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Theology and Healthcare

Gender and Epistemology in Islamic Medical Ethics

Theology and Healthcare

April 10, 2023 / 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm / Add to Google
470 Stephens Hall

Zahra Ayubi, Associate Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College

In this talk Ayubi discusses the limitations of fiqh-based medical ethics in addressing gender concerns and argues that ethical epistemology of Islamic medical ethics ought to center women and non-binary Muslims’ experiences. She does a close reading of jurisprudential opinions (fatwas) and the queries that originate them and also presents research from interviews that demonstrate […]

Gender and Epistemology in Islamic Medical Ethics

Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and Black Religion

Theology and Healthcare

April 03, 2023 / 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm / Add to Google
3335 Dwinelle

Judith Weisenfeld, Agate Brown and George L. Collord Professor of Religion and Chair of the Department of Religion at Princeton University

As the nineteenth century drew to a close, white American psychiatrists declared that mental illness among African Americans in the South had reached alarming proportions and argued that, in a notable percentage of these cases, “religious excitement” was the key precipitating factor. This talk explores late nineteenth and early twentieth-century psychiatric theories about race, religion, and […]

Spiritual Madness: Race, Psychiatry, and Black Religion

Medicine as Sacrament: Spanish and Indigenous Catholic Responses to Epidemics in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

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Theology and Healthcare

November 08, 2022 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google
3335 Dwinelle

Jennifer Scheper Hughes, Professor of History at UC Riverside

Indigenous Catholics and Spanish missionaries in Mexico leveraged different strategies for responding to the catastrophic epidemics that decimated communities over the course of the sixteenth century. Spanish missionaries fashioned themselves as frontline nurses, imagining themselves as saviors of bodies and souls. Indigenous pueblos de Indios did not surrender their health or well-being to Spanish initiative, […]

Medicine as Sacrament: Spanish and Indigenous Catholic Responses to Epidemics in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

The Pastoral is Political: Abortion Travel and Religious Activism Before Roe v. Wade

Theology and Healthcare

October 24, 2022 / 5:00 pm / Add to Google

Barbara Christian Conference Room, 554 Social Sciences Building

Gillian Frank, Visiting Affiliate Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Culture, Society and Religion

Between 1967 and 1973, the Clergy Consultation Service on Abortion challenged restrictive abortion laws by organizing a transnational abortion network and shepherding one of the largest medical migrations of the postwar era. This talk explores the religious history of abortion-seeking and abortion travel within and outside of the continental United States.

The Pastoral is Political: Abortion Travel and Religious Activism Before Roe v. Wade

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