Event Details
Date & Time
Thursday, Mar 31, 2022 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Department
- Taking Responsibility Initiative, Fordham University
- Office of Mission Integration
- Office of the President
- Office of the Provost
- College of Arts and Sciences
Hemmingson Ballroom (if public health safety permits)* and Livestreamed
Contact/Registration
brownk@gonzaga.edu
313-509-6112
About This Event
Racism and sexual violence are interconnected problems in American history. The rape, abuse, and sexual exploitation of women and men of color by white supremacist agents and institutions has wounded countless bodies and souls and caused intergenerational trauma. In this talk, Dr. Andrew Prevot, associate professor of theology at Boston College, explores ways that African American and Native American communities have drawn on Christian and indigenous spiritual traditions to resist this violence. He argues that spirituality plays an important role in struggles for racial and sexual justice by helping those who are suffering access deep reserves of strength, freedom, and love. Dr. Jack Downey, John Henry Newman Chair in Roman Catholic Studies at the University of Rochester, will offer a response.
Speaker Biography
Dr. Andrew Prevot is Associate Professor of Theology at Boston College. He is the author of Theology and Race: Black and Womanist Traditions in the United States (Brill, 2018) and Thinking Prayer: Theology and Spirituality amid the Crises of Modernity (Notre Dame, 2015), and co-editor of Anti-Blackness and Christian Ethics (Orbis, 2017). He is currently working on a book-length study of the grace of divine union in contemporary mystical theology and he is the author of a number of articles and book chapters in the fields of liberation theology, political theology, and philosophical theology. Dr. Prevot earned his Ph.D. in systematic theology from the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include: prayer, spirituality, and mystical theology; political, liberation, and black theology; phenomenology and continental philosophy of religion; and Catholic systematic and fundamental theology.
Respondent Biography
Dr. Jack Downey is the John Henry Newman Chair in Roman Catholic Studies at the University of Rochester. He teaches courses on contemporary justice movements, liberation theologies, North American religious history, Christianity, Buddhism, and contemplative traditions. Dr. Downey arrived at the University of Rochester from Philadelphia, where he was Associate Professor of Religion and Theology at La Salle University. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Theology at Fordham University, and is the author of The Bread of the Strong, a study of contemplative influences on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement. His current research projects examine self-immolation, forms of protest, violence, Roman Catholicism in Alaska and Québec, and asceticism.
*A Note on Public Health Safety
Gonzaga faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend this event in person. Masks will be required for in-person attendance. Off-campus guests are not able to attend in person but are welcome to participate via a live-streamed Zoom Webinar. A link to the webinar will be sent to all registrants shortly before the event.
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