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Word Became Flesh: The Question of Performance as Method in Biblical Studies
The 2019 Performance Criticism Conference was held on Oct. 4, 2019. This conference, organized by New Testament and Early Christianity graduate students Zach Eberhart and Megan Wines, was centered around the question of how performance works as a methodology within Biblical Performance Criticism. DETAILS
2019-2020 Religion and Nature Speaker Series
Integral ecologists are environmental scientists, ethicists, experts in religion and nature and activists who understand that earth's environmental crisis cannot be solved by one group alone. Environmental experts from all fields must work together. This speaker series is part of the 'Francis Project,' a collaboration between Loyola University's Department of Theology and the Institute of Environmental Sustainability to encourage an integral understanding of the natural world from the perspectives of both science and religion DETAILS
A New Agenda for Catholic Theology and Ministry: Perspectives from Queer Theologians of Color
Dr. Miguel Diaz, John Courtney Murray Chair in Public Service, has been awarded a grant from the Louisville Institute along with project partners Craig Ford Jr (Saint Norbert College) and Bryan Massingale (Fordham University). Their project seeks to "challenge current Catholic theological scholarship in gender and sexuality and open new avenues to reflect on these human experiences from the perspective of race and ethnicity."
Hate is not welcome aquí
Prof. Miguel Diaz (John Courtney Murray University Chair in Public Service) co-authors article in the National Catholic Reporter on recent gun violence, with a specific focus on that in El Paso, and the impact of white nationalist rhetoric on the Latin@ community. (Photo is from the article in NCR, (CNS photo/Reuters/Callaghan O'Hare))
Virtual Graduate Research Symposium - Outstanding Paper/Presentation in Humanities
The Theology Department would like to congratulate Megan Wines, Ph.D. student in NTEC, for winning the Outstanding Paper/Presentation in Humanities in the Virtual Graduate Research Symposium hosted by Loyola's Graduate Student Advisory Council. This annual interdisciplinary symposium brought together graduate students from the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences. Ms. Wine's paper is titled "Broken Chains, Open Doors, and Mad Women: Prison Escape Narratives in Euripides' Bacchae and Acts of the Apostles".