2024-2025 Working Groups

The Program for the Evolution of Spirituality hosted five working groups for the 2024-2025 academic year. These groups were designed to advance our mission of supporting the scholarly study of emerging spiritual movements, marginalized spiritualities, and the innovative edges of established religious traditions. By addressing a diverse range of interrelated topics, we aimed to foster a collaborative community of practitioners working at the intersections of scholarly, creative, and spiritual work. While each of the 2024-2025 group orbited around our 2025 Conference: Spirituality and the Arts, their scope extended well beyond the event.

The five groups were:

• The Art of Dying: Artistic and Cultural Hermeneutics of Mortality and Transformation 
  Facilitator: Tristan Angieri
   
• Deep Listening: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Sound, Music, and Spirituality
  Facilitator: Matthew Ceurvorst
   
• Spiritual Healing and Art
  Facilitator: Rituparna Das
   
• Interspecies Dialogues Conversation
  Facilitator: Natalia Schwien
   
• Indigenous Religious Traditions
  Facilitators: Rebecca Mendoza and Lola Mondragon