30 January, 2025
In collaboration with the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS), we are honoured to welcome interfaith experts to discuss Death and Dying.
Every day, we are confronted with news of death—wars, violence, disasters—yet we struggle to speak openly about it. On this panel, participants from the 2024 ICJS Faculty Seminar, which focused on interreligious perspectives on death and dying, will share their research and work related to end-of-life issues. We will explore how different religious traditions shape the meaning, practices, and rituals of end-of-life care, through both personal experience and interreligious dialogue.
Panelists:
Revd Dr Jamie Eaddy is a thanatologist, public theologian, and founder of Thoughtful Transitions, LLC. She specializes in grief support, trauma-informed care, and death doula services, working within communities impacted by violence.
Professor Richard E. McCarron teaches liturgical and sacramental theology, ritual studies, lliturgy and culture, and catechesis at Catholic Theological Union. His research areas are liturgy and sacrament in the context of postmodernities; hermeneutics and liturgy; and liturgical inculturation and postcolonial studies.
Professor Ellen Posman holds Chair at the Department of Baldwin Wallace University where she teaches comparative religions with specializations in Buddhism and Judaism
Dr Zeyneb Sayilgan is a Muslim Scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, Jewish Studies and an affiliated faculty at Virginia Theological Seminary. In 2019, Sayilgan was awarded the First Book Grant for Scholars of Color by the Louisville Institute. She is the host of the podcast On Being Muslim.
Tahira Wellman is an advanced practicing inpatient internal medicine PA at Montefiore Medical Center with 17 years with experience in the fields of internal medicine, cardiology, medical oncology and clinical research. She is currently completing a second masters degree in Islamic Religious Leadership and Islamic Studies from Boston Islamic Seminary, after receiving a full scholarship as a MAS (Muslim American Society) fellow.
Revd Dr Alisha Wimbush is the ICJS program director for religious leaders. She graduated from Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA, where she earned both her M.Div. and a Th.D. in Pastoral Care and Counseling.
Date: 30 January, 2025
Time: 18:00-19:00 GMT
Venue: Online
