LSPR5000

LSPR

5000

Worship Practices & Practical Theology

Culturally embedded and embodied, worship traditions use historically grounded rituals and artifacts to create experiences that inform and form people's world-view, self-identity, and relationships with others and creation. In this doctoral seminar students will integrate theories and research methods from disciplines such as Practical Theology, Art History, Liturgical Studies, and Spirituality to analyze and understand worship practices of particular communities. By the end of the course, students will have designed and conducted research based in their own area of interest, articulated their theoretical and methodological approaches, and presented their findings in an engaging way. This course is designed for PhD and advanced MA students. As a doctoral seminar, students will take the lead in shaping weekly discussions. Evaluation will be based on class participation, weekly written reflections, leadership of class discussion, small projects leading up to the final research project, a paper reporting on the research project, and a conference-style presentation of their project and findings. This seminar will be taught in concurrent hybrid modality via Zoom.

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