Women’s Spirituality Programs

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

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

Spirituality, Scholarship, Sacred Arts, and Eco-Social Justice
With its strong emphasis on rigorous academic and embodied scholarship, the Women's Spirituality MA and PhD Programs integrates studies in diverse spiritual, religious, and philosophical traditions with the leading grassroots social justice and ecologic movements of the 20th and 21st centuries.

We are one of the first academic Women's Spirituality programs in the United States, and the only PhD degree in Women's Spirituality, Philosophy and Religion in the world.

We honor the spiritual impulse to redress the suppression of the sacred feminine and to end the subordination and exploitation of women and other marginalized social and cultural groups, and to reverse the ecological suffering of the Earth and its many species.

• We employ rigorous and embodied scholarship, which draws from diverse spiritual traditions, academic disciplines, the arts, personal experience, and cultural activism.

• We recognize the spiritual, creative and religious diversity of women and other oppressed populations, and we celebrate the profound significance of the spiritual gifts and challenges of women and other marginalized groups in personal, social, and global contexts.

• We explore the scholarly, activist and cultural contributions of diversely gendered individuals from a variety of racial, ethnic and class backgrounds, geographic sites of origin, sexual identities and socio-cultural locations.

• We include perspectives that are individual and communal; social, global, and ecologic; scholarly and contemplative; healing and activist; disciplinary and trans-disciplinary; expressive and ineffable; and transformative of self, culture, and community.

• We celebrate spiritual and religious traditions that are both immanent and transcendent, earth-and-sky embedded, and embodied in the web of Being.

Our goal is to move beyond systems of domination and subordination to matrices of cooperation, creativity, and actualization, as we prepare new leaders for the 21st century. We support personal, cultural and planetary transformation and we want our students to know that they can change the world!

Our degrees are available in a residential format (36 units of face-to-face coursework) or a semi-distant format (up to 17 units on-line, and at least 19 units of face-to-face coursework).