Interdisciplinary Study

Ecological

Ecological

• Faculty Involvement and Related Curriculum
• Student Involvement
• Campus and Community Involvement
• Campus Sustainability Initiative

Faculty Involvement

Dr. Robert Corrington, Professor of Philosophical Theology

Selected Relevant Publications

• Nature and Spirit: An Essay in Ecstatic Naturalism. Fordham University Press, 1992.
• Nature’s Self: Our Journey from Origin to Spirit. Rowman and Littlefield, Rowman and Littlefield, 1996.
• “My Passage From Panentheism to Pantheism,” The American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 23, no. 2 (May 2002): 129-153

Selected Relevant Courses

• Philosophies of Nature
• Nature, God, and the New Cosmology

Dr. Laurel Kearns, Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion and Environmental Studies

Selected Relevant Publications

• “When Nature is Rats and Roaches: Religious Eco-Justice in Newark, NJ,” with Matthew Immergut, in Lived Religion in an Urban Context: Ethnographic Portraits of Religion in Newark, edited by Karen McCarthy Brown. Forthcoming, University of California Press.
• Eco-Spirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth, co-edited with Catherine Keller. Fordham University Press, 2007.
• “The Context of Eco-Theology” in Blackwell Companion to Modern Theology, edited by Gareth Jones. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
• Three articles for Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature. Continuum, 2004.
• “Greening Ethnography and the Study of Religion,” in Beyond Personal Knowledge: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion. Edited by James V. Spickard, J. Shawn Landres, and Meredith B. McGuire. New York University Press, 2002
• “Noah’s Ark Goes to Washington: A Profile of Evangelical Environmentalism,” Social Compass 44(3), Sept. 1997): 349-366
• “Saving The Creation: Christian Environmentalism in the United States,” Sociology of Religion 57,1 (spring 1996): 55-70
• “Of Knowledge, Buildings and Trees,” in Earth and Word: Classic Sermons on Saving the Planet, edited by David Rhoads. Continuum, 2007.

Selected Relevant Courses

• Religion and the Earth
• Christianity and Ecology
• Contemporary Theories in the Sociology of Religion
• Religion and Social Change
• US Religious Landscape

Dr. Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology

Selected Relevant Publications

• Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming. Routledge, 2003.
• Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World. Beacon Press, 1996.
• Eco-spirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth, co-edited with Laurel Kearns. Fordham University Press, 2007.
• No More Sea: The Lost Chaos of Creation” in Christianity and Ecology: Seeking the Well-Being of Earth and Humans. Harvard University Press, 2000.

Selected Relevant Courses

• Creation and Chaos
• In/Spirit: Trinity, Ecofeminism, and the Pneumatological Turn
• Process Theology
• Feminist Theology
• Pneumatology: Spirit Bodies Spirit Spaces
• Constructive Theology: Creation and Apocalypse

The following faculty regularly include relevant material in their seminars.

Dr Heather Elkins in Liturgical Studies

Dr. Hyo Dong Lee in Theology and Philosophy

Dr. Stephen Moore in New Testament

Within the Graduate Division of Religion, a specific focus on ecological issues is possible in the Ph.D program. To date, 15-20 students have studied related topics with Drs. Keller, Kearns, and Corrington.

Drew Theological School’s offers other related courses and programs in its Seminary Programs:

• Camp & Retreat Certification Courses (offered as intensives and often offered off site):
• Theology and Ecology of Common Ground
• Developing Environmental Education and Resources
• Biblical Foundations of Camp/Retreat Ministry
• Doctor of Ministry program on Environmental Ministries and Ecological Spirituality.

Student Involvement

Students have organized an extra-curricular student group on campus, TERRA, to raise awareness of and take action on ecological issues in the Theological School, in the churches, and in society. The Theological School occasionally collaborates with activities sponsored by the Drew College of Liberal Arts (the undergraduate program) student environmental groups and Environmental Studies faculty, such as showing the films “The Great Warming” and “An Inconvenient Truth” as well as the annual Fernfest, which plants native species on campus to return it to a more genuine forest-like state.

Drew Theological School is connected to GreenFaith, an interfaith organization based in New Brunswick, New Jersey. “GreenFaith inspires, educates, and mobilizes people from diverse religious backgrounds to deepen their relationship with the sacred in nature and to take action for the earth” (http://www.greenfaith.org/). Students are able to do an internship with GreenFaith, or with local “green” congregations.

Related Recent Dissertations

Antonia Gorman, “The Blood of Goats and Bulls: An Eco-Spiritual Response to the Sacrifice of Creation”

David B. Dillard-Wright: “Ark of the Possible: The Animal World in Merleau-Ponty”

Warren Calhoun Robertson: “Drought, Famine, Plague and Pestilence: Ancient Israel’s Understandings of and Responses to Natural Catastrophes”

Matthew Immergut: “Searching for Nature and the Sacred: Jewish and Christian Seekers and Their Quests for and Constructions of the More-Than-Human World”

Seung Gap Lee: “The Hope of the Earth: A Process Eschatological Eco-Ethics”

Jennifer Micale: “Stange New Worlds: Ecofeminism and Science Fiction”

Nam T. Nguyen: “Nature’s Primal Self: An Ecstatic Naturalist Critique of the Anthropocentrism of Peirce’s Pragamticism and Jasper’s Existentialism”

Campus & Community Involvement

The Drew Theological School frequently hosts conferences and special speakers on topics related to the environment. These include the annual Ground for Hope conference, which is open to people within and without of the Drew community. This interfaith conference combines one or two key speakers with several seminars on topics of environmental concern as well as an interfaith worship service.

Conferences

“Ground for Hope: A Religious-Environmental Training Event,” November 2010. Keynote by Larry Rasmussen.

Ground for Hope II, April 2007. co-sponsored with GreenFaith. Guest speakers: Larry Rasmussen and Peggy Shepard.

Ground for Hope 1, Sept-October 2005 co-sponsored with GreenFaith. Guest Speakers: Rosemary Radford Ruether, Jay McDaniel, Mary Evelyn Tucker.
–The volume EcoSpirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth is the result of this 4.5 day conference.

“Humanity on the Edge: Religion and Science in the Next Century” November 1999. (co-sponsored with Partners for Environmental Quality, now GreenFaith)

“Greening the Church for the Next Millennium” Oct, 1999. Guest speakers: Bill McKibben, Cal DeWitt, Karen Baker Fletcher, John Cobb.

Relevant Speakers at Drew since 1999.

• Karen Baker Fletcher, author of Sisters of Dust, Sisters of Spirit: Womanist Wordings on God and Creation.
• Sharon Betcher, author of Spirt and the Politics of Enchantment
• John Cobb, author of Is it Too Late?, For the Common Good (with Herman Daly)
• Anne Daniell, author of Incarnating Theology in an Estuary-Carnival Place: New Orleans in the Pontchartrain Basin
• Gary Gardner-WorldWatch Institute, author of Inspiring Progress: Religions’ Contributions to Sustainable Development.
• Cal DeWitt, former president of Au Sable Institute and author of Earth-Wise: A Biblical Response to Environmental Issues
• Marion Grau, author of Of Divine Economy: Refinancing Redemption
• Rebecca Gould, author of At Home with Nature
• John Grim, Forum on Religion and Ecology, author The Shaman: Patterns of Religious Healing among the Ojibway Indians, and co-editor of Worldviews and Ecology
• John Hart, author of Sacramental Commons: Christian Ecological Ethics; What Are They Saying About…Environmental Theology?
• Elizabeth Johnson, Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God
• Jay McDaniel, author of With Roots and Wings: Christianity in an Age of Ecology and Dialogue and Living from the Center: Spirituality in an Age of Consumerism.
• Bill McKibben, author of The Comforting Whirlwind, The End of Nature, and organizer of Step-It-Up
• Anna Petersen, author of Being Human: Ethics, Environment and Our Place in the World and Seeds of the Kingdom: Utopian Communities in the Americas
• Anne Primavesi, author of Sacred Gaia: Holistic Theology and Earth System Science, and Gaia’s Gift: Earth, Ourselves and God.
• Larry Rasmussen, author of Earth Ethics, Earth Community
• Rosemary Ruether, author of Gaia and God, and Integrating Ecofeminism, Globalization and World Religions
• Matthew Sleeth, author of Serve God, Save the Planet
• Dan Spencer, author of Gay and Gaia: Ethics, Ecology and the Erotic
• Mary Evelyn Tucker, Forum on Religion and Ecology, author of Worldly Wonder, Religions Enter Their Ecological Phase
• Mark Wallace, Finding God in the Singing River: Christianity, Spirit, Nature
• David Wood, author of Time after Time and Econstruction: The Implausible Convergence of Environmentalism and Deconstruction

Activist Speakers:

• Tanya Barnett, formerly of Earth Ministry, author of Greening Congregations Handbook
• Isabel Carvalho, “Lived Worlds: Self and Justice in the Brazilian Environmental Movement”
• Fletcher Harper, exec director of GreenFaith
• Sister Miriam McGillis, Genesis Farm
• Michael Nelson, AME Zion Church representative to the National Council of Churches Eco-Justice Working Group.
• Mike Schut, formerly of Earth Ministry, author of Food and Faith & Simple Living…..
• John Seed, Rainforest Information Centre, Australia
• Peggy Shepard, WE ACT, Harlem, NYC
• Randy Wilson, Coalfield Delegation to the UN and Kentuckians for the Commonwealth.

Campus Sustainability Initative

As part of a university wide initiative, Drew Theological School’s faculty, administration and students have always been actively involved on recycling, food, energy, grounds, buildings and purchasing issues related to sustainability. Dr. Kearns is on the steering committee for those efforts. Students and faculty specifically at Drew engage in environmental actions and awareness in multiple ways. These include recycling and printing assignments front-and-back on recycled paper or on the back of previously-used sheets of paper. The Theological School hosts a coffee shop/study area, the Cyber Café, which offers Fair Trade Certified coffee and ceramic mugs as a substitute for Styrofoam coffee cups. Every year the students and faculty put on an eco-chapel, usually in the springtime on or close to Earth Day. Students and faculty occasionally participate in local political actions, such as the Step It Up campaign of 2007, a nationwide campaign to demand that the U.S. legislature pay more attention to ecological issues.

Gender and Sexuality

Gender & Sexuality Studies

• Women’s & Gender Studies Concentration
• Faculty Involvement and Related Curriculum
• Student Involvement
• Campus and Community Involvement

Women’s & Gender Studies Concentration

The Graduate Division of Religion offers a concentration in Women’s and Gender Studies, which may be pursued in conjunction with study in any of the Division’s Areas of Study.

Requirements for the Concentration include:

1. The Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Seminar (WMST 712), offered every other Fall;
2. At least three additional courses in which the student’s work focused centrally on women, gender, sexuality, or feminist analysis.
3. One comprehensive examination that focuses on women, gender, or feminist analysis (this exam would ordinarily correspond with the interdisciplinary comprehensive examination).

Once these requirements have been met, complete the  Women’s & Gender Studies Form and Women’s & Gender Studies Coursework Verification Card, submitting them to the GDR Administrative Office.

 

Faculty Involvement

Dr. Virginia Burrus, Professor of Early Church History

Selected Relevant Publications

• Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
• Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline. Fordham University Press, 2006. Co-edited with Catherine Keller.
• The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004..
• “Begotten, Not Made”: Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity. Stanford University Press, 2000.
• “Queer Father: Gregory of Nyssa and the Subversion of Identity.” Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body, ed. Gerard Loughlin. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Pages 147-62.

Selected Relevant Courses

• Gender and Sexuality in Ancient Christianity
• Martyrdom and Asceticism in the Early Church
• Interdisciplinary Seminar in Women’s Studies

Dr. Heather Murray Elkins, Professor of Worship, Preaching, and the Arts

Selected Relevant Publications

• Wising Up: Ritual Resources for Women of Faith in Their Journey of Aging. Contributing Editor with Kathy Black. Pilgrim Press, 2006.
• Worshiping Women: Re-forming God’s People for Praise. Abingdon Press, 1994
• “Sky Pilot: a vision of Marjorie Matthews”Courageous Spirit: Voices from Women in Ministry, Upper Room Publications, fall 2005, 50-52.
• “Perpetua and Her Companions,” “Dag Hammarskjold, Peacemaker,” “Sarah Crosby, Preacher,”For All The Saints,Order of Saint Luke Publications 1995, 80, 191, 212.

Selected Relevant Courses

• Women, the Word, and Worship

Dr. Danna Nolan Fewell, Professor of Hebrew Bible

Selected Relevant Publications

• Gender, Power, and Promise: The Subject of the Bible’s First Story. Co-authored with David Gunn. Abingdon, 1993.
• Changing the Subject: Retelling the Story of Hagar the Egyptian, in Genesis: A Feminist Companion to the Bible (Series II). Athalya Brenner, ed. Sheffield Academic Press, 1998.
• “Joshua,” and “Judges” in TheWomen’s Bible Commentary, Carol Newsom and Sharon Ringe, eds. Westminster/John Knox, 1992.
• “Feminist Hermeneutics,” and “Inclusive God Language,” Mercer Dictionary of the Bible, Mercer University Press, 1990.

Selected Relevant Courses

• Gender, Difference, and Election in Israel’s Primary Story
• The Bible and the Body

Dr. Herbert Huffmon, Professor of Old Testament

Relevant Selected Publications

• “Gender Subversion in the Book of Jeremiah,” in S. Parpola and R. M. Whiting, eds, Sex and Gender in the Ancienct Near East: Proceddings of the Recontre Assyriologique Internationale, Hlesinki, 2001 (Helsinki, 2002), 245-253.
• “The ‘Corrosive’ Queen,” in Joyce Rilett-Wood et al. (eds.), From Babel to Babylon: Essays on Biblical History and Literature in Honour of Brian Peckham (JSOTS, 455; London and New York: T & T Clalk International., 2007), 273-284.

Relevant Selected Courses:

• King, Parent, Husband: Models of God in the Hebrew Bible

Dr. Melanie Johnson-Debaufre, Associate Professor of New Testament

Selected Relevant Publications

• Mary Magdalene Understood. With Jane Schaberg. Continuum, 2006.
• Jesus Among Her Children: Q, Eschatology, and the Construction of Christian Identity. Harvard University Press, 2005.
• Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Edited with Cynthia Kittredge and Shelly Matthews. Trinity Press, 2003.
• “Bridging the Gap to ‘This Generation’: A Feminist-Critical Reading of Q 7:31–35” in Walk in the Ways of Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre, Cynthia Kittredge, and Shelly Matthews, eds. Trinity Press, 2003.

Selected Relevant Courses

• Feminist Interpretations of the Gospels
• Topic in Biblical Studies: The Mary Magdalene Tradition

Dr. Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology

Selected Relevant Publications

• Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline. Fordham University Press, 2006. Co-edited with Virginia Burrus.
• Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World. Fortress, 2004. [1996].
• Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming. London: Routledge, 2003.
• From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism and Self. Beacon Press, 1986.
• “Confessing Monica.” Feminist Interpretations of Augustine, ed. Judith Chelius Stark. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State Press, 2007. Pages 119-145. Co-authored with Virginia Burrus.

Selected Relevant Courses

• Decolonizing Theology: Gender, Empire, and Postcolonial Theory
• Feminist Theology
• In Spirit: Trinity, Ecofeminism, and the Pneumatological Turn

Dr. Otto Maduro, Professor of World Christianity

Selected Relevant Courses

• Gay and Lesbian Liberation Theologies in World Religions

Dr. Stephen Moore, Professor of New Testament

Selected Relevant Publications

• God’s Gym: Divine Male Bodies of the Bible. Routledge, 1996.
• God’s Beauty Parlor: And Other Queer Spaces in and around the Bible. Stanford University Press, 2001.
• New Testament Masculinities. Edited with Janice Capel Anderson. Society of Biblical Literature; E. J. Brill, 2003.
• “Unsafe Sex: Feminism, Pornography, and the Song of Songs.” Biblical Interpretation 11:1 (2003): 24-52. Co-authored with Virginia Burrus.

Selected Relevant Courses

• The Bible after Postmodernism

Dr. J. Terry Todd, Associate Professor of American Religious History

Selected Relevant Publications

• “Religion and the Freedom to Marry: Historical Reflections on Marriage Equality in America” in Our Family Values: Same-Sex Marriage and Religion, Traci West, ed. Praeger, 2007: 35-51.
• “Metropolitan Community Church” in GLBT Life. EBSCO Publishing, 2005.

Selected Relevant Courses

• Interdisciplinary Seminar in Women’s Studies

Dr. Traci C. West, Professor of Ethics and African American Studies

Selected Relevant Publications

• Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women’s Lives Matter. Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.
• Our Family Values: Same-sex Marriage and Religion. Praeger, 2006.
• Holy Conversations: Talking About Homosexuality. Pilgrim Press, 2005.
• Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence and Resistance Ethics. New York University Press, 1999.
• “Roundtable Discussion: Must I Be Womanist?: Response” Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 22, 1 (2006).
• “Policing the Sexual Reproduction of Poor Black Women” in God Forbid: Religion and Sex in American Public Life, ed., Kathleen Sands (NY: Oxford University Press, 2000).

Selected Relevant Courses

• Sexual Ethics
• Ethically Responding to Violence against Women
• Black Feminist/Womanist Resources for Ethics
• Interdisciplinary Seminar in Women’s Studies

Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, Associate Professor of Religious Education

Selected Relevant Publications

• Dear Sisters: A Womanist Practice of Hospitality. Pilgrim Press: 2001.

Selected Relevant Courses

• Ain’t I a Woman? African – American Women and Teaching
• Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies
• What’s Love Got to Do with It? Womanist Teaching for Believing Communities

Dr. Anne Bagnall Yardley, Associate Professor of Music and Associate Academic Dean

Selected Relevant Publications

• Performing Piety: Musical Practices in Medieval English Nunneries. Palgrave Press, The New Middle Ages Series, 2006..

The following faculty regularly have relevant material in their seminars.

• Dr. Laurel Kearns, in Sociology of Religion
• Dr. Arthur Pressley, in Psychology of Religion
• Dr. Angella Son, in Psychology of Religion

Student Involvement

Related Recent Dissertations

Surekha Nelavala, “Liberation Beyond Borders: Dalit Feminist Hermeneutics and Four Gospel Women”

Mary K. Cavazos: “The Queen’s Daughters: African American Women, Christian Mission, and Racial Change—1940-1960”

Elizabeth A. Beall: “Knowing Feminism, Practicing Power: Engaging Dorothy Smith’s Work in Relation to the Presbyterian Church (USA)”

Damaris Kaari M’Mworia: “Gender, Poverty, and Wife Battering: An Examination of Their Interlocking Roles in Contemporary Church and Society in Kenya”

Nina Rulon-Miller: “Hagar, a Stranger in a Strange Land: A Feminist Literary Reading of Genesis 12-21”

Christine H. Isham Walsh: “Engaging Difference: Replacing the Search for Essentials in Feminist Theological Ethics with a Conversation on Difference”

Paul John Gorrell: “Erotic Conversion: Coming Out of Christian Erotophobia”

Mary A. Nyangweso-Wangila: “Religion and Women’s Sexuality: An Analysis of Female Circumcision among Kenyans”

Kathleen Bishop: “Moral Development in Context: Urban Girls Tell Tales out of School”

Jennifer Micale: “Strange New Worlds: Ecofeminism and Science Fiction”

Karen Phyllis Oliveto: “Movements of Reform and Movements of Resistance: Homosexuality and the United Methodist Church, A Case Study”

Campus & Community Involvement

Relevant Speakers at Drew since 2001

Marcella-Maria Althaus-Reid, author of IndecentTheology: Theological Perversions in Sex, Gender, and Politics (Routledge, 2000).

Daniel Boyarin, author of Unheroic Conduct: The Rise of Heterosexuality and the Invention of the Jewish Man (University of California Press, 1997).

Sheila Briggs, author of “Digital Bodies and the Transformation of the Flesh,” and “Paul on Bondage and Freedom in Imperial Roman Society” Paul and Politics: Ekklesia, Israel, Imperium, Interpretation: Essays in Honor of Krister Stendahl. Edited by Richard A. Horsley.Harrisburg, Pa.: Trinity Press International, 2000.

Amy Hollywood, author of Sensible Ecstasy: Mysticism, Sexual Difference, and the Demands of History(University of Chicago Press, 2002).

Mark D. Jordan, author of The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (University of Chicago Press, 1997).

Karmen MacKendrick, author of Word Made Skin: Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh (Fordham University Press, 2004).

Diana M. Swancutt, author of Pax Christi: Empire, Identity, and Protreptic Rhetoric in Paul’s Letter to the Romans (forthcoming).

Elliott R. Wolfson, author of Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination (Fordham University Press, 2004).

Postcolonial and Race-Ethnic

Postcolonial & Race-Ethnic

• Faculty Involvement and Related Curriculum
• Student Involvement
• Campus and Community Involvement

Faculty Involvement

Dr. Virginia Burrus, Professor of Early Church History

Selected Relevant Publications

• The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles.” in A Postcolonial Commentary on the New Testament Writings, ed. Fernando F. Segovia and R. S. Sugirtharajah. London: T&T Clark, 2007. Pages 133-155.
• “Hybridity as the Subversion of Orthodoxy? Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.” in Beyond Syncretism: Rethinking Religious Hybridity, ed. Otto Maduro and Meredith McGuire. Social Compass 52 (2005): 431-41. Co-authored with Daniel Boyarin.
• “Introduction: Shifting the Focus of History.” Late Ancient Christianity: A People’s History of Christianity, Volume 2, ed. Virginia Burrus. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005. Co-authored with Rebecca Lyman.
• “Mimicking Virgins: Colonial Ambivalence and the Ancient Romance.” Arethusa 38 (2005): 49-88.

Selected Relevant Courses

• Empire, Race, and Place: Theorizing Religious Identity in Context

Dr. Morris L. Davis, Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity and Wesleyan/Methodist Studies

Selected Relevant Publications

• The Methodist Unification: Christianity and the Politics of Race in the Jim Crow Era. New York University Press, 2007

Selected Relevant Courses

• Race and American Christianity
• History of Christian Missions from the Reform Era to the Present

Dr. Melanie Johnson-Debaufre, Associate Professor of New Testament

Selected Relevant Publications

• “The Blood Required of This Generation: Interpreting Communal Blame in a Colonial Context” in Violence in the New Testament, Shelly Matthews and E. Leigh Gibson, eds. ( New York : T. & T. Clark, 2005) 22–34.
• “Communities Resisting Fragmentation: Q and the Work of James C. Scott” in Oral Performance, Popular Tradition, and Hidden Transcript in Q, Richard A. Horsley, editor (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2006).

Selected Relevant Courses

• Empire, Race, and Place: Theorizing Religious Identity in Context

Dr. Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology

Selected Relevant Publications

• God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2005.
• The American Empire and the Commonwealth of God: a Political, Economic, Religious Statement. Edited with David R Griffin, John B. Cobb, Jr,. Richard A. Falk. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006. “Omnipotence and Preemption.”
• Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire, co-edited with Mayra Rivera and Michael Nausner. St. Louis: Chalice, 2004.

Selected Relevant Courses

• Decolonizing Theology: Gender, Empire, and Postcolonial Theory

Dr. Otto Maduro, Professor of World Christianity

Selected Relevant Publications

• Mapas para la fiesta: Reflexiones latinoamericanas sobre la crisis y el conocimiento. Caracas, Venezuela: Fundación Centro Gumilla/Publicaciones UCAB [5th revised, enlarged and updated edition in Spanish], 2005.
• “Notas sobre Pentecostalismo y Poder entre Inmigrantes Latinoamericanos en la Ciudad de Newark” in Horizontes Antropológicos/Religião e Política (Jan.-Jun. 2007, Porto Alegre, Brazil) 13, 27: 13-35.
• “Once Again Liberating Theology? Towards a Latin American Liberation Theological Self-Criticism” in Liberation Theology and Sexuality (ed. and Introduction by Marcella Althaus-Reid), Aldershot, UK & Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing House, 2006: pp. 19-32.
• Beyond Syncretism: Rethinking Religious Hybridity theme issue, ed. with Meredith McGuire. Social Compass 52 (2005).

Selected Relevant Courses

• Topics: Religion and the American Empire
• Hispanic Culture and Religion in the United States
• Pentecostalism as Religious Resistance

Dr. Stephen Moore, Professor of New Testament

Selected Relevant Publications

• Empire and Apocalypse: Postcolonialism and the New Testament. Sheffield, U.K.: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2006.
• Postcolonial Biblical Criticism: Interdisciplinary Intersections. Co-edited with Fernando F. Segovia. London and New York: T. & T. Clark International, 2005.

Selected Relevant Courses

• Unveiling Revelation
• The Bible, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism

Dr. Arthur Pressley, Associate Professor of Psychology and Religion

Selected Relevant Publications

• “The Story of Nimrod: The Struggle with Otherness and the Search for Identity” In African American Religious Life and the Story of Nimrod, Anthony B. Pinn and Allen Dwight Callahan, editors (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).

Selected Relevant Courses

• God-Talk with Black Thinkers
• Globalization, Identity, and Hybridity

Dr. Gary Simpson, Assistant Professor of Preaching

Selected Relevant Courses

• Black Preaching

Dr. Traci C. West, Professor of Ethics and African American Studies

Selected Relevant Publications

• Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women’s Lives Matter. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006.
• Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence and Resistance Ethics. New York University Press, 1999.
• “Naming the Problem: Black Clergy, U.S. Politics, and Marriage Equality” in Our Family Values: Same-sex Marriage and Religion, ed., T. West (Westport:Praeger, 2006).
• “The Factor of Race/ethnicity in Clergy Sexual Abuse of Children” Concilium, 3 (June 2004).
• “Race and Gender Oppression Can Really Get in the Way: Ethical Concerns in the Counseling of African American Women Victim/Survivors of Violence” in Boundary Wars: Intimacy and Distance in Healing Relationships, ed., Katherine Hancock Ragsdale (Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1996).

Selected Relevant Courses

• Moral Constructions of Afro-American Intellectuals
• Deconstructing Racism
• Black Feminist/Womanist Resources for Ethics

Dr. Nancy Lynne Westfield, Associate Professor of Religious Education

Selected Relevant Publications

• Black Church Studies: An Introduction. Co-authored with Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Juan Floyd-Thomas, Carol Duncan, and Stephen Ray. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2007.
• “Attitudes Toward Other Races.” with Carolyn Hardin Englehart, Challenge Curriculum. Discipleship Resources, Fall 1994, pp. 24-39.

Selected Relevant Courses

• God-Talk with Black Thinkers
• Reel to Real: Race, Sex, and Class at the Movies
• Ain’t I a Woman? African – American Women and Teaching

Student Involvement

Related Recent Dissertations

Surekha Nelavala, “Liberation Beyond Borders: Dalit Feminist Hermeneutics and Four Gospel Women”

Do Woong Park, “Toward an Asian Ecclesiology based on the Asian Liberation Theology and Minjung Theology

Mary K. Cavazos: “The Queen’s Daughters: African American Women, Christian Mission, and Racial Change—1940-1960”

Yesudasan Choondassery: “Opting for the Margins as Imago Dei: A Dalit Ethics of Human Flourishing”

Swee Hong Lim: “Giving Voice to Asian Christians: An Appraisal of the Pioneering Work of I-to Loh in the Area of Congregational Song”

Jimmy G. Dube: “Towards a Theology of the Excluded: A Socio-Political Agenda for 21st Century Zimbabwean Methodism”

Damaris Kaari M’Mworia: “Gender, Poverty, and Wife Battering: An Examination of Their Interlocking Roles in Contemporary Church and Society in Kenya”

Prince Grenville Singh: “Human Dignity and Social Visibility: A Christian Social Ethic to Engage India’s Caste Discrimination against Dalits”

Deok-Weon Ahn: “Ecumenism, Inculturation, and Postcolonialism in Liturgy: Based on the Responses of the Younger Churches to Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry (BEM)”

Beauty Rosebery Maenzanise: “Transformation of African Christian Worship: A Case Study of Liturgical Practices in the Zimbabwe East Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church”

Hae Jung Park: “Understanding the Lord’s Supper in the Methodist Churches in Korea: 1885-1935”

Samuel Cruz: “Afro-Caribbean Influences in Puerto Rican Pentecostalism”

Robert Kipkemoi Lang’at: “The Holiness Movement in Africa: A Historiographical Study of the Quest for Sanctification as a Theological Framework for Understanding the Emergence of Christianity in Africa”

Michelle Sungshin Lim Jones: “Toward Weaving a Christology: Syncretic Minjung Jesus for Korean-American Christian Women”

Campus & Community Involvement

Relevant Speakers at Drew since 2001

Dwight N. Hopkins, author ofBeing Human: Race, Culture, and Religion (Fortress Press, 2005).

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author ofA Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Towards a History of the Vanishing Present (Harvard University Press, 1999).

Kwok Pui Lan, author of Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology (Westminster John Knox Press, 2005).

Namsoon Kang, author of “Who/What is Asian? : A Postcolonial Theological Reading of Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism,” in Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire, Catherine Keller, Mayra Rivera, and Michael Nausner, eds. (Chalice Press, 2004).

Tat-siong Benny Liew, author of What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Reading the New Testament(University of Hawai’í Press, 2008).

W. Anne Joh, author of Heart of the Cross: A Postcolonial Christology (Westminster John Knox Press, 2006).

Mayra Rivera, author of The Touch of Transcendence: A Postcolonial Theology of God (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007).

R.S. Sugirtharajah, author of The Bible and Empire: Postcolonial Explorations (Cambridge Unviersity Press, 2005).

Mark Lewis Taylor, author of Remembering Esperanza: A Cultural Political Theology for North American Praxis(Orbis Books, 1990).

Joerg Rieger, author of Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times `(Fortress Press, 2007).

Michael Nausner, author of “Homeland as Borderland: On the Territories of Christian Subjectivity,” in Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire, Catherine Keller, Mayra Rivera, and Michael Nausner, eds. (Chalice Press, 2004).