Culture and spirituality 1

Slide 1: Extension Studies Summer School: title: Spirituality and Culture session 1,2 & 3 ~Tues

Slide 2: Opening prayer The Lord be with you And also with you. God, help us to listen; and in our listening to hear You. God, be in our thinking: and renew our minds. God, we will speak together: let our conversations be words in the Word. 2

Slide 3: Learning objectives. -By the end of the summer school you should:- ✔understand better what culture is ✔understand more fully how culture affects and involves us. ✔Understand more fully what spirituality is. ✔have reflected on their own spirituality and cultural background ✔begun to evaluate their own spirituality and culture in relation to each other. http://www.studeous.com/spiritculture http://www.Studeous.com/enroll.cfm?id=0.557300033738 Password= pneuma 3

Slide 4: Thinking about the film: 'spirituality' ? What do you make of the relationship between spirituality and culture within the film? Does anything surprise you from the film? What would a Christian spirituality for Junuh have to take account of? Could we see Bagger Vance as a Messianic /Christ figure? 4

Slide 5: Thinking about us, ourselves: background exercise 5

Slide 6: Culture. /kəltjə/, n  .... High culture vs 'pop' culture classical definition vs anthropological 6

Slide 7: Social science definitions of culture ... 7

Slide 8: Thinking about culture 1/3 ... Lisbon earthquake Invention Events of & Ways of transistors artefacts thinking culture Invention of gunpowder practices Black death 8

Slide 9: Thinking about culture 2/3... Events Ways & of artefacts thinking culture Eating practices L habits B queuing 9

Slide 10: Thinking about culture 3/3 ... Individualism hierarchical Events Ways & of artefacts thinking egalitarian culture non-violent practices 10

Slide 11: Thinking about culture starting with an artefact ... More spontaneous? Sense of Cheap connection and Events Ways availability mobile & of telephony artefacts thinking culture practices Phone calls all over the place. Decline of landlines and payphones. 11

Slide 12: Thinking about culture starting with an event ... Loss of confidence in providence. Lisbon Deism & earthquake Events & Ways of atheism grow in artefacts thinking plausibility culture practices Churchgoing etc falls 12

Slide 13: Thinking about culture starting with a practice ... Music as 'private space' 'wired for Events & Ways of sound' artefacts thinking culture practices Listening to music alone 13

Slide 14: Thinking about culture starting with a way of thinking ... democracy Parliaments, Events ballot boxes, & Ways of returning artefacts thinking officers ... culture practices Voting, elections, plebiscites ... 14

Slide 15: Thinking about culture starting with your idea ... Events Ways & of artefacts thinking culture practices 15

Slide 16: Thinking about culture starting with your formative social experience ... Events Ways & of artefacts thinking culture practices 16

Slide 17: stretch your legs for a couple of minutes .... 17

Slide 18: Naming Ways of thinking involves: seeing similarity and difference: it's about ways of thinking; culture 18 http://nouslife.blogspot.com/2008/06/towards-theological-reflection-

Slide 19: Naming & culture: God-given freedom counts against seeing culture as inherently or fundamentally evil, and for valuing of diversity (and so against 'one culture'). In fact, given we 'image' God socially, this implies the bonds of culture are part of being in God's image, and so 'it is good'. 19

Slide 20: Three typical positions, historically... Transformer of Against Christ In / of Culture above In paradox H Richard Niebuhr. Christ and Culture. Charles Kraft. Christ in Culture. 20

Slide 21: Can you come up with examples of each of these positions? Against Christ In / of Culture above . 21

Slide 22: All of these positions have some justification in scripture and theology. Perhaps we don't have to choose ... 22

Slide 23: God and culture: above against Of / in 23

Slide 24: What do we mean by “spirituality”? spir·i·tu·al·i·ty spIr-I-tʃ-u:ˈwa-lə-ti: noun write your own notes for a minute, share your ideas with a neighbour and try to come up with the start of a definition. On your table, come up with a definition to share with all and write it on the large paper. 24

Slide 25: spir·i·tu·al·i·ty spIr-I-tʃ-u:ˈwa-lə-ti: Put definitions so far in position to be read by others. Look at hand-out with some dictionary definitions. What ideas or aspects do you want to include in your own definition? Is there anything you might want to change or leave out? Write a new definition to share with the whole class. 25

Slide 26: spir·i·tu·al·i·ty spIr-I-tʃ-u:ˈwa-lə-ti: New tack. Thinking about our own stuff. When you pray, how do What image or you name God? What metaphor do you title/s, image/s, prefer for the metaphor/s do you Church? normally use? How would you explain What is your fave image what prayer is? of or way of describing being a Christian? Why? 26

Slide 27: spirituality 27

Slide 28: Cultural context spirituality 28

Slide 29: Cultural context spirituality theology 29

Slide 30: Cultural context spirituality 'liturgy' theology 30

Slide 31: Cultural context spirituality 'liturgy' theology 31

Slide 32: Film clip ... Cultural context spirituality 'liturgy' theology 32

Slide 33: Printing and rag paper-making ... Cheap rag paper invented Events Ways & printing & artefacts of thinking Individualism using linear thinking movable culture type practices Cheap books solitary devotions scripture at home 33

Slide 34: Some examples ... Cheap books Ctr Lollardy etc Cultural context Private spirituality Protestant devotions, ideas: personal primacy of bible 'liturgy' theology scripture reading, quiet time pamphlets etc 34

Slide 35: Some examples ... Cathedrals ecclesiastical power Cultural context spirituality Relics, Pilgrimage grace votive 'liturgy' theology & offerings etc mediation of Saints 35

Slide 36: Some examples ... ? Cultural context spirituality 'liturgy' theology ? ? 36

Slide 37: Re vie w and re c all . ●Wh a t ne w ins ig h ts we re th e re for you? ●Did a nyth ing s urpris e you? ●Wh a t a ffirm e d wh a t you a lre a dy kne w a nd wh a t wa s it you a lre a dy kne w? ●Wh a t que s tions h a ve a ris e n for you from toda y's s e s s ion? 37

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