Celidwen's book Flourishing Kin bridges Indigenous ontologies and methodologies, academic research, and poetic expression to cultivate sustainable collective flourishing through Indigenous contemplative spiritualities and sciences. This roundtable brings scholars of diverse fields to discuss Celidwen's perspectives of relationality and flourishing as a spiritual-aesthetic arrest only possible in community through cultivating relationships toward all kin, from human to more-than-human, and the living Earth. Celidwen’s research draws from Indigenous spiritualities through ontologies and methodologies from her upbringing of Nahua and Maya Traditions and other Indigenous Traditions from around the world. Her research converses with Contemplative Studies, Religious Studies, Environmental Studies, Religion and Ecology, African Religions, and Eastern Religions to show the tremendous benefit of integrating Indigenous forms of contemplation in approaches to well-being. Through poetic expression and authentic truth-telling, Celidwen invites a path that meets the world's complexity with reverence and joyous participation in the flourishing of all living beings.
| Yuria Celidwen, University of California, Berkeley | celidwen@berkeley.edu | View |
Indigenous Religious Traditions co-chairs: Yuria Celidwen and Seth Schermerhorn (confirmed interest)
Contemplative Studies co-chairs: Loriliai Biernacki and Michael Sheehy (confirmed interest)
Religion and Ecology co-chairs: Kimberly Carfore and Joseph Wiebe (confirmed interest)
African Religious Traditions co-chairs: Georgette Ledgister and David Ngong
Confucian Religions co-chairs: Michael Ing and Bin Song