Thank you for this discussion and explanation. I found it very informative and inspiring.
Thank you for this discussion and explanation. I found it very informative and inspiring.
As a rabbi and a psychotherapist with an interest in psychedelics this course seems to be addressing many of the questions I’ve been asking myself. Great intro looking forward to the rest of the course.
Now this is the type of community the world needs!!
GTUx’s Certificate of Completion for Ecospirituality: Environmental Pathways to Healing is a professional development program that weaves together our spiritual connection to the natural world and planetary sustainability efforts. In this GTUx program, Dr. Rita Sherma offers insights from her research and invites guest speakers to discuss how we might newly define the relationship between the Earth and spirituality.
Dr. Rita D. Sherma’s lecture explores the intricate connections between religious life and the natural world, highlighting its intersections with economic justice, climate crisis, environmental-racial-class justice, animal ethics, gender and ecology, and the natural sciences.
We will explore the varied ways in which the natural world, or the “other than human world,” has been imagined and experienced through embodied practices and creative acts throughout American history. The course will examine indigenous ways of knowing and understanding that situate the human integrally within the broader planetary community.
In this unique offering, the GTUx cameras capture five women scholars of five different religious traditions in moderated, unscripted discussions about women’s bodies in relation to tradition, sacred texts, agency, history, sexuality, piety, motherhood, and more.
Dr. Mahjabeen Dhala, Chair of the Women’s Studies in religion (WSR) program at the GTU, facilitates the discussions. The other panelists are Rita Sherma, Director and Associate Professor at the Center for Dharma Studies at the GTU, visiting professor of Sociology of Religion Paula Nesbitt, Chancellor Jackman Professor of the Arts at the University of Toronto in the Department for the Study of Religion Naomi Seidman, and GTU doctoral student in Historical and Cultural Studies of Religion Leslie Bowling-Dyer.
This offering was developed in conjunction with GTU Dean Jennifer W. Davidson and Dr. Mahjabeen Dhala, and takes place at the Women’s Faculty Club at the UC Berkeley campus. The questions that prompted these four conversations were developed by the Women’s Studies in Religion program.
GTUx is a global destination for digital learning brought to you by the Graduate Theological Union, one of the world’s foremost higher education institutions of interreligious life, learning, and leadership.
Discover and sign up for learning opportunities on topics inspired by the dynamic conversations and rigorous scholarly research of our faculty, including theology, ethics, justice, spiritual care, and beyond.
The GTU is one of the world’s most comprehensive centers for interreligious life, learning, and leadership, as well as interdisciplinary scholarship between religion, art, and science. At the GTU, scholars with a desire to be leaders are able to engage with the world’s great wisdom traditions, in both traditional and contemporary contexts. Learn more about our programs, events, and community at gtu.edu.
