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SUMMARY:Decolonizing Yoga: Indigenous & Ally Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, the term “decolonization” has been used to describe various social justice initiatives aimed at dismantling systems of institutional and systemic oppression in areas such as education\, research\, science\, and healthcare. At the same time\, indigenous communities understand decolonization as the reclamation of land and self-determination from Western imperialism. The divergence between these two interpretations of decolonizing yoga highlights the need for greater clarity regarding its meaning for different groups. Without establishing coherence among its disparate meanings and intentions\, the term and its associated efforts risk losing their impact and becoming diluted. \nThe popularity of decolonization as a conceptual framework has also influenced Modern Postural Yoga. Today\, individuals can participate in yoga classes and teacher trainings that focus on decolonization. In most cases\, “decolonizing yoga” refers to the implementation of pedagogies that aim to restore yoga to its cultural and philosophical South Asian origins. Yet\, some indigenous communities utilize yoga for decolonization as an embodied practice for healing trauma and reclaiming bodies and identities historically regulated by colonial powers. This reclamation of self and body is seen as an essential component for the liberation of spirit and flesh from oppression. \nThe indigenous use of yoga for decolonization provides examples of how different meanings and applications of decolonization can align around shared values such as liberation\, non-violence\, and ecological sustainability. Engaging in a conversation with Haley Laugher\, a Navajo yoga teacher and founder of the Indigenous Yoga Instructors Association\, Laura Toyofuku-Aki\, Native Hawaiian co-founder of Project Koa Yoga\, and Dr. Tria Blu Wakpa\, an assistant professor of Dance Studies in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA\, Dr. Dunn delves into the concept of “decolonizing yoga” from indigenous and ally perspectives. This dialogue illustrates how yoga and decolonization initiatives can harmonize within a holistic indigenous framework for liberation\, which perceives the spiritual\, individual\, material\, and social realms as inseparable and interconnected. Register on Eventbrite. \n  \nParticipants: \nLaura Toyofuku-Aki\, Project Koa Yoga\nLaura Nohealani Emiko Toyofuku-Aki is a Kanaka ‘Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) and Japanese yoga teacher living in the Kingdom of Hawai’i on the island of O`ahu. Laura learned and began teaching trauma-informed yoga and meditation for incarcerated adults in the transgender ward at Riker’s Island and Manhattan Detention Complex and incarcerated and at-risk youth in the NYC area. In 2021\, Laura co-founded Project Koa Yoga with a mission to diversify yoga and wellness spaces in Hawai’i while preserving the people\, land\, and culture that are Hawai’i. PKY makes yoga and wellness in Hawai’i accessible and diverse by offering a 100% scholarship-based 200-hour yoga teacher training for BIPOC and LGBTQIAmāhū+\, trauma-informed\, resilience-centered yoga and meditation programs for non-profits serving kānaka and marginalized folks\, and free and low-cost yoga and wellness community events throughout O`ahu. Laura’s yoga and wellness is focused on fortifying a healthy and well Kānaka and Hawai`i nei. \nHaley Laughter\, Hozho Total Wellness\nHaley Laughter is a renowned indigenous yoga instructor affiliated with the matriarchal Navajo clan system\, representing the Bit’ahnii (Leaf People)\, Tódich’ii’nii (Bitter Water)\, Dibéłzhíní (Black Sheep)\, and Táchii’nii (Red Running into the Water). As the founder of Hozho Total Wellness\, Haley has established a yoga-centered program that offers Diné and Yoga learning experiences through classes\, workshops\, and seminars. The primary aim of this program is to promote wellness\, self-care\, and healing from historical trauma through self-awareness and identity exploration. Haley is the founder of the Indigenous Yoga Instructors Association\, an organization dedicated to expanding and strengthening the presence of Indigenous teachers and instructors. She was featured on the cover of Yoga Journal’s Nov/Dec 2021 issue in their “Game Changers” feature for her promotion of wellness\, representation\, inclusivity\, and the preservation of cultural integrity in both indigenous and yoga communities. \nTria Blu Wakpa\, Ph.D.\, UCLA\nTria Blu Wakpa is an Assistant Professor of Dance Studies in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her research and teaching center community-engaged\, decolonizing\, and dance studies methodologies. She is a scholar\, poet\, and practitioner of Indigenous dance\, North American Hand Talk (Indigenous sign language)\, martial arts\, and yoga. Her first book project\, Bodies as Battlegrounds\, Institutions as War: Native American Choreographies in Confinement\, historically and politically contextualizes dance\, theatrical productions\, basketball\, and/or yoga at four sites on Lakota lands: a former Indian boarding school\, men and women’s prisons\, and a tribal juvenile hall. She is also a co-founder and the Editor-in-Chief of Race and Yoga\, the first peer-reviewed and open-access journal in the emerging field of critical yoga studies \nLaura M. Dunn\, Ph.D.\nLaura M. Dunn\, Ph.D.\, is the director of the Master of Theological Studies program and the Writing Program at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University and faculty for the Center of Dharma Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley\, California\, where she teaches courses on non-dual Tantra\, yoga studies\, and Śāktism. She is the co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Dharma Studies: Asian and Transcultural Religion\, Philosophy\, & Ethics\, a peer-reviewed academic journal that employs theoretical and empirical methodologies for the intersubjective understanding of and critical-constructive reflections on Hindu\, Jain\, and Buddhist traditions (Dharma Studies). \nDrawing from her Native Hawaiian\, Chinese\, and Jewish background\, Laura seeks to engage the complex ways in which globalization influences religion\, education\, and the arts. Her current research explores the ways in which embodied indigenous epistemologies converge and diverge with somatic practices such as yoga āsana and how these practices are used to recover identity in post- and Neo-colonial contexts.
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/decolonizing-yoga-indigenous-ally-perspectives/
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SUMMARY:Certificate of Completion in Ecospirituality: Environmental Pathways to Healing Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an information session to learn more about the Graduate Theological Union and our recently announced Certificate of Completion for Ecospirituality: Environmental Pathways to Healing. Register on Eventbrite. \nThe Graduate Theological Union is the most comprehensive center for the graduate study of religion in North America. With a focus on interreligious and interdisciplinary perspectives\, GTU faculty and students engage the world’s great religions and wisdom traditions in contemporary contexts. The GTU educates innovative leaders for the academy\, religious organizations\, and the nonprofit sector\, equipping scholars to embody the critical thinking\, ethical frameworks\, compassionate values\, and spiritual foundations essential to building a more just\, peaceful\, and sustainable world. \nGTUx’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. \nThis information session will provide an in-depth overview into the certificate and give you the chance to ask your questions to our experts. We hope to see you there! \nIf you have any questions about this event\, reach out to the event organizer Ben Woehler via email at bwoehler@gtu.edu
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/certificate-of-completion-in-ecospirituality-environmental-pathways-to-healing-information-session-3/
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SUMMARY:Exploring Queer Theology
DESCRIPTION:This live event celebrates the launch of a new GTUx Original: Introduction to Queer Theology with Dr. Ish Ruiz. The panel for this event features Dr. Ish Ruiz\, Dr. Scott MacDougall\, and the Rev. Dr. Keith A. Menhinick\, who will introduce this emerging field of study\, discuss some of the genealogical precursors that gave birth to queer theology\, and explore what the future of this field looks like. Most importantly\, in this conversation we will explore some of the blessings and challenges of this field\, especially within the context of the Christian theological tradition. Register on Eventbrite. \n  \nAbout the Panel:\nDr. Ish Ruiz is a post-doctoral fellow of Catholic Studies at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology and holds a PhD in Theology and Ethics from the Graduate Theological Union. His research interests explore the intersection between queer theology\, Latinx theology\, ecclesiology\, sexual ethics\, liberation\, human rights\, and Catholic education. He has published articles on the inclusion of LGBTQ+ persons in Catholic schools and has actively ministered to queer Catholic school educators and students for almost a decade. Prior to his appointment at Emory University\, Dr. Ruiz taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Dayton\, worked at the secondary school level for 11 years\, chaired the Marianist LGBTQ+ Initiative team\, offered several workshops to Catholic schools on Catholic LGBTQ+ inclusion\, served as a union activist to protect the rights of LGBTQ+ Church employees\, and presented in several pastoral conferences throughout the nation on Catholic LGBTQ+ inclusion. Through his teaching\, research\, and service\, Dr. Ruiz hopes to see a world where Catholicism and LGBTQ+ people embrace each other with love and gratitude for the gifts everyone brings to society and the Church.​ \nDr. Scott MacDougall was born and raised in Central New York. He attended college in the greater New York City area\, receiving his BA from Hofstra University. Following a career in the not-for-profit sector\, he undertook the formal study of theology. MacDougall received his MA in theology from the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in 2007 and his PhD in systematic theology from Fordham University in 2014. His research centers on ecclesiology and eschatology. He is interested in the difference a robust theological imagination of the future makes in how Christian community is lived out\, both in the church itself and in the wider world. His first book\, More Than Communion: Imagining an Eschatological Ecclesiology\, was published in 2015 as volume 20 of Bloomsbury–T&T Clark’s Ecclesiological Investigations series. MacDougall has also published several articles and reviews and has contributed to online publications such as Religion Dispatches and the Huffington Post’s Religion section. MacDougall serves as Co-Editor in Chief of the Anglican Theological Review. \nThe Rev. Dr. Keith A. Menhinick is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Spiritual Care and Pastoral Theology at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. Keith is a scholar of lived religion and practical theology\, with a focus on trauma resiliency and queer spirituality. His current book project works with LGBTQ+ folks who have experienced homelessness in order to examine the intersections of racialized trauma\, resilience\, and spiritual care in queer communities. \nHe is a certified teacher of the Community Resiliency Model (CRM)®\, which he has taught in the academy\, church\, clinic\, and community. Prior to joining Candler\, Keith worked as a Managing Editor of Practical Matters journal\, a pediatric hospital chaplain\, children’s home chaplain\, progressive Baptist church minister\, and high school English teacher. He is an ordained minister with the Alliance of Baptists and Cooperative Baptist Fellowship. Outside of work\, Keith enjoys poetry\, cartoons\, and an active\, outdoors life.
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/exploring-queer-theology/
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SUMMARY:Faith Lifestyles to Beat Plastic Pollution
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Iyad Abumoghli and a panel of experts\, including Sarah Berg\, Acting Director for the Center for Climate Justice and Faith at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary\, for a live discussion of the ways in which faith communities are uniquely positioned to combat the climate crisis.\n___\nThis GTUx Live event will specifically focus on actions that can be taken to combat plastic pollution — an area in which faith-based organizations are positioned to be significant catalyzers through educating\, activating and inspiring their communities; developing capacity for sustainable practices; advocating policymakers and mobilizing the private sector; and collaborating with their community partners to advance change. Register on Eventbrite.
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/faith-lifestyles-to-beat-plastic-pollution/
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SUMMARY:Certificate of Completion in Ecospirituality: Environmental Pathways to Healing Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an information session to learn more about the Graduate Theological Union and our recently announced Certificate of Completion for Ecospirituality: Environmental Pathways to Healing. Register on Eventbrite. \nThe Graduate Theological Union is the most comprehensive center for the graduate study of religion in North America. With a focus on interreligious and interdisciplinary perspectives\, GTU faculty and students engage the world’s great religions and wisdom traditions in contemporary contexts. The GTU educates innovative leaders for the academy\, religious organizations\, and the nonprofit sector\, equipping scholars to embody the critical thinking\, ethical frameworks\, compassionate values\, and spiritual foundations essential to building a more just\, peaceful\, and sustainable world. \nGTUx’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. \nThis information session will provide an in-depth overview into the certificate and give you the chance to ask your questions to our experts. We hope to see you there! \nIf you have any questions about this event\, reach out to the event organizer Ben Woehler via email at bwoehler@gtu.edu
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/certificate-of-completion-in-ecospirituality-environmental-pathways-to-healing-information-session-2/
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SUMMARY:Certificate of Completion in Ecospirituality: Environmental Pathways to Healing Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an information session to learn more about the Graduate Theological Union and our recently announced Certificate of Completion for Ecospirituality: Environmental Pathways to Healing. Register on Eventbrite. \nThe Graduate Theological Union is the most comprehensive center for the graduate study of religion in North America. With a focus on interreligious and interdisciplinary perspectives\, GTU faculty and students engage the world’s great religions and wisdom traditions in contemporary contexts. The GTU educates innovative leaders for the academy\, religious organizations\, and the nonprofit sector\, equipping scholars to embody the critical thinking\, ethical frameworks\, compassionate values\, and spiritual foundations essential to building a more just\, peaceful\, and sustainable world. \nGTUx’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. \nThis information session will provide an in-depth overview into the certificate and give you the chance to ask your questions to our experts. We hope to see you there! \nIf you have any questions about this event\, reach out to the event organizer Ben Woehler via email at bwoehler@gtu.edu
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/certificate-of-completion-in-ecospirituality-environmental-pathways-to-healing-information-session/
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SUMMARY:Joy: Community\, Inclusion\, and Social Justice ​| A GTU Interfaith Conference
DESCRIPTION:This interfaith conference will feature plenary speakers Amy Hollywood (Harvard Divinity School) and Mary Clark Moschella (Yale Divinity School) as well as a number of presentations from the GTU community speaking from their different traditions and disciplines on the place of joy in religious thought and practice. Register on Eventbrite to attend. \nSpotlight on These Themes and Sessions: \n\nPlenary: “Novel Theology\,” presented by Amy Hollywood\, Harvard Divinity School – 1:00pm PT\nPanel: Joy and Justice: 1:30-2:55pm PT\n\nRebecca Esterson – “Helen Keller on Optimism\, Activism\, and Her Swedenborgian Faith”\nMahjabeen Dhala – “Joy in the Qur’an: Faith\, Community\, and Social Justice”\nNancy Lin – “Qualities of Joy: Some Buddhist Examples”\n\n\n\nThe full-day schedule will be as follows: \nWelcome & Introduction to Conference Theme: 9:00-9:10 am PT \n\nJennifer Davidson – Welcome\nDeidre Green – Opening Remarks\n\nPanel 1:  Joy in Community and Tradition: 9:10 – 10:30 am PT \n\nSam Shonkoff – “Joy as Self-Transcendence in Hasidism”\nJohn Klentos – “Joy from an Orthodox Christian Perspective: Byzantine Liturgical Hymn-Texts”\nLaurie Garrett-Cobbina – “Let’s Do What We Do”\n\n10 minute break \nPanel 2:  The Transformative Power of Joy: 10:40-12 pm PT \n\nJess Jones – “The Joy of the Saints: A Christological Approach to Joy From a Latter-day Saint Perspective”\nElizabeth Peña – “Looking with Wonder: The Slow Art Movement”\nValerie Miles-Tribble – “The Joy of Knowing Amid the Unknown”\n\nLunch Break 12:00-1:00 pm PT \nPlenary 1: 1:00-1:35 pm PT \n\nAmy Hollywood\, Harvard Divinity School – “Novel Theology”\n\nPanel 3: Joy and Justice: 1:35-2:55 pm PT \n\nRebecca Esterson – “Helen Keller on Optimism\, Activism\, and Her Swedenborgian Faith”\nMahjabeen Dhala – “Joy in the Qur’an: Faith\, Community\, and Social Justice”\nNancy Lin – “Qualities of Joy: Some Buddhist Examples”\n\n10 minute break  \nPanel 4: Exploring the Mysteries of Joy: 3:05-4:25 pm PT \n\nChris Hadley – “The Pain of the Cross and Trinitarian Joy: Reconstructing Balthasar’s Childbirth Metaphor”\nArthur Holder – “’Likeness is the chief delight’: Meister Eckhart on Metaphysics of Joy”\nRita Sherma – “Ananda: When the Name of God is ‘Joy’ – A Hindu Ecofeminist Perception of Existential Joy”\n\nPlenary 2: 4:25-4:55 pm PT \n\nMary Clark Moschella\, Yale Divinity School – “Justice and Joy”\n\nClosing Remarks: 4:55-5:00 pm PT \n\nDeidre Green
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/joy-community-inclusion-and-social-justice/
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SUMMARY:Divining Freedom: Queer Reconceptions of the Tarot Deck
DESCRIPTION:Register for this event on Eventbrite. \nTarot decks can be seen as a mirror\, reflecting back insights about ourselves and even offering glimpses of the future. The illustrations and interpretations of traditional cards\, however\, are rooted in a white\, patriarchal\, heteronormative mindset; for those who do not fit this mold\, this can obscure their meaning and limit their liberative potential. \nEnter: queer artists who have re-envisioned these decks\, with new\, enlivening meanings and beautifully illustrated images that reflect a queer sensibility and a drive towards justice. How does “queering” the tarot help point our way to greater freedom and deeper spiritual insight? \n\nThis year’s lecture will be presented by Rev. Dr. Justin Sabia-Tanis. Dr. Sabia-Tanis is an assistant professor and director of the Social Transformation program at United Theological Seminary. He earned his PhD from the Graduate Theological Union in Interdisciplinary Studies in addition to a Master of Divinity degree at Harvard Divinity School and a Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological Seminary. As a pastor\, he served congregations in Boston\, Honolulu\, and San Francisco and was Director of Leadership Development for Metropolitan Community Churches; he is now with the United Church of Christ. In his prior work\, he served as Managing Director at the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion (CLGS) and directed communications for the Hawai’i Equal Rights Marriage Project\, the National Center for Transgender Equality\, and Out & Equal Workplace Advocates. He has taught at the University of Arizona\, Pima Community College\, Iliff School of Theology\, and Pacific School of Religion. He lives in Minnesota with his husband\, Henry\, and their two dogs. \n\nEach Spring\, the GTU Library presents a lecture in the series The Reading of the Sacred Texts. The series was inaugurated by Dr. John Pairman Brown in 1993 with a reflection entitled\, What Makes a Text Sacred? Over the intervening years speakers have addressed the question from many points-of-view. Previous lectures in this series can be found here.
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/divining-freedom-queer-reconceptions-of-the-tarot-deck/
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SUMMARY:6th Annual Borsch-Rast Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The Graduate Theological Union is pleased to host Dr. Kathryn Barush\, Thomas E. Bertelsen Jr. Associate Professor of Art History and Religion\, for the sixth annual Borsch-Rast Lecture for her 2021 publication\, Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience (Bloomsbury Visual Arts). Register for this event on Eventbrite. \nIn her acclaimed book\, Dr. Barush explores contemporary artworks created after pilgrimage experiences\, which are intended to act as a catalyst for the embodied experience of others. Each chapter focuses on a contemporary artwork that links one landscape to another—from the Spanish Camino to a backyard in the Pacific Northwest\, from Lourdes to South Africa\, from Jerusalem to England\, and from Ecuador to California\, ultimately comprising the first full-length study to engage contemporary art that has emerged out of the embodied experience of pilgrimage. \n“Dr. Barush invites readers to see with fresh eyes the forms and roles of pilgrimage in contemporary society\,” said Dr. Judith Berling\, a member of the Borsch-Rast selection committee\, Professor Emerita of Chinese and Comparative Religions\, and former Dean at the GTU. “The interdisciplinary approach of Imaging Pilgrimage explores often ignored dimensions of religious pilgrimages and focuses our attention not solely on verbal explanations but on how the material aspects of pilgrimage express meanings to those who experience them.” \nDr. Barush will be joined by Dr. Simon Coleman\, who will be responding to her book. Dr. Coleman is Chancellor Jackman Professor\, Department for the Study of Religion\, University of Toronto and his most recent book is Powers of Pilgrimage: Religion in a World of Movement.
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/6th-annual-borsch-rast-lecture/
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Spirituality\, Peacebuilding\, and Cross-Border Interlocutions/Engagement
DESCRIPTION:Indigenous spirituality and their approach to peacebuilding offers pathways for cosmic harmony\, beauty\, and respect. It affirms the celebration of life and the continued co-existence of all creation through self-restraint\, respect\, ecological economics\, justice\, a sense of finitude and the need to share space for flourishing of the entire oikos. This is why\, indigenous tradition matters\, and we need to uphold indigenous particularities and contention for self-dignifying indigeneity towards authentic cross-border interlocution and engagement. \nOur panelists for this event are Dr. Zulunungang Lemtur\, Raphael Mkuzi (PhD Candidate\, GTU)\, and Gideon Mbui (PhD Student\, GTU). \nRegister for this event on Eventbrite.
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/indigenous-spirituality-peacebuilding-and-cross-border-interlocutions-engagement/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T180000
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SUMMARY:47th Annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture with Dr. Richard Payne
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Richard Payne will present the 47th Annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture titled\, “From Ritual to Religion: The Consequences of Taking Nondualism Seriously” on November 15\, 2022\, at 6:00 PM PST. Register for this event on Eventbrite. \n\nEach November\, the GTU faculty honors a distinguished professor who embodies the scholarly standards\, teaching excellence and commitment to ecumenism that defines the GTU. Nominations are made by GTU faculty and are then considered by the Council of Deans\, which selects the lecturer. This year’s lecture is co-hosted by GTUx. \n\nDr. Richard K. Payne is the Chair of IBS Publications Committee and is also the Buddhism and Contemporary Psychology Certificate Program Director at the Institute of Buddhist Studies (IBS) and is a member of the Core Doctoral Faculty. \nDuring his dissertation research into tantric fire ritual (Skt. homa\, Jpn. goma) on Mt. Kōya in Japan\, Payne also completed training as a Shingon priest (ajari). Clustering around his core research program on tantric ritual are broader theoretical concerns about the conduct of such research. This includes the study of ritual across cultural boundaries and over long durations\, and the use of language in tantric Buddhist ritual. He is co-editor with Georgios Halkias of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia/Religion/Buddhism\, and with Glen Hayes is co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Tantric Studies.  \nThe focus of his research is tantric Buddhist ritual practices in Japan. Today the field of tantric Buddhist studies is largely structured by a narrative formed around the simple dichotomy between doctrine and practice. That narrative raises up Mahayana Buddhist thought as the conceptual framework that gives tantric ritual practices their meaning\, significance\, value\, and even their status as Buddhist. The goal of this presentation is to problematize that narrative. Adopting the narrative with its dichotomy between doctrine and practice is made easy because it is in turn based on a more fundamental dichotomy — the distinction between thought and action. The ramifications of this dualism are not simply philosophical. The dualism is pervasive and enduring — so deeply rooted in popular culture and so strongly reinforced by social morality as to be deployed unreflectively on an everyday basis. In other words it appears to be natural. And because the dichotomy between thought and action is naturalized\, the presumption that tantric Buddhist practice derives its meaning\, significance\, value\, and legitimacy from Mahayana doctrine can likewise be accepted without critical reflection. Critical reflection does\, however\, reveal the doctrine/practice dichotomy to be an artifice\, as are also the thought/action and mind/body dichotomies. In turn they constitute constraints on religious studies. Nondual formulations can provide alternatives\, the heuristic value of which is to encourage asking new questions and exploring new answers. \n\nDegrees and Certifications: \nPh.D.\, History and Phenomenology of Religion\, Graduate Theological Union \nAjari\, Shingon Buddhist priest\, Mt. Kōya \n\nRecent Publications: \nBuddhism under Capitalism\, co-edited with Fabio Rambelli (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2022) \nPure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts: An Anthology\, co-edited with Georgios Halkias (University of Hawai‘i Press\, 2019) \nLanguage in the Buddhist Tantra of Japan: Indic Roots of Mantra (Bloomsbury\, 2018) \nHoma Variations: The Study of Ritual across the Longue Durée\, co-edited with Michael Witzel (Oxford\, 2016)
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/47th-annual-distinguished-faculty-lecture-with-dr-richard-payne/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20220428T120000
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SUMMARY:Greening Spirituality
DESCRIPTION:In this GTUx Live event\, Dr. Rita Sherma and Dr. Devin Zuber will lead a conversation around the innate connections between humans and the natural world. Following the discussion they had in their GTUx Original\, Drs. Sherma and Zuber will lead participants through an opportunity to think deeper about the sacrality of nature in different spiritual traditions.\n\nRegister for this free event here. \n\nWatch the Greening Spirituality GTUx Original for free here. 
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/greening-spirituality/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220408T193000
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SUMMARY:The 2022 Surjit Singh Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2022 Surjit Singh Lecture. \nThis year’s speaker will be Dr. Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra\, Alice Drysdale Sheffield Professor of History and Director\, Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas\, Austin. \nTitle: “The Virgin Mary as Warrior: Marian models of women’s religious experience in colonial Latin America.” \nDescription: The historiography of women’s piety in Latin America usually focuses on discrimination and dominant colonial ideologies of religious passivity. Yet a study of Mariology suggests that Hebrew Bible models of Mary were not only numerous (Song of Songs\, Book of Wisdom\, Ruth\, Judith\, Yael) but deeply contradictory\, creating enough room for women to gain and wield immense religious power. This talk explores these contradictions to find surprising forms of religious experience that challenge our understanding of Marianism and the power of women in Latin American colonial societies. \nRegister to join the free\, virtual event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-2022-surjit-singh-lecture-in-comparative-religious-thought-and-culture-tickets-252286324187
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/the-2022-surjit-singh-lecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T180000
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SUMMARY:29th Annual Reading of the Sacred Texts Lecture with Vanessa Zoltan
DESCRIPTION:Each spring a remarkable person is chosen to reflect upon a sacred text for the Reading of the Sacred Texts lecture. Our speaker this year is Vanessa Zoltan. Vanessa is trained as an atheist chaplain. She is the CEO and Founder of Not Sorry Productions\, which produces the podcasts Harry Potter and the Sacred Text\, Hot & Bothered\, and The Real Question. She runs pilgrimages and walking tours exploring sacred reading and writing. She is also the author of Praying with Jane Eyre; Reflections on Reading as a Sacred Practice.\n\n\n\nRegister to attend this free online event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/292753492577
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/29th-annual-reading-of-the-sacred-texts-lecture-with-vanessa-zoltan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220331T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220331T193000
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SUMMARY:The Fifth Annual Borsch-Rast Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Ashley L. Bacchi (GTU\, PhD 2015)\, Assistant Professor of Jewish History and Ancient Mediterranean Religions at Starr King School for the Ministry\, has been awarded the fifth annual Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship for her 2020 work\, Uncovering Jewish Creativity in Book III of the Sibylline Oracles: Gender\, Intertextuality\, and Politics (Brill). \nRegister to attend virtually here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-fifth-annual-borsch-rast-lecture-tickets-246772762977  \nCheck out the interview with Dr. Bacchi on her book and the wider corpus of the Sibylline Oracles and why she feels they matter today: https://www.gtu.edu/gtu-voices/interview-dr-ashley-l-bacchi-2021-borsch-rast-book-prize-and-lecture-winner \nLearn more about the Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship here: https://www.gtu.edu/news-events/events/lecture-address/borsch-rast \n 
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/the-fifth-annual-borsch-rast-lecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T120000
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SUMMARY:Where Pilgrims Meet the World: Tales of Journeying with Hope and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Join Drs. Kathryn Barush and Mahjabeen Dhala in this GTUx Live conversation about the power of pilgrimage. \nDr. Barush will discuss her work with The Berkeley Art and Interreligious Pilgrimage Project\, which is an invitation to create and experience art-infused pilgrimages in the Bay Area and beyond. It seeks to link sacred landscapes the world over to neighborhoods\, gardens\, and backyards as a way to connect with each other and our ancestors and as a catalyst for spiritual healing and even physical recovery. Her talk will explore the artworks and built environments that inspired the project and some future directions for growth. \nDr. Dhala’s talk will explore how Islamic practice is much informed by the paradigm of a spiritual journey that begins from and ends with a return to the Divine. Q4:100 alludes to the experiences of a pilgrim as someone who leaves home as a migrant towards God: prepared to face challenges\, having fallen in love with her destination. She will focus on rituals and artifacts to explore how Shias embody their faith\, past history\, present concerns\, and future aspirations through pilgrimage. \nRegister for this free online event here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/292786200407.
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/where-pilgrims-meet-the-world-tales-of-journeying-with-hope-and-resilience/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T130000
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SUMMARY:The War in Ukraine and its Religious Roots
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a panel discussion on the the war in Ukraine and its religious roots. \nPanelists will include: \n\nThomas Cattoi\, Associate Professor of Christology and Cultures\, Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University\, GTU\nJohn Klentos\, Associate Professor of Eastern Orthodox Christian Studies\, Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute\, GTU\nVitaliy Osmolovskyy SJ\, doctoral student at JST-SCU\, Coordinator of Jesuit Outreach to Ukrainian Refugees in Poland\n\nClick here to attend the panel discussion.
URL:https://gtux.gtu.edu/event/the-war-in-ukraine-and-its-religious-roots/
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