MULTI-RELIGIOUS INTENSIVE (IDS-1400)

SPRING 2021: Multireligious Intensive: Amidst the Blessing of the Ancestors weaves teachings on organic multireligiosity from Shaykh Ibrahim Baba / Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajaje with practices of ancestral engagement. Organic multiregliosity “interrupts practices of considering religions as monolithic, rigidly-separated traditions in conflict with one another [and] understands them as having complex and constantly-morphing relationships…” (Ibrahim Baba).  This intensive focuses on multireligiosity in personal practice, in spiritual leadership, and toward countering oppression and cultural (mis)appropriation.  This course includes conceptual exploration and embodied practice with work in ancestral lineage engagement, reverence and healing.  Students complete readings and watch / listen to recordings and submit a reflection post prior to the intensive, and complete a second reflection paper after the intensive. Required for MDiv and recommended for the MASC degrees.  Intended audience: All degree programs. Relates to Thresholds: I, II, IV, VI, VII. Relates to MFC: I, III, VII. Coure meets daily, 1/24/21-1/29/21, from 9:30am-1:30pm, 4 hours syncronous and 1.5 hours asynchronous per day. [20 max enrollment]

SUMMER 2021:

This course will present a framework for the practice and understanding of multi-religiosity, in a collaborative and pluralist environment. It will draw upon contemporary texts and guest lectures representing a diversity of faith traditions to provide an integrative context for understanding religious identity as non-binary and multifaceted. Students will be encouraged to participate in multi-spiritual practice and share their own multi-religious experiences and rituals to foster discussion about non-binary religious identity from a variety of perspectives. Course Format and Evaluation: intensive, with final presentation and research paper or project on a specific topic or theme relating to multi-religiosity. Intended audience: all degree programs. High-residency, limited hybrid participation allowed. Required for the M.Div. and/or MASC. Relates to Thresholds: I, II, IV, VI, VII. Relates to MFC: I, III, VII. Course meets daily, 8/16/21-8/20//21 and 8/23/21-8/27/21, 2 hours synchronous (10am-12pm PST) and 2 hours asynchronous per day. [25 max enrollment; Auditors excluded]

SPRING 2022: Amidst the Blessing of the Ancestors weaves teachings on organic multireligiosity from Ibrahim Baba (Dr. Ibrahim Farajae) with practices of ancestor reverence and healing. According to Ibrahim Baba, organic multiregliosity “interrupts practices of considering religions as monolithic, rigidly-separated traditions in conflict with one another [and] rather understands them as having complex and constantly-morphing relationships in successive generations and in ever-widening geographical and cultural contexts.”  
 
This intensive focuses on embodying multireligiosity in personal practice, tending multireligiosity in spiritual leadership and public worship, and engaging multireligiosity toward countering oppression and cultural (mis)appropriation.  The intensive also engages embodied practice around ancestor reverence and healing - in spiritual lineage and family / blood lineage - as a way of anchoring multireligious expression, countering oppression, and aligning to blessing.  Each day of the intensive combines conceptual exploration of multireligiosity, embodied practice of counter-oppressive devotion and tending work in ancestral lineage ritual and repair.  Course texts include multi-media selections from Ibrahim Baba, readings by Adrienne Maree Brown on intersectionality and emergent strategy, and Ancestral Medicine by Daniel Foor.  Prior to the intensive, students are expected to complete select readings as well as to submit a reflection paper on personal experiences of multireligiosity and ancestral tending.  At the completion of the course, students submit a second reflection paper weaving their learnings and experiences in the intensive. This course relates to SKSM Thresholds 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and MFC Comps 1, 3, 4, Course meets daily, 1/24/22-1/28/22, from 9:am-5:30pm, at SKSM. [25 max enrollment; Auditors excluded]