Sacred Snaps tells the story of a new approach to interfaith engagement. It is an invitation to see and engage religion, diversity, and inclusion through the lens of the mobile phone camera.
Sacred Snaps tells the story of a new approach to interfaith engagement. It is an invitation to see and engage religion, diversity, and inclusion through the lens of the mobile phone camera. These days, just about everyone owns a camera equipped smartphone. What if we recruited these cameras for the common good? When religion shows up in everyday life—at work, school, the mall, or the beach—often it is not welcome. At a time when so much of the public discourse is around equity, diversity, and inclusion, religion seems peripheral to important conversations about belief and belonging.
Many embrace the wisdom that our workplaces, schools, and communities are enhanced when people can bring their whole selves into every aspect of their daily lives. But religion and spirituality are not gaining the same ground as other aspects of diversity such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and ability. To be more fully included in the cultural conversation about human flourishing, religion needs to be seen and heard in new ways. The old paradigm of interreligious dialogue is no longer adequate. A new paradigm focused on building relationships at the grass roots of daily life is emerging.
This cutting-edge volume brings together Christians and Muslims in the United States and Canada to explore what their beliefs, practices, and values look like in everyday life.
Introduction | Doing what I can in my little world. An Invitation to
Interfaith Engagement Part I: Grassroots Interfaith Engagement Through
Photovoice
1. Its just not a lens I had. Seeing and Being Seen in a Time
of Polarization
2. Im a big photo nut. Our Approach
3. Thats a
game-changer! Interfaiths New Paradigm: From Dialogue to Engagement Part
II: Religion and Spirituality in Everyday Life
4. Im not the only crazy
person. Seeing Nature Through Religious Lenses
5. I want that. Prayer and
the Power of Appreciative Knowledge
6. They ask me if Im oppressed.
Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
7. Ask someone else to do it. Race,
Religion, and Social Inequalities
8. My faith tugs at me daily not to look
past. Compassion and Responsibility in the Face of Poverty Part III: From
Snapshot to Engagement
9. Like a call to action. Curating Voices and
Exhibiting Change
10. It gave me a forum. Photovoice as an Interfaith
Contact Zone
11. How other people see it. Seeing Differences within
Religions
12. Now Im back in my world. The Shelf Life of Interfaith
Interventions
13. Conclusion | It was theirs after that. Interfaith
Dialogue in Action
Roman R. Williams is founder of Interfaith Photovoice®. He is a visual sociologist and consultant who combines photography and sociology for intergroup and interfaith engagement.
Catherine Holtmann is the academic chair of the Religion and Violence Research Team at the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research, Professor, and Chair of Sociology at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.
William L. Sachs is an Episcopal priest with decades of parish service. His experience has included doctoral study at the University of Chicago in modern religious history, as well as occasional stints as a college and seminary teacher. He is also a prolific writer who has published eleven books and more than 200 articles, reviews, chapters, and essays.
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