Science, Religion, and Culture program at Harvard Divinity School presents "(Un)familiar Deaths: Death and Dying in Contemporary America” a twin lecture with James Cone and Mark Jordan, hosted by Jonathan Walton and Ahmed Ragab. Together, Cone and Jordan will chart the unsettling ways in which race, sexuality, politics, and death coincide in modern America.
From Selma to Ferguson, and from the AIDS epidemic in New York and San Francisco to queer teens taking their own lives, death in contemporary America is not the same for all. For some, death, literal and social, become so ubiquitous and yet so obscured by marginalization and discrimination. We ask how and why we die, and how religion, science and politics affect what seems to be our obscured death
Cone, a founder of black liberation theology, has informed how we think of religion and race, and continues to shed new light on the problems and possibilities of religion and social justice. He reflects on black lives and black death in an ever-changing America
Jordan, a founder of Queer Theology, writes on the boundary of sexuality and religion: his work on sexual ethics, marriage, and homosexuality has pioneered new ways of talking about religion and faith. He thinks with us about the social and literal queer life and death.
Event Details:
Title: “(Un)familiar Deaths: Death and Dying in Contemporary America”
Speakers: James Cone and Mark Jordan
Hosted by: Jonathan Walton and Ahmed Ragab
Location: Harvard Memorial Church
Time: March, 5th — 6.30 pm
LOCATION:Harvard Memorial Church STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20150305T233000Z DTEND:20150306T013000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR