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In celebration of the years of service to Loyola University Chicago we announce the following anniversaries.

Dr. Urban C. von Wahlde began his career with LUC in August of 1981 (25 years)

Dr. John McCarthy began his career with LUC in September of 1986 (20 years)

Dr. Wendy Cotter, csj began her career with LUC in August of 1991 (15 years)

Dr. Robert DiVito began his career with LUC in August of 1991 (15 years)

Dr. Gene Szarek, C.R., began his career at Loyola University in May 1991 (15 years).

Dr. Dennis Martin began his career with LUC in August of 1991 (15 years)

Summer 2006

From August 2-6, 2006, the Theology Department hosted the *** International Meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association of America. It had the largest attendance on record for the CBA. Dr. Wendy Cotter, C.S.J., was in charge of local arrangements, along with Mrs. Catherine Wolf and graduate and undergraduate hosts.

This last summer the facilities of the department were completely renovated. For faculty it meant packing up things that had been accumulating since the Crown Center opened in 1983. For Mrs. Wolf, our administrative assistant, it meant four months of details, reversals and "quality control." As usual, Mrs. Wolf did the work of three people and saw the process through with her typical concern for all the details of the project.

But the result is a totally new coat of paint throughout the department, new carpeting, new furniture in the reception area, the addition of computer work spaces in the department library and seminar room as well as new signage to welcome people into the Department.

September 2006

In the Fall of 2006, Professor Edmondo Lupieri, formerly of the University of Udine (Italy) was appointed to the John Cardinal Cody Chair of Theology. This chair in theology, which was endowed by John and Maude Clark was first held by Rev. John R. Connery, S.J.; the second holder of the chair was Rev. Frans Jozef van Beeck, S.J.

During the coming year Prof. Lupieri will divide his time between Loyola University and the University of Udine and then move permanently to Chicago for the Fall of 2007. Prof. Lupieri is a specialist in the history of early Christianity and has written extensively on Gnosticism, the Mandeans, and Apocalyptic Christianity. His honors, appointments and achievements are too numerous to list here but are available (and make for very interesting reading) at

http://web.uniud.it/isr//data/w/lupieri.pdf

were prominently featured in a DVD produced last spring by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The video was intended to introduce the Roman Catholic Church to Lutherans. The video can be viewed at

www.elca.org/mosaic/RomanCatholic

Description: After centuries of mistrust, indifference and even hostility, attitudes between Roman Catholics and other Christians are changing. Dialogue, cooperation and understanding is healing old wounds, locally and up to the highest organizational levels.

Description: The Roman Catholic Church is the largest block of Christianity. In the U.S. 65 million Roman Catholics are organized into 200 archdioceses and dioceses and more than 19,000 local Catholic parishes. Each year over one million infants and 70,000 adults are baptized in U.S. Roman Catholic churches. Yet for all its great size, influence and long history, many non-Roman Catholics understand very little about the largest Christian denomination. The purpose of this video is to help Protestant Christians and others develop a better understanding of the Roman Catholic Church, its history and basic beliefs by listening to Roman Catholics tell their own story.

Dr. French has been appointed interim direction of Loyola’ Center for Ethics and Social Justice.  The Center is planning a major conference to be held this March 20-22, 2007 titled "Peacemaking in an Age of Terror."

Awarded a Gannon Center for Women and Leadership fellowship to study "Women and Female Leadership in American Sufi Movements" (Spring 2007). She was a fellow of the American Research Center in Turkey at Bogazici University during the summer 2006. In late August she was one of a small group of scholars invited by the United States Institute of Peace to discuss "Islamic Reform Relating to Conflict and Peace".

Dr. Hermansen will direct Loyola's new Islamic World Studies minor.

Her recent publications include:

"Keeping the Faith: Convert Muslim Mothers in America and the Transmission of Islamic Identity" in Women Embracing Islam. Gender and Conversion in the West, (ed. Karin van Nieuwkerk; University of Texas Press, 2006) 250-276.

"Identity Jihads: The Multiple Strivings of American Muslim Youth" in "Religious Perspectives on Spirituality in Childhood and Adolescence", (ed. Aostre Johnson and Gene Roehlkepartain; Rowman & Littlefield, 2006) 423-436.

"Western Sufis and Sufi Literatures in the West" in Sufism in the West (ed. John Hinnells and J. Malik; (Routledge, 2006).

Patricia Beattie Jung
Elected, Co-editor, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 2006-2011 and to the Catholic Theological Society of America's Board of Directors.

_________, workshop on, "Theological Reflections on Human Sexual Desire," at the First International Cross-cultural Conference for Catholic Theological Ethicists in Padua, Italy, July 8-11, 2006.

________, "Heterosexism" in Sex from Plato to Paglia: A Philosophical Encyclopedia (2 Vols.; ed. Alan Soble; Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2006).

________, "Christianity and Human Sexual Polymorphism: Are They Compatible?" in Ethics and Intersex (ed. Sharon F. Sytsma; Heidelberg, Germany: Springer Pub., 2006).

________, Appointed Chairperson of the Dept of Theology, Loyola University of Chicago.

"Trinitarian Life: The Source of Reconciliation," as part of a Festschrift for the 25th Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church, The Most Rev. Frank T. Griswold.

Jon Nilson
Attended the meeting of the Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation in the United States in Louisville KY Sept 14-17 as a Roman Catholic representative and participated in the planning of a new Episcopalian and Roman Catholic organizational approach to their ongoing conversation.

Hosted the "Conference on the Study of Religions of India" (a national conference) at Loyola, June 2006.

________, "When Vows Fail to Deliver What They Promise: The Cases of Shyamavati." in Dealing with Deities:  The Ritual Vow in South Asia (ed. William Harman and Selva Raj.  Albany, NY:  State University of New York Press, 2006) 219-233.

________, "Child, Lover, Husband, or God?  Reconsidering Parental and Erotic Emotions in Hindu Women's Devotions to Krishna," in Incompatible Visions: South Asian Religions in History and Culture, (ed. James Blumenthal.  Center for South Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2006) 51-69.

________, .  "Gods of Mud, Temples of Flesh:  Materials of Worship in Women's Kartik Traditions," Conference on the Study of Religions of India.  Loyola University Chicago, June 9.

Susan A. Ross
For the Beauty of the Earth: Women. Sacramentality, and Justice (Mahwah: Paulist Press, 2006). (the published form of Dr. Ross’s 2006 Madeleva Lecture at St. Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN).

________, Addressed the National Association of Catholic Diocesan Lesbian and Gay Ministries in Brooklyn, New York, on "Love and Justice: The Pope and the Lesbian Bisexual Gay Transgenered Community" (September 22).

________, Co-edited (with Hille Haker and Marie-Theres Wacker) Women's Voices in World Religions Concilium 2006/3.  Concilium is published in 5 languages (English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian).

Michael Schuck
Appointed director of the Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola.

________, "Religion, Politics, and Catholic Thought"; Archdiocese of Chicago ‘Theology on Tap’ Program, University of Chicago, Calvert House, July 9, 2006. 

(Rev.) Eugene Szarek, C.R.
Fr. Szarek was recently awarded the Veritas et Caritas Award from the Resurrectionists. The award is annually presented to a Resurrectionist who inspires the charism and mission of the Congregation of the Resurrection in his ministry.

(Rev.) Thomas H. Tobin, S.J.
"The World of Thought in the Philippians Hymn," in The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune (NovTSupp 122; Leiden: Brill, 2006) 91-104.

Women, Ethics, and Inequality in U.S. Healthcare: "To Count among the Living" (New York: Palgrave Macmillian 2006).

Description:

When seriously ill, what contributes to a sense of being truly cared for and respected? This compelling book explores healthcare inequalities by listening closely to Black and Latina women with breast cancer. It puts their stories into conversation with current healthcare statistics, sharp theological imagination, healthcare providers, and social ethics. Vigen contends that ethicists, healthcare providers, and scholars arrive at an adequate understanding of human dignity and personhood only when they take seriously the experiences and needs of those most vulnerable due to systemic inequalities.

Urban C. von Wahlde
"The Gospel of John and Archaeology" in Jesus and Archaeology (ed. James H. Charlesworth; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006) 523-86). [This is the published form of the papers from the 2000 conference "Jesus and Archaeology: A Millennium Celebration" (Jerusalem)].

"Judas, the Son of Perdition, and the Fulfillment of Scripture," in The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune (NovTSupp 122; Leiden: Brill, 2006) 167-181.

October 2006

"With Radical Amazement" a paper presented at the "Without Nature" Conference, the University of Chicago, October 26-28.

"Sufi Networking in the West", presentation at the Islam in America Workshop, Harvard University, Boston. Oct. 27, 2006.

"Hearing Past the Pain: A Preview" at the annual meeting of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium Boston, Oct. 12.

Interviewed by the Religion News Service for a story on the celebration of Diwali in the US, October 2006.

Represented the department at a conference on the pedagogical training of doctoral students in Theology and Religious Studies sponsored by the Wabash Center, in Indianapolis, Indiana

"Wisdom of Solomon" and "4 Maccabees", revised introductions and commentaries for The HarperCollins Study Bible (revised edition; San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006), 1348–77, 1629–49.

________, "The Importance of Hellenistic Judaism for Studying Early Christianity," invited paper for a conference sponsored by the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion at the Catholic University of Leuven (October 10, 2006).

Received a grant from Loyola University for archaeological study in Israel.

November 2006

"Sufism and American Women"  for World History Connected (IV, 1)  an e-Journal of Learning and Teaching 

http://worldhistoryconnected.press.uiuc.edu/4.1/hermansen.html

________, "Sufi Modernism" East-West Seminar, Valparaiso University, Indiana. Nov. 3, 2006. 

________, "The Nur Movement in Comparative Perspective" John Carroll University, Cleveland, Ohio. Nov. 6, 2006. 

________, "Neither of the East not of the West: Sufi Women in the United States", at St. Xavier University Conference on Portraits of Women in Islam. Nov. 11, 2006. 

________, "The Rushdie Affair and the Danish Cartoon Crisis", at the American Academy of Religion, Washington, DC. Nov. 19, 2006. 

________, Consulted by Noreen Ahmed-Abdullah, Chicago Tribune for story of Muslim Women’s Conference in New York.  Cited in article published Nov. 10, 2006, p. 3. 
 

Edmondo Lupieri

A Commentary on the Apocalypse of John, (Eng. Trans.; Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2006) 395 pages.

________, "La Maddalena, Giuda e Gesu': dalle sabbie d'Egitto al Codice da Vinci" (Mary Magdalene, Judas and Jesus: From the Sands of Egypt to the Da Vinci Code"), Nov. 9 at the Universita' Popolare .

________, Presentation on the Apocalypse of John, Nov. 16, Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, NJ:

________, co-chair of the Consultation on the "Construction of Christian Identities, in Washington at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting Nov. 19-20.

________, "How Different to be Different? The Cases of Matthew and Revelation." A paper presented in Washington at the AAR/SBL Annual Meeting Nov. 19-20.

________, a series of interviews on the visit of the Pope in Turkey and general problems of religion and violence and Islamo-Christian relations. ICN radio (Italian Communication Network Radio

www.icnradio.com

________, initiated a monthly column on "Oggi7", cultural weekly magazine in Italian, published in NY and distributed with the "America Oggi" daily newspaper.

Co-Chaired Comparative Religions Section at the annual meeting of AAR.

________, Steering Committee of the Comparative Hinduisms and Judaisms Group for the AAR

________, Advisory Board, Conference on the Study of Religions of India.

________, Respondent to panel on "Ritual in Hindu and Jewish Diasporic Spaces."  AAR, Washington, D.C., November 20.

________, "The Wisdom of Hindu Goddess Traditions:  Cosmological, Devotional, and Social Perspectives" at the conference on "The Divine Feminine in Cross-Cultural Perspective," Northwestern University, November 29.

"Soul and Society: Peace in the One and Peace in the Many."  Plenary Paper at the Conference on Religion, Culture and Peace : An Ambiguous Relation.  Collège dominicain de Philosophie et de Théologie, Ottawa, Ontario, November 8-11.

________, "Roman Catholic Social Thought: A Passion for Justice, A Conspiracy for

Truth"; Loyola University Chicago, President’s Leadership Retreat, November 15.

"Philo’s Legum Allegoriae: The Thread of the Argument" for the Philo of Alexandria Group at the Society of Biblical Literature Convention (November 20, 2006 in Washington, DC).

December 2006

Presented  "Le Soufisme et la modernité" at the 3rd International Colloquium on Sufism, Bedjaia, Algerie, Dec. 12.

Patricia Beattie Jung

and Mary Jo Iozzio, co-editors. Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics (Vol. 26, Fall/Winter) Baltimore, MD: Georgetown University Press, 2006: v-242.

"Expert Witness. Racist like me. The editors interview Jon Nilson," U.S. Catholic 71.12  (December 2006) 24-28. (This is an interview based on the presentation made by Dr. Nilson in his presidential address to the CTSA in 2005. The topic of the address was racism among white theologians and the failure of white theologians to address the topic sufficiently.)

Director of the Gannon Center for Women and Leadership at Loyola University, appointed by the Provost to a three-year term. Currently, Dr. Ross is working to raise the matching $500,000 needed to secure the base $2M for the Carolyn Farrell Endowed Chair.

January 2007

On January 20, the annual Loyola/Marquette Graduate Student Colloquium took place on the Marquette campus. Papers by Loyola Students included:

(plenary Session) Tim McCormick, "Applying the Notion of the Common Good in Thomas Aquinas and John XXXIII’s Encyclical Pacem in Terris as a Catalyst for Change in the American Health Care System"

Melissa Browning, "Morality on the Streets: An Examination of the Beliefs and Moral

Practice of Street Children in Light of Christianity and African Traditional Religions"

Adam Hankins, "Theological Genre and Fairy Tales"

Dan Olsen, "Unlearned Educators: The Role of Children in the Domestic Church"

Jeremy Miselbrook, "Eschatology and the Marvels of Revelation 12"

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Jan. 16, Lecture "Sufism and the Modern" at Darul Arqam, Singapore.

Jan. 17. Lecture "Muslims in America" at the University of Singapore, "Islam and Spiritual Identity" Simply Islam, Singapore.

Jan. 19, 2007. Presentation on "Muslim Youth Cultures, Negotiating Identity and Teaching for Tolerance" . Conference: Oslo Coalition and Hasanuddin State University, Makassar, Indonesia.

Jan. 22, 2007. Lecture on "Sufi Modernism" at Hasanuddin State Islamic University, Makassar, Indonesia.

Jan. 23, 2007. Lecture on "The Shaping of American Muslim Identity" at Gadjah Mada University Center for Religious Studies, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Jan. 24, 2007. Lectures on "Islam in America" at Muhammadiyyah University, and Nawesea Pesantran, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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"The Upper Pool, its Conduit, and The Road of the Fullers Field in Eighth Century BCE Jerusalem and Their Significance for the Pools of Bethesda and Siloam" Revue Biblique 2006 2, 211-241.

February 2007

Mark Bosco, S.J. "French Catholicism in the mid-20th Century," a presentation with Andrew McKenna, at the Symposium on Dialogues of the Carmelites, January 28, 2007. The play itself premiers at the Lyric Opera of Chicago February 17 and continues until March 17.

March 2007

Upon the recommendation of the Graduate Fellowships Committee, the Graduate School has awarded Arthur J. Schmitt Dissertation Fellowships for the 2007-2008 academic year to:

Martin Cain

David Creech

Kyle Fever

Dan Olsen

A Foundation for Theological Education (AFTE) has announced that Amy Wagner has been named a John Wesley Fellow for the coming year.

Marcia Hermanson,

________, March 1, 2007. Interviewed on the Radio show "Extension 720", WGN

Chicago, on "Varieties of Islamic movements".

________, March 3, 2007 Consulted by Pat Kampert, Chicago Tribune for the

article on religion and masculinity, "Men Muscle their Way into a

Faith that Fits" and quoted twice. Section Q. p. 3.

________, March 7, 2007. Presentation on "Basic Islam" at Christ Church,

Episcopal, Winnetka, IL.

________, March 14, 2007. Consulted and quoted by Mark Johnson, Milwaukee

Journal Sentinel, for a story on "Conversions Veiled" about female

converts to Islam.

________, March 20, 2007. Panelist "Gender Apartheid: Fact or Fiction", Loyola

University Chicago.

________, March 21, 2007. Moderator, panel on "Understanding Mideast tensions

and Hopes", Peacemaking Conference, Loyola University Chicago.

________, March 26, 2007. Presented paper on "Reconciliation and the Return to

Normalcy in the Light of Islamic Theology" Conference on

Reconciliation in Interfaith Perspectives, Catholic University,

Leuven, Belgium.

________, March 29, 2007. Interviewed on Channel 11 WTTW "Chicago Tonight"

regarding the book, The Search by Rhonda Byrne.

Jon Nilson, "John Dunne: Theologian" Presentation for "Seeking the Heart's Desire: Celebrating John Dunne's Half-Century" at the University of Notre Dame," March 30-April 1, 2007.

 Tracy Pintchman (ed.), "Women's Lives, Women's Rituals in the Hindu Tradition" was published in March with Oxford University Press.

________, delivered the keynote address "New Voices, New Challenges, and New Opportunities in the Study of Hindu Traditions," at the Spalding Symposium on Indian Religions, Oxford University, UK, March 30, 2007.

Susan Ross "Steps Toward Reconciliation: Justice and the Voices of Women," at St. Norbert College in DePere, Wisconsin, on March 13, 2007. The presentation was part of their Killeen Chair lecture series.

Summer 2007

Mark Bosco, S.J.

Publications

"The One Flannery Used to Go With,” in The Flannery O'Connor Review Sept 2007.

Richard Costigan

Book Review

Cardinale Ercole Consalvi, le scelte per la Chiesa by  Roberto Regole (Rome: Gregorian University Press, 2005) for Catholic Historical Review.

Marcia Hermansen

Publications

“The Academic Study of Sufism at American Universities” the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 24 (3, 2007), 23-45.

“Religious and Cultural Aspects of Islamic Sufi Healing” in “Cultural Healing Systems: Beliefs and Practices” ed. James Pappas et alii, (Calgary, AB: Detselig Enterprises, 2007), 193-205.

“Suffering: An Islamic Perspective” in Suffering: The Stauros Notebook 26 (2, 2007), 10-12.

Conference Papers

May 28, 2007. “Literatures of Western Sufi Movements” for Sufi texts/Sufi Contexts” Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.

 Academic Lectures

April 17, 2007. Lecture on “Women In Islam: Beyond Polemic and Apologetic”,  Northwest Illinois University, Macomb, IL.

April 20, 2007.  Lecture on “Iqbal’s Complaint and Answer” at American Islamic College, Chicago.

Public Presentations

Speaker. “Islam and Modernization,” Northeastern University Chicago. April 2, 2007.

Respondent.  Jesus and Mary in Islamic and Christian Traditions, Nawawi Foundation Seminar, Oak Brook, IL, April 27/28, 2007.

Presenter.  Honorary degree to Shirin Ebadi, Gannon Center/Loyola University Chicago May 3, 2007.

Presenter, “Rumi A Voice for Our Times”.  Niagara Foundation, Chicago, April 30, 2007.

Presenter.  Women in Religion and Culture.  Hellenic Museum, Chicago, May  5, 2007. 

Lecture on “Sufism and the Modern” Frankfort Islamic Center, Frankfort, IL May 11, 2007.

Presentation on Islam at Veterans Center, Evanston, IL, May 25, 2007.

 Moderator 

Panel on Family Relationships, Community Builders Convention, Skokie, IL, May 27, 2007.

Media

April 8, 2007.  Interviewed by Steve Shoemaker on radio show “Keeping the Faith”, WILL 580 AM (NPR) Champaign-Urbana on “Islamic Mysticism.”

Fall 2007

Patricia Jung

Meeting, Executive Committee, Society of Christian Ethics, Atlanta, GA, April, 2007.

Presentation, “Catholic Sexual Ethics in the Twenty-First Century,” Colloquy on Moral Theology, University of Notre Dame, 25 April 2007.

Meeting, Board of Directors, Catholic Theological Society of America, Los Angeles, CA, June, 2007.

 Edmundo Lupieri

Public Lectures

 “Letture dall’Apocalisse.” Abbey of Rosazzo (Udine, Italy), April 13. 

 “La Maddalena: discepola amata da Gesù.” Udine Soroptimist Club, May 7.

“L’apertura del primo sigillo. Letture dall’Apocalisse.” Illegio, Tolmezzo (Udine), May 13.

“La figura di Maria fra testi canonici e letteratura apocrifa,” Madonna delle Grazie (Udine) May 21.

“Tagliai arbori e piantai la croce e ancor le forche (dalle Nuove Indie, ottobre 1495).  Storie di uomini, religioni e natura.” Tarvisio (Udine) July 14.

Media

Interview on the Italian National Broadcast RAI (Channel 1) in a program called “Gente che va, gente che viene.”

Academic Paper

“Freely Ye Have Received, Freely Give (Mt. 10:8).  Early Christian Reactions to a New Market Ideology?” for: “The Standardized Monetarization of the Market and the Impact on Religion, Politics, Law and Ethics,”  Düsseldorf (FIIT, Heidelberg) June 1.

Award

The "Friuli Prize" (May 27), by the “National Union of the Italian Knights,” Section “Renza Zuliani,” for outstanding cultural activity in Italy and abroad.

Jon Nilson

Lecture

U of Notre Dame, "John S. Dunne: Theologian," March 31, 2007.

Organizer

 (As Chair of the Society's Committee on Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Groups), CTSA luncheon for theology students from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, Los Angeles, CA, June 8, 2007.

Tracy Pintchman

Academic Presentation

"New Voices, New Challenges, and New Opportunities in Hinduism Studies."   Address given at University of California, Santa Barbara:  May 9, 2007.

Andrew Radde-Gallwitz

Book Review

David Bradshaw, Aristotle East and West: Metaphysics and the Division of Christendom (Cambridge University Press) in the Journal of the History of Philosophy.

Academic Presentation

"Epinoia and Initial Concepts: Re-assessing Gregory of Nyssa's Defense of Basil" at the Oxford International Patristics Conference (Oxford, UK) August. 

Susan Ross

Teaching

In Meru and Nairobi, Kenya on "Women and Spirituality" in May.

At Boston College on "Introduction to Sacramental and Liturgical

                    Theology" at the Institute of Religious Education and Pastoral Ministry, July.

Honors

Honorable Mention in the Gender Issues category of the Catholic Press Association Awards  for her book "For the Beauty of the Earth," (Paulist, 2006).

 Attended

The annual meeting of the Board of Directors of Conciliar, the international theological journal, in Muenster, Germany from May 31-June 4. 

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Patricia Jung
Presentations

"Catholicism and Homosexuality: Prospects for Change?" at both Loyola University Chicago and De Paul University in October, 2007.
 
Panelist

Gender and Sexuality, AAR, San Diego, 2007.

Tracy Pintchman
Articles

"New Voices, New Challenges, and New Opportunities in the Study of Hindu Traditions." Religions of South Asia (ROSA):  Nov/Dec. 2007.
 
Encyclopedia articles: 

      "Love of Gods" and "Love of Goddesses," for Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, edited by Yudit Greenberg.  ABC-CLIO, Oct. 2007.
      "Tulsi," "Tulsi-vivaha," "Kartik," and "Alakshmi," for The RoutledgeCurzon Encyclopedia of Hinduism.  London:  RoutledgeCurzon, 2007.

Conference Papers

"Fruitful Austerity:  Embodied Devotion in Women's Vrat Performance."  Conference on the Study of Religions of India, Albion, MI, September 15, 2007.  A revised version of this paper will be delivered at the American Academy of Religion National Meeting, San Diego, CA, and November 21, 2007.
 
"Gender and power in ethnographic practice: notes from the field."   American Academy of Religion National Meeting, San Diego, CA, November 21, 2007.
 
Andrew Radde-Gallwitz
Article

"Gregory of Nyssa on the Reciprocity of the Virtues," Journal of Theological Studies n.s. 58, 2 (October 2007), 537-552.
 
Jon Nilson
Book

Hearing Past the Pain. Why White Catholic Theologians Need Black Theology. Publication date: November 14, 2007.

Conference Papers

"The Shape of Church Authority," Panel Presentation, Evolutionary Biology, Human Sexuality, and the Catholic Intellectual Heritage Conference, September 28, 2007.

Bi-Annual Meeting, Anglican-Roman Catholic Consultation in the United States, Virginia Theological Seminary (Alexandria, VA), October 18-21, 2007.

Marcia Hermansen
Articles/chapters in books

“The Academic Study of Sufism at American Universities” the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 24 (3, 2007), 23-45.
“Religious and Cultural Aspects of Islamic Sufi Healing” in “Cultural Healing Systems: Beliefs and Practices” ed. James Pappas et alii, (Calgary, AB: Detselig Enterprises, 2007), 193-205.
“Chicago” for Encyclopedia of Islam in America 1, ed. Jocelyne Cesari, (Westport, Conn: Greenwood, 2007), 132-139.
Conference Papers
Oct. 19, 2007. “Prophetic Representations” for conference on “Islamophobia/Islamophilia, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Oct. 26, 2007. “The Concept of memory in the Gulen Movement” for conference on “Islam in Transition”, School of Oriental and Asian Studies, University of London.
Public Presentations
“Rumi: A Voice for our Times”.  Mount Prospect Library, Mount Prospect, IL. Sept. 8, 2007.  
Speaker, “Rumi Commemoration”. North Park University, Chicago. Oct. 2, 2007.
Media
Oct. 31, 2007.  Interviewed on “Sufism in America” by Jane Lampman, Christian Science Monitor.

Urban C. von Wahlde

“The Road Ahead: Reflections on Three Aspects of Johannine Scholarship,” in What We Have Heard From the Beginning (Waco: Baylor University, 2007) 343-54 (with a response by Felix Just, S.J.).

Presenter and discussant by “senior scholars” regarding the future of Johannine studies for a session at the SBL meeting in San Diego, November, 2007.