Shows
Conversations in Practical TheologyOwen Griffiths interview - practical theology in everyday lifeSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart interview Owen Griffiths on practical theology for everyday life.Owen mentions a clothing charity in which he is involved in Ebbw Vale. It's Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560055527372The conference and retreat centre Owen mentions is Coleg Trefeca: Coleg Trefeca | Stay in Mid Wales | Coleg Trefeca College Lane, Trefeca, Brecon, Powys, LD3 0PP. https://www.trefeca.org/
2025-01-2935 min
Conversations in Practical TheologyInperson encountersSaiyyidah Zaidi & Eric Stoddart in conversation about the benefits of inperson rather than online encounters.
2024-07-0332 minConversations in Practical TheologyUncertaintySaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart discuss uncertainty and its relationship in religious and other perspectives to faith, certainty and doubt.
2024-05-2230 minConversations in Practical TheologyMemory LossSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart discuss spirituality when it's memory loss and cognitive decline that is of concern.They make reference to the work of John Swinton whose publications can be found at: https://www.abdn.ac.uk/sdhp/profiles/j.swinton#publications
2024-03-0632 minConversations in Practical TheologyAutoethnographySaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about autoethnography - one of the research methods sometimes used in practical theology. 2 November 2023.Resources:'Invitation to Research in Practical Theology' by Zoë Bennett, Elaine Graham, Stephen Pattison, Heather Walton. Published by Routledge in 2018. https://www.routledge.com/Invitation-to-Research-in-Practical-Theology/Bennett-Graham-Pattison-Walton/p/book/9781138478565# 'Ethics in Autoethnography and Collaborative Autoethnography' by Judith C. Lapadat in the journal 'Qualitative Inquiry' vol 23, issue 8, 2017. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077800417704462
2023-11-0336 min2023-10-0629 minConversations in Practical TheologyInterview with Mandy CarrSaiyyidah Zaidi interviews Mandy Carr.Mandy Carr is a dramatherapist, former senior lecturer and a scholar of Practical Theology on the Cambridge Theological Federation/Anglia Ruskin University Professional Doctorate programme. As a drama and language teacher in inner London secondary schools, Mandy became inspired by the profoundly enabling and democratic theatre techniques of Augusto Boal. She was fortunate enough to train with Boal himself in 1995, before training as a dramatherapist at Roehampton University from 1997-2000.In her work towards a professional doctorate in Practical Theology, Mandy explores the relationship between religion, belief, spirituality and dramatherapy...
2023-06-1236 min
Conversations in Practical TheologyMaking SpaceSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about making space that is material, psychological, emotional and spiritual. 2 May 2023
2023-05-0237 min
Conversations in Practical TheologyInterview with Elaine GrahamSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk with Prof. Elaine Graham about practical theology and her recent work. Recorded 6 March 2023
2023-04-1744 min
Conversations in Practical TheologyLetting GoSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about letting go.
2023-01-3129 minConversations in Practical TheologyJubileesSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about jubilees and anniversaries.
2022-08-0838 minConversations in Practical TheologyReligious ConversionSaiyyidah Zaidi & Eric Stoddart talk about religious conversion.
2022-03-1436 minConversations in Practical TheologyNicola Slee - interviewSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk to Prof. Nicola Slee.https://www.queens.ac.uk/people/academic/nicola-slee https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nicola-Slee/e/B001HD30YW%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share
2022-02-0145 minConversations in Practical TheologyCOP26 - the environment and practical theologySaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about the connection between practical theology and concern for the environment.
2021-11-0235 minConversations in Practical TheologyFaith and risk in the pandemic - with Owen GriffithsSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart speak to Rev. Owen Griffiths, minister of Carmel Chapel, Blaenllechau in Wales, and chair of BIAPT (the British & Irish Association for Practical Theology).
2021-10-0648 minConversations in Practical TheologyCovid-19 and places of worshipSaSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about how restrictions on gathering and movement help us rethink what is of most importance for worship practices.
2020-04-0831 minConversations in Practical TheologyPilgrimageSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about pilgrimage; its spirituality and connectedness, from major once-in-a-lifetime events to small walks.
2020-03-0331 minConversations in Practical TheologyNew BeginningsSaiyyidah Zaidi, Harrie Cedar and Eric Stoddart talk about new beginnings from their respective religious traditions of Islam, Judaism and Christianity.
2020-01-0933 minConversations in Practical TheologyGroup IdentitiesSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart talk about group identities, tribes, and the categories into which we place ourselves - and others place us. They ponder how their respective faith traditions (Muslim and Christian) help them think through identity and its potential to alienate others.
2019-12-1032 minConversations in Practical TheologyPrayerHarrie Cedar and Eric Stoddart discuss prayer from their respective Jewish and Christian perspectives.
2019-11-1435 minConversations in Practical TheologySurveillanceSaiyyida Zaidi talks to Eric Stoddart about his Christian practical theology research in surveillance and human flourishing. Eric is currently writing another book on surveillance. This time it's on the common good and surveillance. The Common Gaze will be published by SCM in late 2020.
2019-10-2241 minConversations in Practical TheologyTheologising Brext - with Anthony ReddieSaiyyidah Zaidi and Eric Stoddart in conversation with Anthony Reddie about his new book, Theologising Brexit: A Liberationist and Postcolonial Critique (Routledge, 2019). https://www.routledge.com/Theologising-Brexit-A-Liberationist-and-Postcolonial-Critique-1st-Edition/Reddie/p/book/9780367028886
2019-10-0750 minConversations in Practical TheologyReflections on Muslim-Christian Summer School, 2019Saiyyidah Zaidi in conversation with Eric Stoddart about her recent participation in this summer school in Oxford, UK.
2019-09-2431 minConversations in Practical TheologyRadical AmazementSaiyyidah Zaidi & Eric Stoddart in conversation about the recent BIAPT (British and Irish Association for Practical Theology) conference, held in Liverpool, England, 8-11 July 2019.
2019-08-1534 minConversations in Practical TheologyCompetitivenessSaiyyidah Zaidi & Eric Stoddart in conversation about competitiveness in life and particularly in spirituality.
2019-06-2038 minConversations in Practical TheologyWhat is freedom?Saiyyidah Zaidi & Eric Stoddart in conversation about freedom, what it is, what it is for.
2019-02-0735 minConversations in Practical TheologyReligion and SpiritualityA discussion of the differences between religion and spirituality, with some diversions into technology, quick-fixes to life's challenges, and spirituality and loneliness.
2018-08-3133 minConversations in Practical TheologyNational IdentityConversation on religion, national identity and practical theology.
2018-07-2544 minConversations in Practical TheologyReligion and Physical SpaceConversation on religion and physical space, how to affects our interactions.
2018-07-1232 minConversations in Practical TheologyPower in religionDiscussing relationships of authority and influence within Christianity and Islam.
2018-06-2133 minConversations in Practical TheologyCommodification of ReligionSome aspects of how religions use and generate money; sometimes turning spiritual activities into commercial activities.
2018-05-1439 min2018-04-0343 min2018-03-0639 min2018-02-0837 min2017-12-1432 min