In four 2-hour sessions on Fridays from February 9 through March 8, 2024, Scholar-in-Residence Anne Dorothy Harley of Scripps College will lead “The Muscle of the Self: Using the Voice to Map Psyche: Special Voice Workshop” at the CSWR. In a small group setting, the workshop will investigate how the voice and the vibrating body can be employed to reveal to ourselves our constructions of inner self and external world. 

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As part of its broader “Embodied Wisdom” programming, the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) is offering a unique workshop series in winter 2024, titled “Ifa Divination, Pedagogy, and the Cultivation of Wisdom in Modern Settings.” Led by Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Visiting Scholar at the CSWR and Assistant Professor of Afro-Brazilian studies at the University of Virginia, this six-part series will introduce participants to Ifa divination and Yoruba philosophical concepts. Sessions will focus on themes such as embodied wisdom, sacred arts, narrative pedagogy, mnemonics, diversity, and...

The Center’s Gnoseologies Series led by Dr. Giovanna Parmigiani has played a prominent role in the Transcendence and Transformation (T&T) Initiative at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR). Launched in September 2021, the T&T initiative affirms the existence of the sacred, different levels of reality, seen and unseen, and different modes of access to them.  

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In 1990, Parameshwaran Ramakrishnan had no idea that he would one day be a divinity school student, let alone that he would find his calling bridging the worlds of spirituality and psychiatry as a multifaith hospital chaplain.... Read more about The Science of Spiritual Care