Book release and seminar: Faith-Based Health Justice in Times of Global Trauma and Transformation (online)

• Time: 15th June 2021 at 17-19 
• Where: Online event 
• Programme: Full programme and list of speakers can be found here www.crs.uu.se. Find the event also on Berkley Center’s page
• Registration: Participation is free of charge and open to all, but registration is necessary. Please register on the latest June 13 here.  The link to the event will be sent to all registered participants shortly before the event

You are warmly welcome to the book release and seminar!

Charity alone can provide but a fraction of an answer to the global health challenges of the 21 st century. Faith-Based Health Justice Transforming Agendas of Faith Communities (Fortress Press, Feb 2021), a new volume discussing faith and health justice today, has raised such questions.

Providing new empirical examples and developing theoretical discussions from contexts around the globe this edited collection is an important contribution to further discussion on a vital, but understudied issue.

The online event launching the book and exploring faith based health justice extends its concerns to the era of the newest pandemic. This event gathers academics and practitioners to share knowledge and reflect and build on the findings presented in the book.

This event provides the opportunity to listen to authors from the volume from a wide variety of contexts presenting their research, as well as comments and reflections from other international experts in the field.

Through an understanding of faith based health justice, which has now entered the era of a global pandemic, speakers will explore reflections on the health traumas we are witnessing and the opportunities such a rupture creates for transforming fragile and fragmented forms of health justice from a faith based lens. This event aims to start a discussion to continue developing the themes from the book in ways that look forward to repairing and regrowing our global health and transforming trauma to justice.

Contributions include keynotes by  

• Professor Dr Katherine Marshall, Senior Fellor Executive Director of the World Faiths Development Dialogue, The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, DC  
• Simon Dein, Consultant Psychiatrist and Honorary Professor, Durham University and Queen Mary’s University, London, UK 

As well as presentations by editors and authors, including Dr. Adj. Prof. (Docent) Ville Päivänsalo, Lecturer, Diak, and by commentators, including Dr. Adj. Prof. (Docent) Mikko Malkavaara, Principal Lecturer, Diak. 

The event is organized by 

• The Diaconia University of Applied Sciences (Diak), Helsinki 
• The Faculty of Theology (University of Helsinki)
• The Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society CRS (Uppsala University)
• The Fortress Press Minneapolis, MN 
• Läkarmissionen (LM), Stockholm 
• The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.