Click the map below for directions to the public lecture "Spirituality Remixed: Longing for Enchantment in our Post-Secular Age" in Lewis Thomas Laboratory 003 and keep scrolling below for more details including a longer description of the lecture.
Based on her book Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World, Dr Burton will lecture on Americans’ embrace of a panoply of spiritual traditions, rituals, and subcultures, from astrology and witchcraft to SoulCycle and the alt-right. As the Internet makes it ever-easier to find new ‘tribes’ and consumer capitalism forever remakes spirituality into a lifestyle brand, more and more Americans are seeking out spiritual paths driven by intuition, not institutions. Dr Burton will take us on a tour of the techno-utopians of Silicon Valley, Satanists and polyamorous communities, witches from Bushwick, wellness junkies and social justice activists and devotees of Jordan Peterson, showing that Americans are not abandoning religion but remixing it. In search of the deep and the real, they are finding meaning, purpose, ritual, and communities in ever-newer, ever-stranger ways.
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Manna Large Group is one of our main events, complete with worship, prayer, teaching, and fellowship after the service. Join us every Saturday at 7:30PM in East Pyne 010 (L level)!
Manna has Bible studies and topical studies at various points during the week, as well as another one geared toward outreach to the larger Princeton community. Freshmen small group (FSG) meets every Tuesday at 4:30-6:00PM in Murray Dodge 104.
Upperclassmen small groups meet throughout the week—check Slack for details!
Prayer Meetings: We engage in corporate prayer through daily prayer meetings hosted by students in order to build unity and foster fellowship while bringing our concerns before God. We meet Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 4:30-5:00PM in East Pyne 027. We also meet for Early Morning Prayer (EMP) every Friday at 8:00-9:00AM in Frist 210.
Discipleship Groups: These are groups of 4-6 people including 2 leaders. Leaders are undergrads and staff members. Our hope for these groups is that group members will grow in being invested in one another's spiritual growth through accountability for spiritual disciplines, learning about the basics of Christianity and working together to love and serve their unbelieving friends on campus. If you are interested in being part of a Discipleship Group, email us at manna@princeton.edu.
Feel free to email us (gsackett@princeton.edu OR dguy@princeton.edu) if you have any questions, as well as to get more information about our unofficial and often-spontaneous hangouts, pick-up basketball games, and other forms of fellowship.
*last updated 9/16/24