ETW Spiritual Writing Nonfict

Catalog description

Spiritual Writing is a reading and writing-intensive course in the genres that make up spiritual non-fiction: spiritual autobiography, spiritual memoir, spiritual/travel narrative, the nature essay and others. Students will study and engage in dialogue with some of the great historical and contemporary spiritual writers of the world, such as St. Augustine, Thomas Merton, Viktor Frankl, Mother Teresa, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Joseph Campbell, Martin Luther King Jr., Carlos Castaneda, Annie Dillard, Anne Lamott, Black Elk, and others. Students engage in figurative and literal dialogue not only with Catholicism in particular and Christianity in general but with other spiritual faith traditions, including Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Native American spirituality, and others.