Mr. Smith's Club
Thursday, September 20th
6-9pm (happy hour 6-7pm, meet the author 7-8pm, mingle 8-9pm)
This evening's featured speaker will be Professor Jean Molesky-Poz,
author of Contemporary Maya Spirituality. The author will be available
after to sign her book. We suggest buying and reading the book before
the event. She will bring a few books with her to sell but you may also
buy a copy online: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/molcon.html
About the author:
Jean Molesky-Poz ,Ph.D., a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, has
researched extensively among the Maya in highland Guatemala from
1985-2001. a time coinciding with the public emergence of Maya
spirituality. She understands Maya spirituality not as a conservative,
static survival of the past, nor as a syncretic development, but as a
distinct spirituality, with transformed continuities. Maya spirituality
is unique in is tie to sacred geography, to the Mesoamerican calendar,
and to ritual practice. Her work illuminates how the 260-day Maya
calendar continues to be the "heart of the wisdom of the Maya people,"
and the underlying order which form Maya psychology and discernment. Her
position as an ethnographer is unique to this work as through
friendship, marriage and family ties, she has been brought into the Maya
community.
Professor Jean Molesky-Poz was formerly a lecturer in Ethnic and Native
American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley until 2001
and currently is on the faculty of Religious Studies at Santa Clara
University. She holds at Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union in
Berkeley, California. She is recipient of the Fulbright-Hayes Award,
John Templeton Religion and Science Awards, and numerous research
grants.
Location: Mr. Smith's Club, 34 7th Street, SF, CA 94103 close to 7th and
Market St and the Civic Center BART
Cost: $12 for members and $20 for non-members (Cash bar; snacks will be
included)
RSVP to Todd Theringer: todd.theringer@columbiaalum.com.