Awards

Cutcha Risling Baldy, University of California, Davis, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Awarded the Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship. Predoctoral fellowships are awarded in a national competition administered by the National Research Council (NRC) on behalf of the Ford Foundation. The fellowships provide three years of support for individuals engaged in graduate study leading to a PhD or ScD degree.

Bernadette Brooten, Brandeis University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for research on early Christian women who were enslaved or who were slaveholders.

Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Awarded a membership of the School of Historical Studies to spend 2011–2012 conducting research on “Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism along the Silk Road in the Medieval Period” at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ.

Douglas S. Duckworth, East Tennesseee State University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Received a National Endowment for the Humanities Award for his proposed project, “Introducing the Tibetan World and Thought of Mipam (1842–1912),” to complete his latest book, Jamgön Mipam: His Life and Teachings (Shambhala, 2011).

Robert M. Geraci, Manhattan College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Awarded a National Science Foundation EAGER grant for “Virtually Meaningful: The Power and Presence of Meaning in Virtual Worlds.” The project will provide two years of funding for Geraci and undergraduate researchers to study transcendent experiences in massively multiplayer online roleplaying games.

Patrick J. Hayes, Redemptorist Archives, Brooklyn, NY, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Awarded a research grant from the Academy of American Franciscan History to write the history of Franciscan higher education in the United States.

Irving Hexham, University of Calgary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Standard Research Grants for the project “The Worldview of Alfred Rosenberg and Its Continuing Impact on Popular and Academic Culture.”

Todd Lewis, College of the Holy Cross, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Guggenheim Fellowship. A scholar of Buddhism, Lewis was recognized for his proposed project “The Enculturation of Buddhist Teachings: Traditional and Modern Vernacular Literature for Children,” which will include the collection, translation, and analysis of vernacular Buddhist literature in both traditional and modern Buddhist communities across Asia.

Matthew S. Rindge, Gonzaga University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Awarded the Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship (2011) by the Society of Biblical Literature for his paper “Reconfiguring the Akedah and Lamenting God: Mark’s Theological Narrative of Divine Abandonment.” The international award can only be received by a scholar once during their career.

Caroline T. Schroeder, University of the Pacific, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship to spend 2011–2012 conducting research on children in early monasticism and asceticism at the Seminar for Egyptology and Coptology of the University of Göttingen.

Adriaan van Klinken, Utrecht University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Awarded a Rubicon grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre of Gender and Religions Research, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, to carry out the project “A Saint in Times of AIDS: Religion and Masculinity Politics in Postcolonial Zambia.”

Books and Major Publications

Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Healing. Edited by Candy Gunther Brown. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-539340-8.

Kelly Bulkeley, Graduate Theological Union and Dominican University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Teaching Jung. Coedited with Clodagh Weldon. AAR Teaching Religious Studies Series. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN-10: 0199735425; ISBN-13: 978-0-19-973542-6

Patrick S. Cheng, Episcopal Divinity School, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Radical Love: An Introduction to Queer Theology. Seabury Books, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-59-627132-6.

Daniel Davies, University of Cambridge, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-19-976873-8

Douglas S. Duckworth, East Tennessee State University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Bötrül. Distinguishing the Views and Philosophies: Illuminating Emptiness in a Twentieth-Century Tibetan Buddhist Classic. Translated, annotated, and introduced by Douglas S. Duckworth. Albany: SUNY Press, 2011. ISBN: 1438434375

Irving Hexham, University of Calgary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Understanding World Religions: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011. ISBN-10: 0310259444,  ISBN-13: 978-0-31-025944-2

Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Eating to Excess: The Meaning of Gluttony and the Fat Body in the Ancient World. Praeger/ABC-CLIO, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-31-338506-3.

Vladimir Kharlamov, Colorado Technical University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Theosis: Deification in Christian Theology. Vol. 2. Edited by Vladimir Kharlamov. Princeton Theological Monograph Series 156. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-61-097070-9.

Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Moravian Theological Seminary, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The Holy Spirit, Chi, and the Other: A Model of Global and Intercultural Pneumatology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, October 2011 release date. ISBN-13:978-0-23-012030-3.

Bruce Ledewitz, Duquesne University School of Law, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism. Indiana University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-25-335634-5.

Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Historical Dictionary of Hinduism. New Edition. Scarecrow Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-81-086764-2.

Jason A. Mahn, Augustana College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Fortunate Fallibility: Kierkegaard and the Power of Sin. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-19-979066-1.

William McDonald, Tennessee Wesleyan College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Christian Catechetical Texts. Three volumes. Edwin Mellen Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-7734-1536-2.

Christopher M. Moreman, California State University, East Bay, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Race, Oppression, and the Zombie: Essays on Cross-Cultural Appropriations of the Caribbean Tradition. Coedited with Cory James Rushton. McFarland, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-78-645911-7. 

Christopher M. Moreman, California State University, East Bay, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Zombies Are Us: Essays on the Humanity of the Walking Dead. Coedited with Cory James Rushton. McFarland, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-78-645912-4.

Hitoshi Ochiai, Doshisha University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Cantor: Archetype of Theological Mathematics. Kyoto: Modern Mathematics Press, 2011.

Michael O’Sullivan, SJ, All Hallows College, Dublin, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
How Roman Catholic Theology Can Transform Male Violence Against Women: Explaining the Role of Religion in Shaping Cultural Assumptions about Gender. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-77-341448-8.

Elaine Peña, George Washington University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe. University of California Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-52-026834-0.

Charles S. Prebish, Utah State University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
An American Buddhist Life: Memoirs of a Modern Dharma Pioneer. Canada: Sumeru Press Inc., 2011. ISBN: 978-1-89-655909-4. This book chronicles the author’s forty year career in the academic discipline of Buddhist studies.

Harold J. Recinos, Southern Methodist University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Wading Through Many Voices: Toward a Theology of Shared Conversation. Edited by Harold J. Recinos. Rowman and Littlefield, 2011. ISBN: 1-4422-0583-0. 

Matthew S. Rindge, Gonzaga University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Jesus’ Parable of the Rich Fool: Luke 12:13–34 among Ancient Conversations on Death and Possessions. SBL Early Christianity and Its Literature Series 6. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, October 2011 release date. ISBN: 978-1-58-983614-3.

Jean-Pierre Ruiz, Saint John’s University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Readings from the Edges: The Bible and People on the Move. Studies in Latino/aCatholicism Series. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-57-075944-4

Steven Schroeder, University of Chicago, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Four Truths. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock. ISBN: 978-1-61-097449-3.

Phillis Isabella Sheppard, Boston University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Self, Culture, and Others in Womanist Practical Theology. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-23-010288-0.

Megan Adamson Sijapati, Gettysburg College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Islamic Revival in Nepal: Religion and a New Nation. Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-41-561874-8

Storm Swain, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Trauma and Transformation at Ground Zero: A Pastoral Theology. Fortress Press, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-80-069805-8.

Jon Paul Sydnor, Emmanuel College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Ramanuja and Schleiermacher: Toward a Constructive Comparative Theology. Princeton Theological Monograph Series. Pickwick Publications, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-60-899308-6.

Kirk Wegter-McNelly, Boston University, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The Entangled God: Divine Relationality and Quantum Physics. Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-41-577558-8.

Cyrus Ali Zargar, Augustana College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Sufi Aesthetics: Beauty, Love, and the Human Form in the Writings of Ibn ‘Arabi and ‘Iraqi. University of South Carolina Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-57003-999-7.

Career Transistions

Annie Blazer, Centenary College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Appointed assistant professor of religious studies at Centenary College in Shreveport, Louisiana.

In the News

Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The link for the You Tube video of my interview on WBAA (NPR affiliate) on the Jewish Jesus is here. Book: The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation (Purdue University Press, 2011)