Periagoge
Course

Religious community and its discontents: Questions Worth Asking: Pose the questions that religious tradition often sidesteps: What binds us together? What pulls us apart? How do we honor both community and conscience? These inquiries transform confusion into clarity.

Explore the tensions between faith, community, and personal conscience. Ask the hard questions your religious tradition avoids—and find unexpected clarity

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Concepts in this course
Concept
Communal Whirling and Shared Longing
Concept
Divine Intoxication and Institutional Sobriety
Concept
Ecstatic Annihilation of Self
Concept
Sacred Restlessness and Discontent
Concept
The Beloved as Mirror
AI prompts in this course
AI Prompt
A Hard Question About Religious community and its discontents
AI Prompt
Where Are You with Religious community and its discontents?
AI Prompt
What Would Change if You Got Religious community and its discontents Right?
AI Prompt
What Would You Tell Someone Just Starting with Religious community and its discontents?
AI Prompt
The Religious community and its discontents Question You're Avoiding
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