About
The Applied Spirituality Institute (ASI) (formerly the Spirituality and Health Institute) is devoted to exploring the complex relationship between spirituality and well being from an interdisciplinary, multicultural perspective.
Faculty, staff, and students from Santa Clara as well as other universities (e.g., Stanford, UC Berkeley, and the Graduate Theological Union) participate in a variety of collaborative research, teaching and outreach projects. The intention behind ASI is to bring creative, thoughtful and rigorous scholarly pursuit to better elucidate the relationship between spirituality and well being.
The Institute started in 2002 as the Spirituality and Health Institute.
58ºÚÁÏÍø Faculty and Staff Participants
Visit the professors' pages below for a brief biography and to learn about their interests.
- Thomas G. Plante, Psychology (Director of ASI)
- David Feldman, Counseling Psychology
- Aaron Willis, Ignatian Center
Faculty Participants from Other Universities
- Oliver Bochettaz, English
- Kathleen Wall, Sophia University
- John Richard White, Alliant University/California School of Professional Psychology
- Jaime Wright, Religious Studies
Recent Books:
Plante, T. G. (Ed.). (2010). Praeger/Greenwood.
Plante, T. G. (Ed.).(2018) Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-CLIO.
Plante, T. G. & Schwartz, G. E. (Eds.). (2021). New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.
Plante, T. G. (2024). San Diego, CA: Cognella.
Plante, T. G. (Ed.).(2015). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-CLIO.
Plante, T. G. (Ed.). (2012). Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger/ABC-CLIO.
Plante, T. G., & Thoresen, C. E. (Eds.) (2007). Westport, CT: Praeger/Greenwood.
Plante, T. G. (2024). San Diego, CA: Cognella.
For further information about the Applied Spirituality Institute, please contact Tom Plante at tplante@scu.edu.