Lecture at Dickinson College to Focus on Spirituality in America’s National Parks
Kerry Mitchell. Indiana University Bloomington.
Spirituality and the State
Kerry Mitchell, a scholar and author whose research focuses on religion, will explore the relationship between nature and spirituality in America’s national parks during a lecture at Dickinson. The talk will take place Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 7 p.m. in Room 106, Althouse Hall.
Mitchell is the author of Spirituality and the State: Managing Nature and Experience in America’s National Parks. In this book, Mitchell explores the relationship between the U.S. National Park Service and visitors’ individual transcendent experiences. Specifically, he looks at how the park service’s subtle, yet powerful, techniques preserve the “spiritual” experience of the parks for visitors. Mitchell is the director of the Living-Learning Center at The Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. He previously served as director of the Comparative Religion Program at Global College, Long Island University.
The lecture is possible thanks to an Interfaith Youth Corps grant focused on Sustaining Spirituality: Diverse Worldviews in dialogue for the Common Good hosted by Assistant Professor of Religion Jodie Vann and Donna Hughes, director of Dickinson’s Center for Spirituality and Social Justice.
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Published October 28, 2019