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Dr. Michele Saracino

Dr. Michele Saracino

Associate Professor of Religious Studies

 

Education:

  • B.A., Duke University
  • M.A.R., Yale Divinity School
  • Ph.D., Marquette University

Research and Scholarly Interests:

Research is on the intersections among theological anthropology, contemporary continental theory, and psychologies of the self.  Current work focuses on the theological implications of borders of self, religions, and place.

Book:        On Being Human: A Conversation with Lonergan and Levinas, (Milwaukee, WI:  Marquette University Press, 2003).

Essays:    "Writing the Body in Postmodern Theology," in The Presence of Transcendence: Thinking 'Sacrament' in a Postmodern Age (Annua Nuntia Lovaniensia), (Leuven: Peeters Press, 2001).

"Subject for the Other: Lonergan and Levinas on Being Human in Postmodernity," in In Deference to the Other: Lonergan and Contemporary Continental Thought, ed. by Jim Kanaris & Mark J. Doorley, Foreward by John D. Caputo (Albany: Suny Press, 2004).

“Hybridity and Trespass:  With Jesus at the Borders of Identity,” Horizons 33.2 (2006):  221-238.

“Incarnation as Hermeneutical Strategy:  Response to Anthony Godzieba and Lieven Boeve,”  Theological Studies 67.4 (2006):  809-815.

“Feeling through the Limits of Conversion,” in Prophetic Witness: Catholic Women’s Strategies for Reform, ed. Colleen M. Griffith (New York: Crossroad, 2009).

Contributed to:       Constructive Theology:  A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes with CD-Rom, ed. by Serene Jones and Paul Lakeland (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005).   

Other Activities:

Director of  Roman Catholic Cluster at Manhattan College.

Courses Taught/Teaching:

  • RELS 110:  Nature and Experience of Religion
  • RELS 313:  Christian Thought
  • RELS 325:  Contemporary Catholicism
  • RELS 326:  Contemporary Catholic Theologians
  • RELS 400:  Film and the Religious Imagination
  • RELS 416:  Saints:  Yesterday and Today
  • RELS 470:  Religion and the Body

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