HTI Open Plaza

HTI Open Plaza

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HTI Open Plaza episodes

  • 'The Border is the Cross': Jornada por la Justicia

    Dr. Jeremy Cruz and Dr. Victor Carmona, who both teach theology and religious studies, talk about what’s happening at the U.S.-Mexico border, and about the work churches and local communities have taken on to help migrants. In the fall of 2019, Dr. Cruz and Dr. Carmona both participated in La Jornada por la Justicia in El Paso, TX and in Ciudad Juarez, MX. The pilgrimage was organized by Catholic leaders and included participants from all over the country.

    Our guests also remind us why we need to be counted and urge us to fill out our 2020 U.S. Census forms, which can be done online, by phone or via mail: https://2020census.gov/en.html .

    36 min
  • Sintiendo la ausencia y presencia de Dios en tiempos de crisis
    La Dra. Doris García-Rivera y la Rvda. Lydia Hernández-Marcial concuerdan en que, en medio de una crisis, la naturaleza humana es preguntar, ¿Dónde está Dios? Plantean que las tribulaciones igual nos presentan una oportunidad para acercarnos más a Dios y profundizar no solo nuestra conexión espiritual sino también con la humanidad. A pesar de que Puerto Rico sigue recuperándose de las réplicas del huracán María—incluso aumentos en las tasas de suicidio y en familias fracturadas por la muerte de seres queridos o por la migración a los Estados Unidos—las académicas borinqueñas marcan la calma en la tormenta.
    17 min
  • Crescent over Knoxville: Teaching Islam in the “Sort of South”
    In this episode of HTI Open Plaza, Dr. Angela Tarango and Dr. Manuela Ceballos discuss what it's like to teach Islam in Tennessee. What challenges does a Colombian-born professor Dr. Ceballos face when teaching Islam to military veteran students at a state university in the South? How are certain religious sounds racialized and, as in the case of call to prayer, what negative consequences can this have on Muslims in the United States?
    13 min
  • En conjunto: LGBTQ Issues in the Church and in the Academy
    In this pedagogical methods conversation, Dr. Xochitl Alvizo and Dr. Matilde Moros discuss their teaching of gender, sexuality and women’s studies. They each share how they navigate their individual experience of LGBTQ Latinx family lives and their religious studies backgrounds when teaching undergraduate classes.
    27 min
  • Chisme and its Cultural Importance

    Chisme, bochinche, tea—whatever you call it, gossip has a cultural importance in our communities. Dr. Neomi DeAnda, Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo, and Dr. Matilde Moros dish on what Dr. DeAnda describes as communication behavior that functions to “reveal what is missing in social systems or when someone steps outside the boundaries of social systems".

    30 min
  • Hermeneutics in the Latinx Context- Episode 3

    Looking through a Latina Lens

    It is important to read the Bible through a self-consciously Latina interpretive, or hermeneutical, lens. In this three-episode podcast, Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo and Dr. Kay Higuera Smith discuss the moment when they first realized how much context matters in thinking about the Bible. In the third episode of this podcast, they turn their hermeneutical lens on another genre: the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside” by Frank Loesser. Turns out that meaning can be double-edged.

    18 min
  • Hermeneutics in the Latinx Context- Episode 2

    Looking through a Latina Lens

    It is important to read the Bible through a self-consciously Latina interpretive, or hermeneutical, lens. In this three-episode podcast, Dr. Jacqueline Hidalgo and Dr. Kay Higuera Smith discuss the moment when they first realized how much context matters in thinking about the Bible. In the third episode of this podcast, they turn their hermeneutical lens on another genre: the song “Baby It’s Cold Outside” by Frank Loesser. Turns out that meaning can be double-edged.

    18 min

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HTI Open Plaza is an online platform within the Hispanic Theological Initiative that amplifies the voices of diverse thinkers and scholars in the public square.