Wednesday-Saturday, April 26-29, 2023
Registration Now Open for In-Person and Virtual Participation
Harvard Divinity School’s Program for the Evolution of Spirituality is delighted to announce that our spring 2023 conference will be organized around the theme of “Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities.” We will offer three days of panels and workshops devoted to this theme and other aspects of alternative spirituality.
Our conference will explore a twofold reality: alternative spiritualities can be enormously empowering for the persons who participate in them, but they can also be sites of deeply harmful abuses of power. Our sessions will explore both sides of this reality and strive to foster open-hearted dialogue between people who have benefited from alternative spiritualities and those who have experienced significant harm from them.
For the purposes of this conference, we define “alternative spiritualities” broadly in keeping with the Program for the Evolution of Spirituality’s mission to support the scholarly study of emerging spiritual movements, marginalized spiritualities, and the innovative edges of established religious traditions.
This conference is free to the public, but registration is required using the link below. Please note that there are only a few in-person spaces still available, while virtual participation is unlimited. A full conference program will be posted at this site soon.