Event Host: Center for the Study of Religion
Short Description: Religion, Healing and the Movement for Black Lives will feature two presentations from Elise Edwards and Monique Moultrie.
Religion, Healing and the Movement for Black Lives will feature two presentations from Elise Edwards and Monique Moultrie.
Elise Edwards, assistant professor in religion at Baylor University, will present on "Black Spirituality and the Creation of Spaces for Healing and Liberation." She will ask, "How might black spirituality inspire the design and construction of places for African Americans to flourish?" This presentation describes spiritual principles in contemporary social justice movements like Black Lives Matter and their relevance to architecture and the built environment.
Monique Moultrie, associate professor of religious studies at Georgia State University, will present on "Trusting Black Women: Reproductive Justice as Black Liberation." Using Black Lives Matter activists’ adoption of a reproductive justice framework to interrogate state power and structural inequalities, this presentation explores the moral possibilities of trusting black women’s decision-making.
