2024 Conference: "Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability"
Dates: April 24-27, 2024
Our 2024 conference explored the many ways in which spiritual practices, especially those from beyond the religious mainstream, mirror and resist the imperial contexts in which they are rooted. Given the pervasiveness of imperial, extractive and settler colonialist systems, we assume that all spiritualities have colonial dimensions and, as such, have possibilities for anti-colonial or decolonial responses. See the full list of abstracts and presenter bios below.
2024 Conference Abstracts (listed alphabetically by title)
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.” 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.” 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.
Umoh, Samuel. 2024. “African Tailor Made and Shembe Movement in South Africa.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Umoh, Samuel. 2024. “African Tailor Made and Shembe Movement in South Africa.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Forchu, Ijeoma. 2024. “Ala, the Eagle and the Kite: Narratives of Ecological Justice in Igbo Songs.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Forchu, Ijeoma. 2024. “Ala, the Eagle and the Kite: Narratives of Ecological Justice in Igbo Songs.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Tillman, Patricia. 2024. “All Glories to the Assembled Devotees: Spiritual Names and Cultural Appropriation in Yoga and Devotional Culture in the West.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Tillman, Patricia. 2024. “All Glories to the Assembled Devotees: Spiritual Names and Cultural Appropriation in Yoga and Devotional Culture in the West.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Maheswar, Ghimire. 2024. “Animism and Ecological Restoration (Century Old Tradition of Indigenous Community) .” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Maheswar, Ghimire. 2024. “Animism and Ecological Restoration (Century Old Tradition of Indigenous Community) .” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Chattopadhyay, Sanskriti. 2024. “Being a Devotee: Image to Decolonial Decentralization.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Chattopadhyay, Sanskriti. 2024. “Being a Devotee: Image to Decolonial Decentralization.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Balliett, Suzy. 2024. “Beyond Colonial Entanglements: Embracing Daoist Philosophy & Qigong for Liberating the Mind.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Balliett, Suzy. 2024. “Beyond Colonial Entanglements: Embracing Daoist Philosophy & Qigong for Liberating the Mind.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Kanu, Ikechukwu Anthony. 2024. “Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Environmental Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Kanu, Ikechukwu Anthony. 2024. “Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Environmental Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Smith, Ryan. 2024. “Confronting White Supremacy in Nordic Spirituality.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Smith, Ryan. 2024. “Confronting White Supremacy in Nordic Spirituality.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Mondragón, Delores (Lola). 2024. “Contemporary Revitalization of Indigenous Spiritualities in Prisons, Treatment Centers, and Veteran Retreats: Using Drumming and Storytelling As Forms of Witnessing the Violence Away.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.
Mondragón, Delores (Lola). 2024. “Contemporary Revitalization of Indigenous Spiritualities in Prisons, Treatment Centers, and Veteran Retreats: Using Drumming and Storytelling As Forms of Witnessing the Violence Away.” in Alternative Spiritualities of Celebration, Resistance, and Accountability: Engaging Our Colonial and Decolonial Contexts. Cambridge, MA.