Dancing with Thomas Merton in Borderlands

Title：

Dancing with Thomas Merton in Borderlands (网上登记已截止)

Time and Date:

2023. 9. 6. (Wed) 4:30 - 6:00 PM

Speaker:

Sr. Jung Eun Sophia Park (Emerita Professor at Holy Names University)

Moderator:

Dr. Checketts, Levi Mahonri (Assistant Professor at HKBU)

Language:

English

Venue: 

Council Chamber, SWT 501 Shaw Tower, Shaw Campus / ZOOM 

*HKBU students: CCL will only be granted for face-to-face attendance at Council Chamber (SWT501), HKBU

Abstract:

One of the most influential Catholic thinkers of 20th century, Thomas Merton's spiritual journey will be presented as a sojourn, a yearning for home and journeying at the borderland. Sophia Park poses Merton as a dance partner, critiquing, appreciating, and pondering his spiritual life in terms of interculturality, social-justice orientation, and a deeply intimate journey. In this dance, Sophia suggests a way to lift up one's voice as a postcolonial feminist woman.

Organizer:

Department of Religion and Philosophy, HKBU

Co-organizer:

Centre for Sino-Christian Studies, HKBU

Target:

HKBU Students, Staff and Public

Sr. Jung Eun Sophia Park

Jung Eun Sophia Park, SNJM, is emerita professor at Holy Names University in California. As a global educator, she loves to provide retreats, spiritual direction, lectures, and workshops. Her academic interests are global justice and spirituality, shamanism, postcolonial feminism, and mysticism. Sophia has published numerous articles and many books, including Conversations at the Well: Emerging Religious Life in the 21st Century Global World; Border-Crossing Spirituality: Transformation in the Borderland; and An Asian Woman’s Religious Journey with Thomas Merton: Journey to the East/Journey to the West. She has also written books in Korean and offers women’s spirituality classes online.

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