Jon Gill: Aesthetic Religion

Jon Ivan Gill is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College (St Peter, Mn.) And Cross-Community Coordinator at the Center for Process Studies (Salem, Or. and Claremont, Ca.). He is an avid scholar of Whiteheadian process thought, metaphysics, cultural studies, aesthetics, existentialist philosophy, and constructive & secular theology. His creative tangent ranges from underground hip-hop culture to cryptic lyrics he pens in rap, poetry, journal refereeing, book reviews, and academic essays, critiques, and books. In the conversation we discuss… Jon’s origin story as a scholar the “key change” of going Process responding to the predicament of omnipotence shout out to Suchocki’s God Christ Church: A Practical Guide to Process Theology  the elements and origin of Hip-Hop wrestling with the legacy of supremacy culture in religion shout out to Coleman’s Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology  check out Jon’s new book, Toward Afrodiasporic and Afrofuturist Philosophies of Religion reshaping the nature of religious engagement Tripp gives an example where his love of the Lakers gets intense how does a Process vision remix liberation Follow the podcast, drop a review, or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices