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What Can TV Teach Us About the Spiritually Healthy Institution? Susan Scheibler Loyola Marymount University, Susan.Scheibler@Lmu.Edu Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal Volume 6 | Number 2 Article 17 12-2017 What Can TV Teach Us About the Spiritually Healthy Institution? Susan Scheibler Loyola Marymount University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://epublications.regis.edu/jhe Recommended Citation Scheibler, Susan (2017) "What Can TV Teach Us About the Spiritually Healthy Institution?," Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal: Vol. 6 : No. 2 , Article 17. Available at: https://epublications.regis.edu/jhe/vol6/iss2/17 This Scholarship is brought to you for free and open access by ePublications at Regis University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal by an authorized administrator of ePublications at Regis University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Scheibler: What TV Can Teach Us About the Spiritually Healthy Institution? What Can TV Teach Us About the Spiritually Healthy Institution? Susan Scheibler Associate Professor of Film, TV, & Video Games McGrath & Reilly, Loyola Marymount University LMU President’s Institute [email protected] Collection: Introduction and Abstract Overview This article posits that the television series Bones offers a model for a lively, vital, and spiritually Snyder, Necessary Companions: st healthy 21 century Catholic institution of higher education. It does this through a close analysis of Faith and Reason the series as a whole as informed by arguments posed by Catholic thinkers, and it argues that the show—through its characters, settings, stories, plots, and themes—self-consciously and McGrath & Reilly, consistently engages and explores various aspects of faith and reason, justice and ethics, within the President’s Institute on the context of a multidisciplinary research institution. In this way, an examination of the series can add Catholic depth and dimension within which educators are able to find spiritual, intellectual, and affective Character of resonances. LMU: A Twenty- One-Year Introduction ethics. They situate their stories and Tradition characters within a broad range of settings, Bouvier-Brown, Whether we watch them on a television set, a all of which provide a context for exploring Nurturing Student mobile device, or a computer, television series a wide-range of issues, concerns, questions Scientists as enter our lives, shaping and informing our and values, among which are the qualities People of Faith values both personal and cultural. We dissect we associate with a spiritually healthy Jarvis, Faith our favorite shows, putting our thoughts on institution. and Reason in display for others to engage by means of a the Pursuit of variety of social media platforms. Because Having just completed its twelfth and final Understanding they enter our lives through such an intimate season, the 20th Century Fox Television Rohm, Our medium, the characters we encounter take on series Bones provides one such example, and, Students’ Search something very close to a lived dimension. as such, is worth closer examination for for Meaning They show up week after week, episode after what it offers as a model for a lively and episode, year after year. Thanks to the power vital twenty-first century Catholic Scheibler, What of online streaming and DVDs, even after a institution. 1 The series, in many ways, is a Can TV Teach Us About the series is cancelled they do not go away. We conventional forensic procedural. However, Spiritually Healthy meet them over dinner, after work, before we the means by which the characters, settings, Institution? head to school, in the hours we should be stories, plots, and themes self-consciously studying and writing, and in those gap times and consistently engage with and explore Reilly & McGrath, when we find ourselves with time on our various aspects of faith and reason, justice Faith and Reason in Antiquity: hands. and ethics, within the context of a A Photo Essay multidisciplinary research institution adds The power of television has much to do with depth and dimension. It is within these the fact that, unlike a movie that must tell its complex associations that educators can story in one film, a series unfolds over several find spiritual, intellectual, and affective episodes and, if it’s lucky, many seasons. This resonances. allows a series to explore, deepen, complicate, and transform characters over time within the Bones and the Fictional Jeffersonian comfort of familiar settings, stories, and character types. TV shows can reinforce, The series, inspired by the life and work of challenge, question, or subvert our deeply real-life forensic anthropologist Kathy held ideas, values, attitudes, and perspectives Reichs (who is also a producer on the on a variety of issues, including gender, race, show), features a team of forensic scientists ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, faith, and who work with the FBI to solve murders. Jesuit Higher Education 6(2): 51-63 (2017) 51 Scheibler: What TV Can Teach Us About the Spiritually Healthy Institution? At the center of the team is Seelye Booth, a The narrative structure of the series provides former Army Ranger sniper turned FBI agent, the characters with the means, opportunity and Dr. Temperance Brennan, a brilliant and motives to explore and discuss matters of forensic anthropologist. Booth and Brennan, faith and reason, justice and ethics, religion also called “Bones” by Booth, work with and science, and the relationships between Camille “Cam” Saroyan, an accomplished disciplinary ways of knowing that characterize medical coroner; Jack Hodgins, the “bug and their work in all their nuances and slime guy”; Angela Montenegro, talented artist complications. The series adheres to the and computer expert; and an array of conventions associated with a police/crime Brennan’s most promising graduate students. procedural show. Each episode begins with The scientists work together at the the discovery of a badly decomposed body, Jeffersonian, a fictional institution that calls to then unfolds through a double investigation mind the Smithsonian. Like the Smithsonian, with the Jeffersonian team using their various the Jeffersonian is a museum, education and skills and expertise to determine the identity research complex located in Washington, D.C. of the victim, the time and cause of death, and The members of the Jeffersonian team are any relevant details that might help solve the intellectually engaged members of their case. Meanwhile Booth, sometimes with disciplines. Many of them hold multiple Brennan’s help, rounds up and interrogates advanced degrees and, in spite of the amount potential suspects. Once the crime is solved, of time they spend helping the FBI solve each episode ends with an epilogue that crimes, they continue to contribute well- allows the characters to recall and reflect on respected and peer-reviewed scholarship to what they have learned. They apply these their disciplines. For his part Booth is a highly lessons to their personal and professional decorated Army Ranger and FBI agent who is lives, and, in some sense, gain consolation called upon to lecture to other law even in the midst of the grief and loss that enforcement agencies, including Scotland comes from looking into the abyss of so Yard. much evil and suffering on a daily basis. Booth is a devout Catholic who attends The Spiritually Healthy Institution church regularly and, until he and Brennan start living together outside of marriage, goes In order for it to be effective in helping the to confession weekly. His faith informs every FBI investigate and solve complicated crimes aspect of his life, including, perhaps most requiring a full array of scientific expertise profoundly, his reason for joining the FBI, from a variety of disciplines and approaches, which is, as he tells Brennan in the pilot there is no doubt that the Jeffersonian must episode, a desire to find absolution by solving be an intellectually healthy institution. Due to one murder for every one of the fifty “kills” its emphasis on investigation, the series he committed as a sniper. Brennan, on the celebrates science and the use of inquiry- other hand, is a rational empiricist and self- based rational analysis and argumentation. proclaimed atheist who stands out, even The dialogue between the members of the among the other empiricists, atheists, and team is a constant interchange of scientific agnostics with whom she works, as hyper- knowledge from a variety of discourses all rational. She finds it almost physically painful challenging and informing each other in a way to make intuitive leaps or posit hypotheses that enlarges and deepens the knowledge pool that aren’t supported by a careful analysis of on which they rely to solve crimes. I would the evidence. Her ability to compartmentalize argue that what sets Bones apart from other combined with her almost rabid embrace of television shows is precisely the same objectivity and hard evidence often sets her in characteristics that set a spiritually healthy opposition to Booth, who depends on his Catholic institution apart from its secular intuition and instinct. counterparts. That is, its emphasis on the centrality of the religious experience; a focus on the dialogue between faith and reason; and Jesuit Higher Education 6(2): 51-63 (2017) 52 Scheibler: What TV Can Teach Us About the Spiritually Healthy Institution? a commitment to an ethos of hospitality and Buddhism, Hinduism, and a variety of new concern for the individual (cura personalis). age spiritual practices. The series is able to do this in great part because Brennan’s character The Centrality of Religious Experience is a forensic anthropologist, well-versed in religious beliefs and practices both ancient The series uses many opportunties to explore and contemporary. Her disciplinary expertise questions, issues, and concerns about religious as well as her scientific objectivity and experiences and the role they play in the lives curiosity provide an opening for the series to of individuals as well as institutions and explore and reflect on the centrality of culture at large.
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