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🗓️ 4 June 2023
⏱️ 155 minutes
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0:00.0 | You are a professor of religion and religious studies, but do you personally believe in God? |
0:16.0 | Okay, so let me talk a little bit about what we do in my field. In religious studies, it's a |
0:23.0 | multidisciplinary field. And some... A little bit closer. Okay, some of us are archaeologists, |
0:29.5 | some are historians, some are a combination of those. And our method is that we take a step back from belief. We study belief in how belief |
0:42.1 | informs practices and worldwide movements and things like that. Religion is a very powerful force. |
0:49.0 | People will die for their religious belief. So we're academics and we don't actually, like, I don't tell my students what I believe |
0:58.8 | because I don't think it's helpful. |
1:01.6 | We're learning about religion. |
1:03.1 | We're not, I'm not advocating religion. |
1:06.5 | But I personally, yes, believe in God. |
1:09.2 | But it's not part of my field. |
1:11.6 | It's, you know, we have atheists. |
1:13.6 | Some of the best people in my field are atheists. |
1:15.6 | Oh, okay. |
1:16.6 | So it's not being a minister or a priest or something like that. |
1:19.6 | I actually did get a master's degree along with priests and formation, Jesuits in formation, |
1:26.6 | from the Jesuit School of Theology, which was affiliated with UC Berkeley, it is part |
1:32.4 | of the Graduate Theological Union, which is very similar to Harvard Divinity School, but |
1:36.7 | Berkeley's version. |
1:38.9 | And then I went on to get a PhD from Syracuse University in Religious Studies, which is |
1:43.9 | a field, a field of international |
1:45.8 | academics who study religion. A lot of people are religious who study religion, but a lot of |
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