Zen Chaplaincy, Activism, and Scholarship
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\xa0Mind Cure, which is a groundbreaking social history of religion and mindfulness in the U.S.\nResources:\n\nWakoh's Academia.edu page\n\nHickey,\xa0Mind Cure: How Meditation Became Medicine\xa0(Oxford UP, 2019)\n\nHelderman,\xa0Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion\xa0(2019)\n\nBrown,\xa0Debating Yoga and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or Reestablishing Religion?\xa0(2019)\n\nPurser,\xa0McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality\xa0(2019)\n\n\nFind all episodes of the Blue Beryl Podcast\xa0here.\nPierce Salguero\xa0is a transdisciplinary scholar of health humanities who is fascinated by historical and contemporary intersections between Buddhism, medicine, and crosscultural exchange. He has a Ph.D. in History of Medicine from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (2010), and teaches Asian history, medicine, and religion at Penn State University\u2019s Abington College, located near Philadelphia. He is also the host (with Lan Li) of the Blue Beryl podcast. Subscribe to Blue Beryl\xa0here.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies