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American Academy of Religion 2018 Meetings
Come join us at the 2018 AAR Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, November 17–20. See below for a list of events where you can meet up for all things process. (Information and registration for AAR can be found at www.aarweb.org.) Center for Process Studies Reception Saturday | 9:00 PM-11:00 PM Hyatt Regency-Capitol 3 (Fourth Level) This reception is open to all friends, members, and persons interested in the Center for Process Studies and/or open-relational theologies. Learn about recent developments…
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Can Exceptional Experience Help Save the World?
This conference will explore applying the insights from process philosophy and transpersonal psychology to the issues we are facing today. How can we bring our understandings into the world to create a more sustainable, just, and humane civilization for future generations? Our aim will be to explore how Whitehead’s metaphysics can be applied to connect insights from transpersonal psychology with fostering sustainable, ecological civilization. We see this as an opportunity to build strategic relationships and develop some mechanisms for the…
Find out more »Ecological Civilization and Holistic Human Development
13th International Forum on Ecological Civilization 2nd International Youth Forum on Ecological Civilization As a positive vision of human flourishing, ecological civilization is about more than what we can do, it involves who we can become. It’s not merely about having more or doing more, but about being more. Being an “eco-person” speaks to the deeper motivations behind the kinds of actions we need to take in response to our complex social and environmental crisis. The development of eco-persons is connected with the qualitative measure…
Find out more »Process Theology Summer Institute
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Find out more »The Future of Process Theology
Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fairbanks, Alaska and the Center for Process Studies Over the past 90 years since Alfred North Whitehead’s seminal publication, Process and Reality, his relational, open, organic worldview has taken shape in a myriad of unique ways. It has been said that Process Theology is one of the most important movements in 21st Century American liberal theology, in connection with liberation theology, feminist theology, eco-theology, religious pluralism, religion and science, panpsychism, panentheism, postmodern, and…
Find out more »Process as Creativity — Process as Concern
12th International Whitehead Conference Process philosophy has championed the idea that the universe is in the making. There is no ultimate controlling body or ruling set of laws that can make justice to what is concrete. As Whitehead put it in Modes of Thought, concrete reality is not to be reduced to a barren tautological absolute where life and motion are nothing but dreams. As a consequence, creativity is placed by Whitehead as the ultimate behind all forms, inexplicable by forms,…
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