DEPARTMENT OF
RELIGION
FACULTY
ACTIVITIES REPORT
FOR JULY 1,
2000 TO JUNE 30, 2001
I.
Publications, Performances, Exhibits
Boyd, Stephen B.
" 'A Man
was going down from Jersusalem': The Psycho-social Roots of Sin and
Possibilities for Healing" The
Spirituality of Men: Sixteen Christians Write about Their Faith, Philip L.
Culbertson, Fortress Press, 2001.
"Gracious
Submission is Nothing New: The Subtle Distinction Between Calvin and
Luther", Connections: The Newsletter
of the Alliance of Baptists, Vol.
III, No. 12, December 2000.
"Radical
Reform: Marital Sisters and Brothers in the Church, Family and World" Connections:
The Newsletter of the Alliance of Baptists, Vol III, No. 12, February 2000.
"Conversation
with Steve Boyd, author of The Men We Long to Be”, Jesus Men,
(on-line
journal) Issue III, May 2001.
Ford, James L.
Book Review of Renegade Monk: Honen and Japanese Pure Land
Buddhism by Machida Soho (University of California Press, 1999). Journal of the American Academy of Religion (68/2),
Summer, 2000
Book Review of Original Enlightenment and the
Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism by Jacqueline Stone
(University of Hawaii Press-Kuroda Series, 1999). Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Summer, 2001
"Buddhism,
Christianity, and The Matrix: The Dialectic
of Myth-Making in Contemporary Cinema".
The Journal of Religion and Film (peer
review), vol. 4, no. 2, Fall, 2000
"Jokei and
Honen: Debating Buddhist Liberation in Medieval Japan…..Then and
Now." Accepted for publication in Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of
Buddhist Studies (peer review), Third Series, no. 3, Summer/Fall, 2001
Participated in
a panel for the final New Faculty Orientation Event (4/30/01) for tenure-track
faculty. Shared insights and learned
experiences on the challenges and opportunities within the tenure-track
process. One of four Assistant
Professors invited to participate.
Foskett, Mary
"The
Accidents of Being and the Politics of Identity: Biblical Images of Adoption
and Asian Adoptees in America", Semeia.
(currently in production)
Ilesanmi, Simeon O.
"Ethics in
global context: transnational duties toward economic rights", http://www.wfu.edu/wfunews/ethics/pdf/essay-three.pdf. Selected Faculty Essays: Wake Forest
University, 2000.
Kimball, Charles A.
"Christians
and Muslims Can Build
Understanding", The Daily
Chautauquan, August 2, 2000.
" 'No Pray,
No Play' Trivializes Piety," The Los
Angeles Times, September 7, 2000.
(Subsequently republished in various newspapers and periodicals across
the country.)
"Religious
Minorities in Israel," The
Encyclopedia of Christianity (Eerdmans: 2001)
Lahurd, Carol J.
"Re-viewing
Luke 15 with Arab Christian Women" in A
Feminist Companion to Luke-Acts, ed. Amy-Jill Levine with Marianne
Blickenstaff, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001
Collins, John E.
"Undergraduates
at Professional Meetings", North Carolina Religion Studies Association
Ford, James L.
"Theism,
Time, and Upaya in Buddhist-Christian
Dialogue". Delivered at the Sixth International Conference of the Society
for Buddhist-Christian Studies (Tacoma, WA), August, 2000
Foskett, Mary
"The
Accidents of Being and the Politics of Identity: Biblical Images of Adoption
and Asian Adoptees in America", presented at the Society of Biblical
Literature Annual Meeting, Fall 2000
"Can We
Talk? Interreligious Dialogue and the New Testament," presented at the WFU
Divinity School Continuing Education Conference on American
Christianity/American Pluralism, Fall 2000.
Horton, Fred L.
Lecture series
on the Psalms, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Greensboro, NC March 2001.
Lecture series
on the Psalms, Immanuel Parish, Southern Pine, NC March 2001.
Invited lecture,
Atlanta Archaelogical Society
Invited Lecture,
Hesi Section of the American Schools of Oriental Research, Nashville, November
2000.
Ilesanmi, Simeon O.
"Religion
and the Politics of Human Rights in Africa", presented at the XVIII
Quniquennial Congress of the International Association of the History of
Religions, Durban, South Africa, August 5-12, 2000.
"Religion
and African Public Intellectuals", presented at the Annual meeting of the
American Academy of Religion, Nashville, TN, November 18-21, 2000.
"Critical
Books Discussion: Recent Work in African Theology", presented at the
Annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics, Chicago, IL, January 7,
2001.
"Are
Women's Rights Human Rights? Perspectives from Africa", presented at
Faculty Symposium on Year of Ethics and Honor, Wake Forest University, February
2, 2001.
"Human
Rights and the Burden of Culture in Africa", lecture at Wesleyan
University, Middletown, CT, February 23, 2001.
"Shari'a
and the Crisis of Modernity in Africa", lecture at North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, NC, April 3, 2001.
Kimball, Charles A.
"No Easy
Answers: Obstacles and Opportunities in Christian-Muslim Relations",
Plenary lecture at The Chautauqua Institution, August 2, 2000.
Lahurd, Carol J.
"Participating
in the Body of Christ", plenary lecture for the National Workshop on
Christian Unity, San Diego, May 4, 2001
"Grass-Roots
Ecumenical Reception and Implementation", recurring seminar for the
National Workshop on Christian Unity, San Diego, May 4, 2001
"Luke's
Good News for all People," Northern Rockies Institute of Theology, Butte
and Great Falls, MT, September 28-29, 2000
Swartzentruber,
Elaine K.
"
Schleiermacher on Subjectivity and Sociality: A Postmodern Possibility?"
American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Nashville, November, 2000
III.
Editorships, Offices and Consultancies
Boyd, Stephen B.
Member,
Editorial Board, Harvard Theological Review
Associate
Editor, Journal of Men's Studies
Presidents,
American Men's Studies Association
Member, Steering
Committee, Men's Studies in Religion Group, American Academy of Religion.
Collins, John E.
Member,
Editorial Board, Thinking About Religion
President, North
Carolina Religious Studies Association
Webmaster, North
Carolina Religious Studies Association Webpage
Ford, James L.
Executive
Secretary, Society for the Study of Japanese Religions, 1999-2002
Member, Steering
Committee for the Japanese Religions Group, American Academy of Religion,
2000-2005
Foskett, Mary
Steering
Committee, Synoptic Gospels Section, Society of Biblical Literature (Spring
1998-present)
Steering
Committee, Asian and Asian-American Biblical Hermeneutics Section, Society of
Biblical Literature (Fall 1998-present)
Secretary,
Ethnic Chinese Biblical Colloquium (Spring 2001 - )
Hoglund, Kenneth G.
Editor, Old
Testament Area, Smyth-Helwys Bible
Commentary Series
Member,
Editorial Board, Near Eastern Archaeology
Ilesanmi, Simeon O.
Member,
Editorial Board, Journal of Religious Ethics
Referee, Annual
of the Society of Christian Ethics
Member, Board of
Governors and Executive Committee, Society of Christian Ethics
Co-chair,
African Religions Group, American Academy of Religion
Member, Program
Committee, International Association for the History of Religions
Member, Steering
Committee, Religious Consultation on Human Rights, American Academy of
Religions
Member,
Executive Committee, African Association for the Study of Religions
Member,
Executive Committee, Society for the Study of Black Religions
Member,
Committee on the Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession,
American Academy of Religion
Member, Twenty
First Century Committee, Society of Christian Ethics
Member, Program
Committee, Society of Christian Ethics
Religious
Consultant on Reproductive Technology, Health and Ethics
Kimball, Charles A.
Member,
Editorial Board for Perspectives in the
Study of Religion
Lahurd, Carol J.
Member,
Editorial Board, Dialog: A Journal of
Theology
Ilesanmi, Simeon O.
National
Insitute of Health, "Humans in Research", Application with six other faculty members: $754,155, pending
June 2001.