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Workshop: Ageing and Spirituality (1)

Online with Zoom

Workshop: Ageing and Spirituality (1) Re-experience our life journey through an intercultural interpretation of Integral Human Development: from midlife to an integral ageing The first of two workshops exploring the life journey from midlife to an integral ageing through knowledge sharing, experience reflection and spiritual practice. Wisdom will be drawn from research on Spirituality of Integral Human Development for Ageing in Hong Kong: an intercultural and interfaith approach Through concepts drawn from spirituality of ageing, the papal catholic social teaching of Integral Human Development and rich Chinese culture traditions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism, the workshop will help facilitate participants to re-experience [...]

£45.00

Workshop: Ageing and Spirituality (2)

Online with Zoom

Workshop: Ageing and Spirituality (2) Ageing as a process of spiritual growth: developing fruits of integral ageing The second of two workshops exploring the life journey from midlife to an integral ageing through knowledge sharing, experience reflection and spiritual practice. Wisdom will be drawn from research on Spirituality of Integral Human Development for Ageing in Hong Kong: an intercultural and interfaith approach This workshop will share some initial findings of intercultural research on and insight into the spirituality of ageing, its intercultural and interfaith dimensions and the phenomenon of integral human development. Course Leader: Dr Christine Lai Date: 3rd July 2021, 9am–1pm [...]

£45.00

The Church and “Gender Theory”: Theory, Rhetoric and Practice

Online with Zoom

“Gender theory”, and the more hostile “gender ideology”, are prominent terms in Catholic rhetoric around transness, feminism and queerness. They encompass a broad range of theoretical and political developments that stake out a social transformation that many Catholic commentators see as incompatible with Catholicism – not to mention a threat to institutions such as the family and traditional sexual values. While this rhetoric has received a great deal of attention in secular scholarship, often focusing on its wider context as part of national and international anti-gender movements, it has been given relatively little attention in Catholic academic inquiry. The upshot [...]

£20