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Center for Islamic Studies MA Program Celebrates First Year Anniversary

“Launching a new program is always challenging. But we engaged many exceptional partners and were blessed with outstanding students. Everyone brought something to the table; everyone wanted it to work. It was a winning proposition all around and none of this would have been possible without the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.” That’s what Center for Islamic Studies (CIS) Director Munir Jiwa says about the first year of the center’s M.A. program in Islamic Studies, which last year had five students, seven affiliated and adjunct faculty, and...
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A-twitter with American Buddhist Monk Heng Sure

You might need a list to describe Heng Sure. He’s a Buddhist monk, director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, scholar, member of several interfaith organizations, GTU alumnus, teacher at Pacific School of Religion (PSR), musician, singer-songwriter of Buddhist folksongs, story teller, youth leader, and most recently, a tweeter on Twitter. Or you could drop the list and just say he is real. His name — given to him by his teacher Master Hsuan Hua when he became a monk — translated from Mandarin, means “constantly real.” “In Buddhist tradition, monks are given a name signifying what they have...
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Newhall Fellowship

Newhall Fellowships are competitive awards for GTU Doctoral students in collaborative teaching or research with faculty mentors in the belief that such collaborative work would contribute to the professional development of the students and the mission of the GTU. Awards are given for fall, spring or both semesters, but the application process takes place only in the Fall. (If you apply for funding for two semesters, please not that the Awards Committee will fund projects for the one semester in which the course is to be taught or the research conducted.) Generally, awards are at least $3000...
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Applying to GTU

GTU offers diverse academic programs and non-degree courses of study to fit your educational goals.  From our PhD and MA programs to our certificates, we have a program to fit your academic project. 
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Paul W. Yinger Collection

The Rev. Paul W. Yinger was not a famous man, but he touched many lives. A Congregational minister who once served as chairman of the GTU board of trustees and later as GTU vice- president, Yinger had a distinguished career in ministry and public speaking. His many interests brought him into contact with a variety of ministries and people, including actor Lew Ayres. Yinger is prominently featured in the  Lesley L. Coffin's Lew Ayers: Hollywoods Conscientious Objector (2012). Throughout his life, Yinger meticulously kept track of correspondence, speeches, marriage records, church bulletins...
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2000-present

<<first  <<previous  1962-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-89 | 1990-99 | 2000-present John Weiser John has been involved with the GTU since 1998, and was Chairman of our Board of Trustees from 1999 to 2007.  Among his many efforts to ensure the GTU’s academic, programmatic, administrative, and financial success, he endowed a Presidential Scholarship, and helped launch the capital campaign with a major gift; helped draft the Common Agreement between member schools and the GTU; and spearheaded the committee to find GTU President James A. Donahue. He embodied the GTU’s interfaith mission by creating an...
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Course Reserves

Due to the concerns around sharing materials during the Coronavirus pandemic we are suspending print course reserves for Summer and Fall semesters 2020. Instead, the library staff can scan print materials for instructors to upload into their Moodle Course Space. Please use the form below: Loading&hellip;  
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Special Collections Department

Information at a Glance   Holdings Rare books:  over 10,000 books and pamphletsArchival and manuscript material: over 1300 linear feet Hours Monday-Friday  Materials must be requested at least 30 minutes before closing time.Rare Books: 9 am to 5 pm (submit request at circulation desk)Archives:  8:30 am to 4 pm (submit request to archivist/special collections)   Archives and Manuscripts   Staff David Stiver,  Special Collections Librarian 510-649-2523 | dstiver@gtu.edu Reference assistance is available by email and U.S. mail, as well by phone and in person during office...
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The Center for Women and Religion Collection

        From left, CWR Directors, Mary Cross and Barbara Waugh, Diane Darling, unidentified, Jean Richardson, Kathleen Smith, Diann Neu, and Joanne Eakin. Front, Christine Lesley and Anne Stinely. 1979-80.   Center for Women and Religion at the GTU was the earliest established center for women in theological education. It was founded in 1970 as the Office of Women's Affairs by Bay Area women in religion, including some GTU women, who recognized "that seminary women at the GTU schools needed a channel, an advocate, an office through which to...
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News

Jenny Te Paa Named Alum of the Year In 2008 The Telegraph named Jenny Te Paa (Ph.D. ’01) one of the world’s fifty most influential Anglicans. This year, the first and only Maori woman with a Ph.D. in theology has been named GTU’s 2010 Alum of the Year. Te Paa spent five years studying in the GTU doctoral program while simultaneously serving as dean at the College of St. John the Evangelist in Auckland, New Zealand, 6500 miles away. Her goal there — creating bicultural theological education which celebrates a diverse and changing society — reflects her desire to honor the knowledge and...
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The Moan and the Shout: James Noel on African American Religious Experience

Background: “Continuity,” painted by James Noel Listen to James Noel describe the African American Religious Experience Listen to James Noel sing and recite poetry Take a black sermon, print it in a book, then read it, and you have no idea what it means because it has been abstracted from the living worship of the black church, says the Rev. Dr. James Noel, (Ph.D. ’99), Farlough Professor of African American Christianity at the San Francisco Theological Seminary. The sermon’s meaning, he says, is determined by the hymns sung, the testimonials, the prayers said before and after the sermon’s...
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Spirit-Matter

F. Lanier Graham’s Spirit-Matter opens on October 15 and continues through January 4, 2021. The virtual exhibition provides access to two catalogs, which feature portraits and poem-books representing ancestors and spiritual mentors, along with a select number of objects from the GTU Sacred World Art Collection that he donated to the GTU in 2014.  The catalogs can also be purchased as hard copies. Originally planned for the summer of 2020, the physical exhibition was placed on hold due to the pandemic. The two catalogs tell the story of Lanier’s geneology and both his ancestor's and his ...
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UC Berkeley Students

A unique partnership between the Graduate Theological Union and the University of California, Berkeley, creates unparalleled opportunities for students at both schools. The cooperative relationship means students in many UCB degree programs -- including both graduate students and upper-division undergraduates -- are eligible with their advisor's approval to cross-register for courses at the GTU, at no additional cost. The GTU library at 2400 Ridge Road and most of our classrooms are just a five-minute walk north of the Cal campus.  The GTU is the most comprehensive center for the graduate...
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Sustainability Initiative

“Earth provides enough to satisfy everyone’s need, but not everyone’s greed.” ― Mahatma Gandhi Dharmic perspectives—embedded in doctrines and principles that posit living in symbiosis with the natural world as a spiritual and existential imperative—are indispensable to the quest for a viable planetary future. The devastation of the ecosphere is inextricably linked to unsustainable economic, societal, racial, geopolitical, and cultural relationships. To enable the restoration and flourishing of the ecosystems of the biosphere, human societies need to be reimagined and reordered in terms of...
The Mira and Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies (CDS)
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Support the Arts

Support our exhibitions, courses, and other programs by becoming a CARe Member! For a tax-deductible donation of $100 or more, benefits include: ​Free admission to members-only previews and receptions Invitations to special lectures, parties, and tours Discounts on selected local arts-related programs Monthly updates via the CARe Members’ newsletter Membership to the North American Reciprocal Museum Association, giving you and a friend free admission to over 1000 museums around the country, many in the Bay Area A beautiful catalog from our Fall exhibition, Beyond Words: Art Inspired...
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Asia Project Current Courses

FT-2203 Cross-Cultural Experience, Veen (PLTS) FEFT-2496 Chi Mystical Islam, Van Ham (SKSM) FEFT-2497 Chi Mahayana Buddhism, Van Ham (SKSM) HR-2039 Food & Healing: Asian Spiritual, Wu, S. (GTU) HR-2850 Buddhism in the West, Mitchell (GTU/IBS) HR-3940 Confucianism & Christianity, Chung, H. (GTU) HRBS-4825 Muslim Theology Animal Rights, Anwar (SKSM) HRCE-3002 Buddhist Ethics, Fronsdal (GTU/IBS), Clark, D. (GTU/IBS) HRHS-1518 Buddhist Traditions of East Asia, Galasek (GTU/IBS) HRHS-8454 Topics Buddhist Traditions of Japan, Leighton (GTU/IBS) HRPS-8320 Psychological Aspects of Buddhism...
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Policies for Withdrawal/Termination from Doctoral and MA Programs

Skip to Doctoral Program Withdrawal Policy Skip to MA Program Withdrawal Policy   Withdrawal from the GTU Doctoral Program There are two ways in which a student can be withdrawn  from the doctoral program: 1) a student-initiated withdrawal and 2) an administrative withdrawal. Withdrawal severs the relationship between the student and the GTU. It is intended to be an irreversible decision. If a student withdraws, the student loses the formal relationship with the faculty advisor; faculty committees are dissolved; the faculty advisor, committee members and Department Chair are notified...
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