
METAMODERN SCENE: Islam for a Time Between Worlds w/ Jared Morningstar
The Integral Stage
The Lord's Prayer of Islam
There's a sense in which developmental transformational communities lean heavily towards either a kind of Buddhist approach or a new cognitive science approach. It's often felt that there's not quite enough room for monotheistic religion in general and in particular islam because it's has some weird cultural dissonance with a lot of people in the West. And I'm personally very aware of how, how shallow and unvisceral my my sense of the richness of Islam is so I wonder what would be an appropriate Islamic prayer.
For this episode, Layman hooks up with Metamodern writer and process theologian, Jared Morningstar, to talk about Islam -- its ritual practices, its history, its internal and external movements and divisions, its theological and metaphysical insights, its social challenges, its relationship to ecology and care for the earth, its potential futures, and much more.
Jared is a writer and educator with academic interests in philosophy of religion, Islamic studies, comparative religion, metamodern spirituality, and interfaith dialogue whose work in these areas seeks to offer robust responses to issues of inter-religious conflict, contemporary nihilism, and the "meaning crisis" among other things. You can find his work on YouTube and Medium.
Jared works for the Center for Process Studies and the Cobb Institute where he supports these organizations promote a process-relational worldview and flourish in a digital world through aiding in a variety of marketing and communications tasks. He also works for the Psychedelic Medicine Association where he helps communicate the latest insights in psychedelic research for mental health conditions to an audience of clinicians and other healthcare professionals. Jared is also the founder and director of 'Alif: Traditional Wisdom in Review, a digital Islamic studies publication which seeks to build intellectual and spiritual bridges between the Islamic tradition and Western cultural, religious, and philosophical sources.
Professional Website https://jaredmorningstar.com/
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