Jon Gill: Aesthetic Religion

Jon Ivan Gill is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College (St Peter, Mn.) And Cross-Community Coordinator at the Center for Process Studies (Salem, Or. and Claremont, Ca.). He is an avid scholar of Whiteheadian process thought, metaphysics, cultural studies, aesthetics, existentialist philosophy, and constructive & secular theology. His creative tangent ranges from underground hip-hop culture to cryptic lyrics he pens in rap, poetry, journal refereeing, book reviews, and academic essays, critiques, and books.

In the conversation we discuss…

• Jon’s origin story as a scholar
• the “key change” of going Process
• responding to the predicament of omnipotence
• shout out to Suchocki’s God Christ Church: A Practical Guide to Process Theology 
• the elements and origin of Hip-Hop
• wrestling with the legacy of supremacy culture in religion
• shout out to Coleman’s Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology 
• check out Jon’s new book, Toward Afrodiasporic and Afrofuturist Philosophies of Religion
• reshaping the nature of religious engagement
• Tripp gives an example where his love of the Lakers gets intense
• how does a Process vision remix liberation

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