Course in Socially Engaged Spirituality Spring 2017

11/15/16

Contributed by Brian Karafin

 

 

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Times like these raise questions about our deepest convictions and how we live those meanings and values out in the world. This course will explore the social consequences of spiritual and religious ideas and practices, with examples ranging from the African-American Civil Rights movement, Feminist critiques of Christianity, Socially Engaged Buddhism, and the spiritual dimensions of movements for radical social change in American culture past and present. The purpose of this course will be to provide a space for processing the contemporary social-political crisis. (Religion and Society, RLST 20200-01, CRN# 43338

Contact: Brian Karafin Philosophy and Religion Department Rothschild Place 109 karafin@ithaca.edu

 

 

 

 

Times like these raise questions about our deepest convictions and how we live those meanings and values out in the world. This course will explore the social consequences of spiritual and religious ideas and practices, with examples ranging from the African-American Civil Rights movement, Feminist critiques of Christianity, Socially Engaged Buddhism, and the spiritual dimensions of movements for radical social change in American culture past and present. The purpose of this course will be to provide a space for processing the contemporary social-political crisis. (Religion and Society, RLST 20200-01, CRN# 43338

Contact: Brian Karafin Philosophy and Religion Department Rothschild Place 109 karafin@ithaca.edu

 

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