# Conference Papers The following papers have been presented at conferences organized by the Program for the Evolution of Spirituality since its inaugural conference in 2022. Sort & Filters close ## Filters Conference expand\_more - 2023 "Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities" Conference (80) - 2024 "Alternative Spiritualities" Conference (77) - 2025 "Spirituality and the Arts" Conference (203) Publications by author expand\_more Adam Lyons (1) Adam Vander\_Tuig (1) Agi Wittich (1) Agustina Gracia (1) Allegra Lovejoy (1) Amy Jemmett (1) Amy Koehlinger (1) Anna Guterman (1) Armond Dorsey (2) Ata Mallick (1) Bianca Padova (1) Billy Choi-Gekas (1) Bonnie Tarwater (1) Brian Pace (1) Brian Stafford (1) Cara Judea Alhadeff (1) Carol Merchasin (1) Carter Phipps (1) Chelsea Rendlen (2) Christian Goodwillie (1) David Belden (1) David Nickles (1) Delores (Lola) Mondragón (1) Delores Mondragón (1) Destiny Magnett (1) Devin Kelly (1) Dilşa Deniz (2) Duncan Hollomon (1) Dwivedi Shankar (1) Enrique Rosado (1) Eric Mortensen (2) Erik Assadourian (1) Federico Cinocca (1) Frédérique Apffel-Marglin (1) Fredrik Gregorius (1) Frias Alvaro (1) Heather Beamish (1) Helen Berger (1) Helge Osterhold (1) Ian Mowll (1) Ijeoma Forchu (1) Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu (3) Izzy Swanson (1) Jac O'Keeffe (2) Jagannath Adhikari (1) Jane Skjoldli (1) Jayita Sengupta (2) Jeff Carreira (1) Jeffrey Breau (2) Jemarc Axinto (2) Jennifer Good (2) Jenn Louie (1) Joe Welker (1) Johannes Zinzendorf (1) john gehman (1) Judy Rodgers (2) Karen Tate (1) Karim Ullah (1) Katharina Opalka (1) Leslie Smith (2) Margaret Smith (1) Maria Burschel (1) Maria Fernanda Gebara (2) Maria Jaoudi (1) Mark Schunemann (1) Mateusz Kucab (2) Matthew Zheng (1) Melissa MacDonald (2) Michal Erlich (1) Michel Gagné (1) Michelle Bentsman (1) Michelle Merrill (1) Morgan Curtis (1) Naohito Miura (2) Neşe Devenot (1) Nicole Collins (1) Nirinjan Khalsa (1) Olatunbosun Adekogbe (1) Orus Castaño-Suárez (2) Patricia Tillman (2) Paul Gillis-Smith (1) Pegi Eyers (1) Philip Goldberg (3) Phil Lord (1) Raffaella Di Marzio (1) Rao Snehapriya (3) Rick Archer (1) Ricky Ray (3) Rituparna Das (4) Sarah Harvey (1) Sarah Herrington (1) Sarah Kariko (1) Silje Trym Mathiassen (1) Sudarshan Sundar (3) Susan Palmer (1) Suzanne Newcombe (1) Tao Thykier\_Makeeff (1) Tianna Arredondo (1) Vanessa Chakour (1) Yael Dansac (1) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 438 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Year of PublicationAlphabetical A-Z sort ## 438 results Download 438 citations download- [BibTeX](/node/1616576/export?format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/node/1616576/export?format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/node/1616576/export?format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/node/1616576/export?format=tagged) - [Marc](/node/1616576/export?format=marc) - [PubMedId](/node/1616576/export?format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/node/1616576/export?format=ris) ### 2024 Rademaker, Laura. 2024. “[‘A Relationship With the Land That Western Culture Knows Nothing Of’: Sacred Claims of First Nations Australia, 1960-1990](/publications/%E2%80%98-relationship-land-western-culture-knows-nothing-%E2%80%99-sacred-claims-first-nations).” in *Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts*. Cambridge, MA. Rademaker, Laura. 2024. “[‘A Relationship With the Land That Western Culture Knows Nothing Of’: Sacred Claims of First Nations Australia, 1960-1990](/publications/%E2%80%98-relationship-land-western-culture-knows-nothing-%E2%80%99-sacred-claims-first-nations).” in *Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts*. Cambridge, MA. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Abstract: Over a period of only two decades, First Nations people transformed Australia’s Christian churches from supporters of mining on Indigenous land to among its most vocal opponents, joining First Nations people in describing the land as ‘sacred’... Kucab, Mateusz. 2024. “[‘In the Name of the Bee’. Emily Dickinson and Earth Spiritualities](/publications/%E2%80%98-name-bee%E2%80%99-emily-dickinson-and-earth-spiritualities).” in *Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts*. Cambridge, MA. Kucab, Mateusz. 2024. “[‘In the Name of the Bee’. Emily Dickinson and Earth Spiritualities](/publications/%E2%80%98-name-bee%E2%80%99-emily-dickinson-and-earth-spiritualities).” in *Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts*. Cambridge, MA. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Abstract: In my paper, I would like to read Emily Dickinson's poems from the perspective of environmental spirituality, for which the key elements will be spirituality inspired by the earth, taken from pagan practices and ecofeminist works (Merchant... Rendlen, Chelsea. 2024. “[A New Approach to a Traditional Girls’ Summer Camp at YWCA VT Camp Hochelaga: Embracing Spirituality While Centering Anti-Racism and Women’s+ Empowerment](/publications/new-approach-traditional-girls%E2%80%99-summer-camp-ywca-vt-camp-hochelaga-embracing).” in *Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts*. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Divinity School Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. Rendlen, Chelsea. 2024. “[A New Approach to a Traditional Girls’ Summer Camp at YWCA VT Camp Hochelaga: Embracing Spirituality While Centering Anti-Racism and Women’s+ Empowerment](/publications/new-approach-traditional-girls%E2%80%99-summer-camp-ywca-vt-camp-hochelaga-embracing).” in *Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts*. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Divinity School Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Abstract: Summer camps are spaces for spiritual transformation, initiation, and development; acting as a rite of passage for many North American adolescents. Beyond the friendship bracelets and campfires, the origins of summer camp are rooted in Muscular... Roy, Camden. 2025. “[‘Christianity As Mystical Fact’ Within the Theosophical Context: Steiner’s Innovative Approach to Esoteric Christian History ](/publication/christianity-mystical-fact-within-theosophical-context-steiners-innovative-approach).” in *100 Years Rudolf Steiner*. Harvard Divinity School: Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. Roy, Camden. 2025. “[‘Christianity As Mystical Fact’ Within the Theosophical Context: Steiner’s Innovative Approach to Esoteric Christian History ](/publication/christianity-mystical-fact-within-theosophical-context-steiners-innovative-approach).” in *100 Years Rudolf Steiner*. Harvard Divinity School: Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract This paper examines Rudolf Steiner’s early work, Christianity as Mystical Fact (1902) within the context of Theosophical interpretations of early Christian history. Contemporary Theosophists such as Annie Besant and G. R. S. Mead constructed narratives of... Renye, Jeffrey. 2025. “[‘Long Live the Weeds and the Wilderness Yet’: Ecological Esotericism and the Travel Writing of Ithell Colquhoun](/publication/long-live-weeds-and-wilderness-yet-ecological-esotericism-and-travel-writing-ithell).” in *Spirituality and the Arts*. Harvard Divinity School: Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. Renye, Jeffrey. 2025. “[‘Long Live the Weeds and the Wilderness Yet’: Ecological Esotericism and the Travel Writing of Ithell Colquhoun](/publication/long-live-weeds-and-wilderness-yet-ecological-esotericism-and-travel-writing-ithell).” in *Spirituality and the Arts*. Harvard Divinity School: Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract This paper will explore connections between how scientists write about the current state of the climate crisis and environment-themed esotericism. Both climate researchers and esoteric practitioners run up against the limits of “reading” or “knowing” a... Sams, Harriet. 2025. “[A Sense of the Divine at Complex Human Heritage Sites: Earth-Based Spirituality, Cultural Heritage, and Challenging Landscape Legacies](/publication/sense-divine-complex-human-heritage-sites-earth-based-spirituality-cultural-heritage).” in *Spirituality and the Arts*. Harvard Divinity School: Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. Sams, Harriet. 2025. “[A Sense of the Divine at Complex Human Heritage Sites: Earth-Based Spirituality, Cultural Heritage, and Challenging Landscape Legacies](/publication/sense-divine-complex-human-heritage-sites-earth-based-spirituality-cultural-heritage).” in *Spirituality and the Arts*. Harvard Divinity School: Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Modern Earth-based spiritual paths encourage direct encounters with the natural world. However, many people live in significantly altered and damaged landscapes. Can a sense of the Divine still be found in such places? In this paper I explore a case study... ### 2025 Ayorinde, Oladele. 2025. “[‘It Is a Spiritual Thing’: Notes on Daniel Olukoya, Music-Making and Everyday Spirituality in Contemporary Lagos](/publication/it-spiritual-thing-notes-daniel-olukoya-music-making-and-everyday-spirituality).” in *Spirituality and the Arts*. Harvard Divinity School: Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. Ayorinde, Oladele. 2025. “[‘It Is a Spiritual Thing’: Notes on Daniel Olukoya, Music-Making and Everyday Spirituality in Contemporary Lagos](/publication/it-spiritual-thing-notes-daniel-olukoya-music-making-and-everyday-spirituality).” in *Spirituality and the Arts*. Harvard Divinity School: Program for the Evolution of Spirituality. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract How do musical arts and performances ways express the sacred or become sacred in themselves in a postcolonial African Pentecostal context? What might it mean to explore the gospel adaption of popular music genres like highlife music and African folksongs... ### 2023 Singh-Sengupta, Sunita. 2023. “[‘Uses of Power: Individual Consciousness for Collective Consciousness’](/publications/uses-power-individual-consciousness-collective-consciousness).” in *Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities* . Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA . Singh-Sengupta, Sunita. 2023. “[‘Uses of Power: Individual Consciousness for Collective Consciousness’](/publications/uses-power-individual-consciousness-collective-consciousness).” in *Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities* . Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA . - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Abstract: The present paper focuses on conceptualizing the uses of power by training the mind to control the senses in order to realize the true purpose of the soul. The spectrum of this training of the mind is from evolution to involution. Love is the... Opalka, Katharina. 2023. “[‘We Are Not Spiritual Masters’: Narrative Coding and De-Coding of Power Structures](/publications/%E2%80%9Cwe-are-not-spiritual-masters%E2%80%9D-narrative-coding-and-de-coding-power-structures).” in *Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities*. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Opalka, Katharina. 2023. “[‘We Are Not Spiritual Masters’: Narrative Coding and De-Coding of Power Structures](/publications/%E2%80%9Cwe-are-not-spiritual-masters%E2%80%9D-narrative-coding-and-de-coding-power-structures).” in *Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities*. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract A prominent narrative of the ecumenical-monastic community of Taizé is “We are not spiritual masters”. The paper aims to show how the coding and de-coding of power structures in this narrative work and in what regard it can enable productive as well as... Guterman, Anna. 2023. “[‘You Will Simply Go Nuts If You Try’: A Discussion of Paradox Within the Osho-Rajneesh Movement](/publications/%E2%80%9Cyou-will-simply-go-nuts-if-you-try%E2%80%9D-discussion-paradox-within-osho-rajneesh).” in *Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities*. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Guterman, Anna. 2023. “[‘You Will Simply Go Nuts If You Try’: A Discussion of Paradox Within the Osho-Rajneesh Movement](/publications/%E2%80%9Cyou-will-simply-go-nuts-if-you-try%E2%80%9D-discussion-paradox-within-osho-rajneesh).” in *Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities*. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [Watch Presentation Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D8pGNNenAQ) How can Osho simultaneously be regarded as both an impactful spiritual teacher and the most dangerous man on Earth? This paper seeks to hold the paradox of this dynamic in tension without succumbing to the either idealization or demonization so often... - [Watch Presentation Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D8pGNNenAQ) Eyers, Pegi. 2023. “[\[Un\]Conscious Colonialism – Why Is ‘Native Spirituality’ a Pagan Genre?](/publications/unconscious-colonialism-%E2%80%93-why-%E2%80%9Cnative-spirituality%E2%80%9D-pagan-genre).” in *Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities*. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Eyers, Pegi. 2023. “[\[Un\]Conscious Colonialism – Why Is ‘Native Spirituality’ a Pagan Genre?](/publications/unconscious-colonialism-%E2%80%93-why-%E2%80%9Cnative-spirituality%E2%80%9D-pagan-genre).” in *Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities*. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract - [Watch Presentation Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMzygIW6QQY) Abstract: Entrenched definitions and genres are incredibly hard to dismantle, even those created in the early days of modern Pagan and New Age modalities. And yet what if those original definitions were blind spots rooted in an \[un\]conscious colonialism... - [Watch Presentation Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMzygIW6QQY) Stafford, Brian. 2023. “[A Look at Leadership Archetypes in Traditional and Alternative Spiritualities](/publications/look-leadership-archetypes-traditional-and-alternative-spiritualities).” in *Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities*. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Stafford, Brian. 2023. “[A Look at Leadership Archetypes in Traditional and Alternative Spiritualities](/publications/look-leadership-archetypes-traditional-and-alternative-spiritualities).” in *Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities*. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. - add\_circle\_outline do\_not\_disturb\_on Abstract Abstract: The misuse of power in alternative spiritual communities is similar and different than the misuse of power in most mainstream religious communities. In this workshop we will explore an archetypal understanding of leadership and power... - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [3](?page=2 "Go to page 3") - [ Last page 37 ](?page=36 "Go to last page") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")