DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2005
I. Publications, Performances, Exhibits
III. Editorships,
Offices and Consultancies
V. Awards for
Distinguished Teaching, Research, or Professional Activities
I. Publications, Performance, Exhibits
Boyd, Stephen B.
Excerpts from “A House Divided: the Punishment of Adam” and “A New Creation: The Call to a Center and Over the Barricades,” Chapters 3 and 4, The Men We Long to Be: Beyond Domination to a new Christian Understanding of Manhood, Roger Gottlieb, ed, and Liberating Faith: Religious Voices for Justice, Peace and Ecological Wisdom, Rowan and Littlefield, 2003.
“Theological Themes,” Lectionary Homiletics, December 2004,
Ford, James L.
Review: Shingon Refractions: Myoe and the Mantra of Light, Mark Unno, Wisdom Publications, 2004.
“Competing with Amida: A Study and Translation of Jokei’s Miroku koshiki.” Monumenta Nipponica (60/1) Spring 2005, pp. 43-79.
Review: Endangering Faith: Women and Buddhism in
Premodern
Foskett, Mary F.
“Miriam, Mariam, Maria: Literary Genealogy and the Protevangelium of
James, Mariam: the Magdalen and the Mother,
Deidre Good, ed.
“A Storied Life and Contesting Traditions: Mary in Early Christian
Narrative,” Miriam, Mary and Mary Magdalene in Art, Literature
and Music: Feminist Perspectives, Phyllis Trible Lecture Series,
“Telling Mary’s Story, Singing Mary’s Song,” Women in
Christianity: Unveiling Their Stories, presentation at
Panel Presentation, “Hearing (All) Voices in New Testament Interpretation: Who’s Speaking and Who’s Listening?” Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion.
Horton, Fred L.
Presentation: “The Bible and Homosexuality” and
“Biblical Interpretation” for the
Suffragan Bishop of
Presentation: “The Bible and Homosexuality”, St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church, Winston Salem, NC
Presentation: “The Bible and Homosexuality”, St. Peter’s Episcopal
Church,
Ilesanmi, Simeon O.
Review: “Toward ‘The Rights of the Poor’: Human Rights in Liberation
Theology”, Journal of Religious Ethics.
Review: “Supernaturalist Moral Realism and Moral Attitudes”, Journal of Religious Ethics.
Review: “Pre-emptive Justice? Just Cause, Unrealized Threats, and the
Grounds for War” Journal of Religious Ethics.
Review: “The Will to Arise: A Study of Theological and Political Themes in African Christianity and the Renewal of Faith and Identity”, Orbis Press.
“Leave No Poor Behind: Globalization and the Imperative of Socio-Economic and Development Rights from an African Perspective”, Journal of Religious Ethics 32.1 (2004): 71-92.
“Human Rights”, the Blackwell Companion to
Religious Ethics (
“Religious Persecution in Northern Nigeria”, Expert Witness Report
prepared for Superior Court of California,
Kimball, Charles A.
“Reading Islam,” The Christian Century (
“Absolute Truth Claims”, War or Words? Interreligious
Dialogue as an Instrument of Peace, D.W. Musser and D.D. Sutherland,
eds.
“After Arafat”, Sojourners, Vol. 34, No. 1, January 2005.
“Toward a More Hopeful Future: Obstacles and Opportunities in Christian-Muslim Relations”, the Muslim World, Vol. 94, No. 3, July 2004.
Leonard, Bill J.
“A New Burned-Over District: Demographics in the Southern Crossroads,” Religion and Media in
“Changing a Theology: Baptists, Theology and Salvation, Then and Now”, Distinctively Baptist: Essays on Baptist History, Mercer 2005.
“A Crumbling Empire: Is There a Baptist Future in the South?” Religion in the Contemporary South,
Neal, Lynn S.
Review: “Freedom Walk:
Cooper, Valerie C.
“Now You See Her, Now You Don’t: Maria Stewart and the Art of Limited
Self-Disclosure”, presented at the Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American
an African Studies,
“Making the Invisible Visible Again”, presented at the Women in
Christianity Conference,
Hoglund, Kenneth G.
“I Contended with Them and Cursed Them”: Nehemiah’s Anger and Civic Religion in Ezra-Nehemiah, Chronicles Section of the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meetings, San Antonio Texas, November 2004.
“Imperial Systems and Post-exilic History” Social-Scientific Studies of
the Second
Ilesanmi, Simeon O.
An Examination of Religion and Poverty in
“Heterosexism and Homophobia in African Religious Traditions”, Homophobia: Roots and Cures in World Religions organized by the Religious Consultation on Reproductive Technology, Health and Ethics, Philadelphia, PA August 1-3, 2004.
Kimball, Charles A.
“Religion and Public Education: Who is Formulating Public Policy?”
American Association of University Women,
“When Religion Becomes Evil” The John Whealon Memorial Lecture,
“Hope for the Perilous Journey Ahead: Obstacles and Opportunities for
the Children of Abraham” the annual Pastors School,
“Contemporary Jewish-Christian Relations”, the Lutheran-Anglican-Roman Catholic-United Methodist annual ecumenical forum, Hickory, NC April 4-5, 2005.
“Jesus and Muhammad”, the Donohoe Forum lectures, Arizona Ecumenical
Council,
Leonard, Bill J.
Presentation:
Presentation: Southern Association for Institutional Research,
Presentation:
Presentation:
III. Editorships, Offices,
and Consultancies
Boyd, Stephen B.
Editorial Board, Harvard Theological Review
Associate Editor, Journal of Men’s Studies
Board of Directors, American Men’s Studies Association
Steering Committee, Men’s Studies in Religion Group,
Collins, John E.
Editorial Board, Thinking About Religion, Publication
of
Steering Committee,
Cooper, Valerie C.
Executive Editor, The African American Pulpit, the African American Lectionary Project.
Ford, James L.
Co-Chair, Japanese Religions Group, American Academy of Religion, 2004-2008.
Executive Secretary, Society for the Study of Japanese Religions, 1999-2005.
Foskett, Mary F.
Member, Society of Biblical Literature Committee on Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the Profession.
Co-Chair, Asian and Asian-American Biblical Hermeneutics Group, Society of Biblical Literature.
Member, 2005 Fund for Theological Education Doctoral Scholarships Selection Committee.
Hoglund, Kenneth G.
Member, Old Testament Area Editorial Board, Smyth and Helwys Biblical Commentary Series.
Vice-President elect SE Region, Society of Biblical Literature.
Consulting Editor, Religions Series, Praeger Publications.
Horton, Fred L.
Member, Tell el-Hesi Publication Committee.
Member,
Member, Ethics Committee, Hospice and Palliative Care of Winston Salem/Forsyth County.
Member, Board of Examining Chaplains, Diocese of
Member, Board of the
Ilesanmi, Simeon O.
Associate Editor, Journal of Religious Ethics.
Series editor, African Association for
the Study of Religion.
Member, Editorial Board, Advancing Human Rights Book Series,
Member, Executive Committee, African Association for the Study of Religions.
Member, Executive Committee, Society for the Study of Black Religions.
Co-Chair, Islamic-Christian Comparative Ethics Group, Society of Christian Ethics.
Member, Executive Committee, African and African-American Religious Ethics, Society of Christian Ethics.
Religious Consultant, Reproductive Technology, Health and Ethics.
Jensen, Mark E.
Chair, Personnel Committee, Association for Clinical Pastoral Education.
Kimball, Charles A.
Consultant, Rockefeller Brothers Fund,
Consultant, Mary Babcock Reynolds Foundation, Winston
Consultant, Churches for
.Consultant, U.S. Interreligious Committee for Peace in the
Leonard, Bill J.
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Religion, Disability, and Health
Member, Advisory Board, Rural Life and the Media Committee,
Leonard, Bill J.
$10,000 “Fierce Landscapes”, Appalachian Resource Ministries.
V. Awards for
Distinguished Teaching, Research, or
Professional Activities
Boyd, Stephen B.
Don Schoonmaker Faculty Prize for Community Service.
Ford, James L.
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation Fellow (2005-2007).
Kimball, Charles A.
Honorary Doctor of Letters from