Spring 2025
Dan McKanan serves as the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, where he has taught since 2008...
This paper is a contribution to a better understanding of a narrow facet of Rudolf Steiner’s work, namely the significance of his understanding of aesthetic culture and its connection with ecological sensibilities and economics. While aesthetics has...
In a network of organizations managed by meditation practitioners in Brazil, how to decouple racial stereotypes from its body of knowledge? How to more effectively respect the rights of black individuals interacting with anthroposophical organizations...
This talk affirms Dan McKanan's suggestion that the "hermeneutic of reverence" practiced by good-willed proponents of Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy "might require a dose of antiracist critique" if the movement is to persist. Careful study of Steiner’s...
Instructor: Dan McKanan
“Religion and ecology” is one of the fastest-growing subfields within the study of religion, and our approach to this topic will be broadly “ecological.”
Instructor: Dan McKanan
This course surveys spiritual practices and movements that have been labeled as metaphysical, esoteric, pagan, occult, harmonial, and New Age.
