Motivation to Teach Social Action:
Enhancing my teaching in this area; networking and possible collaboration
Course Description:
Spirituality and Social Activism is a practice-theory-reflection course where we will focus on the necessity of and way to integrate spirituality and sustained commitment to social activism and those causes aimed at societal transformation. We will give attention to the lived experience of spirituality and social activism. pedagogies. Wisdom and direction will be sought from contemporary and historical examples. Community engagement/social activism.
Nonviolence in Theory and Practice Description: This course is, in principle, a successor to the course Spirituality and Social Activism. SSA is not a requisite for enrollment. For students who are engaged in, or have a developing interest in, the theoretical frameworks that shape nonviolent social justice activism, this course will assist you as you develop a philosophy off monviolence. Grounded by lived experience and critical reflection, in this course we will consider nonviolence from a trans-disciplinary lens including ethics, theology. history, and philosophy. examine the methods of nonviolent movements, the commitments and motivations for pursuing social justice through nonviolent means, and theories of change that undergird the practice. This course will include community-based experiences in greater Nashville community that offer historical and contemporary opportunities to engage in activism.
Taught By:
Phillis Isabella Sheppard
E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair and Professor Religion, Psychology and Culture and Womanist Thought Faculty Liaison for Education and Research James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study of Nonviolent Movements
Divinity School
Vanderbilt University Divinity School
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