Shawn Landres

    J. Shawn Landres (born 1972 in Los Angeles, California) is a social entrepreneur and independent scholar, known primarily for writing and advocacy related to religion and social innovation, especially in the Jewish community. As the co-founder of Jumpstart, a nonprofit philanthropic research organization,[1][2] he has worked with the White House on Jewish affairs and issues related to faith-based social innovation.[3][4][5][6] The Jewish Daily Forward named Landres to its annual list of the 50 most influential American Jews in 2009.[7]

    A co-founder (with Rabbi Lawrence A. Hoffman) of Synagogue 3000's Synagogue Studies Institute,[8] Landres is credited with creating the term "Jewish emergent," which describes new spiritual Jewish communities whose institutional dynamic in which "relationship, not contract or program, is the driving metaphor;” the term “Jewish Emergent” is after a parallel movement in the Christian church.[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16] A 2007 report Landres co-authored with sociologist Steven M. Cohen and others linked Jewish emergent communities to social networking rather than institutional structures.[17] They argued that "Jewish emergent" encompasses both the independent minyan movement (which was supported by Synagogue 3000)[18] and so-called "rabbi-led emergent" communities such as IKAR and Kavana Cooperative.[19] In 2006, Landres co-convened the first gathering of Emergent church and "Jewish emergent" leaders in a meeting[20][21] co-led by theologian Tony Jones, who recounted the episode in one of his books.[22]

    In July 2012, the White House invited Landres, representing Jumpstart, to speak as a "spotlight innovator" at its Faith-Based Social Innovators Conference.[23][24][25][26]

    Landres currently serves as a commissioner on the Los Angeles County Quality and Productivity Commission.[27][28] Bill Clinton has identified him as the "young man" who suggested "Don't Stop" as the future president's 1992 campaign theme song.[29][30]

    Landres graduated from Columbia University and received a Masters degrees from Oxford in Social Anthropology and the University of California, Santa Barbara, in Religious Studies, as well as a Doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.[31] Landres's work on ethnographic methodology has been cited in handbooks for the study of the sociology of religion.[32][33][34] In 2004, Landres took a public role in shaping the interreligious response to the film The Passion of the Christ.[35][36][37][38][39]

    Being of Jewish descent, in August 2015 he signed - as one of 98 members of the Los Angeles' Jewish community - an open letter supporting the proposed nuclear agreement between Iran and six world powers led by the United States "as being in the best interest of the United States and Israel."[40][41]

    See also

    Emerging church
    Independent minyan
    Jumpstart (Jewish)

    References

    1. ↑ Kaplan, E. (2009). Jumpstart Nurtures Innovation, Focused on Social Entrepreneurs. Jewish Journal, November 16.
    2. ↑ West, Melanie Grayce. (2013). Young Jews Courted as Donors. The Wall Street Journal, August 31.
    3. ↑ Harris, J. (2009). My Trip to the White House. Jewcy.com, May 21 (blog post).
    4. ↑ White House party to celebrate Jewish culture. The Baltimore Sun, May 27, 2010.
    5. ↑ Hoffman, A. (2010). Obama Fetes the Jews. Tablet, May 28.
    6. ↑ rabbiyonah. (2010). Jewlicious Heritage Month at White House. Jewlicious (blog), May 28.
    7. ↑ ""Forward 50, 2009," The Jewish Daily Forward". November 11, 2009.
    8. ↑ "New Field of ‘synagogue Studies’ Addresses Changes in Jewish Life." Jewish Telegraphic Agency, November 6, 2006.
    9. ↑ Shiflett, Dave. (2006). Getting Hip to Religion. The Wall Street Journal, February 24.
    10. ↑ Landres, J. Shawn (June 1, 2006). "The Emerging Spiritual Paradigm". Sh'ma Journal.
    11. ↑ Shawn Landres, J.; Bolger, R. K. (1 July 2007). "Emerging Patterns of Interreligious Conversation: A Christian-Jewish Experiment". The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 612 (1): 225–239. doi:10.1177/0002716207301563.
    12. ↑ Brown, S. P. (2006). Emergent Jews. Jewish Journal, January 26.
    13. ↑ Brown, S. P. (2006). Emergent Network Could Help Define Synagogue. Jewish Journal, December 1.
    14. ↑ Bronznick, S. (2009). Visioning Justice and the American Jewish Community. New York: Nathan Cummings Foundation.
    15. ↑ Banerjee, Neela. (2007). Challenging Tradition, Young Jews Worship on Their Own Terms. The New York Times, November 28.
    16. ↑ Fishkoff, S. (2007). Minyan study: Jews pray on own terms. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, November 30.
    17. ↑ Cohen, S. M., Landres, J. S., Kaunfer, E., & Shain, M. (2007). Emergent Jewish communities and their participants: Preliminary findings from the 2007 National Spiritual Communities Study. New York: S3K Synagogue Studies Institute and Mechon Hadar.
    18. ↑ Turned off by Traditional Services, Young Jews Form New Prayer Groups." Jewish Telegraphic Agency, September 12, 2006.
    19. ↑ Tu, J. I. (2007). Queen Anne Jewish community goes its own way. Seattle Times, September 12.
    20. ↑ Winston, D. (2006). Religious Progressives: The Next Generation. Los Angeles Times, February 5.
    21. ↑ Flaccus, Gillian. (2006.) Disillusioned Jews, Christians share ideas on 'emergent' faith. (Associated Press.) Orange County Register, January 21.
    22. ↑ Jones, Tony. (2008). The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier". Jossey-Bass. See also Chia, L. (2010). Emerging faith boundaries: bridge-building, inclusion, and the emerging church movement in America (Doctoral dissertation, University of Missouri--Columbia). See also Haji, R., & Lalonde, R. N. (2012). Interreligious Communication. In Giles, H. (Ed.). The Handbook of Intergroup Communication. London: Routledge, p. 285.
    23. ↑ Anderson, R. (2012). Spiritually Speaking: Faith-based is non-partisan. Eden Prairie News, August 5.
    24. ↑ Kampeas, Ron. (2012). Repair the World, Jewish Jumpstart join White House faith-based forum. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, July 12.
    25. ↑ Vandeventer, P. (2012). Of Wedges and Willing Allies. Community Partners blog, July.
    26. ↑ Jumpstart Co-founder Shawn Landres at the White House - July 11, 2012 on Vimeo
    27. ↑ "Statement of Proceedings for the Regular Meeting of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Los Angeles" (PDF). August 6, 2013. Retrieved 2013-09-14.
    28. ↑ Hartog, K. (2013). Santa Monica Resident to Receive Philanthropic Leadership Award from Liberty Hill Foundation. Santa Monica Patch (santamonica.patch.com), September 4.
    29. ↑ Clinton, Bill (2005). My Life. Vintage. p. 368. ISBN 978-1400030033.
    30. ↑ "Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow". Clinton '92 Campaign Reunion. C-SPAN. Sep 30, 2011.
    31. ↑ Quality and Productivity Commission
    32. ↑ Landres, JS; Spickard, JV; McGuire, MB (2002). Personal Knowledge and Beyond. New York University Press.
    33. ↑ Spickard, J. V. (2007). Micro qualitative approaches to the sociology of religion: phenomenologies, interviews, narratives, and ethnographies. The Sage handbook of the sociology of religion. London: Sage, 121-143.
    34. ↑ Roof, W. C. (2011). Research design. In Stausberg, M., & Engler, S. (Eds.). The Routledge handbook of research methods in the study of religion (pp. 68-80).London, UK: Routledge.
    35. ↑ Landres, JS; Berenbaum, M (2004). After The Passion is Gone: American Religious Consequences. Rowman Altamira.
    36. ↑ Landres, J.S. (2004). "Passion" Response Dos and Don'ts. Jewish Journal, February 12.
    37. ↑ "Who Really Killed Jesus?" (2004). Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, February 20.
    38. ↑ Gruber, R. E. (2004). Nun who inspired Gibson’s ‘Passion’ may become a saint. Jewish Telegraphic Agency / JWeekly.com, October 8.
    39. ↑ Landres, J.S., & Berenbaum, M. (2004). Diskuse o Gibsonove 'Utrpneni krista' [in Czech]. Dingir 2/2004.
    40. ↑ Jewish Journal: "What do 98 L.A. Jewish leaders think about the Iran agreement?" August 13, 2015
    41. ↑ Hollywood reporter: "98 Prominent Hollywood Jews Back Iran Nuclear Deal in Open Letter (Exclusive)" by Seth Abramovitch August 12, 2015

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