SP/ETH/5/712E: Spirituality and Ethics: Aboriginal Wisdom, Lives and Land
Dr. Paula Sampson
Dates: March 1-3. Thursday 6 p.m. – 9 p.m., Friday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Course available for: Audit/Certificate Credit or Degree Credit: Basic and Advanced
Audit Fee: $187.50/additional $75 fee for Certificate in Theological Studies
For Basic or Advanced Degree Credit contact Registrar registrar@vst.edu
The interconnection of spirituality and ethics is evident in the ancestral traditions of Aboriginal cultures. For thousands of years these traditions have provided spiritual practices and ethical guidelines to the cultures which developed them. In many cases, this has included Christianity. Through the course, students will gain understanding of and appreciation for the astute and diverse insights Aboriginal civilizations have developed to sustain their relationships, human and nonhuman alike. The course will help students respectfully discover Aboriginal cultures without romanticizing them and appreciate the ability of these cultures to adapt to current circumstances.
Dr. Paula Sampson is Director of Native Ministries and Assistant Professor of Ethics and First Nation Studies.
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Location: Grace Presbyterian Church, Calgary
For Degree Credit Please Contact the Registrar at registrar@vst.edu
Course / Event: SP/ETH/5/712E: Spirituality and Ethics: Aboriginal Wisdom, Lives and Land
Cost: Audit $187.50 Certificate: $262.50
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FREE Public Lecture: Thursday March 1st, 2012 – 6:30pm at Grace Presbyterian Church
Global Village/Global City: a story the clan house could tell to the cathedral – Rev. Dr. Paula Sampson
Contemporary scholarship recognizes the significance of “place” in urban contexts. Many argue that the modern emphasis on time relative to place requires rethinking if global life is to survive and flourish. Such a rethinking is appropriate in the theological world also, where emphasis on transcendence has tended at times to overshadow attention to immanence. Most of the world’s tribal communities pay attention first of all to landscape and location. In Aboriginal communities, kinship with place forms the basis for all social and economic transactions. Even in the twenty-first century, these ancient understandings survive and reveal themselves in the protocols and performance of Aboriginal narratives. It is narrative practice which links place and time and maintains the balance between them, mitigating the temporal and individualistic practices now giving rise to urban struggle, consumerism and environmental degradation.
Recognizing that the global city is not a village, Paula Sampson will offer a respectful exploration of how Aboriginal narratives of relationship could inspire more conscious, humane and ecological urban habitation. For those Aboriginal peoples who, either from necessity or choice, have traded village centrality for urban edges, the promise is not only one of theology but of justice.