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Paula K. R. Arai (Kalamazoo College, BA; Harvard University MTS, MA, PhD), 2002-, teaches the religions of East Asia. Her special interests include Japanese Buddhist rituals and practices, women's experiences and contributions, and healing. Her primary research is based on anthropological fieldwork in Japan. She is the author of Women Living Zen: Japanese Soto Buddhist Nuns (1999) and several book chapters and journal articles, and is now working on a manuscript entitled Polishing the Heart: Japanese Buddhist Women's Rituals of Healing and Transformation.
Shahzad Bashir (Amherst, AB; Yale Univ., MA, M.Phil., PhD), 2001-, specializes in Islamic Studies with primary interests in messianism, Sufism, and intellectual history of the Islamic East (Iran, Turkey, and Central and Southern Asia). His current and forthcoming publications focus on the histories and religious worldviews of two late medieval Islamic movements named the Nurbakhshiyya and the Hurufiyya. His teaching interests include medieval and modern Islamic thought, and comparative issues in the study of messianism, apocalypticism, mysticism, gender, and aesthetics.
Richard E. Crouter, the John M. and Elizabeth W. Musser Professor of Religious Studies, (Occidental, BA; Union Theological Seminary, BD, ThD), 1967-, specializes in the history of Christian thought. His primary interests include Greco-Roman Christianity, Reformation, and nineteenth-century religious thought. He is the translator and editor of Friedrich Schleiermacher's 1799 On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (1988), co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte /Journal for the History of Modern of Theology, (1993- ), on the boards of the Schleiermacher Gesellschaft and the Kierkegaard Library, and is currently finishing a book under the title, Friedrich Schleiermacher: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism.
Eitan P. Fishbane (Brandeis, BA, PhD expected 2002) is a visiting faculty member offering courses in Judaic Studies. In addition to his work at Brandeis, he has also done graduate study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research specialty is Jewish mystical literature and thought, and his dissertation is entitled Contemplative Practice and the Transmission of Kabbalah: A Study of Isaac of Acre's Meirat Einayim. He will offer an introductory course on Judaism, a course on the Hebrew Bible, and a course on Jewish mysticism during the 2002-2003 academic year.
Roger R. Jackson (Wesleyan, BA; Wisconsin, MA, PhD), 1983-84, 1989-, teaches the religions of South Asia. His special interests include Indian Buddhist philosophy, Tibetan ritual and meditative practices, Asian religious poetry, and the study of mysticism. He is co-author of The Wheel of Time: Kalachakra in Context (1985), author of Is Enlightenment Possible? (1993), co-editor of Tibetan Literature: Studies in Genre (1996) and Buddhist Theology (1999), and author of numerous articles and reviews. He served for many years as editor-in-chief of The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.
Michael McNally (Carleton, BA ; Harvard Univ., MDiv, AM, PhD), 2001-, teaches courses in American religion and culture and Native American religious traditions. His special interests include the tradition and history of Minnesota's Anishinaabe Ojibwe community, Native American Christianity, and lived religion in America. He is author of Ojibwe Singers: Hymns, Grief, and a Native Culture in Motion (2000), editor of an unpublished 1950's ethnography of Michigan's Anishinaabe community [2003], and a number of book chapters and journal articles. His current project explores religion, aging, eldership, and religion in the Ojibwe tradition.
Louis E. Newman, Director of Judaic Studies, (Univ. of Minnesota, BA, MA; Brown Univ., PhD), 1983-, teaches courses in Judaic studies and has special interests in Jewish ethics and contemporary Jewish life and thought, especially in America. He is the author of Past Imperatives: Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics (1998) and is co-editor of Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality (1995) and Contemporary Jewish Theology (1999). He is on leave for the 2002-2003 academic year.
Anne E. Patrick, Religion Department Chair, (Medaille College, BA; Univ. of Maryland, MA; Univ. of Chicago, MA, PhD), 1980-, is William H. Laird Professor of Religion and the Liberal Arts. She has a special interest in the areas of religion and literature, and Christian feminist theology and ethics. A past President of the Catholic Theological Society of America, she recently completed service as a founding Vice-president of the International Network of Societies for Catholic Theology. She is the author of numerous articles and reviews, and the book Liberating Conscience: Feminist Explorations in Catholic Moral Theology (1996). She is now completing another volume in feminist moral theology, Coming to Terms.
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