Fall 2008: California Immigrant Theologies (STRS-1392)
Course description:
This contextual learning course, in collaboration with the PANA Institute (PSR), journeys to the rural fields and waterways of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to understand and honor the ancestors of early Chinese, Filipino and other Asian migrants (Sikh, Japanese, Hawaiian) who laid the infrastructure for agriculture in California. We will engage in memory, ritual and critical reflection to increase our love for the land and the layers of peoples for whom this land is sacred, to listen to buried stories, painful and hopeful, and how they connect us to the present in order to reach for another history that is sustainable.
During pre/post sessions to the pilgrimage, an interdisciplinary approach weaves immigration and religious history within a theological framework of remembering, reconciliation and postcolonial pilgrimage spirituality through lecture, presentation, discussion and engaged participation.
Six critical reflection papers (2 pages) and final paper (12-15 pages). This course fulfills FST's multicultural theology and PSR's contextual learning requirements. 12 max enrollment. 3.0 units.
Dates and time:
Class meets Saturdays from 2:00pm-5:00pm.
9/13/08 (PANA House), 9/20/08 (Chinatown, SF), 9/27/08 (PANA House), 10/4/08, 10/11/08 (Mission District, SF), 11/8/08 (PANA House), and 11/22/08 (PANA House). Attendance on the Weekend Delta Pilgrimage, 10/24/08-10/26/08 is required.
Faculty
Joanne Doi, M.M. is the Assistant Professor of Intercultural Theologies and Ministry at the Franciscan School of Theology. She is a third-generation Japanese American, born and raised in Los Angeles, who has served as a Maryknoll Sister in Peru. Professor Doi received her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from the Graduate Theological Union.
Course sponsored by the PANA Institute & the Franciscan School of Theology.
Pilgrimage
The Weekend Delta Pilgrimage is open for community members (non-GTU
students) to attend. Applications are available at the PANA website.