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Podcast: New Books in Gender
Episode: Zen Chaplaincy, Activism, and Scholarship
Description: In this episode of the Blue Beryl Podcast, Pierce Salguero sits down with Wakoh Shannon Hickey, who is a Soto Zen priest, hospice chaplain, scholar, and activist. She talks about her 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 page
Hickey, Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine (Oxford UP, 2019)
Helderman, Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion (2019)
Brown, Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reform...