Culture and Spirituality - Holy Names University

Culture and Spirituality from Holy Names University is a Campus Master Area Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The Sophia Center cultivates a capacity for a listening heart by celebrating Earth, Art, and Spirit and offers a Masters of Arts degree in Culture and Spirituality. The program seeks to integrate the inward journey of personal transformation and the outward journey of social transformation, ecology, spirituality and justice, meditation and restoration, the intellectual and artistic, drawing on religious perspectives from the world's wisdom traditions, science, women and indigenous people. With this in mind the program prepares participants to be leaders in the fields of ecological sensitivity, social justice and spiritual fulfillment. The Sophia Center creates an international learning community that undertakes with integrity and depth the redeeming work of our time and the historical mission to which all humanity is called: the "Great Work" of our generation of transforming the entire cultural paradigm to protect humanity and the planet from destruction while encouraging a new era of well-being for the entire Earth Community. Sophia Center students engage in this transforming process: they honor an approach that is rooted in courage, strength and compassion. They join a highly respected international faculty of scholars, social and environmental justice leaders, and spiritual practitioners who energize a world of living ideas and illuminate the complexities of modern spirituality. Drawing on sources as diverse as the medieval mysticism of Hildegaard of Bingen, the contemporary prophecies of Teilhard de Chardin, the quantum physics of Fritjof Capra, the cosmological vision of Thomas Berry, the insights of indigenous cultures, the work of eco-feminism and the spiritual practices of classical traditions of world religions. The Sophia Center in Culture and Spirituality offers the students of the world a meaningful immersion into and investigation of the convergent forces of religion, art, justice, and science. View more details on Holy Names University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Area Studies courses.