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| Liturgy NewsMorning Mass resumes on Monday morning, November 1, at 8 a.m., for the Solemnity of All Saints.
Laudato Si’ Action Platform: You are warmly invited to pray for the 40 days between October 4, the Feast of St. Francis, and November 14, the World Day of Prayer for the Poor, and the launch of new planning materials on the Laudato Si’ Action Platform.
Prayers for the seven sectors served by the Laudato Si’ Action Platform are available to download here. We are praying one of these intercessions each week at the Tuesday evening liturgy from now through November 16.
To sign up for a liturgical ministry on a particular date, please refer to this form. The link is also available from the Moodle Course: JST Community Life, Prayer and Liturgy, under the tile: Liturgy Past and Upcoming. Please contact Fortunatus Nnadi, Liturgy Coordinator, at JSTLiturgy@scu.edu to volunteer as a liturgical minister and receive the sign-up reminders.
Tuesday, Nov. 2, All Souls Day, Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), all are invited to bring memorabilia from loved ones who have died to place on the altarcito in the Chapel. After the 5:15 p.m. Mass, we will celebrate with Mexican pan de muerto and hot chocolate.
Wednesday, Nov. 3, 5:15 p.m., Mass will be in Spanish.
Thursday, Nov. 4, 5:15 p.m., our students from India will lead us in evening prayer to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights.
Presider Schedule
Monday 11/1 8:00 Brent Otto, SJ
Tuesday 11/2 8:00 Kapyunga Nyirenda, SJ 5:15 Marty Connell, SJ
Wednesday 11/3 8:00 Ming-Te Hsu, SJ 5:15 Mass in Spanish: Eduardo Fernández, SJ
Thursday 11/4 8:00 Marco Martinez, SJ 5:15 Diwali Celebration: students from India
Friday 11/5 8:00 Chikere Agbo, SJ 5:15 Joe Mueller S.J.
Saturday 11/6 8:30 TBD |
JST Announcements
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WE NEED YOUR INPUT! JST is undergoing reaccreditation this year with the Association of Theological Schools. We need to collect JST student impressions about our self-study. Be part of this important process by participating in a one-hour focus group either in person (meal provided) or by Zoom. Two focus groups are scheduled: Focus group 1: Tuesday, November 9 at 6:10 pm, Classroom 217, Zoom option available (link to be communicated) Focus group 2: Wednesday, November 10 at 12:00 pm, Classroom 217, Zoom option available (link to be communicated). Register here!
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Duo Two Factor Authentication: All students will be required to access Duo 2FA on November 9 in order to access your SCU accounts in Google Workspace (your SCU email) and Workday (if you are a student worker). Please enroll in Duo 2FA by Nov. 9 in order to avoid interruption to your service. Directions for enrolling are here.
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The JST Photo Directory for 2021-22 is now available in the Moodle course, JST Community Life, Prayer and Liturgy, just beneath the Announcements.
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The Camino Ignaciano is returning to JST. It includes a Spring 2022 course in Ignation Spirituality (T 12:40-2 p.m.) with a summer immersion component (a pilgrimage along the Camino Ignaciano in Spain, May 22-July 5, 2022). Course materials will include Ignatius’ own writings as well as critical texts by a diversity of modern authors and interpreters. Requirements: some knowledge of Ignatian Spirituality, good physical health, cultural sensitivity, and openness to shared labor and simple living in community. Application/interview required. Cost to students: airfare plus personal expenses. Enrollment is limited to 12. Ordinarily, this course is offered every two years. For more information or to request an application, see professors Kate Barush or Julie Rubio. Nov 1: Applications due to kbarush@scu.edu. Nov 4 & 5 Interviews.
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The JST Student Life Office is looking for a Graduate Assistant to help prepare Magis and perform various other office tasks. Please see the job description here, and make your application to Mary Beth Lamb, melamb@scu.edu.
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Of Interest Elsewhere |
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Ceasefire Walk Oakland
6:00 p.m. PDT, St. Benedict Catholic Church - 2245 82nd Avenue, Oakland
Pray for peace. Walk for peace. Join a Ceasefire Walk. Ceasefire Walks: Actively preventing homicides and gun violence through Ceasefire, a partnership with the City of Oakland and other community partners that includes weekly night walks and call-ins.
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JST Events |
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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The Adventure Continues 10/18/2023 – 5/15/2024
6:30 p.m., To be held online on the 3rd Wednesday of each month through May 15, 2024 from 6:30 to 7:45 PM
We invite you to a follow-up program to the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises to begin on September 20th sponsored by your friends at Santa Clara University. This series is open to anyone who has completed the 19th Annotation or the 30-day Exercises with Santa Clara or elsewhere.
We will meet monthly on the third Wednesday of the month from 6:30 to 7:45 PM (except for Dec. we will meet on the second Wed.). We will use the book by Kevin O’Brien, SJ called Seeing with the Heart: A Guide to Navigating Life’s Adventures, which is his follow-up book to The Ignatian Adventure. We are asking you to purchase the book by Sept. 20th if you wish to participate in this Ignatian spirituality adventure.
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Contemplative Walk
2:30 p.m.
Join others to reconnect to the world around us. Check the Magis for specifics each week. In general, those walking meet at the bell and depart at 2:30.
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST-SCU Commencement Mass & Reception
5:15 - 8 p.m., JST Gesu Chapel
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JST-SCU Lay Sending Service
10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., JST Gesu Chapel
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JST-SCU 2024 Commencement Exercises
3 - 5 p.m. Join us for the 2024 Commencement Exercises of the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University. Light reception to follow
Please RSVP here by Mary 8, 2024
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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JST Weekday Liturgy
5:15 p.m., Gesu Chapel
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SCU Events and Announcements |
SCU Native History Tour
The SCU Native History Tour, developed in collaboration between members of San Francisco Bay Area Ohlone communities and SCU faculty, showcases the Indigenous history of the Santa Clara University campus. Clicking on the link above will bring you to Google Earth, where you can take the tour using the arrow icons in the bottom left of the window to navigate. At most stops, you can click on the images above the text for a slideshow and/or further information from Ohlone representatives. Your feedback on the tour via this survey is welcome.
8 minute Lunchtime Examen
Join SCU’s Division of Mission and Ministry for a weekly 8-minute Lunchtime Examen every Friday, 12:51-12:59 p.m. PDT. A team of faculty, staff, and students will take turns leading the Examen each Friday over Zoom. Aware of just how much we are all going through these days, the team hopes to provide a calm, welcoming presence as we journey together in community through the Examen. We hope students, faculty, and staff from any religious, secular, or spiritual identity feel supported and welcomed in this experience. No need to register. Click HERE for zoom details.
Metaphor, Myth and Politics: Art from Native Printmakers
De Saisset Museum at SCU features recent prints by Kenojuak Ashevak (Inuit), Marwin Begaye (Diné [Navajo]), Nicholas Galanin (Tlingit/Aleut), Wendy Red Star (Crow), C. Maxx Stevens (Seminole/Muscogee), and other Native and Indigenous printmakers from across the globe, all drawn from the collection of UC Davis’ C.N. Gorman Museum. These inventive works reveal the diverse points of view and styles of art present in the world of contemporary Native printmaking. Traveling exhibition Metaphor, Myth, & Politics: Art from Native Printmakers is the product of a partnership between the C.N. Gorman Museum at UC Davis and Exhibit Envoy. This exhibit is all online, October 1 - December 2.
http://scupresents.org/performances/exhibition-metaphor-myth-politics-art-native-printmakers
Archive Exhibit: The Samurai and the Cross: Life and Death in Christian Japan, 1549-1650
Curated by Prof. M. Antoni J. Ucerler, S.J., Director of the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, this exhibit explores the reality of Jesuit missionaries in Japan in the late 16th and early 17th centuries through use of Japanese texts, European rare books, paintings, and other written and visual media. Many of these missionaries were martyred by Japanese authorities and went on to develop mythical proportions in Jesuit rhetoric.
The gallery space is on the third floor of the Learning Commons and Library, next to the Archives & Special Collections Reading Room. Exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday - Friday when the learning commons is open and by appointment. On display from September 20 through December 10. For more information: https://www.scu.edu/library/asc/exhibits/samurai/
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The Ethics of Digital Currencies
noon - 1:00 p.m. PDT via zoom
As some governments begin to issue their own digital currencies while others ban or increasingly seek regulation, what are the ethical concerns and opportunities that come with this reinvention of money? Join the Markkula Center as we mine insights in a conversation with experts from multiple disciplines.
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Rewriting the Narrative: Reteaching LGBTQ+ HIstory
5:30-7:00 p.m. PDT via zoom
Did you know that in 2011, the State of California passed the FAIR (Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful) Education Act, mandating LGBTQ+ history to be taught in K-12? Join our Student Inclusion Educators: Naomi from OML and Annissa and Valeria from the RRC as they look at the impact of this policy and discuss how we can rewrite the narrative by reteaching LGBTQ+ history.
Zoom ID: 979 8718 4080 Password: 517003
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Towards a Critical Assessment of "Diversity" & "Inclusion": Lessons from Racially Minoritized Scholars
4:00 p..m. PDT via zoom
Drawing from a 14-month ethnographic research focusing on in/equity in U.S. anthropology graduate training, Dr. Takami Delisle highlights racially minoritized students’ experience of challenging, negotiating, and navigating through DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives in historically white institutions. In centering their stories, the presentation offers a radically different framework for and approach to actualizing equity.
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Pacific Ties: Marriage, Migration, and the Making of the Multiracial Postwar Family
5:00 p.m. PDT, via zoom
Join us for a conversation with Velina Hasu Houston (playwright, essayist, poet, author and Professor of Dramatic Writing at the University of Southern California) and Sonia Gomez (Assistant Professor of History at Santa Clara University) as they discuss how marriage and migration across the Pacific in the postwar era has shaped their lived experiences as well as their creative and scholarly work.
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Amanda Ripley: High Conflict
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. PST via zoom
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics invites you to attend the 2021-22 Regan Lecture with Amanda Ripley, author and former NY Times investigative reporter to discuss her latest book, High Conflict. The book examines people who have been involved in situations where there is acute conflict, political or otherwise, and what we can learn from these situations and the outcomes.
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Misinformation in Marginalized Communities: Vaccinations and COVID-19
11:00 - 11:30 a.m. PST
The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics invites you to join us for our Get Vaccinated Webinar Series. Dr. Melissa Brown, a sociologist and scholar of Black feminist thought, digital sociology, social movements, and sexual politics, looks at the effects of misinformation, how to address it, and how it manifests in marginalized communities.
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Lessons Learned from Vaccinations
11:00 - 11:30 a.m. PST via zoom
The goal of this webinar series is to bring together members of the community that to provide up-to-date information on COVID-19, share best practices, and discuss the changing landscape around COVID-19 vaccination efforts. Sponsored by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.
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GTU News and Events |
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Queerying Latinx Liturgy with Rev. Juan M. C. Oliver: A CLGS Queer and Latinx Conversation
12:00 - 1:15 p.m. PDT via zoom
In this Queer & Latinx Faith Conversation, sponsored by The CLGS Latinx Roundtable | Fe, Familia, Igualdad, The Rev. Juan M. C. Oliver, Ph.D., invites us to consider the ways in which Latinx cultures and Christian liturgy create modes of worship that encourage the development of liturgical rituals that are authentic, deeply prayerful, and richly human. Join us as Dr. Oliver explores some of the many ways in which Latinx Christians worship Latinamente!
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WSR Speaks with Dr. Inese Radzins about Feminist Philosophy and Simone Weil
noon PDT via zoom
Join the GTU Women's Studies in Religion Certificate program as we launch our new event series WSR Speaks! For our first event we will be speaking with Dr. Inese Radzins, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Stanislaus about feminist philosophy, why women's studies in religion matters today, and her forthcoming book on Simone Weil!
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The Future Church for LGBTQ+ People and their Allies: a CLGS Lavender Lunch with Benjamin Brenkert
12:15 - 1:15 p.m. PST via zoom
As a former Jesuit, Brenkert proposes the spirituality of Saint Ignatius of Loyola as a means for people of faith to discern membership in churches that thwart their personal and group flourishing.
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Reimagining the Construction of Blackness: From Anti-Blackness to World Unity
6:00-7:00 p.m. PST via zoom
The Wilmette Institute, the latest affiliate to join the GTU consortium, is pleased to announce their upcoming lecture with Professor Derik Jalal Smith. This presentation considers the conception of blackness offered by Baha’u’llah, the Prophet-Founder of the Baha’i Faith, as the starting point for a reimagining of the prevailing order of modernity. While Western modernity has created a symbolic order in which black life signifies aberrance and disposability, in the worldview constructed by Baha’u’llah, black people are metaphorized as the “pupil of the eye,” occupying a central and indispensable position in the metaphorical body of humanity. The presentation will consider the provenance and implications of this metaphor, so at odds with the racial symbolism of modernity, and so crucial to a Baha’i reconceptualization of social order.
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Madrasa-Midrasha: Active Art
noon PST via zoom
Join us for this special Madrasa-Midrasha Program event, which will feature presentations by Liat Berdugo (University of San Francisco) and Pantea Karimi (Santa Clara University).
Liat Berdugo's talk is titled "The Weaponized Camera in Israel-Palestine" and draws on unprecedented access to the citizen-recorded video archives of B'Tselem, an Israeli NGO that distributes cameras to Palestinians living in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, to offer a contribution to the discourse of human rights work through the documentary form of imagemaking.
Pantea Karimi's talk is titled "Artful Attacks" and focuses on on her recent works appropriating the geometric patterns from the Topkapi scroll which highlights the impact of “maximum pressure” targeting Iran, and the ongoing threats to its historic sites and cultural identity.
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Transhumanism as Contemporary Idolatry: A Judaic Critique
5:00 p.m. PST via zoom
A CTNS Public Forum with Dr. Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Respondents.
Transhumanism is a social and intellectual movement that promotes the use of technoscience to shape the evolution of the human species. Engaging transhumanism from a Judaic perspective, this lecture argues that transhumanism is a contemporary case of what the Bible understood as "idolatry," namely, the veneration of human-made artifacts as if they were divine. Instead of making us "better humans" and "perfecting" our world, the transhumanist idolatry has made us and our world less just, less equitable, and less caring. The harm inflicted by the massive technologization of life demands a critical examination of transhumanism.
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2021 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Dr. Valerie Miles-Tribble
6:00 p.m. PST via zoom
Dr. Valerie Miles-Tribble will present the 46th annual Distinguished Faculty Lecture titled, “Our Pedagogical Charge: Weaving Hope and Justice into the Gossamer-thin Fabric of Religious Democracy.”
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Conservative Impulses: Queers, Interfaith Couples, and Jewish Continuity with Semira K. Mehta
1:00 - 2:15 p.m. PST via zoom
In the final three decades of the twentieth century, Liberal American Judaism struggled to address two new challenges to longstanding conceptions of the Jewish family: interfaith marriage and same-gender relationships. The trajectories of these two issues raises the question: if non-Orthodox Jewish communities are more formally accepting of same-sex relationships than they are of interfaith families, why are Jewish communities more welcoming of interfaith couples and families than they are queer friendly?
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Community Events and Resources |
Double Vision: Art from Jesuit University Collections
An exhibit inspired by the Stations of the Cross, it features art from three Midwest Jesuit campus museums: Loyola University Museum of Art (Loyola University Chicago), the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (Saint Louis University), and the Haggerty Museum of Art (Marquette University). The exhibit features an online interactive space, as well as a digital catalogue with an introductory essay contributed by noted Jesuit artist and historian, Rev. Tom Lucas, S.J. Double Vision will be featured at Marquette's Haggerty Museum through December 19.
Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice
Forming Our Consciences: Practicing our Faith in a World of Gray
Sponsored by St. Ignatius Parish in San Francisco, Forming Our Consciences: Practicing Our Faith in a World of Gray is a six-part series examining the formation of one’s conscience in a world that is often not black nor white, but gray. The series of six interconnected talks, delivered by distinguished spiritual guides and leaders, will take place over the course of the fall in 2021, and will include remarks around hot-button social issues that challenge our faith, alongside the opportunity for reflection and sharing.
Held on several Sundays, September 12 - December 5, 11:30 PT via zoom.
Register Here. Speakers include JST's Lisa Fulham and Lucas Sharma, SJ
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Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
5:00 p.m. PDT online
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For a Synodal Church: What is Pope Francis inviting us all to do?
4:00-5:30 p.m. PDT via zoom
And how can we participate, animate, and serve the listening and discernment process? A panel of theologians will speak from their experience and expertise. The panel includes two members appointed to the Synod Commission on Theology (Prof. Rafael Luciani and Prof. Kristin Colberg) and Prof Hosffman Ospino who has been integral to the V Encuentro and encouraging synodal, listening, participatory processes in the US Church. This webinar is sponsored by Discerning Deacons.
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White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality
2:00 pm PDT, UCB's Banatao Auditorium (inside Sutardja Dai Hall) & livestreamed
Come hear Georgetown Law Professor Sheryll Cashin present her new book, White Space, Black ‘Hood, followed by a conversation with Othering and Belonging Institute Director john a. powell. White Space, Black Hood shows how government created “ghettos” and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality—and issues a call for abolition. Hang out for a bit after the event where we'll have copies of White Space, Black Hood available for purchase!
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Solidarity on Tap: Olga Segura
1:30 - 3:00 p.m. PDT, via Facebook Livestream
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Practicing Reconciliation: How to Develop an Essential Discipline for U.S. Civic Life Today
2:00 - 3:15 p.m. PST via zoom webinar
A webinar sponsored by Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education at Fordham University.
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Calls for Papers, Grants and More |
Religious Studies Position at Saint Mary's College High School in Berkeley -- NEW!!
Saint Mary’s College High School is seeking a Religious Studies Teacher to teach The Life & Times of Jesus and Does Religion Matter? beginning with the Winter 2022 Trimester (November 29). This is a full-time teaching position. For the job description and to apply, click here.
Call for Papers: New Horizons
In Volume 6 Issue 1, New Horizons, JST's peer-reviewed Graduate Journal, invites submissions on the themes of discernment, power, participation, and authority in the church. See the Call for Papers for more details.
Academic papers should be formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th. Ed., and comprise between 2,000-4,000 words. Homilies and pastoral reflections are held to the same word count. Poetry, prayer, artwork, and photography are highly welcomed components of the journal.
Submissions should be uploaded by 5pm on November 1, 2021 to newhorizonsjst@scu.edu. Accepted submissions will be published in February 2022. Please email bkozee@scu.edu with any questions or inquiries.
FASPE Seminary Fellowships in Professional Ethics
FASPE is an intensive, two-week study program in professional ethics and ethical leadership. FASPE is neither a Holocaust studies course, nor a genocide prevention program. Rather, the curriculum is designed to challenge Fellows to critically examine constructs, current developments and issues that raise ethical concerns in their professions in contemporary settings in which they work.
The Fellowship is fully funded for between 12 and 16 applicants. FASPE Seminary applicants must either be enrolled in graduate school preparing for work as a religious leader at the time of application or they must be working as clergy with a relevant graduate degree received between May 2020 and January 2022. Those applying as students may be studying at a seminary, divinity school, rabbinical school, Muslim chaplaincy program or other graduate program related to religious OR theological training.
More information is available at this link. If you would like further information about FASPE or its programs, please visit the website www.faspe-ethics.org. Potential applicants can register here. Completed applications are due January 2, 2022.
Call for Book Proposals for book series, Phenomenologies of Religious Experience
This series invites proposals in classical phenomenology, French phenomenology, pre- and post-phenomenologies, and in methodologies that bridge phenomenology and analytic philosophy. In accord with Husserl’s original intent, the series welcomes attempts to locate spiritual or religious experience within a broader theory of the sciences (Wissenschaftslehre) and to expand phenomenology towards transcendental philosophy and metaphysics.
The series is published in cooperation with the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience, www.sophere.org.
Click here For More Information
On October 29, STD student Ming-Te Hsu, S.J. and MTS student Hugo Xicohtencatl Serrano, S.J. prepare the altarcito for Día de los Muertos. Photo by Paul Kircher.
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