Guns and God
Conversations about places where faith and politics overlap, with particular interest in extremism and violence. Run by the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence www.csbvbristol.org.uk. Meet our hosting team. Helen Paynter is a Baptist minister and biblical specialist, and director of the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. Matthew Feldman is an expert on the radical right and director of the Centre for the Analysis of the Radical Right, although he speaks here in a private capacity. Maria Power is a Catholic social historian and an expert on peace-making initiatives in Northern Ireland. She is director of the Human Dignity Project at the Las Casas Institute, Oxford and research associate at the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. Michael Spalione is a political theologian and research associate at the Centre for the Study of Bible and Violence. We usually have an invited guest. Conversations focus on a diverse range of topics, such as antisemitism, the myth of redemptive violence, BLM, Islamism, and MAGA. Music at the beginning and end of each episode was from "Pride Cometh", used by kind permission of FALL Hardcore.
Guns and God
Human rights and dealing with difference - with guest David Montgomery
Helen and Matthew talk with Dr David Montgomery, Associate Research Professor at the Centre for International Development at the University of Maryland, and Director of CEDAR. Among other works, he is the co-author of Living with Difference: How to Build Community in a Divided World.
We discuss the usefulness of the language of human rights, in this blog post co-authored by David Montgomery and Adam Seligman, and this follow-up by David. We also discuss community building between individuals of different faiths and other significant differences, which David undertakes in some of the most troubled regions of the world.
We discuss the usefulness of the language of human rights, in this blog post co-authored by David Montgomery and Adam Seligman, and this follow-up by David. We also discuss community building between individuals of different faiths and other significant differences, which David undertakes in some of the most troubled regions of the world.