Amy L. Allocco
Books: Co-edited volume in progress, to be titled Ritual Innovation in South Asian Religions. |
Geoffrey ClaussenArticles: “The American Jewish Revival of Musar” (The Hedgehog Review, 2010); “God and Suffering in Heschel’s Torah Min Ha-Shamayim” (Conservative Judaism, 2010); “Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv on Love and Empathy” (Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 2010); “Jewish Virtue Ethics and Compassion for Animals: A Model from the Musar Movement” (CrossCurrents, 2011); "The Practice of Musar" (Conservative Judaism, 2011). My research focuses on models of Jewish ethics centered on the development of moral character, and especially on the moral vision of a 19th-century Jewish revival movement known as the Musar movement. I am now working on a book, based on my dissertation research, which analyzes the ideal of loving-kindness held by one of the early leaders of that movement, Simhah Zissel Ziv. |
 Lynn R. Huber
Book: Like a Bride Adorned: Reading Metaphor in John's Apocalypse, New York: T and T Clark, 2007. Articles and Essays: “Sexually Explicit? Re-reading Revelation’s 144,000 Virgins as a Response to Roman Social Discourses.” Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spirituality (2008) and "Unveiling the Bride: Revelation’s Nuptial Imagery and Roman Social Discourse” in A Feminist Companion to Apocalyptic Literature, Amy-Jill Levine, 2008. I am currently working on a book entitled Unveiling the Bride of the Apocalypse: Metaphor, Gender, and Medieval Visionaries. |
Jim PaceMy interests are in the area of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible Studies and ancient Near Eastern context from in which that literature originated. My research is conducted in the area of archaeology, most recently in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. I am co-director of the Karak Resources Project, an archaeological project that traces the utilization of natural resources in the Karak district of Jordan from neolithic times to the present. This involves the excavation of an Iron age fortress called Khirbat al-Mudaybi’ on the desert fringe of that country.
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Toddie PetersBooks: In Search of the Good Life: the Ethics of Globalization, New York: Continuum, 2004. Edited books: To Do Justice: A Guide for Engaging Progressive Christians, edited with Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, Louisville: Westminster, John Knox, 2008. Justice in a Global Economy, edited with Pamela Brubaker and Laura Stivers, Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2006. My research and writing is primarily focused on issues of economic and environmental ethics. As an ethicist, my interest is in helping people understand that globalization is a human phenomenon that we are in the process of creating and that we must pay attention to the moral vision that is embedded in different globalization trajectories. I am currently working on a book project tentatively titled, Changing Direction: A Better World is Possible, which develops an “ethic of solidarity” as a concrete way for first-world Christians to work toward shaping our lives and our world in more just and ecologically-sensitive ways. Generally speaking, my interests as a Christian social ethicist aim lie in developing critical structural analysis of contemporary social problems while searching the Christian tradition for resources to help communities mobilize and respond in ways that are consistent with establishing social justice. |
Michael PregillHis area of specialization is the Quran and Islamic exegetical literature (tafsir), and early Islamic history and culture in general. His current research interests include Muslim perceptions and portrayals of Jews in the early Islamic period, the development of biblical tradition in Islamic literature, and the cross-cultural ramifications of prophecy in Late Antiquity. He is currently writing a book on the Golden Calf episode in the Quran and early Muslim exegetical literature.
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Jeffrey PughBooks: Religionless Christianity: Dietrich Bonhoeffer for Today, T and T Clark, forthcoming 2009. Entertaining the Triune Mystery: God, Science, and the Space Between, T and T Clark, 2003. The Matrix of Faith: Reclaiming a Christian Vision, Crossroad Publishing, 2001. My research interests are the intersections between religion and science, and I am currently working on a book about Dietrich Bonhoeffer and his relevance for today. As far as accomplishments, I presented a paper to the Metanexus Conference at the University of Pennsylvania in June, and published an editorial with The Raleigh News and Observer in August on the controversy about Intelligent Design and the public schools.
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 LD Russell
Book: Godspeed: Racing Is My Religion, New York: T and T Clark, 2007. |
Pamela WinfieldArticles and essays: "The Seven Stages of Spiritual Transformation" in Revisiting Mysticism (Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2008) and four separate book reviews in Japan Studies Review, Philosophy East & West:, The Journal of Buddhist Ethics, and Material Religion (2008). Papers: "Religion and the State in Japan: The Case of Shinnyo-en" and served as moderator and panel respondent to a panel on Orientalism and "The Pull of the East" (annual SECSOR / regional AAR Conference, Greensboro, NC, March 13-14, 2009). Co-chair for the Religions of Asia Section of South-East Commission on the Study of Religion. My research interests lie in the interrelated fields of Asian thought and visual culture. I have published articles and chapter contributions on Buddhist mandalas, Zen gardens, healing rituals and death and dying in Japan. I have also published or presented in the fields of comparative mysticism (Asian-European traditions) and religion and film, and I co-chair the Sacred Space in Asia group at the American Academy of Religion. I am currently writing an article on continuity and change in esoteric Buddhist iconography, and am working on a book entitled Icons and Iconoclasm in Japanese Buddhism: Kukai and Dogen on the Art of Enlightenment. |
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