Models of Sustainable Hope for the Community
with Rev. Dr. Yara González-Justiniano
Saturday, October 26, 2024
9:30 a.m. – 12 noon CST
Online

A sustainable hope refers to a hope that can be maintained and traditioned. In this workshop, we will consider questions such as; how does one flourish amid crisis and hardship? What are the implications of articulating a responsible and sustainable hope? How do we engage a plurality of religious traditions in collaboration with materializing hope? At the end of the session, participants should be able to define and begin mapping a system of hope for their religious/spiritual context.

The Rev. Dr. Yara González-Justiniano is Assistant Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture with emphasis in Latinx Studies at Vanderbilt University. She is also affiliated faculty of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies. Her most recent publication, Centering Hope as a Sustainable Decolonial Practice: Esperanza en Práctica (2022), wrestles with answering the question of what hope looks like amid socioeconomic crisis. Her interdisciplinary approach to this inquiry is grounded in ethnographic research in hopes of finding practices that enable a hope that can sustain the collective.

Her research and teaching interests include Latinx theologies, Latin American Liberation theology, ecclesiology and pastoral theologies, memory studies, postcolonial and decolonial theory, popular culture and film, and popular religion and theologies of hope. González-Justiniano is an ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the Tennessee Region.

Register at https://epay.tcu.edu/stalcup_seminar/