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Contemplative Desert Ecologies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Offered 2022-23 (January)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The starkness of the desert has long inspired and challenged spiritual pilgrims. The Chihuahuan Desert Slopes of northern New Mexico remain a critical topos for contemplative thought and practice, while also an increasingly-vulnerable landscape. In this course students immerse within desert ecologies and explore Christian and Indigenous spiritual traditions to examine how spirituality is enriched through sustained access to the natural world and how ecological understanding is deepened through contemplative ways of being. Offered periodically during January term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Counts Toward Majors:<\/strong> Environmental Studies, Religion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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