Authors in this Issue
- Authors in this Issue
Ann Marie B. Bahr (Roman Catholic) is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies at South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD, where she taught from 1988 to 2012. Now retired in Vermont, she holds a B.A. in geology from Lawrence University, Appleton, WI; an. M.A. in religion from Stanford (CA) University; and a Ph.D. (1989) in religion from Temple University, Philadelphia. In 2012 she received a mayoral human rights award for her work in interfaith dialogue, especially in the Brookings community. Her teaching has involved history and geography of religion, biblical studies, American and world religions, the Middle East, and Native American religions, among other areas, including online courses. Her books include Christianity (2004) and Indigenous Religions (2005), both in the Religions of the World Series for young adults (Chelsea House), and she edited the other nine volumes in that series. She was the academic editor for and author of several articles in Christianity: The Illustrated Guide to the Story of Christianity (2009) for Millennium House, Sydney, Australia. Her articles have appeared in J.E.S., The Chronicle of Higher Education, Annual Editions: World Religions, and the Proceedings of the Fourteenth European Studies Conference, and as chapters in several edited books. Her reviews have appeared in J.E.S. and other journals, and she has written dozens of columns on religious topics for The Brookings Register. Her papers have been presented at a Global Christianities colloquium in Hawaii, at American Academy of Religion national meetings, and at several A.A.R. regional meetings. She is presently a board member of the New England-Canadian Maritimes Region of the A.A.R.
Douglas L. Berger is an associate professor in the Dept. of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, where he has taught since 2006. He is a visiting associate professor at the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, during 2014–15, as well as a visiting professor in Chinese Studies at Dalhousie University, Halifax (where he also taught in 2012). His previous teaching positions include Oakton Community College, Des Plaines, IL, 2002–06; Temple University Japan in Tokyo, 2000–01 and 2007; and Temple University, Philadelphia, 2001–02). His B.A. is from the University of North Dakota (Grand Forks); and his M.A. and Ph.D. (2000) in religion are from Temple University. He also studied at Eberhard-Karls Universität, Tübingen, and at the University of Hawai’i, Honolulu. Since 2014, he has been president of the Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy (serving previously as secretary and vice president). Since 2011, he has been chief editor of the Dimensions of Asian Spirituality Book Series of the University of Hawai’i Press. He reviews manuscripts for several other book publishers and for Philosophy East and West. He has lectured across North America and Asia and in Germany at nearly forty professional conferences, and his reviews and translations have appeared in several journals. Two dozen of his articles are in journals or book chapters. In addition to volumes edited for book series, he co-edited Nothingness in Asian Philosophy (with JeeLoo Liu) (Routledge, 2014), and wrote Encounters of Mind: Luminosity and Personhood in Indian and Chinese Thought (SUNY, 2015) and “The Veil of Maya”: Schopenhauer’s System and Early Indian Thought (SUNY, 2004).
Regina A. Boisclair (Roman Catholic) has a B.A. from Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA; an M.S. from Simmons College, Boston, MA; an M.A. from Providence (RI) College; an M.Div. and an S.T.M. from Yale University Divinity School, New Haven, CT; an Elève Titulaire from École Biblique, Jerusalem; and an M.A. and Ph.D. (1996) in religion from Temple University. She taught at the University of San Diego (CA), 1991–95. Since 1997, she has taught at Alaska Pacific University in Anchorage, AK, where she holds the Cardinal Newman Chair of Catholic Theology as a professor of religious studies. She was also a library administrator at Alaska Pacific, 2002–10, and has worked in several other reference libraries since 1967. Her The Word of the Lord at Mass: The Lectionary was published in 2015 by Liturgy Training Publications. Her articles...
