Oct 18, 2016
Mona sits down with Lauren Andrea-Lucia to explore what it means to have multiple religious identities. Lauren grew up in Italy with a Catholic father and a Jewish mother, and finds religious and spiritual nourishment in both traditions, identifying as a dual-religious person. Lauren shares her experience of holding both religious identities together, despite their seemingly mutually-exclusive claims to truth. The conversation covers the context of the history of anti-semitism and forced conversions, and explains why the blending of Jewish and Christian religious identity - and inter-religious dialogue in general - is often difficult. She also shares her perspective on what it means to have a religious family heritage, the difference between religion and spirituality, and why ideas of time and memory are so important to faith practice.
RELEVANT LINKS - Lauren’s Book Recommends ;)
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
- At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities by Jean Amery (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
- The Ethics of Memory by Avishai Margalit (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
- Two Types of Faith by Martin Buber (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
- The Sabbath by Abraham Heschel (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
- Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Brant Pitre (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
- Befriending the Beloved Disciple by Adele Reinhartz (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
- The Jewish Annotated New Testament (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
- The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
- The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other by Peter Schäfer (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link)
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Thank you Lauren Andrea-Lucia for sharing your story on multiple religious identities!
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