Women’s Spirituality Programs

PhD in Philosophy and Religion, Concentration in Women′s Spirituality

MA in Philosophy and Religion, Concentration in Women′s Spirituality

Scholarship and Social Justice

The mission of the Women’s Spirituality (WSE) programs is to create a high-quality program supported by traditional academic research and scholarship in philosophy and religion that also draws from the many grassroots social justice and ecologic movements of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Our programs honor the spiritual impulse to redress the suppression of the sacred feminine and the oppression of women, and we join with those who seek to end the exploitation of marginalized social groups, and to reverse the ecological suffering of the Earth and its many species.

• We employ rigorous and embodied scholarship inclusive of the arts, spiritual expression, and cultural activism.

• We honor a variety of creative and liberatory paths, including: postcolonial struggles for civil and human rights, the grassroots and academic paths of the Women’s Spirituality movement, and a variety of local and globalsocial justice struggles.

• We explore spiritual and religious traditions in which the experiences of women are both immanent and transcendent, earth-and-sky embedded, and embodied in the web of Being.

• We seek to advance the conversation that explores the spirituality of women and its significance in personal, social, and global contexts.

• We include perspectives that are individual and communal; social, global, and ecological; scholarly, contemplative and activist; healing and holistic; disciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary; and transformative of self, culture, and community.

Our goal is to move beyond systems of domination and subordination to matrices to cooperation, creativity, and actualization, and to prepare new leaders for the 21st century.