Walter H. Capps Center (Audio)

UCTV

The Capps Center at UCSB presents public lectures that seek to advance discussion of issues related to ethics, values and public life, and to encourage non-partisan, non-sectarian civic participation.

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Walter H. Capps Center (Audio)

Episodes (119)

Tue Jun 2nd Religion in Motion: The Identity and World-Creating Powers of Religious Action
Feb 4th Water Wealth and the Ancestral Circular Economy with Kamanamaikalani Beamer
Jan 28th Indigenous Religious Traditions and Law in the Current Political Moment

Walter H. Capps Center (Audio)

Jun 2, 2026
54 minutes
49 MB

What does it mean to rethink religion from the ground up? University of Colorado's religious studies professor Sam Gill draws on biology, philosophy, and decades of research and dance practice to argue that we are moving, whole organisms before we are divided into mind and body. Gill proposes that humans possess a biologically enabled capacity to hold together what we know to be different as if it were the same—a dynamic that underlies the powers of metaphor, masking, dancing, ritual action, symbol, and language. Through vivid examples from Hopi initiation, Javanese shadow puppetry and dance, and Navajo prayer ceremonials, Gi...

Walter H. Capps Center (Audio)

Religion in Motion: The Identity and World-Creating Powers of Religious Action

UCTV

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