Eco-Care: Chaplaincy in a More-Than-Human World (ET-550)
Course Details:
This course invites students into the emerging field of eco-care:, the practice of chaplaincy in relation to ecology and the human relationship to place, other creatures, the more-than-human world, and the ecological threats endangering our shared future. This course will include attention to ecological literacy, climate change, climate- and eco-grief, eco-psychology, Nature Deficit Disorder, place-based forms of soul work and healing practices, wilderness rites of passage and other forms of ritual, human environmental and climate justice, and interspecies relationships. Student projects will center in one’s own place and its creatures and needs and/or in some aspect of human need in relation to these daunting challenges.
Course fulfills the following curricular requirements:
MAIRS - Islamic Studies: Religious Pluralism
MAIRS - Islamic Studies: Elective
MAIRS - Ministerial Studies: Arts of Ministry
MAIRS - Ministerial Studies: Beliefs and Practices
MAIRS - Interreligious Studies: Elective
MAC - Chaplaincy: Elective
MAC - Islamic Chaplaincy: Elective
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