Process Pop-Up: Pasts and Futures of Islamic Process Theology
In this Pop-Up, Jared Morningstar will present Islamic process theologies, overviewing resonances between existing Muslim philosophies and cosmologies with contemporary process perspectives, and also exploring the emerging forms of explicit Islamic process theologies.
Some topics to be explored in this pop-up include:
- Intellectual and spiritual developments in Islamic history that are resonant with process thought
- Muhammad Iqbal’s Islamic process theology and the influence of Alfred North Whitehead and Henri Bergson on his thought
- Adis Duderija’s scholarship on progressive Islam and process thought
- Recent Muslim engagement with Gilles Deleuze as another form of Islamic process thought
This conversation will introduce these different historic and contemporary forms of Muslim process thinking, exploring the possibilities for further development as well as the barriers to broader interest in Islamic process theology.
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“Process-relational thinking allows Muslim intellectuals to deconstruct dysfunctional ideas from both Western modernity and Islamic traditions while also encouraging the creative reconstruction and synthesis of material from both of these spheres, leading to more holistic and dynamic responses to the challenges of contemporary times.”
Jared Morningstar, “Process-Relational Thought and Islam: Proposing a Novel Framework for Constructive Engagement with Modernity” in Open and Relational Theology and its Social and Political Implications: Muslim and Christian Perspectives.
About the Speaker
Jared Morningstar
Jared Morningstar is an independent scholar living in Madison, Wisconsin with academic interests in philosophy of religion, Islamic studies, comparative religion, metamodern spirituality, and interfaith dialogue. His work in these areas seeks to offer robust responses to issues of inter-religious conflict, contemporary nihilism, and the “meaning crisis,” among other things. Jared graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2018 with degrees in religion and Scandinavian studies and currently works for the Center for Process Studies, the Cobb Institute, and the Psychedelic Medicine Association. You can find him at https://jaredmorningstar.com.
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