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Jenn LINDSAY, Ph.D., is the CEO of So Fare Films and a Lecturer in Sociology at John Cabot University in Rome. A documentary filmmaker and social scientist specializing in religion, pluralism, and cultural conflict, her work examines how belief systems are shaped, represented, and contested in contemporary societies. She is the Producer/Director of the award-winning feature documentary Simulating Religious Violence, which follows computer scientists and religion scholars using computational modeling and simulation to better understand processes of religious radicalization.
Lindsay has directed and produced multiple documentary projects, led international training programs for emerging filmmakers, and published widely on interreligious dialogue and documentary practice. Working across academia, media, and cultural institutions, she brings a research-driven and globally grounded approach to documentary storytelling on religion, identity, embodiment, trauma, and social life.
The Acton Institute is a think-tank whose mission is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.
This direction recognizes the benefits of a limited government, but also the beneficent consequences of a free market. It embraces an objective framework of moral values, but also recognizes and appreciates the subjective nature of economic value. It views justice as a duty of all to give the one his due but, more importantly, as an individual obligation to serve the common good and not just his own needs and wants.
In order to promote a more profound understanding of the coming together of faith and liberty, Acton involves members of religious, business, and academic spheres in its various seminars, publications, and academic activities. It is our hope that by demonstrating the compatibility of faith, liberty, and free economic activity, religious leaders and entrepreneurs can contribute by helping to shape a society that is secure, free, and virtuous.
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Jenn LINDSAY, Ph.D., is the CEO of So Fare Films and a Lecturer in Sociology at John Cabot University in Rome. A documentary filmmaker and social scientist specializing in religion, pluralism, and cultural conflict, her work examines how belief systems are shaped, represented, and contested in contemporary societies. She is the Producer/Director of the award-winning feature documentary Simulating Religious Violence, which follows computer scientists and religion scholars using computational modeling and simulation to better understand processes of religious radicalization.
Lindsay has directed and produced multiple documentary projects, led international training programs for emerging filmmakers, and published widely on interreligious dialogue and documentary practice. Working across academia, media, and cultural institutions, she brings a research-driven and globally grounded approach to documentary storytelling on religion, identity, embodiment, trauma, and social life.
The Acton Institute is a think-tank whose mission is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.
This direction recognizes the benefits of a limited government, but also the beneficent consequences of a free market. It embraces an objective framework of moral values, but also recognizes and appreciates the subjective nature of economic value. It views justice as a duty of all to give the one his due but, more importantly, as an individual obligation to serve the common good and not just his own needs and wants.
In order to promote a more profound understanding of the coming together of faith and liberty, Acton involves members of religious, business, and academic spheres in its various seminars, publications, and academic activities. It is our hope that by demonstrating the compatibility of faith, liberty, and free economic activity, religious leaders and entrepreneurs can contribute by helping to shape a society that is secure, free, and virtuous.
Visit our website: acton.org
Subscribe to the Acton Line Podcast: acton.org/acton-line
Visit the Acton Bookshop: shop.acton.org
Follow Acton on Facebook: facebook.com/ActonInstitute
Follow Acton on Twitter: twitter.com/ActonInstitute
Follow Acton on Instagram: instagram.com/acton_institute
