Dynamics of Faculty Engagement in the Movement for Democracy's Education at Nothern Arizona University: Backgrounds, Practices, and Future Horizons

As scholarship has become increasingly narrow and disconnected from public life, Kettering research has documented an intense sense of malaise in higher education, what Harry Boyte has called a loss of civic agency. Surprisingly, however, faculty at a few campuses have begun to self-organize to integrate civic work into their teaching and research. This study, by Blase Scarnati and Romand Coles, documents such efforts at Northern Arizona University. Rather than making civic engagement a specific project of one or two faculty, what makes this campus special is that civic engagement has taken hold across the university. Building on research by KerryAnn O'Meara, this working paper shows that civic engagement is not only fulfilling to faculty at an individual level but is starting to impact the civic culture of their institutions

A sample of religious understanding and beliefs of an urban church congregation

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Spartan Daily, February 11, 1987

Volume 88, Issue 12https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/7538/thumbnail.jp

Spartan Daily, February 11, 1987

Volume 88, Issue 12https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/7538/thumbnail.jp

Community Organizing in Three South Side Chicago Communities: Leadership, Activities, and Prospects

This study identifies barriers facing groups and leaders in communities on the South Side of Chicago that limit not only their capacity for organizing but also their ability to attract resources for their work. The findings also provide key data on current activities at the grassroots level, with particular attention to groups and leaders that have the potential to expand the scope of their efforts to larger, community-based initiatives

Spartan Daily, February 2, 2009

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Learning from the Past and Looking to the Future: A Conversation between Pamela Tate and Robert Deahl about the Past 35 Years in Adult Learning

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Requiem for a Generation, April 2, 2012

This is the concert program of the Requiem for a Generation performance on Monday, April 2, 2012 at 8:00 p.m., at Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. The works performed were The Bells, op. 35 by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Symphony No. 11 in G minor, The Year 1905, op. 103 by Dmitri Shostakovich. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

Inner Work Community: Shadow Work as Spiritual Formation

The NPO statement surrounding this doctoral project is that A theological, practical, and community-centered framework for shadow work is disconnected from Christian spiritual formation. This doctoral project is the culmination of a three-fold process: discovering the need for shadow work in the context of spiritual formation, designing multi-faceted virtually-based opportunities to address this need among individuals and groups, and delivering those opportunities via online courses, one-on-one shadow work, and digital content such as essays, articles, and podcasts. My vocational context is my unofficial organization, and MVP, Inner Work Community, which provides these opportunities. Inner Work Community is extended through partnerships with Portland Center, the Companioning Center, and Deep Water Men’s Ministry. My research stems primarily from the work of Carl Jung, his concept of shadow and his broader psychological theory. Shadow refers to the parts of individuals or groups that are hidden, rejected, or denied conscious awareness. Shadow work is any effective process for identifying and integrating one’s hidden self. Mythologist, Joseph Campbell and Christian Jungian psychologist, Murray Stein provide the theological foundations for the project. I designed Inner Work Community to offer various opportunities and mediums for shadow work. I place emphasis on the exploration of Jungian psychology while highlighting how Jungian theory naturally aligns with the Biblical narrative and Christian values of wholeness, loving relationship, and abundant life. Participants in this research engaged courses, individual shadow work, and digital content from a Jungian psychological perspective, and most identified with the Christian faith. Spiritual Formation certainly deals in part with the inner life, but lacks sufficient language and practices for navigating and integrating the dark side of the human experience. This project demonstrates Inner Work Community as a facilitator of exploration and recovery of people’s full humanity and relational vitality by encountering and integrating the hidden self

The Spiritual Nature of the Italian Renaissance

This study seeks to investigate the influence of faith in the emergence and development of the Italian Renaissance, in both the artwork and writing of the major artists and thinkers of the day, and the impact that new expressions of faith had on the viewing public. While the Renaissance is often labeled as a secular movement by modern scholars, this interpretation is largely due to the political motives of the Medici family who dominated Florence as the center of this artistic rebirth, on and off again throughout the period. On close examination, the philosophical and creative undercurrents of the movement were much more complex. The thinkers of the era would often place Greco-Roman philosophers in the context of their Christian era and use their wisdom in addition to, rather than superseding, church and biblical authority, embracing figures like Virgil and Augustine in concert rather than opposition. These Christian humanists saw their work as a way to engage humanity in a quest for knowledge in ever expanding ways, but still with an undercurrent of reflection on the role of the divine. Spiritual inquiries of Dante, Lorenzo Valla, and Petrarch in written works are similarly manifested in the visual arts by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarotti, and Raphael Sanzio. These ‘big three’ painters of the Renaissance portrayed their individual Christian ideas through their own writings, sketchbooks, and all forms of artistic expressions, many of which are evaluated in this paper. Finally, the transition of art to a scale inviting the viewer to experience it personally marked a vital change. The shift from divine proportions to more naturalistic and relatable art also logically harmonizes with the mindset of the broader Renaissance movement. This paper seeks to examine the depth and complexity of key Renaissance figures and how concepts of Christian faith and spirituality translated into their works