What’s the Matter with Affect? | Rev. Thandeka

Reverend Thandeka presents "What's the Matter with Affect?" at the conference Metaphysics and the Matter with Things: Thinking with Iain McGilchrist.
Metaphysics and the Matter with Things: Thinking with Iain McGilchrist was a collaborative conference put on by the Center for Process Studies (CPS) and the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in March of 2024. This three-day conference brought leading process thinkers across various disciplines, including physics, neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and theology into critical dialogue with McGilchrist’s work in a collegial effort to assess, question, extend, and apply it. For more information on the conference and to purchase recordings, please visit ctr4process.or...
About Thandeka:
Rev. Thandeka, PhD is the founder of Contemporary Affect Theology, which investigates the links between religion and emotions using insights from Affective Neuroscience. Jaak Panksepp, the founder of Affective Neuroscience, commends Thandeka’s “decisive historical-philosophical analysis” as work that can provide “a universal substrate for nondenominational religious experience” (The Archaeology of Mind, 391). Before receiving her doctorate in philosophy of religion and theology from Claremont Graduate University, she was an Emmy award-winning television producer for 16 years. She was given the Xhosa name Thandeka, which means “beloved,” by Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 1984. Thandeka is a Unitarian Universalist theologian, minister and congregational consultant who leads the Love Beyond Belief™ project and is co-president of the Universal Connections small group project.
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