West - Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2022
Cornel West, Ph.D., is a prominent and provocative intellectual. He is Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary and has written 20 book...
Ministering to the LGBTQ Community: A Personal Journey with James Martin - Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society
Jesuit priest and editor at large of America Magazine, Father James Martin, SJ, talks about his personal journey ministering to the LGBTQ community....
Poverty God Politics - What this Experience Taught Me with David Beckmann
David Beckmann reviews what we've learned from the Poverty, God & Politics series, talks about the students in his UC Berkeley class, and thanks the p...
Bread for the World
Eugene Cho, president of Bread for the World, explains how this nationwide Christian citizens' movement repeatedly wins large-scale change for people...
The Catholic Politics of Poverty
John Carr provides a witty and incisive assessment of the liabilities and strengths of the Catholic community and its role in the politics of poverty....
The Politics of Global Poverty
Tom Hart, acting CEO and North American Executive Director of the ONE Campaign, explains how a strong advocacy community, including people of faith an...
Legislative Advocacy and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Many faith bodies and faith-related groups organize legislative advocacy. Amy Reumann, director of Witness and Society for the Evangelical Lutheran Ch...
Organizations of Low-Income People
Anna Eng, a senior organizer for the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF), explains from experience how faith-based community organizing works. David Bec...
Evangelicals and the Politics of Poverty
Galen Carey, Vice President for Government Relations for the National Association of Evangelicals, explains the Evangelical movement, its ministries t...
Using Digital Technology to Elevate Disenfranchised Voices
Eric Sapp, a pioneer in the use of digital communications for good purposes, explains uses of digital technology to repair the divide between the Demo...
How Churchgoers Shape American Politics with Henry Brady
Henry Brady, Dean of Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, draws a data-based picture of how religious attendance affects politics. Churchgoers...
Latino Evangelical Advocacy on Poverty-Related Issues
Rev. Gabriel Salguero, Founder and President of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition (NALEC), explains the religious and political diversity amon...
How the Black Church Built Electoral Power
Dr. Barbara Williams-Skinner and U.S. Representative Barbara Lee speak from the heart about how the Black Church has helped to build African American...
Lessons from the Biden-Harris Campaign
Hear remarks by Joshua Dickson to Berkeley's graduate seminar "Poverty and Communities of Faith in the Politics of 2021," taught by David Beckmann. Jo...
CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Implications for Anthropogeny: Tom Csordas - Imagination and Embodiment in Practices of Sacred Sonorous Being
Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...
Poverty God Politics: Getting Started
David Beckmann explains the purpose of his “Poverty, God, Politics” series—to highlight spiritual and political strategies that can move us from the c...
CARTA: Altered States of the Human Mind: Implications for Anthropogeny: Ann Taves -Altered States in Human Rituals
Experts address altered states of the mind that are deliberately induced by humans. We will address what is known about origins and mechanisms of thes...
The Talmud as Icon
Barry Scott Wimpfheimer specializes in the Talmud and other Rabbinic Literature. His work focuses on the Babylonian Talmud as a work of law and litera...
Translating the Bible
Robert Alter discusses his new, complete translation of and commentary on the Hebrew Bible. For the UC Berkeley Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Li...
The Bishop and the Imam: A Conversation on Immigration - Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society
Around the world, individuals and families are fleeing their countries of origin because of war, violence, natural disasters, and climate change. As t...
A Path Forward: Breaking Down Barriers and Building Connections with Youth - Global Empowerment Summit 2019
A discussion of constructive and effective ways to bring youth, community leaders, and organizations together to overcome divisiveness and polarizatio...
An Evening with Christian Wiman - Writer's Symposium by the Sea 2019
The former editor of Poetry Magazine, Christian Wiman is both a poet and an essayist who teaches Literature and Religion at Yale Divinity School. In a...
What is a Woman? What is a Man? Exploring The Buddhist Sources - Jose Cabezon - Burke Lectureship on Religion and Society
The ancient Buddhist sources have a great deal to say about what it means to be a biological man or woman, what it means to be gendered male and femal...
May We Make the World?: Religious and Ethical Questions with Dr. Laurie Zoloth - Burke Lectureship
A gene drive is a targeted contagion intended to spread within species, forever altering the offspring. Gene drive enthusiasts say they could wipe out...
My First Rosh Hashanah Since Leaving Orthodox Jewish Faith
Author, Tova Mirvis reads from her memoir, The Book of Separation, which describes a woman who leaves her Orthodox Jewish faith and her marriage and s...
If Kinship Were the Goal of Society
Father Gregory Boyle, Jesuit priest and bestselling author of Tattoos on the Heart, is the founder of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles. He shares a t...