This Unit serves as a forum for scholars working in the interdisciplinary field of Christian spirituality. It is committed to the following: • Developing, refining, and demonstrating appropriate methodologies for the academic study of spirituality. • Exploring models for describing and facilitating interdisciplinary conversation on the nature of spirituality among religion scholars of all perspectives and religions. • Initiating discussion in the field of global spirituality, both religious and secular. • Articulating the connections between scholarship and spiritual practice. • Ensuring diversity in denominational affiliation, gender, race, and ethnic backgrounds.
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Christian Spirituality Unit
Call for Proposals for November Meeting
The Christian Spirituality Program Unit is seeking proposals for papers on the topics listed below. Proposals which include some visual component and/or audio component to increase interest, accessibility and participant engagement will be rated higher in the selection process.
- Taking Care of the Broken Body of God: Embodiment, Incarnation, and Cosmic Spirituality – Solutions to the Environmental Crisis
- Spirituality and Artificial Intelligence - Strangers, Partners or Rivals? Given that a core foundation for Christian spirituality and spirituality in general is the human capacity for self-consciousness and the concept of slow knowing (lectio / visio divina) and designers of artificial intelligence are working towards greater capacity for “AI self-awareness” and speed in knowing, what do we conceive as the future interaction between AI and Spirituality?
- Contemporary Spiritual Practices and their Dis/connections to Social Justice and Collective Healing with respect to Refugees and Migration; confirmed co-sponsor: Religion and Migration Unit
- Emerging Contemplative Methods for Research in Spirituality
- Prisons and Incarceration in Christian Spiritualities: How do Prisons Shape the Tradition and How is the Tradition Fostered in Prisons?
- Christian Spirituality at Different Stages of Life: Generational Divides and Spirituality of Aging
- A Critical Analysis of how the Lives and Experiences of Persons with Disabilities and/or their Communities Express Prayer in Distinctive, Constructive, or Liberative ways; confirmed co-sponsor: Religion and Disability Studies Unit
Call for Proposals for Online June Meeting
The Christian Spirituality Program Unit is seeking proposals for papers on the topic listed below. Proposals which include some visual component and/or audio component to increase interest, accessibility and participant engagement will be rated higher in the selection process.
Political Christian Spirituality: Politics as Democratization and Belonging – Present and Past?
Statement of Purpose
Chairs
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David B. Perrin, St. Jerome's University1/1/2022 - 12/31/2027
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Beringia Zen, Avera Marshall Regional Medical Center1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
Steering Committee Members
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Stephanie N. Arel, Fordham University1/1/2022 - 12/31/2027
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Bernadette Flanagan, Spirituality Institute Ireland1/1/2022 - 12/31/2027
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Leonard McMahon, Graduate Theological Union1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Peter Nguyen, Creighton University1/1/2024 - 12/31/2029
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Lauren F. Winner, Duke University1/1/2020 - 12/31/2025
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Aizaiah Yong, Claremont School of Theology1/1/2023 - 12/31/2028
Method
Other
Review Process
Proposer names are visible to chairs but anonymous to steering committee members