Diverse Devotions: Black Belief Across Boundaries
Diverse Devotions: Black Belief Across Boundaries
Podcast Description
Dive into ”Diverse Devotions” where Monica A. Coleman, an award-winning author and celebrated religious scholar, takes you on an enlightening journey through the often unspoken spiritual experiences of Black folk. Discover how embracing multiple faiths enriches spirituality, revealing new dimensions of freedom and personal transformation. Whether you’re a spiritual seeker, an educator, or simply curious … discover what happens when Black spirituality breaks the rules of how being religious is “supposed to work.”
Learn more: www.DiverseDevotions.com
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast explores the spiritual experiences of Black individuals and the enrichment found in embracing multiple faiths. Episodes tackle themes such as Black Christianity, Unitarian Universalism, personal transformation, and the intersection of spirituality and social justice. For instance, a notable episode features Takiyah Nur Amin discussing her journey within Unitarian Universalism while navigating her Muslim and Christian heritage.
Dive into ”Diverse Devotions” where Monica A. Coleman, an award-winning author and celebrated religious scholar, takes you on an enlightening journey through the often unspoken spiritual experiences of Black folk. Discover how embracing multiple faiths enriches spirituality, revealing new dimensions of freedom and personal transformation. Whether you’re a spiritual seeker, an educator, or simply curious … discover what happens when Black spirituality breaks the rules of how being religious is “supposed to work.”
Learn more: www.DiverseDevotions.com
In this thought-provoking episode, our guest, Takiyah Nur Amin, shares about growing up with Muslim and Christian family members, finding Unitarian Universalism as a place of acceptance, and what her daily spiritual practices look like.
Highlights:
- How Takiyah found her tradition over lunch in the high school cafeteria
- What it means to be a part of a covenantal religious tradition
- Why living together with love and empathy trumps doctrinal differences
- Why she won’t choose between her Blackness and her faith tradition
Mentioned in This Episode:
- Care for the World: Reflections on Community Ministry: https://amzn.to/3WqVVb2
- BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice and Liberation: https://amzn.to/3Cm6SUD
- Unitarian Universalist Association: https://www.uua.org/
- BLUU: https://blacklivesuu.org/
- OWL curriculum: https://www.uua.org/re/owl
- John Shelby Spong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Shelby_Spong
- Chautauqua Institution: https://www.chq.org/about/
Guest Information:
Takiyah Nur Amin is a dance scholar, educator, academic success strategist. Dr. Amin serves Unitarian Universalism as a member of the Ministerial Fellowship Committee and UU Studies Network, and a former member of the Black Lives of Unitarian Universalism (BLUU) Organizing Collective Board. Her writing has been featured in UU World Magazine, and in two edited volumes, Care for the World: Reflections on Community Ministry and BLUU Notes: An Anthology of Love, Justice and Liberation (co-edited with the Rev. Mykal Slack.) You can reach Dr. Amin at TakiyahNurAmin.com
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