Text Listings

The courses listed may also include additional readings that will be provided to students on reserve, in print, or electronically. In addition, some professors may add additional textbooks to their syllabi after the registration period. As you select a textbook vendor, you should keep in mind that textbook lists are subject to change, courses are occasionally canceled, and that students sometimes need to drop courses in the first two weeks of the term. Therefore, it is advisable to purchase books from vendors that will allow you to return books if necessary.

Fall 2023 Online/In-Person/ Synchoronous

RH301O Interpreting the Hebrew Bible: Ken Stone

Although students are encouraged to purchase the following textbooks, copies will also be placed on reserve in the CTS Learning Commons and in most cases are available electronically through the Learning Commons.

Berlin, Adele, and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds. Jewish Study Bible. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0199978465 (hardback) or 978- 0199393879 (ebook).
Collins, John J. A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible. 2nd or 3rd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014/2018. ISBN: 978-1451472943 (2nd ed. paperback), 978-Page 3 1451484359 (2nd ed. ebook), 978-1506445991 (3rd ed. paperback), or 978- 1506446066 (3rd ed. ebook).
Gafney, Wilda C. Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2017. ISBN: 978-066423903 (paperback) or 978-1611648126 (ebook).
Knight, Douglas, and Amy-Jill Levine. The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us. New York: HarperOne, 2011. ISBN: 978-0062067739 (paperback) or 978-0062098597 (ebook
Matthews, Victor H., and Don C. Benjamin. Old Testament Parallels: Laws and Stories from the Ancient Near East. 4th ed. New York: Paulist, 2016. ISBN: 978-0809149896 (paperback), or 978-1587686160 (ebook). [Note: The ebook is available through the Learning Commons website, and it’s not necessary to purchase this text. The readings from it will be linked inside your online course modules. However, if you’d prefer a paper edition or your own copy of an ebook, you can buy it if you’d like.]

Some additional readings will be posted inside Canvas.

Recurring optional Zoom sessions will be scheduled monthly on Saturdays during the semester with dates announced via Canvas

LM 3320 Pastoral Theology: Zachary Moon

Required Materials:

Carrie Doehring, The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach. WJK (2015),
ISBN: 978-0664226848
Emanuel Lartey, Pastoral Theology in an Intercultural World. Wipf & Stock Publishing (2013),
ISBN: 978-1620329733

RH302S,O – Interpreting the Hebrew Bible II – synchronously (online and f2f), and asynchronous online: Rachel Mikva

The Jewish Study Bible, Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds. (Oxford, 2014). [BUY HARD COPY, not E-book. You need easy access to annotation.] Noted in the syllabus as JSB.
#Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination (Westminster John Knox Press, any edition).
Each student will be engaging in comparative exegetical and theological reflection If Christian, please acquire: Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination (Westminster John Knox Press, any edition).

If Muslim, we will provide readings along the way.

If neither, please confer with Dr. Mikva, preferably before start of term
Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets. (Available in 1 or 2 volumes; be careful not to purchase a single volume of 2-volume set; you need access to all 28 chapters.)
Recommended: Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, The Bible Unearthed (Touchstone, any edition). # indicates that the book is available as an ebook in the Learning Commons.

RH 321O Interpreting the Gospels: Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

Blount, Brian, ed.True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament
Commentary.Minneapolis: Fortress, Press, 2007. [ISBN: 978-0800634216]
Burridge, Richard A.Four Gospels, One Jesus: A Symbolic Reading.Grand Rapids: Eerdmans Publishing, 2014. [ISBN: 978-0802871015]
Crowder, Stephanie Buckhanon.When Momma Speaks: The Bible and Motherhood From A Womanist Perspective. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2016. [ISBN: 978-0664239251]
Harrington, SJ, Daniel J.The Synoptic Gospels Set Free: Preaching Without Anti-Judaism.New York: Paulist Press, 2009. [ISBN: 970809145836]
Newsom, Carol A., Sharon H. Ringe, and Jacqueline E. Lapsley, eds.Women’s Bible Commentary: Revised and Updated.Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2012. [ISBN: 978-0664237073]

Vena, Oswaldo, and Leticia Guardiola-Saenz. Latinx Perspectives on the New Testament. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022. [ISBN: 978-1978705104]

Wildman, Terry M. First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament. InterVarsity Press, 2021. [ISBN: 978-0830813599]

TheNew Interpreter’s Study Bible- New Revised Standard Version with Apocrypha.
Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2003. [ISBN-13: 978-0687278329] (or any NRSV).

Additional course material will be uploaded to course Canvas site.

RH 344O: History of Christian Thought: Cynthia Stewart

Margaret Miles’ The Word Made Flesh
All other texts available in the classroom

RH 420O Suffering, Lament, and Human existence in the Hebrew Bible: Ken Stone

Required:

Kathleen D. Billman and Daniel L. Migliore, Rachel’s Cry: Prayer of Lament, Rebirth of Hope (Wipf & Stock version, 2006 [1999])
Nancy C. Lee, Lyrics of Lament: From Tragedy to Transformation (Fortress Press, 2010)

Recommended:

Nancy C. Lee and Carleen Mandolfo, eds., Lamentations in Ancient and Contemporary Cultural Contexts (SBL, 2008)

LMB 412H – Foundations of Islamic Education: Susan Douglass

Hussain, Amjad M. A Social History of Education in the Muslim World. Ta-Ha Publishers, Ltd., 2011. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1842001301.
Sahin, Abdullah. New Directions in Islamic Education: Pedagogy and Identity Formation. Kube Publishing, 2013. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1847740588.

LM455H – Self Care and Self Development: Kameelah Rashad

Jones, K. B. (2001). Rest in the storm: Self-care strategies for clergy and other caregivers. Valley Forge: Judson Press.
Melander, R., & Eppley, H. (2002). The spiritual leader’s guide to self-care. New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
van Dernoot Lipsky, L. (2010). Trauma stewardship: An everyday guide to caring for self while caring for others. Oakland: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.

TEC 504S Saint Augustine, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Malcolm X: Joanne Terrell

Required Reading:

St. Augustine of Hippo. City of God. (All versions accepted).
___________________. Confessions. (All versions accepted).
Cone, James H. Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993). ISBN: 978-0-88-344824-3
DeCaro, Louis. On The Side of My People: A Religious Life of Malcolm X (New York: New York University Press, 1997). ISBN: 978-0-81-471864-3
Marable, Manning. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (New York: Viking, 2011). ISBN: 978-0-67-002220-5
Miles, Margaret. Augustine On the Body (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock,2009). ISBN: 13: 978-1-60899-195-2
Rasmussen, Larry. Reinhold Niebuhr: Theologian of Public Life (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991). ISBN: 0-8006-3407-1
X, Malcolm (with Alex Haley). The Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York: Ballantine Books, 1966, 1987). ISBN: 978-0-34-535068-8

TEC 395O Interreligious Engagement: Rachel Mikva

Rachel S. Mikva, Interreligious Studies: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2023 – forthcoming)
Anthony Pinn and Brad Braxton, A Master Class on Being Human: A Black Christian and a Black Secular Humanist on Religion, Race, and Justice (Beacon, 2023 – forthcoming)

TEC 595O: MA/STM Thesis Seminar – Fall 2021 & Spring 2022 (co-taught by Munir Shaikh and Aaron Higashi)

Required textbook:

Booth, Wayne C., et al. The Craft of Research (3rd Edition). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2008

TEB 321H – Islamic Ethics – Ozgur Koca

Ibn Miskawahy. The Refinement of Character (Tadhib al-Akhlak). Kazi Publications, 2003. Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-1567447163. (https://amzn.to/3b8JKFt). No Kindle version.
Imam Nawawi. The Gardens of the Righteous (Riyadh as-Salihin). Tughra Books, 2014. Paperback. ASIN: B017MXCXQ6. (https://amzn.to/3fsrGJZ). Kindle version available.
Nasr, Seyyed H., et al. The Study Qur’an. HarperOne, 2015. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0061125867 (https://amzn.com/0061125865). Kindle version available.
Martin Lings, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Inner Traditions, Revised Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1594771538.

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Summer Term 2023

TEC 321O Introduction to Christian Ethics: Christophe Ringer

bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions ISBN-10: 0060959479
Laura Stivers, Disrupting Homelessness: Alternative Christian Approaches ISBN-10: 0800697979
Emilie Townes, Breaking the Fine Rain of Death ISBN-13: 978-1597525374
Traci West, Disruptive Christian Ethics ISBN-10: 066422959X

All other readings provided.

TEC 411O Howard Thurman & the Search for Common Ground: Christophe Ringer

Paul Harvey, Howard Thurman & the Disinherited: A Religious Biography ISBN: 0802876773
Howard Thurman, Jesus and the Disinherited ISBN: 0807024031

All other readings provided

RH402 Jewish Thought: Historically Rooted, Radically Engaged: Rachel Mikva

A copy of the Hebrew Bible with the JPS translation, either:

- The Jewish Study Bible (Oxford University Press, 2014—LC has ebook, but format is not ideal), or
- JPS Hebrew-English Tanakh if you want to work also in Hebrew

^#Barry Holtz, ed. Back to the Sources (Simon and Schuster, 1984)
Judith Plaskow, Standing Again at Sinai (HarperOne reprint, 1991)
^#Martin Buber, I and Thou, trans. by Walter Kaufmann (Free Press, 1971)
Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath (any edition)
^#Jonathan Sacks, To Heal a Fractured World (Schocken, 2007)

# indicates that the book is available as an ebook in the Learning Commons.

TEC 355F Living into our Committments: Rachel Mikva

There are no required books for TEC355F.

Students are strongly encouraged to attend some or all of the flex sessions, which substitute for online work:

Anti-Racism Training, June 22-23 – 9am-4pm

Gender and Sexuality Retreat, June 24 (9am) – June 25 (2pm) – food, housing available as of Friday evening

Parliament of the World’s Religions, August 14-15 (convening runs through August 18, if you want to stay)

Spring 2023 Courses

LM 332O Introduction to Pastoral Theology: Kameelah Rashad

Required Materials:

Carrie Doehring, The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach. WJK (2015),
ISBN: 978-0664226848
Emanuel Lartey, Pastoral Theology in an Intercultural World. Wipf & Stock Publishing (2013),
ISBN: 978-1620329733

LM 4180/618O Faith and Film: Religious Eduation through the Movies: Heesung Hwang

Students do not need purchase these books. Selected chapters of the following and all other materials will be made available on Canvas.

Goodwin, Richard Vance. Seeing is Believing: The Revelation of God through Film. Downers Grove: IVP, 2022.
Johnston, Robert K. Craig Detweiler, and Kutter Callaway. Deep Focus: Film and Theology in Dialogue. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2019.
Barsotti, Catherine M. and Robert K. Johnston, eds. God in the Movies: A Guide for Exploring Four Decades of Film. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2017.
Zierler, Wendy I. Movies and Midrash: Popular Film and Jewish Religious Conversation. Albany: SUNY Press, 2017.
Geivett, R. Douglas and James S. Spiegel. Faith, Film and Philosophy: Big Ideas on the Big Screen. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2007.
McNulty, Edward N. Faith and Film: A Guidebook for Leaders. Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2007.
Noh, Minjung. “PARASITE AS PARABLE: Bong Joon-Ho’s Cinematic Capitalism.” CrossCurrents 70, no. 3 (2020): 248–62.

LM 426O Preaching the Headlines: Reginald Williams

Ayers, Danielle L. & Williams, Reginald W. To Serve This Present Age: Social Justice Ministries In the Black Church. Judson Press, 2013.
Brueggeman, Walter, The Prophetic Imagination Fortress Press, 2001
Gilbert, Kenyatta R., Exodus Preaching: Crafting Sermons About Justice And Hope. Abingdon Press 2018
Hendricks, Obery. The Politics of Jesus: Rediscovering The True Revolutionary Nature of Jesus’ Teachings And How They Have Been Corrupted, Doubleday, 2006
Proctor, Samuel DeWitt. The Certain Sound of the Trumpet. Westminister John Knox Press, 2005.
Ross, Jerome. “The Cultural Affinity Between The Ancient Yahwists And The African Americans: A Hermeneutic for Homiletics.” In Born To Preach: Essays in Honor of The Ministry of Henry & Ella Mitchell, edited by Samuel K. Roberts, 22-39. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 2000

LM 481O Marriage Rites and Wrongs: Scott Haldeman

Required:

Cott, Nancy, F. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation, revised edition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000; 978-0674008755.
Ellison, Marvin. Same-sex marriage? a Christian ethical analysis. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2004; 978-0829816594.
Ingraham, Chrys. White weddings: romancing heterosexuality in popular culture, second edition. New York: Routledge, 2008; 978-0415951333.
Jordan, Mark D. Blessing same-sex unions: the peril of queer romance and the confusions of Christian marriage. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005; 978-0226410333.
Long, Kimberly Bracken, and David Maxwell (eds.), Inclusive Marriage Services: A Wedding Sourcebook. Louisville: WJK, 2015; 978-0664260316.
Long, Kimberly Bracken, From This Day Forward: Rethinking the Christian Wedding. Louisville: WJK, 2015; 978-0664239305.
Nussbaum, Martha. From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law. New York: Oxford, 2010; 978-0195305319.
Witte, John, Jr., From Sacrament to Contract: marriage, religion and law in the western tradition, second edition. Louisville: WJK, 2012; 978-0664234324.

RH301O Interpreting the Hebrew Bible: Ken Stone

Berlin, Adele, and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds. Jewish Study Bible. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0199978465 (hardback) or 978- 0199393879 (ebook).
Collins, John J. A Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible. 2nd or 3rd ed. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2014/2018. ISBN: 978-1451472943 (2nd ed. paperback), 978-Page 3 1451484359 (2nd ed. ebook), 978-1506445991 (3rd ed. paperback), or 978- 1506446066 (3rd ed. ebook).
Gafney, Wilda C. Womanist Midrash: A Reintroduction to the Women of the Torah and the Throne. Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2017. ISBN: 978-066423903 (paperback) or 978-1611648126 (ebook).
Knight, Douglas, and Amy-Jill Levine. The Meaning of the Bible: What the Jewish Scriptures and Christian Old Testament Can Teach Us. New York: HarperOne, 2011. ISBN: 978-0062067739 (paperback) or 978-0062098597 (ebook
[optional] Matthews, Victor H., and Don C. Benjamin. Old Testament Parallels: Laws and Stories from the Ancient Near East. 4th ed. New York: Paulist, 2016. ISBN: 978-0809149896 (paperback), or 978-1587686160 (ebook). [Note: The ebook is available through the Learning Commons website, and it’s not necessary to purchase this text. The readings from it will be linked inside your online course modules. However, if you’d prefer a paper edition or your own copy of an ebook, you can buy it if you’d like.]

Some additional readings will be posted inside Canvas.

Recurring optional Zoom sessions will be scheduled monthly on Saturdays during the semester with dates announced via Canvas

RH 301: Interpreting the Epistles: Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder **Update

Blount, Brian, Cain Hoper Felder, Clarice Martin, and Emerson Powery, eds. True to Our Native Land: An African American New Testament Commentary. ISBN: 978-0800634216
Bowens, Lisa. African American Readings of Paul: Reception, Resistance, and Transformation. ISBN: 978-0802876768
Laymon, Kiese. Heavy: An American Memoir. New York: Scribner. ISBN: ‎978-1501125669.
Levine, Amy-Jill. Feminist Introduction to Deutero-Pauline Epistles. ISBN: 978-082646- 3364
Segovia, Fernando and R. S. Sugirtharajah, eds. A Postcolonial Commentary on New Testament Writings. ISBN: 978-0567637079
Vena, Osvaldo, and Leticia Guardiola-Saenz. Latinx Perspectives on the New Testament. ISBN: 978-1978705104
Wildman, Terry M. First Nations Version: An Indigenous Translation of the New Testament. ISBN: 978-0830813599
Various articles and videos available on Canvas course site

RH 344 History of Christian Thought: Bo Myung Seo

Margaret Miles, The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought (2005)
William Placher, ed., Readings in the History of Christian Theology, Volume 1, Revised Edition: From Its Beginnings to the Eve of the Reformation. (any edition)

You do not need to purchase these, but we will also be reading sections of:

Daniel Sokatch, Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted (Bloomsbury, 2021 – available as e-book in Learning Commons)
Sari Nusseibeh, Once Upon a Country (Picador, 2008 – available from Digital Internet Archive)
Yossi Klein Halevi, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor (Harper Collins, 2018 – available in Canvas)
Ghada Karmi, In Search of Fatima: A Palestinian Story (Verso, 2002 – available from Digital Internet Archive)
Ruth Gruber, Raquela (orig. published 1978 – available as e-book in our Learning Commons

RH 601: Contemporary Hermeneutical Strategies: Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Vintage Books. Reissue Edition, 1992. ISBN:978-0679744726.
Crowder, Stephanie Buckhanon. When Momma Speaks: The Bible and Motherhood from a Womanist Perspective. WJK Books, 2016. ISBN-13 : 978-0664239251.
Morrison, Toni. The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations. Vintage International, 2020. ISBN-13 : 978-0525562795.
Tat-siong, Benny Liew and Fernando Segovia. Colonialism and the Bible: Contemporary Reflections from the Global South (Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies in Religion and Theology). Lexington Books, 2020. ISBN-13 :978-1498572774.
Ricoeur, Paul. From Text to Action: Essays in Hermeneutics, II. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007
Zimmerman, Jens. Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions). Illustrated Edition. Oxford Press, 2015. ISBN-13 : 978-0199685356.
Various articles and videos available on Canvas course site.

TEC 307O Systematic Theology: Joanne Terrell

James H. Cone. A Black Theology of Liberation (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1986, 1990).ISBN: 978-1570758959 (Kindle available) BTL
____________. God of the Oppressed (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1975). ISBN: 1-570751587 (Kindle available) GOD
Miguel De La Torre, ed. A Handbook of U.S. Theologies of Liberation (Atlanta: Chalice Press, 2004).ISBN: 978-0827214480 – HTL
Van A. Harvey. A Handbook of Theological Terms (New York: Touchstone Press, 1997). ISBN: 0-684846446 – HTT (For Reference Use)
Aysha Hidayatullah. Feminist Edges of the Qur’an (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). ISBN: 978-019935956 (Kindle available) FEQ
Kwok, Pui-lan, ed. Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women’s Theology (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2010).ISBN: 978-1570758805 – (Kindle available) HAI
Alister McGrath. Christian Theology: An Introduction (Lynchburg: Blackwell Publishing, 2011).ISBN: 978-1444335149 – (Kindle available) CTI
Judith Plaskow. Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism From a Feminist Perspective (New York: Harper Collins, 1991). ISBN: 006666846 – SAS
JoAnne Marie Terrell. Power in the Blood? The Cross in the African American Experience (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1998; Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2005).ISBN: 1-570752168 – PIBTEC

TEC 400/O Constructive Theology: Christophe Ringer

Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classic Themes by Serene Jones and Paul Lakeland

TEC 416S/616S Latin American Liberation Theologies: José Morales Torres

Primary Readings (to be procured or purchased by student):

Barger, Lilian Calles. The World Come of Age: An Intellectual History of Liberation Theology. Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN-10: 0190695390 [hcv]
Bingemer, Maria Clara Lucchetti. Latin American Theology: Roots and Branches. Orbis Books, 2016. ISBN-10: 1626981841 [pbk]
Gebara, Ivone. Longing for Running Water: Ecofeminism and Liberation. Fortress Press, 1999. ISBN-10: 0800631838 [pbk]
Sobrino, Jon, and Ignacio Ellacuría, editors. Systematic Theology: Perspectives from Liberation Theology (Readings from Mysterium Liberationis). Orbis Books, 1996. ISBN-10: 1570750688 [pbk]

Students need not purchase these, but portions of the following will be assigned and made available through Canvas:

Catholic Church and Francis. Encyclical Letter Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and Social Friendship. Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2020. ISBN-10: 8826605319 [pbk]
Pappas, Gregory Fernando, editor. Pragmatism in the Americas. American Philosophy. Fordham University Press, 2011. ISBN-10: ‎ 0823233677 [pbk]
Petrella, Ivan, editor. Latin American Liberation Theology: The Next Generation. Orbis Books, 2005. ISBN: 1570755957 [pbk]
Sedmak, Clemens. A Church of the Poor: Pope Francis and the Transformation of Orthodoxy. Orbis Books, 2016. ISBN-13: 9781626982062 [pbk]
Tirres, Christopher D. The Aesthetics and Ethics of Faith: A Dialogue between Liberationist and Pragmatic Thought. AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion Series. Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN-10: 0199352534 [hcv]

Walatka, Todd. Von Balthasar & the Option for the Poor: Theodramatics in the Light of Liberation Theology. Catholic University of America Press, 2017. ISBN-10: 0813229480 [hcv]

TEC 428/628 Philosophies of Race and Theology: José Morales Torres

Primary Readings (to be procured or purchased by student):

Cortez, Marc, and Michael P. Jensen, editors. T & T Clark Reader in Theological Anthropology. Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2018. ISBN-10: 0567655571 [pbk]
Rivera, Mayra. Poetics of the Flesh. Duke University Press, 2015. ISBN-13: 978-0822360131 [pbk]
Taylor, Paul C. Race: A Philosophical Introduction. Third Edition. Polity Press, 2022. ISBN-10: 1509532900 [pbk]
Zack, Naomi. Philosophy of Race: An Introduction. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN-10: 3319787284 [pbk]

Students need not purchase these, but portions of the following will be assigned and made available through Canvas:

Jaksić, Iván. Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity: Jorge J. E. Gracia and His Critics. Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0231169442 [hcv]
Lawson, Bill E., and Donald E. Koch, editors. Pragmatism and the Problem of Race. Indiana University Press, 2004. ISBN-10: 0253216478 [pbk]
Schutte, Ofelia. Cultural Identity and Social Liberation in Latin American Thought. SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture. State University of New York Press, 1993. ISBN-10: ‎0791413187 [pbk]
Taylor, Paul C. Black Is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics. Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts. Wiley, 2016. ISBN-10: 1405150637 [pbk]
Turman, Eboni Marshall. Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon. Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN-10: 1349477826 [pbk]

Warren, Calvin L. Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation. Duke University Press, 2018. ISBN-10: ‎0822370875 [pbk]
Yancy, George. Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race in America. Second edition. Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. ISBN-10: 1442258365 [pbk]
Zack, Naomi, editor. The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race. Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press, 2017. ISBN-10: 0190933399 [pbk]
Zizioulas, John D. Communion and Otherness: Further Studies in Personhood and the Church. T&T Clark, 2006. ISBN-10:‎ 0567031489 [pbk]

TEC 439O In Jesus Name: The Psychology of Christian Hegemony and Religious Oppression in the US: Kameelah Rashad

David, E. J. R., Derthick, A. O. (2018). The Psychology of Oppression. United States: Springer Publishing Company, LLC.
Fairchild, E. E., Blumenfeld, W. J., Joshi, K. Y. (2009). Investigating Christian Privilege and Religious Oppression in the United States. Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Hill Fletcher, J. (2017). The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America. United States: Orbis Books.
Jones, R. P. (2021). White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. United States: Simon & Schuster.
Joshi, K. Y. (2021). White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America. United States: NYU Press.
Kivel, P. (2013). Living in the Shadow of the Cross: Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony. United States: New Society Publishers.

TEC 467O Christianity and Colonialism: Bo Myung Seo

Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (any edition)
Joerg Rieger, Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times (any edition)
Vitor Westhelle, After Heresy Colonial Practices and Post-Colonial Theologies (Cascade Books, 2010)

TEC 471O/671O The Weaponization of Religious Liberty: Jay Michaelson

One of our main texts for the course is Robert Boston, Taking Liberties: Why Religious Freedom Doesn’t Give You the Right to Tell Other People What to Do (Prometheus, 2014). As the title suggests, this is a conversational, confrontational, opinionated book.

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Fall 2022 Courses

LM 365S Global Sensitivity in Ministry: José Morales

(Note to students–As a way to keep costs now, the Lapp Learning Commons has made most of these texts available in e-book format.)

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. Penguin Books, 2018. ISBN-13: 978-0141023380

Arjana, Sophia Rose. Muslims in the Western Imagination. Oxford University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 0199324921

De La Torre, Miguel A. Embracing Hopelessness. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2017. ISBN-10: 1506433413

Gebara, Ivone. Out of the Depths: Women’s Experience of Evil and Salvation. Fortress Press, 2002. ISBN-10: 0800634756

Henderson-Espinoza, Robyn. Activist Theology. Fortress Press, 2019. ISBN-10: 1506424643

Jennings, Willie James. The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race. Yale University Press, 2010. ISBN-10: 0300171366

Jin, Ha. The Writer As Migrant. The Rice University Campbell Lectures. University of Chicago Press, 2008. ISBN-10: 0226399885

Thatamanil, John. Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity. Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions. Fordham University Press, 2020. ISBN-10: 0823287734

LM 3320 Pastoral Theology: Zachary Moon

Required Materials:

Carrie Doehring, The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach. WJK (2015),
ISBN: 978-0664226848
Emanuel Lartey, Pastoral Theology in an Intercultural World. Wipf & Stock Publishing (2013),
ISBN: 978-1620329733

LM 321O Introduction to Christian Education: Heesung Hwang

Required:

Karen B. Tye, Basics of Christian Education. Chalice Press (2000), ISBN: 978-0827202290.
Boyung Lee, Transforming Congregations through Community: Faith Formation from the Seminary to the Church. Westminster John Knox (2013), ISBN: 9780664233303.
Denise Janssen, ed., Educating for Redemptive Community. Wipf & Stock (2015), ISBN: 9781498208161.
Anne E Streaty Wimberly, Annie Lockhart-Gilroy, et al. From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Ministry. Wesley’s Foundry Books (2020), ISBN: 978-1945935749.
Anne E. Streaty and Sarah F. Farmer, Raising Hope: Four Paths to Courageous Living for Black Youth, United Methodist General Board of Higher Education (2017), ISBN: 0938162349.
Patrick Reyes, The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive. Westminster John Knox (2021) ISBN: 9781646981915

Recommended:

Elizabeth F. Caldwell, I Wonder: Engaging a Child’s Curiosity about the Bible. Abingdon (2016), ISBN: 9781426799921.
John H. Westerhoff, III. Will Our Children Have Faith? 3rd rev. ed., Morehouse (2012), ISBN: 9780819228000.
Yolanda Y. Smith, Reclaiming the Spirituals: New Possibilities for African American Christian Education, Reprint edition. Wipf & Stock (2010) ISBN: 978-1608995912.
Jack L. Seymour, Teaching Biblical Faith. Abingdon (2015), ISBN: 1630884308.
Jack L. Seymour, Teaching the Way of Jesus: Educating Christians for Faithful Living. Abingdon (2014), ISBN: 9781426765056.

LMB 412H – Foundations of Islamic Education: Susan Douglass

Hussain, Amjad M. A Social History of Education in the Muslim World. Ta-Ha Publishers, Ltd., 2011. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1842001301.
Sahin, Abdullah. New Directions in Islamic Education: Pedagogy and Identity Formation. Kube Publishing, 2013. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1847740588.

LMB 417H – School Leadership, Board Management, and Change Agency: Habeeb Quadri

Readings provided on Canvas. No assigned books

LMB 420H – Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, and Restorative Justice in Muslim Communities: Jihad Saafir

Davis, Fania E. The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice: Black Lives, Healing, and US Social Transformation. Good Books, 2019. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1680993431.

LMB 425H – Organizational Leadership, Operational Strategies and Project Management: Ivana Zajkovska

Kerzner, Harold. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling, 12th ed. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017. ISBN-13: 978-1119165354.

LMB 486H – Religious Care for Communities in Crisis – Khalid Latif

Jones, Serene. Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World. Westminster John Know Press, 2009. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0664234102.
Van der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin Books, 2015. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0143127741.
Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Central Recovery Press, 2017. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1942094470.
Birdsong, Mia. How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community. Hachette Go, 2020. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1580058070.

TEC 355O Living into Our Commitments: Heesung Hwang

Texts: all materials will be made available on Canvas

TEB396O – Islam and Human Rights: Hamid Mavani

Akbar, Ali. Contemporary Perspectives on Revelation and Qur’anic Hermeneutics. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1474456173.
Donnelly, Jack. Universal Human Rights. Cornell University Press, 2013. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0801477706.
Mayer, Ann Elizabeth. Islam and Human Rights: Tradition and Politics. Westview Press, 2012. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0813343358.
Sachedina, Abdulaziz. Islam and the Challenge of Human Rights. Oxford University Press, 2009. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0199347179.
Witte Jr., John and M. Christian Green. Religion and Human Rights: An Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2011. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0199733446.

TEB 321O – Islamic Ethics: Ozgur Koca

Ibn Miskawahy. The Refinement of Character (Tadhib al-Akhlak). Kazi Publications, 2003. Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-1567447163.
Imam Nawawi. The Gardens of the Righteous (Riyadh as-Salihin). Tughra Books, 2014. Paperback. ASIN: B017MXCXQ6.
Nasr, Seyyed H., et al. The Study Qur’an. HarperOne, 2015. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0061125867.

TEC 400O Constructive Theology: José Morales

Jones, Serene, and Paul Lakeland, eds. Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes. Fortress Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-800-63683-8

JUST ADDED: Thatamanil, John J. The Immanent Divine: God, Creation, and the Human Predicament — an East-West Conversation. Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006. ISBN-10: ‎ 0800637933 https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,sso&db=lsdar&AN=ATLA0001555258&site=eds-live.

TEC 402O Christology: Bo Myung Seo

Veli-MattiKärkkäinen, Christology: A Global Introduction (Baker Academic, 2nd edition, 2016)
Don Schweitzer, Contemporary Christologies (Fortress, 2010)
Richard A. Norris, The Christological Controversy (Fortress Press, 1980)

TEC 504/H Saint Augustine, Reinhold Niehbuhr, and Malcolm X: JoAnne Marie Terrell

Required Reading:

St. Augustine of Hippo. City of God. (All versions accepted).
___________________. Confessions. (All versions accepted).
Cone, James H. Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993). ISBN: 978-0-88-344824-3
DeCaro, Louis. On The Side of My People: A Religious Life of Malcolm X (New York: New York University Press, 1997). ISBN: 978-0-81-471864-3
Marable, Manning. Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (New York: Viking, 2011). ISBN: 978-0-67-002220-5
Miles, Margaret. Augustine On the Body (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock,2009). ISBN: 13: 978-1-60899-195-2
Rasmussen, Larry. Reinhold Niebuhr: Theologian of Public Life (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991). ISBN: 0-8006-3407-1
X, Malcolm (with Alex Haley). The Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York: Ballantine Books, 1966, 1987). ISBN: 978-0-34-535068-8

TEC 595O MA/STM Thesis: Bo Myung Seo, Munir Shaikh

Booth, Wayne C., et al. The Craft of Research (4th Edition). Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press

January 2022 Courses

LM 411O – Futurist Theologies of Care: Cody Sanders

Keller, Catherine. Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2021. List Price: $26.00; ISBN: 978-1626984134
LaValle, Victor, and John Joseph Adams, eds.. A People’s Future of the United States. New York: One World, 2019. List Price: $18.00; ISBN: 978-0525508809

Articles available online

LMB495O – Instructional Strategies and Critical Perspectives: Seema Imam

Memon, N., Alhashmi, M., Abdallah, M. Curriculum Renewal for Islamic Education, Critical Perspectives on Teaching Islam in Primary and Secondary Schools. New York: Routledge, 2021. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0367776442. Kindle version available.

LMB 334O – Care and Counseling for Bereavement: Najah Bazzy

Covey, Stephen. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Simon & Schuster, 2013. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1451639612. Kindle version available.
Gawande, Atul. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1250076229. Kindle version available.
Kalanithi, Paul and Abraham Verghese. When Breath Becomes Air. Random House, 2016. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1784701994. (http://a.co/aHKSbME). Kindle version available.
Ross, Elizabeth Kubler. On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families. Simon and Schuster, 2014. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1476775548. Kindle version available.

RHB 4520 – History of Islam – Munir Shaikh

Ansary, Tamim. Destiny Disrupted: A History of the World Through Islamic Eyes. PublicAffairs, 2010. Paperback. ISBN 978-1586488130.
Choueiri, Youssef, ed. A Companion to the History of the Middle East. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2008. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1405183796. Kindle version available.
Goldschmidt Jr., Arthur. A Concise History of the Middle East, 9th ed. Westview Press, 2010. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0813343884.

TEC 439 – In Jesus Name: The Psychology of Christian Hegemony and Religious Oppression in the United States: Kameelah Rashad

David, E. J. R., Derthick, A. O. (2018). The Psychology of Oppression. United States: Springer Publishing Company, LLC.
Fairchild, E. E., Blumenfeld, W. J., Joshi, K. Y. (2009). Investigating Christian Privilege and Religious Oppression in the United States. Netherlands: Sense Publishers.
Hill Fletcher, J. (2017). The Sin of White Supremacy: Christianity, Racism, and Religious Diversity in America. United States: Orbis Books.
Jones, R. P. (2021). White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. United States: Simon & Schuster.
Joshi, K. Y. (2021). White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America. United States: NYU Press.
Kivel, P. (2013). Living in the Shadow of the Cross: Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony. United States: New Society Publishers.

Spring 2022 Courses Online/In-Person

LM 3320 Pastoral Theology: Cody Sanders

Required Materials:

Carrie Doehring, The Practice of Pastoral Care: A Postmodern Approach. WJK (2015),
ISBN: 978-0664226848
Emanuel Lartey, Pastoral Theology in an Intercultural World. Wipf & Stock Publishing (2013),
ISBN: 978-1620329733

RH 344O History of Christian Thought: José Morales Torres

Required Text (to be purchased or accessed by student):

González Justo L. Christian Thought Revisited: Three Types of Theology. Revised Edition. Orbis Books, 1999. ISBN-10: 1570752559
González, Justo L. The Mestizo Augustine: A Theologian Between Two Cultures. IVP Academic, 2016. ISBN-13 : 978-0830851508
Hurtado, Larry W. Honoring the Son: Jesus in Earliest Christian Devotional Practice. Snapshots. Lexham Press, 2018. ISBN-10: 1683590961
Irvin, Dale T., editor. The Protestant Reformation and World Christianity: Global Perspectives. Edited by Dale T. Irvin. Reformation Resources, 1517- 2017. Eerdmans Publishing, 2017. ISBN-13: 978-0802873040
McAvoy, Jane Ellen. The Satisfied Life: Medieval Women Mystics on Atonement. Reprint. Wipf and Stock, 2009. ISBN-10: 1606087592
Miles, Margaret R. The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought. Blackwell Publishing, 2005. ISBN-10: 1405108460

Other readings will be made available through the Canvas course page, including (but not limited to) portions from the following books:

Farag, Lois M., editor. The Coptic Christian Heritage: History, Faith and Culture. Routledge, 2013. ISBN-13 : 978-0415781039
Loughlin, Gerard, editor. Queer Theology: Rethinking the Western Body. Blackwell Publishing, 2007. ISBN-13 : 978-0631216087
McGrath, Alister E. Reformation Thought: An Introduction. 4th edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. ISBN-13 : 978-0470672815
Moore, Rebecca. Women in Christian Traditions. Women in Religions. New York University Press, 2015. ISBN-10: 1479821756
Penn, Michael Philip. Envisioning Islam: Syriac Christians and the Early Muslim World. Rereading Late Ancient Religion. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. ISBN-13 : 978-0812224023
Turman, Eboni Marshall. Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon. Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. ISBN-10 : 1349477826

LM 400O Leadership in Ministry Context: Kate Lassiter

Patrick Reyes, The Purpose Gap: Empowering Communities of Color to Find Meaning and Thrive. https://www.worldcat.org/title/purpose-gap-empowering-communities-of-color-to-find-meaning-and-thrive/oclc/1242107788
Daniel Ladinsky, Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East & West. https://www.worldcat.org/title/love-poems-from-god-twelve-sacred-voices-from-the-east-and-west/oclc/50149607

RH 302S/ 302OS Interpreting the Hebrew Bible II: Rachel Mikva

The Jewish Study Bible, Adele Berlin and Marc Zvi Brettler, eds. (Oxford, 2014). [BUY HARD COPY, not E-book. You need easy access to annotation.]
Walter Brueggemann, An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination (Westminster John Knox Press, any edition).
Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Prophets. (Available in 1 or 2 volumes; be careful not to purchase a single volume of 2-volume set; you need access to all 28 chapters.)

Recommended: Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman, The Bible Unearthed (Touchstone, any edition).

RH 485 & RH 485O RELIGION IN NORTH AMERICA: José Morales Torres

Required Text (to be purchased or accessed by student):

Eck, Diana L. A New Religious America: How a “Christian Country” Has Now Become the World’s Most Religiously Diverse Nation. HarperSanFrancisco, 2001. (ISBN-10: 0060621591)
Jackson, Sherman A. Islam and the Blackamerican : Looking Toward the Third Resurrection. Oxford University Press, 2005. (ISBN-10: 0199782385)
Lambert, Frank. Religion in American Politics: A Short History. Princeton University Press, 2008. (ISBN-10: 0691146136)
Raboteau, Albert J. Canaan Land: A Religious History of African Americans. Oxford University Press, 2001. (ISBN-10: 0195145852)
Raphael, Marc Lee. The Synagogue in America: A Short History. New York University Press, 2011. (ISBN-10: 0814775829)
Tinker, George E. Missionary Conquest : The Gospel and Native American Cultural Genocide. Fortress Press, 1993. (ISBN-10: 0800625765)

Other readings will be made available through the Canvas course page, including (but not limited to) portions from the following books:

Brekus, Catherine A., editor. The Religious History of American Women: Reimagining the Past. The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Coward, Harold, John R. Hinnells, and Raymond Brady Williams, editors. The South Asian Religious Diaspora in Britain, Canada, and the United States. SUNY Press, 2000.
Fromont, Cécile, editor. Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas : Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition. Africana Religions. Penn State University Press, 2019.
Hucks, Tracey E. Yoruba Traditions and African American Religious Nationalism. Religions of the Americas. University of New Mexico Press, 2012.
Matovina, Timothy. Latino Catholicism: Transformation in America’s Largest Church. Princeton University Press, 2011.
Murray, David. Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Prothero, Stephen, editor. A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America. University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Ramirez, Daniel. Migrating Faith: Pentecostalism in the United States and Mexico, 1906-1966. University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Randall Balmer, and Jana Riess, editors. Mormonism and American Politics. Religion, Culture, and Public Life. Columbia University Press, 2016.
Raphael, Marc Lee, editor. The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America. Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. Columbia University Press, 2003.
Sánchez Walsh, Arlene. Pentecostals in America. Columbia Contemporary American Religion Series. Columbia University Press, 2018.
Sanders, Cheryl J. Saints in Exile: The Holiness-Pentecostal Experience in African American Religion and Culture. Religion in America Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Wald, Kenneth D., and Allison Calhoun-Brown. Religion and Politics in the United States. Eighth edition. Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.

TEC 307O Systematic Theology: Joanne Terrell

James H. Cone. A Black Theology of Liberation (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1986, 1990).ISBN: 978-1570758959 (Kindle available) BTL

____________. God of the Oppressed (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1975). ISBN: 1-570751587 (Kindle available) GOD

Miguel De La Torre, ed. A Handbook of U.S. Theologies of Liberation (Atlanta: Chalice Press, 2004).ISBN: 978-0827214480 – HTL

Van A. Harvey. A Handbook of Theological Terms (New York: Touchstone Press, 1997). ISBN: 0-684846446 – HTT (For Reference Use)

Aysha Hidayatullah. Feminist Edges of the Qur’an (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014). ISBN: 978-019935956 (Kindle available) FEQ

Kwok, Pui-lan, ed. Hope Abundant: Third World and Indigenous Women’s Theology (Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2010).ISBN: 978-1570758805 – (Kindle available) HAI

Alister McGrath. Christian Theology: An Introduction (Lynchburg: Blackwell Publishing, 2011).ISBN: 978-1444335149 – (Kindle available) CTI

Judith Plaskow. Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism From a Feminist Perspective (New York: Harper Collins, 1991). ISBN: 006666846 – SAS

JoAnne Marie Terrell. Power in the Blood? The Cross in the African American Experience (Maryknoll: Orbis, 1998; Eugene: Wipf and Stock, 2005).ISBN: 1-570752168 – PIB

TEC 413/613/413O Introduction to Buddhist Studies: Joanne Terrell

Chodron, Pema. Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion (Shambhala: 2018). ISBN: 978-1611805956 (Kindle available) CWU
Hagen, Steve. Buddhism Plain and Simple: The Practice of Being Aware, Right Now, Every Day (Broadway Books, 1998). ISBN: 978-0767903325 (Kindle available) BPS
Hahn, Thich Nhat. The Heart of the Buddha’s Teachings (Berkeley: Parallax Press, 1998; Unified Buddhist Church, 2015). ISBN: 978-0767903691 (Kindle available) HBT
Muesse, Mark. Four Wise Men: Confucius, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad (Eugene,OR: Cascade, 2017).ISBN: 978-149823227 (Kindle available)
Trungpa, Chogyam. Crazy Wisdom (Dharma Ocean) (Shambhala: 2001). ISBN: 978-1570628948 (Kindle available)
Wilbur, Ken. Integral Buddhism: And the Future of Spirituality (Shambhala: 2018). ISBN: 978-1611805604 (Kindle available)
Williams, Angel Kyodo. Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation (North Atlantic Books, 2016). ISBN: 978-1623170981 (Kindle available

TEC 604 Engaged Pedagogy and Course Design: Heesung Hwang

Willie James Jennings, After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm.B. Eerdmans, 2020)
Sheila L. Macrine, ed., Critical Pedagogy in Uncertain Times: Hope and Possibilities (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Gregory C. Ellison II, ed., Anchored in the Current: Discovering Howard Thurman as Educator, Activist, Guide, and Prophet (Louisville, KY: Westminster john Knox Press, 2020)
Mai-Anh Le Tran, Reset the Heart: Unlearning Violence, Relearning Hope (Nashville: Abingdon, 2017)

TEC 322O/622O Christianity and Environmental Justice: Theory, Design, Practice: Heesung Hwang

Required texts:

Jim Antal, Climate Church, Climate World: How People of Faith Must Work for Change (Langham: Rowan &Littlefield, 2018)
Catherine Keller, Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2021)
Jennifer R. Ayres, Inhabitance: Ecological Religious Education (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2019)
Melanie L. Harris, Ecowomanism: African American Women and Erath-Honoring Faiths (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis,2017)
Leah Penniman, Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land (White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2018) (*I will have most relevant chapters posted for you on Canvas)

Recommended:

John Philip Newell, Sacred Earth Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World (New York: HarperOne, 2021)
Jea Sophia Oh, A Postcolonial Theology of Life: Planetarity East and West (Upland, CA: Sopher Press, 2011)
Grace Ji-Sun Kim and Hilda P. Koster, eds., Planetary Solidarity: Global Women’s Voices on Christian Doctrine and Climate Justice (Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2017)

TEC 355O Living into Our Commitments: Heesung Hwang

Texts: all materials will be made available on Canvas

TEC 414O/614O Theology of Art: Bo-Myung Seo

Elaine Scarry. On Beauty and Being Just. (Princeton University Press, 1999)

Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, A Wounded Innocence: Sketches for a Theology of Art (The Liturgical Press, 2003).

TEC 444O/644O Queer Eco-Spiritualities: Ken Stone

I. Required for all students (Students can purchase these books online, but be sure to check the Learning Commons e-book collection and reserves as well):

Whitney Bauman, ed., Meaningful Flesh: Reflections on Religion and Nature for a Queer Planet (Punctum Books, 2018) ISBN: 978-1-947447-32-5 (paperback)
Leonardo Boff, Toward an Eco-Spirituality (Crossroad, 2015) ISBN: 9780824520762 (paperback)
Thich Nhat Hanh, Love Letter to the Earth (Parallax Press, 2013) ISBN: 978-1-937006-38-9 (paperback)
Melanie Harris, Ecowomanism: African American Women and Earth-Honoring Faiths (Orbis Books, 2017)ISBN: 978-1626982017 (paperback)
Nicole Seymour, Strange Natures: Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination (University of Illinois Press, 2013) ISBN: 978-0-252-07916-0 (paperback)
Robert E. Shore-Goss, God Is Green: An Eco-Spirituality of Incarnate Compassion (Cascade Books, 2016)ISBN: 987-1-4982-9919-0 (paperback)
Ken Stone, Reading the Hebrew Bible with Animal Studies (Stanford University Press, 2017)ISBN: 978-1-503603752 (paperback)
Linn Marie Tonstad, Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics (Cascade Books, 2018) ISBN: 978-1-4982-1879-5 (paperback)

II. Required for STM, DMin, and PhD students, recommended for others:

Whitney Bauman, Religion and Ecology: Developing a Planetary Ethic (Columbia University Press, 2014) ISBN: 978-0-231-16343-9 (paperback)
Catherine Keller, Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public (Columbia University Press, 2018) ISBN: 978-0-231-18991-0 (paperback

TEC 448O Public Theology and Racial Justice: Teresa Smallwood

Required Materials

Course Texts

Carol Anderson, One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying Our Democracy, Bloomsbury Publishing, ISBN 9781635571387 or White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, ISBN: 9781632864123
Linell E. Cady, Religion, Theology, and American Public Life, State University of New York Press, ISBN 0791413047
Kelly Brown Douglas, Stand Your Ground, Orbis Books, ISBN 978626981096
Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America, Viking Press, ISBN 9781101980989
Richard Rothstein, Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, Liveright Publishing Corporation, ISBN 9781631492853
Additional Readings may be provided in Canvas.

Option Materials for Assignments

Alicia Garza, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, One World Publishing, New York ISBN: 9780525509584
Kevin N. Kruse, One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America, Basic Books, ISBN: 0465049494
Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, Anchor Books, New York, ISBN: 9780385535601
Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go From Here?: Chaos or Community, Beacon Press, ISBN: 9781459647763

Bayan Courses

LMB 435H – Muslim Adolescent Identity Formation – Jihad Saafir

All readings provided in Canvas as downloadable and web-based content.

TEB 458H – Ilm al-Kalam II (Advanced Kalam Theology) – Jihad Brown

All readings provided in Canvas as downloadable and web-based content.

TEB 321H – Islamic Ethics – Ozgur Koca

Ibn Miskawahy. The Refinement of Character (Tadhib al-Akhlak). Kazi Publications, 2003. Paperback. ISBN-13: 978-1567447163. (https://amzn.to/3b8JKFt). No Kindle version.
Imam Nawawi. The Gardens of the Righteous (Riyadh as-Salihin). Tughra Books, 2014. Paperback. ASIN: B017MXCXQ6. (https://amzn.to/3fsrGJZ). Kindle version available.
Nasr, Seyyed H., et al. The Study Qur’an. HarperOne, 2015. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0061125867 (https://amzn.com/0061125865). Kindle version available.
Martin Lings, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Inner Traditions, Revised Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1594771538.

RHB 488H – Abrahamic Faiths in Conversation – Reinhard Krauss

Smith, Huston. The World’s Religions. 50th anniversary edition. Harper One, 2009. ISBN: 978-0061660184. (http://a.co/jj78tJg).
Bunton, Martin. The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: A Very Short Introduction. First edition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0199603930. (http://a.co/4NKFTWy).

TEB 395O – Non-Profit Leadership and Management – Necva Ozgur

All readings provided in Canvas as downloadable and web-based content.

TEB 405O – Contemporary Islamic Thought – Hamid Mavani

Ali Rahnema. Pioneers of Islamic Revival. New York: Zed Books, 2008.
Roxanne L. Euben and Muhammad Qasim Zaman. Princeton Readings in Islamist Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

LMB 457O – Intentional Community Building & Radical Healing In/Through the Black Muslim Imagination – Kameelah Rashad

Block, O. Community: The Structure of Belonging. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2018.
Cooperrider, D., Whitney, D. Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change. United States: ReadHowYouWant.com, Limited, 2011.
Kelley, R.D. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. United States: Beacon Press, 2002.
Marin, N. Black Imagination. San Francisco: McSweeney’s Publishing, 2020.
Riemer, M., Reich, S. M., Evans, S. D., Nelson, G. B., & Prilleltensky, I. Community Psychology: In pursuit of liberation and well-being. Red Globe Press/Macmillan International Higher Education, 2020. Chapters: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7
Vogl, C. The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2016.

Summer 2022 Courses

LM395F Introduction to Chaplaincy: Zachary Moon

Buhuro, Danielle, Is There a Heaven for a “G”?, Resource Publications, 2016. ISBN 978-1-5326-0851-3
Stephen Roberts (ed.) (2012) Professional Spiritual and Pastoral Care. ISBN-10:1683362446; ISBN-13:978-1683362449

**All additional materials are found linked on the Canvas course site.

Optional Materials

James Abbington and Linda H. Hollies “Going to Wait! (African American Church Worship Resources) Between Pentecost through Advent. Volumes I and II (2003)
Ruth Duck. Worship for the Whole People of God (2003)

LMB477H – Facilitating Islamic Life Cycle Rituals: Fouad Elgohari

Tarsin, Asad. Being Muslim: A Practical Guide. Sandala, 2015. ISBN: 978-0985565923.

LMB 484H – Theories and Practices of Spiritual Care: Tahara Akmal

Ali, M. A., Bajwa, O., Kholaki, S., Starr, J., eds. Mantle of Mercy: Islamic Chaplaincy in North America. Templeton Press, 2022. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-59947-593-6. Kindle version available.
Dykstra, Robert C. Images of Pastoral Care: Classic Readings. St Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2005. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0827216242. Kindle version available.
Fitchett, George. Assessing Spiritual Needs: A Guide for Caregivers. Lima, OH: Academic Renewal Press, 2002. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0788099403. No Kindle version.

LMB 479H – Counseling Muslims: Hamada Altalib

Ahmed, Sameera and Mona Amer, eds. Counseling Muslims: Handbook of Mental Health Issues and Interventions. Routledge, 2011. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0415988605. Ebook version available.

LMB 458H – Islam, Medical Ethics, and Spiritual Care: Aasim Padela

Padela, Aasim, ed. Medicine and Shariah: A Dialogue in Islamic Bioethics. Notre Dame Press, 2021. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0268108373. Ebook version available.

LMB451H – Race, Culture and Identity Among Muslim Americans: Zareena Grewal

Bowen, John. A New Anthropology of Islam. Cambridge University Press, 2012. Paperback. ISBN: 978-0521529785. Kindle version available.
Grewal, Zareena. Islam is a Foreign Country: American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority. New York University Press, 2014. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1479800568. Kindle version available.