Dear colleagues,
Please see the following note and invitation from our chair, Prof Adam Dinham, which may be of interest to you. If you're able to be in London next week, you'd be most welcome at the public seminar.
With best regards,
Michael Munnik
Publications and Communications Officer, SocRel
Dear Friend
Please do come along to our next Faiths Unit public seminar in which Professor Beth Crisp from Deakin University, Australia, will discuss social work and spirituality in relation to indigenous people ('First Nations').
Tuesday 12 June 2018, 5.30-7, RHB 137a, with wine and refreshments
Spirituality and religion in Social Work: Sustaining individuals and communities or replicating colonisation?
Imbued with a confidence that European civilisation was inherently superior and a God-given right to claim ownership to already populated distant lands, the negative impacts of colonial settlement continue to be felt centuries later. There is now a growing acceptance that redressing the injustices as a result of colonisation cannot occur while continually ignoring the religions and spiritualities of Indigenous Peoples. However, arguably, we who are the descendents of the colonisers, both in Europe and in settler countries, could learn much from the wisdom of peoples sometimes considered so inferior that they were likened to animals. In this seminar, Beth Crisp, who is Professor and Discipline Leader for Social Work at Deakin University in Australia, provides an insight into some of the issues which is wrestling with in her roles as social work educator while exploring how spirituality and religion might have a role in sustaining Indigenous Peoples rather than fostering colonisation.
The format is 45 minutes from Beth, followed by discussion and questions, with wine and nibbles. We hope to see you there. Please do circulate these details to your own contacts and networks.
best wishes
Adam
Professor Adam Dinham | Director, Faiths & Civil Society Unit |
Goldsmiths, University of London | New Cross, London, SE14 6NW | UK
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Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies |
Sheffield University, UK
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