Philosophy
Religious Studies Got a question or comment? Tony Smith,
Department Chair |
Publications RECENT Hector Avalos Strangers in Our Own Land: Religion in U.S. Latina/o Literature
(Nashville: Abingdon:, 2005), the first systematic study of how
religion and specific religious traditions (e.g., Judaism, Islam,
Catholicism) are portrayed in U.S. Latina/o Literature.
Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence. (Amherst: Prometheus Press, 2005) The book outlines a new theory for the nature of religious violence as illustrated in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Introduction to the U.S. Latina and Latino Religious Experience (Boston: Brill, 2004). Dr. Avalos assembled a team of experts and edited the first single-volume textbook ever published on the religious experience of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans and other groups of people living in the United States that trace their roots to the Spanish-speaking countriesof Latin America. Dr. Avalos contributed chapters on "Health Care and the U.S. Latina and Latino Religious Experience," and "Literature and the U.S. Latina and Latino Religious Experience. Se puede saber si Dios existe? [Can One Know if God Exists?] Amherst, NY: Prometheus Press, 2003. A new edition by an American press of a Spanish-language book first published in 2000 by a press in South America. ARTICLES "Deconstructing ‘Nahualismo' in Mexican-American Theology," Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology (2005) "The Ancient Near in Modern Science Fiction: Zechariah Sitchin's Twelfth Planet as Case Study," The Journal of Higher Criticism 9:1 (Spring 2002) 49-70. Nikki Bado-Fralick BOOK Coming to the Edge of the Circle: A Wiccan Initiation Ritual< Oxford University Press, American Academy of Religion Academy Series, 2005. Edited Volume Encyclopedia of Religious Rites, Rituals, and Festivals.
New York, London: Routledge Press, 2004. Frank A. Salamone,
Editor. Nikki Bado-Fralick, Sabina Magliocco, and Dan Smith,
Associate Editors. ARTICLES Under review: “With This Very Body: What Kukai Has to
Teach Us about Ritual Pedagogy.” Being considered for publication
in either the Philosophy East-West Journal or as part of the
proceedings from the Ninth East-West Philosophers’ Conference, held
June 2005. Under review: “Why Witches Still Scare Scholars.” Being considered for publication in The Pomegranate: The International Journal of Pagan Studies Review Article: “Mapping the Wiccan Ritual Landscape: Circles of Transformation,” in Folklore Forum, 33.1/2 (2002): 45-65. Travis Butler "Identity and Infallibility in Plato's Epistemology,"
forthcoming in Apeiron, 12/05. "Plantinga and the Problem of Evil." Forthcoming in Proceedings of the XXI World Congress of Philosophy.
Margaret Holmgren Strength of Character," Journal of Value Inquiry, December 2004
Gordon Hull "Hobbes and the Pre-Modern Geometry of Modern Political Thought,"
in Arts
of Calculation: Numerical Thought in Early Modern Europe, eds. David
Glimp
and Michelle Warren (St. Martins/Palgrave, 2004), 115-135. David Hunter Gordon Knight
"The Theological Significance of Subjectivity," _The Heythrop
Journal 46
(January 2005) pp.1-10 Joseph Kupfer "Self-Knowledge and Humility in Chariots of Fire," Film and Philosophy, Vol. 8, pp. 17-29, 2004 "Moral Education and Autonomy," Southwest Philosophy Review, Vol. 20, no. 2, July, pp.69-85, 2004 "Generosity of Spirit," reprinted from The Journal of Value Inquiry, 32, (Sept., 1998), 357-368, in Personal Virtues: Introductory Essays, Palgrave Macmillan Publishers, ed. Clifford Williams, 2005 "Film Criticism and Virtue Theory," reprinted from Visions of Virtue in Popular Film (pp.13-34), in Philosophy of Film: An Anthology, eds., Carroll and Choi, Blackwell Publishers, 2005 "Virtue and Happiness in Groundhog Day," reprinted from Visions of Virtue in Popular Film (pp.) in The Philosophy of Film, eds., Wartenberg and Curran, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, U.K., 2005 "Jackson's Apostasy", Philosophical Studies (2002) 111:277-293. "Epiphenomenalism", in Nadel, L., ed., Encyclopedia
of Cognitive Science (London: Nature Publishing Group, 2003), vol.
2., pp. 8-14. (This article is wholly distinct from the 1999 article
of the same title in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The
difference is consequent on the difference between "epiphenomenalism"
as used in philosophy and as used in cognitive science.)
"A Few Thoughts Too Many?", in Gennaro, R., ed., Higher
Order Theories of Consciousness (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John
Benjamins Publishing Co., 2004), pp. 295-313. Mary Sawyer BOOKS THE CHURCH ON THE MARGINS: LIVING CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY, Trinity Press, Intl./Continuum, 2003. PEOPLES TEMPLE AND BLACK RELIGION IN AMERICA, Indiana University Press, 2004. (co-editor) ARTICLES "Black Ecumenism: Counterpoint to White Ecumenism," in Arleon L. Kelley, ed., A TAPESTRY OF JUSTICE, SERVICE, AND UNITY, NAEIS Press, 2004. "The 'American Dillemma' in the Life and Scholarship of C. Eric Lincoln," in Alton B. Pollard III and L. Henry Welchel, Jr. eds., HOW LONG THIS ROAD: RACE, RELIGION, AND THE LEGACY OF C. ERIC LINCOLN, Palgrave Press, 2003 Tony Smith BOOK "Human Flourishing and the Concept of Capital: on Buchanan's Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination: Moral Foundations for International Law." Social Theory and Practice, Vol. 32, No.1 (2006). Globalization: A Systematic Marxian Account, Brill Press, 2006. ARTICLES “Towards a Marxian Theory of World Money,” Marxian Theories of Money, Fred Moseley, ed. Palgrave/Macmillan, 2005 (222-35). “Socialism and the Democratic Planning of Technical Change,” Readings in the Philosophy of Technology, David Kaplan, ed., Rowman and Littlefield, 2004 (319-36). “Technology and History in Capitalism: Marxian and Neo-Schumpeterian Perspectives,” Essays on Volume I of Marx’s Capital, Bellofiore and Taylor, eds., Palgrave, 2003 (217-42). "Globalisation and Capitalist Property Relations: A Critical Assessment of Held's Cosmopolitan Theory,"Historical Materialism, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2003. (3-35). "Systematic and Historical Dialectics: Towards a Marxian Theory
of Globalization,"New Dialectics and Political Economy, Rob Albritton,
ed., Palgrave, 2003 (24-41). "The Moral Perspective of Humility," Pacific Philosophical
Quarterly, Vol. 84, 2003. |
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