Authors in This Special Section
- Authors in This Special Section
General Secretary, Anglican Church of Canada, Toronto
Aaron Hollander (Jewish/Christian) is Associate Director of Graymoor Ecumenical & Interreligious Institute and Associate Editor of Ecumenical Trends, both in New York City; and Affiliated Faculty at the Centro Pro Unione in Rome. He currently serves as Vice President of the North American Academy of Ecumenists. He is a scholar of theology and culture, with a Ph.D. in theology (2018) from the University of Chicago (IL) Divinity School, an M.Phil. in ecumenical studies from the Irish School of Ecumenics (Trinity College Dublin), and a B.A. in religion from Swarthmore (PA) College. His research foci include the lived dynamics of ecumenical/interreligious conflict and coexistence, the aesthetic texture and political power of holiness (particularly in Orthodox Christianity), and the circulation of theological understanding beyond explicitly religious settings. His chapters, articles, interviews, and reviews have appeared in several books and journals (including J.E.S.); he has lectured in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. While in the Chicago area, he taught theology, religious studies, interfaith studies, and classics at Loyola University Chicago, DePaul University, Dominican University, and the University of Chicago. His first book project draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Cyprus between 2012 and 2018, to interpret modern Orthodox hagiography as an everyday, multimedia theology of resistance.
Elisabeth J. Nicholson (United Methodist Church and United Church of Canada) is a candidate for a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Theology of Saint Paul University in Ottawa, ON. She holds both a bachelor's and master's degree (2015) in theology from Saint Paul University and a B.A. in social anthropology from Bryn Mawr (PA) College. Since 2018, she has been assistant director and research assistant of The Lonergan Centre, after serving as a research assistant for the Vatican II and 21st Century Catholicism Research Centre, 2014–18, both at Saint Paul University. She received the student essay prize from the North American Academy of Ecumenists in 2015 and currently serves as the Secretary of its Board. She has made academic presentations at the Boston College Lonergan Workshop, the Lonergan Research Institute, and Concordia University, as well as at conferences at Saint Paul University and the Loyola House Retreat and Training Centre, Guelph, ON.
Scott A. Sharman (the Anglican Church of Canada) has been the Animator for Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations for the Anglican Church of Canada since 2017, and both Canon Theologian and Ecumenical and Interfaith Coordinator for the Anglican Diocese of Edmonton (Alberta) since 2012. He was Sessional Professor of Church History and Foundational Theology and Faculty Advisor for Anglican Studies at Newman Theological College in Edmonton, 2015–19; and served as Interfaith Chaplain at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2012–17. He served as Director of St. Aidan's House and Ascension House Intentional Communities for the Anglican Diocese of Edmonton, 2015–17; as a Sessional Instructor, Wycliffe College, Toronto, 2016–17; and as an Associate Priest at St. George's Anglican Church, Edmonton, 2012–15. He holds a B.Th. from Ambrose University, Regina, SK; an M. Rel. from Wycliffe College at the Toronto School of Theology; and a Ph.D. in theology (2014) from the University of St. Michael's College at the Toronto School of Theology. He has made presentations at many scholarly meetings in North America and published book reviews. His primary research concentrates on the cultural, denominational, and theological diversities of global Christianity, as well as the relationship of Christianity to other religious and spiritual communities worldwide.
