Christian Spirituality Unit
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
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.
| Chair | Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Beringia Zen | beringia.zen@avera.org | - | View |
| David B. Perrin, University of Waterloo | dperrin@uwaterloo.ca | - | View |