Women, Gender, Spirituality, and Social Justice

Overview

We honor the spiritual impulses that have guided movements for equality and justice across the globe, and we believe that activism can be a form of sacred practice. This MA degree at California Institute of Integral Studies is best suited to those who are interested in developing a visionary approach to their work as activists, educators, healers, facilitators, artists, and socially conscious entrepreneurs.

The MA Women, Gender, Spirituality, and Social Justice degree emphasizes the following areas of scholarship:

• Ecofeminism/Ecology

•  Women in World Religions

•  Mysteries, Sacred Arts, and Healing

•  Diversity and Social Justice 

•  Spiritual Activism and Leadership

Students are invited to develop an individualized focus of study within these broad areas. For example, an individualized focus of study may be "ecofeminism and the Abrahamic religions," "multicultural women's spiritual leadership," or "the role of sacred arts in movements for social justice." 

Through our Women, Gender, Spirituality, and Social Justice program from California Institute of Integral Studies, students will be able to integrate in-depth knowledge of foundational concepts in student's chosen area of focus into scholarly papers and presentations. Students will analyze and articulate a complex and nuanced understanding of the connections among women's studies, gender studies, spiritual traditions and movements, and social justice movements. Students will also conduct interdisciplinary research that values multiple ways of knowing, in addition to employing a critical feminist lens to interrogate the construction of knowledge and social systems.