51 Min.

Zen Chaplaincy, Activism, and Scholarship, with Wakoh Shannon Hickey Blue Beryl

    • Buddhismus

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Wakoh Shannon Hickey, who is a Soto Zen priest, hospice chaplain, scholar, and activist. We talk about Wakoh’s early experiences with social violence in the 1980s, her work as a hospital chaplain, and her 2019 book Mind Cure, which is a groundbreaking social history of religion and mindfulness in the U.S. Resources:Wakoh's Academia.edu pageHickey, Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine (2019)Helderman, Prescribing the Dharma: P...

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Wakoh Shannon Hickey, who is a Soto Zen priest, hospice chaplain, scholar, and activist. We talk about Wakoh’s early experiences with social violence in the 1980s, her work as a hospital chaplain, and her 2019 book Mind Cure, which is a groundbreaking social history of religion and mindfulness in the U.S. Resources:Wakoh's Academia.edu pageHickey, Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine (2019)Helderman, Prescribing the Dharma: P...

51 Min.