Cilehane Paper - Shifts and Challenges to the Spiritual Life offered by a Pandemic
Presented at the 6th Symposium on Religious Studies and Humanities to Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey, Cilehane: Shifts and Challenges to the Spiritual Life offered by a Pandemic is a paper that inspired last month’s Month in Review webcast and is now available to read. Continue Reading
Excerpt
In this essay I will examine the religious and spiritual implications of how we have handled and organized our response to the pandemic. How do these responses reflect our understanding of what it means to be human? Does our personhood exist or is our biology the only matter to be considered? Is this enforced period of solitude, our curious time when whole populations have been forced into a medically induced “cilehane” likely to bring to the surface the depth of the soul, enlarge our neighbourliness and will to care for the vulnerable?
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