January Immersion Course
Abolition, Religion, & Social Movements: A Poverty Initiative Immersion
WHEN: January 16-22, 2012 (Monday – Sunday)
WHERE: New York, Maryland, West Virginia
WHO: For registered Union students and Poverty Scholars.
REGISTRATION: Registration is limited to 15 students. Please consult the Union coursebook for requirements or contact the Poverty Initiative for more details: amb2215@columbia.edu
DESCRIPTION: The overall focus of this course is, "Re-Igniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Poor People's Campaign." The Poverty Initiative continues King’s struggle today by helping to unite leaders across a growing national/international network of Poverty Scholars. With this goal in mind, Poverty Initiative immersion courses introduce students to some of the issues, people, organizations, and history that help define the movement to end poverty today. Students learn through presentation, discussion, Biblical study, theological reflection, and exposure to a variety of historical places and interaction with a variety of community groups.
This year the Poverty Initiative will take students from New York to Baltimore and parts of West Virginia and Maryland where we will focus on the historical context of the Abolitionist movement and the US Civil war. These themes provide the basis for participants to think deeply about transformational social change and our role as religious and community leaders in the struggle to assess and resolve poverty today.
A New and Unsettling Force: Reigniting Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign - a Poverty Initiative original publication is 