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Awards and Accomplishments
Mary Kate Holman Receives First-Time Author Award from University of Notre Dame Press
From the release:
“Mary Kate Holman was named this year’s recipient of the Notre Dame Press First-Time Author Award for her forthcoming book, Marie Dominique-Chenu: Catholic Theology for a Changing World.
In this book, Holman demonstrates how Chenu’s once condemned theology influenced the major shifts of twentieth-century Catholicism, revealing the relevance of his thought for contemporary theology.”
Books and Publications
Febe Armanios
Satellite Ministries: The Rise of Christian Television in the Middle East
“Through extensive fieldwork and archival research, Febe Armanios explores how Western evangelicals and indigenous Christians harnessed terrestrial and satellite technologies to promote Christian television in the Middle East. The sixteen channels analyzed in this study fall into three main categories: Western-backed conservative outlets with a charismatic and apocalyptic outlook; middle-ground channels that sought to balance their international sponsors’ expectations with local interests; and grassroots initiatives rooted in ancient church traditions. The histories and programming strategies of primarily Arabic, but also Turkish and Persian, Christian channels reveal how media producers forged unexpected political alliances, pursued sectarian objectives, and navigated various transnational influences.
Satellite Ministries explores how modern expressions of faith, technology, and political power intersected and clashed across the Global South and beyond. In this groundbreaking work, Armanios presents a crucial examination of this unique and little-known media landscape.”
David Newheiser
Art-Making as Spiritual Practice: Rituals of Embodied Understanding
“Is it possible to consider art-making as a spiritual practice independent of explicit religious belief or content? This open access collection establishes a new paradigm that changes the conversation surrounding the spiritual significance of art.
Where earlier research has focused on the religious significance of secular artworks, this innovative volume turns its attention to the role of the artist, and to specific examples of art practices, putting them into conversation with particular ritual practices.
By creating a web of connections that emerge across multiple disciplines and practices, a team of scholars and artist shed new light on the way art-making and ritual embody non-discursive forms of understanding. Drawing on the work of scholars who argue that ritual practice is central to religious identities, they use close analysis of specific examples to address philosophical issues about the nature of knowledge and spirituality and the relationship between them.”
In the News
“When We All Get to Heaven” 10-Episode Documentary Podcast Co-Produced by Lynn Gerber Gets Picked Up by Slate Magazine
From the release:
“When We All Get to Heaven is a 10-episode series that tells the story of one of the first gay-positive churches, the Metropolitan Community Church of San Francisco, and how it faced the personal, social, and political trials of the AIDS epidemic, including the deaths of hundreds of its members.
Produced and co-created by Eureka Street Productions, a collective of Lynne Gerber, Siri Colom, and Ariana Nedelman.”