Department NewsProfessor David DeCosse has a new article published by the National Catholic Reporter. "Conscience issue separates Catholic moral camps" can be found here. Sister Ana Maria Pineda is the recipient of the Archbishop Oscar Romero Award by the Catholic Theological Union. Professor David DeCosse has a new article published by the National Catholic Reporter. "Will Benedict Keep Open New Space For Reason?" can be found here. Professor Gary Macy has a new article published by the National Catholic Reporter. "Visitors in the Past" can be found here. Professor Philip Boo Riley is now the Local Religion Project Senior Fellow. Professor Gary Macy recently gave a talk titled "The Role of Women in the Catholic Church." To listen, click here. The RS Dept. is pleased to learn of the tenure of Michael C. McCarthy, SJ. The Xavier RLC has commissioned the James W. Reites, SJ Gallery of Solidarity, to honor our founding Faculty Director in the Xavier Residential Learning Community. The gallery consists of several large print photos from the most recent Mexico Immersion Trips, led every year by Father Reites. The gallery is located in the 2nd Floor Lounge of Sanfilippo Hall. Professor Gary Macy will be giving the following talks: Professor David Gray's essay "The Influence of the Kalacakra: Vajrapani on Consort Meditation" was published in the edited volume As Long as Space Endures: Essays on the Kalacakra Tantra in Honor of H.H. The Dalai Lama, ed. Edward Arnold, 193-203 (Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications, 2009). Professor Jason Smick has been appointed the Executive Secretary of the Western Commission on the Study of Religion. Professor Jean Molesky-Poz was the organizer and moderator of a syposium: "How is Claire of Assisi a Light to our Identity, Community, and Humanity?" in February. An essay by Keith Warner, OFM will appear in the first 2009 issue of Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality, "The Farm Workers and the Franciscans: Reverse Evangelization as Social Prompt for Conversion."
Professor Fred Parrella has a chapter in a new book: The Cambridge Companion to Paul Tillich. Professor Parrella's chapter is "Tillich's theology of the concrete spirit." Professor Gary Macy has a chapter in a new book: Women and the Shaping of Catholicism. Professor Macy's chapter is "Women of the Middle Ages." Professor David Pinault has a new book: Notes from the Fortune-Telling Islam and the Struggle for Religious Pluralism in Pakistan. This is professor Pinault's fourth book. Professor Gary Macy was recently interviewed for a BBC program on the topic of Celibacy. Father Michael C. McCarthy’s article, “Modalities of Belief in Ancient Christian Controversy,” has been accepted for publication by the Journal of Early Christian Studies. RS Professor Fred Parrella was awarded the David E. Logothetti Award by the College of Arts and Sciences in 2008 for outstanding teaching. RS Professor Jim Reites, S.J. was awarded the Dr. John B. Drahmann Advising Award by the College of Arts and Sciences. RS Professor David Pinault was awarded the Louis & Dorina Brutocao Award for Teaching Excellence from the College of Arts and Sciences. Alumnus, Lisa Sowle Cahill, will be speaking on January 15, 2009 at 7:30 PM in Mayer Theatre as a part of the President’s Speaker Series. Professor Bill Dohar has been honored by the Santa Clara University College of Arts and Sciences with the 2008 Summer Session Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award. Father Michael C. McCarthy’s article, “Augustine’s Mixed Feelings: Vergil’s Aeneid and the Psalms in the Confessions,” has been accepted for publication by the Harvard Theological Review. Father Keith Warner’s article, “The Greening of American Catholicism: Identity, Conversion, and Continuity,” has been published in Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. The October 13, 2008 issue of America featured David DeCosse’s article, “Can Citizenship Be Earned?” Diane Jonte-Pace has co-edited a new book, Mourning Religion, with William Parsons and Susan Henking. Early June, several Santa Clara RS professors attended the CTSA Meeting in Miami. Papers and/or panel presentations were made by RS professors Paul Fitzgerald, S.J., Tom Beaudoin, Rachel Bundang, and Paul Crowley, S.J. In addition, Michael Buckley, S.J., was there and was feted by his former graduate students from Boston College. This year's theme was "Generations," which allowed various panels to explore dimensions of this imaginative approach to thinking through theological issues. Alumnus, Lisa Sowle Cahill, was given the John Courtney Murray Award at the CTSA for life-long achievement in theology. Lisa will be giving a lecture next year in the Presidential Lecture series. We have two SCU RS professors who are John Courtney Murray Award winners: Michael Buckley, S.J., a former CTSA President, and Denise Carmody. On May 21, the religious studies department held its student awards ceremony. Linked are are inductees into the Theta Alpha Kappa Honor Society and the recipients of other religious studies awards. At a colloquium on May 20, Visiting Associate Professor Aquiline Tarimo presented research he has conducted over the past year and discussed the work of Hekima College in Nairobi. African graduate students from the Jesuit School of Theology Berkeley (JSTB) also participated. May 16, RS Professor David Gray hosted guest lecturer, Zhang Xiu, who addressed the topic of "Martial Arts: The Daoist Tradition."
The Rev. Gerald Coleman is also Vice President of Corporate Ethics, Daughters of Charity Health System. Professor Margaret McLean is also Director of the Biotechnology and Health Care Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. John Paris, S.J., Walsh Professor of Bioethics at Boston College, also spoke. The topic of the lecture was "Nutrition, Hydration, and Patients in a Permanent Vegetative State: Has the Vatican Changed the Rules?." April 25, the Department of Religious Studies at Santa Clara, with the leadership of RS Professor, James Bennett, recently hosted the Bay Area Religion Group Conference. Catherine Brekus, of the University of Chicago Divinity School, talked about her volume, The Religious History of American Women. April 24, RS Professor, Teresia Hinga, introduced the new interdisciplinary minor, African Studies. Professor Hinga is one of the co-directors of the African Studies program. April 16, in the class of RS Professor, David Gray, Ven. Thich Hue Hanh led the discussion "Buddhist Meditation for Transformation and Healing." Ven. Thich Hue Hanh is a Vietnamese Buddhist nun and experienced practitioner of Zen meditation. She discussed how the practice of meditation gives rise to heightened self-awareness that can help one to transform sufferings and provide healing and solace in one’s daily life. April 14, RS major, Jessica Coblentz, facilitated a panel on "Religion, Ethics and Abortion." Student panelists included RS minor, Lindsey Scherer. Students spoke on navigating conscience and about their religious traditions in the abortion debate. April 2, Professor Aquiline Tarimo, S.J., Hekima School of Theology, Nairobi, Kenya, and Visiting Professor, SCU Department of Religious Studies and Professor Teresia Hinga, SCU Religious Studies presented "Kenya, the Common Good, and the Politicization of Ethnic Identities" at the "Ethnics at Noon" series. March 12, George Dennis O'Brien, president emeritus of the University of Rochester and former president of Bucknell University, led a Faculty Colloquium for the Department of Religious Studies. He is the author of The Idea of a Catholic University, in which he rejects a hierarchical model of a Catholic university in favor of a model that "respects different kinds of 'truth.'" He also wrote What to Expect From College and All the Essential Half-Truths About Education.
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