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Contagion Religion Cities
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Contagion, Religion, and Cities is a research project at the Center for the Study of Religion and the City. CRC explores how cities have been imagined as contagious and the racial and gendered norms that inform those imaginations. The project is co-directed by Sher Afgan Tareen, PhD, and Amanda Furiasse, PhD, and produced with Sierra Lynn Lawson, PhD student at UNC Chapel Hill, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and the City Harold Morales, PhD.
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Ep. 3: Healing the Political Scars of Epidemics at the US/Mexico Border
Aug 24, 202001:05:43Tap to summarizeHow might the stories we tell each other about illness put us on the path of healing? What sorts of stories of illness and health arise out of the borderland areas in the southwest region and how do Mexican and indigenous health practitioners, also known as curanderos, narrate these stories to their clients? Why are Anglo-American settlers one of the major clientele of the curanderos and how might the stories that are otherwise particular to the history of the Mexican-American diaspora heal such outsiders from the shame of the role they played in the expansion of the U.S colony into the southwest region? How does the Mexican-American curanderismo contribute to the larger history of religious history in the Americas as one shaped by encounter between different cultural, racial, and religious communities? The Religion & City Podcast addresses these important questions in the third episode as Brett Hendrickson discusses his 2014 monograph, Border Medicine: A Transcultural History of Mexican-American Curanderismo, and its implications for the study of health, religion, and the city. Daisy Vargas leads today's discussion along with Amanda Furiasse and Sher Afgan Tareen, co-directors of the Contagion, Religion, and Cities project, Harold Morales, the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and the City, Sierra Lynn Lawson, a member of the podcast team, Kayla Wheeler, Christina Rosetti, and Giselle Toruno. For more information about how you can get involved and make change within your community visit the Contagion, Religion, and Cities webpage at https://www.religionandcities.org/podcast
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Ep. 2: Ciudad Sandino and the Ecological Roots of Pandemics
Jul 22, 202000:58:59Tap to summarizeIs there a relationship between our ecosystems and pandemics? How can we build sustainable infrastructures to mitigate pandemics and enhance human well-being? How does religion and technology inform our understandings of health and disease? How have women shaped the trajectory of public health? The Contagion, Religion, and Cities Podcast addresses these important questions in the second episode as Alex Nading discusses his 2014 monograph, Mosquito Trails: Ecology, Health, and the Politics of Entanglement, and its implications for the study of health, religion, and the city. Amanda Furiasse and Sher Afgan Tareen, co-directors of the Contagion, Religion, and Cities project, Harold Morales, the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and the City, Sierra Lynn Lawson, a member of the podcast team, Ben Saxx, Isaiah Ellis, Faye Wing, Joanna Crosby, Karim Amin, Christina Rosetti, Nala Price, and Samia Kirchner join the conversation. For more information about how you can get involved and make change within your community visit the Contagion, Religion, and Cities webpage at https://www.religionandcities.org/podcast
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Ep. 1: Waiʻanae and Native Hawaiian Health and Healing in a Time of Plague
Jul 8, 202001:04:59Tap to summarizeHow do Native Hawaiian communities approach health/healing? What is the relationship between political struggle, religion, and health? How do colonialism and capitalism inform our understandings of health and disease and impact the manifestation of disease in cities? How can Native Hawaiian approaches to health help us understand and redress the long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in the context of education and religious ritual? The Contagion, Religion, and Cities Podcast addresses these important questions in the very first inaugural episode as Wende Marshall discusses her book entitled, Potent Mana: Lessons in Power and Healing, and its implications for the study of religion, health, and the city. Amanda Furiasse and Sher Afgan Tareen, co-directors of the Contagion, Religion, and Cities project, Harold Morales, the Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and the City, Sierra Lynn Lawson, a member of the podcast team, Ben Saxx, Daisy Vargas, Isaiah Ellis, and Rupa Pillai join the conversation. For more information about how you can get involved and make change within your community visit the Contagion, Religion, and Cities webpage at https://www.religionandcities.org/contagion-podcast
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