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Darryl Caterine
Ph.D, University of California, Santa Barbara
Associate Professor (2005)
Acting Department Chair (spring/summer 2013)
cateridv@lemoyne.edu
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Darryl V. Caterine is a historian of religions whose research focuses on the intersections of religion, culture, and politics in the United States and parts of Latin America. His areas of academic interest include Latino/a religions, metaphysical/occult religions in America, and religion and popular culture. His first book, Conservative Catholicism and the Carmelites: Identity, Ethnicity and Tradition in the Modern Church (2001), is an ethnographic study of a conservative Catholicism in Latino/a communities, which analyzes the uses of myth and ritual to advance various religio- and ethnopolitical agendas in the U.S. borderlands. His second ethnographic book, Haunted Ground: Journeys through a Paranormal America (2011), explores the meaning of our nation’s fascination with paranormal phenomena through a series of thick descriptions and analyses of a Spiritualist camp in upstate New York, the Roswell UFO Festival in New Mexico, and an annual dowsing convention in Vermont. Caterine has published several articles on religion and popular culture in the United States, including essays on the Presidential Medal of Freedom and civil religion, and the Curse of the Bambino in “Red Sox Nation” (New England). He is currently working on a number of projects further exploring various facets of the American metaphysical tradition. His course offerings include classes in American religion and society, American Catholic history, varieties of Latino/a religions, and metaphysical/occult traditions in U.S. history. |
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Jennifer Glancy
Ph.D., Columbia University,
Professor (1990)
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Jennifer A. Glancy is the author of Corporal Knowledge: Early Christian Bodies (Oxford University Press, 2010), Slavery as Moral Problem: In the Early Church and Today (Facets; Fortress, 2011), Slavery in Early Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2002, a History Book Club alternate selection; paperback edition Fortress Press, 2006), and several dozen scholarly articles and chapters (see her curriculum vitae). Her research interests include the cultural history of early Christianity, corporeality and Christian anthropology, women’s history in antiquity, gender theory, and comparative slavery studies. Her current long-term project considers reading as a transformative and corporal practice in early Christianity. She hopes that her students will have their own transformative experiences as they read early Christian literature. After completing undergraduate studies in Philosophy and English Literature at Swarthmore College, Glancy joined the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (1982-1983) before undertaking doctoral studies in New Testament at Columbia University, which she completed under the direction of the late Rev. Raymond E. Brown, S.S. She has served as the Catholic Biblical Association Visiting Professor at L’Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem (2004), George & Sallie Cutchin Camp Professor of Bible at the University of Richmond (2008-2010), and, at Le Moyne, as Georg Professor (2000-2003). She has been a member of the National Seminar on Jesuit Higher Education; serves on the National Steering Committee for Justice in Higher Education; and serves on the editorial boards of Catholic Biblical Quarterly, Journal of Biblical Literature, and Biblical Interpretation. Glancy led the Le Moyne faculty cohort that visited Jerusalem and Jordan as part of the Title VI-funded “Globalizing the Core” initiative (2007). She has received funding for her research on American Christian attitudes toward Jerusalem. |
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Fred Glennon
Ph.D, Emory University
Professor (1992)
(on sabbatical spring 2013)
glennon@lemoyne.edu
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Fred Glennon's field of teaching and research is in the area of Religion, Social Ethics, and Society, particularly their interrelationship with public policies on welfare, poverty, and labor markets. He teaches the following courses: REL 405: Ethics from the Perspective of the Oppressed; REL 337: Christian Social Ethics; REL 336: Comparative Religious Ethics and Social Concerns; REL 314: Church and State; REL 300: Religion and Healing; and REL 200: Religious Perspectives. As a Carnegie National Scholar (2001-2002), Fred also engages in the scholarship of teaching and learning, in which the classroom setting becomes a locus of sustained scholarly focus. The result of that project was the publication, "Experiential Learning and Social Justice Action: An Experiment in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning," in Teaching Theology and Religion (February 2004). His service to the American Academy of Religion (AAR) includes having served as Chair of the Academic Relations Committee (2005-2010), as a member of the Board of Directors (2005-2010), and as Co-Chair of the Ethics Section (1999-2002). He received the AAR’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2008). At Le Moyne he has been honored as the Kevin G. O'Connell Teaching Professor in the Humanities. For a more complete listing of his background, experience, and research interests, see his Teaching Portfolio and Curriculum Vita |
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Donald
Kirby, S.J.
Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary
Professor (1976)
kirby@lemoyne.edu
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Mary MacDonald
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Professor (1988)
macdonal@lemoyne.edu
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Mary MacDonald is an historian of religions who studies indigenous religious traditions and religious environmentalism. She has a particular interest in traditions of Oceania and in local styles of Christianity. Originally from Australia MacDonald lived for eight years in Papua New Guinea where she taught in a catechist center run by the Catholic Church in the Southern Highlands Province (1973-1977) and carried out research for The Melanesian Institute (1980-1983). As an undergraduate at the University of Queensland she majored in New Testament and Modern Religious Thought and, before coming to Le Moyne in 1988, she obtained a doctorate in History of Religions from the University of Chicago. MacDonald teaches Religious Perspectives on the Human Situation (REL 200), Local Religions (REL 321, ANT 311), Native American Religions (REL 323, ANT 312), Ecology and Religion (REL 325), and Globalization and Religion (REL403, PGS408). She is a member of the American Academy of Religion and the Association for Social Anthropology is Oceania. Locally she is involved in the work of NOON (Neighbors of the Onondaga Nation) and the Doctrine of Discovery Discussion Group. MacDonald served as Kevin G. O’Connell Professor in the Humanities (2008-2011) with a focus on humanities and the environment. She is author of a chapter on Religions of Oceania in a forthcoming (October 2011) book on world religions. She is currently working with an interdisciplinary group of scholars on a project entitled, “The Newark Earthworks and World Heritage: One Site, Many Contexts.” |
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Darius Makuja
Ph.D., St. Louis University
Assistant Professor
(2006)
makujado@lemoyne.edu
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Darius Makuja, a native of Sudan, is a Catholic theologian with a specialization in historical theology. His research interests include historical theology, religion and culture, and politics and inculturation, which are reflected in two current research projects: "incarnation of the Christian Faith into Local Cultures," and "Ethnicities, Conflicts and Search for Peace in the African Context." He teaches Religious Perspectives on the Human Situation, Christianity in Dialogue with African Traditional Religions and Culture, the Theological Venture, and Religion, Conflict, and Peace in the African Context. He is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Southern Conference on African American Studies, the Medieval Academy of Religion, and he organizes and presents at a session which he crated on "Church, Mission, Inculturation, and Conversion in Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages," at the International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, Michigan), which was recently awarded "Special Session" status. He is faculty moderator of the Religious Studies Academy at Le Moyne College and a board member of Peace Action of Central New York. |
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Donald Maldari, S.J.
Ph.D., Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Associate Professor (1999)
maldardc@lemoyne.edu
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Donald Maldari, S.J., is a Catholic theologian with a particular interest in ecclesiology and spirituality. His research interests are the relation between Christian art and theology, the evangelical counsels as Christian asceticism, and a reconsideration of the ministries of the Catholic sacrament of holy orders. He teaches Religious Perspectives on the Human Situation, Mystery and Symbol: the Christian Creed, Community in Christ: the Church, Understanding Catholicism, and the Creativity of Christian Art. He has been a member of the Society of Jesus since 1977. Before coming to Le Moyne he served as a high school teacher at Regis High School in New York City, assistant professor of theology at St. Peter’s College in Jersey City, associate novice master, prison chaplain in Mexico, theology professor and spiritual director in Haiti, and parish priest in a trilingual Caribbean parish in Brooklyn, N.Y. At Le Moyne, in addition to his teaching, he is director of the Sanzone Center for Catholic Studies and Theological Reflection, chaplain-in-residence in a freshman student residence, a freshman academic advisor and on the editorial board of Le Bulletin de Liaison, a theological journal that he founded in Port-au-Prince. He also participates in a service-learning course which includes on sight projects in the Commonwealth of Dominica in conjunction with the education department. |
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