Department
of Religious Studies Faculty 
My teaching
, research and publication today are generally restricted to ethics
and religion in the western world during the last millennium. I have
focused on contemporary ethical and religious questions within and
between Christianity, Judaism, Islam and varied tribal religions.
In the 1990s, I have been particularly involved in religious and ethical
issues around development programs in poor nations, primarily Latin
America and Africa, but including some Asian nations (China, Korea,
India and Indonesia). Those development issues include fertility rates,
health, education, the status of women, as well as trade, technology
transfer and indebtedness. These interests have developed directly
out of my education. I received a BS/BA from Indiana University with
majors in Classics, Religion, and Secondary Education in Social Studies.
My MA, MPhil and PhD were in Religious Social Ethics from Columbia
University in a joint program with Union Theological Seminary. My
dissertation was published by University Press of America in 1980
as Catholic Social Teaching on Liberation Themes. Since then I have
published six books and nearly a hundred articles and chapters on
a wide variety of topics in religion and ethics, including medical
ethics, feminism, theological dissent and Christian spirituality.
I have been a visiting prof at US and international universities,
am a co-editor of the journal of the Society of Christian Ethics,
on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Academy of
Religion, Second Opinion, and The Journal of Religious Ethics, and
review books and manuscripts for many others. In December 1999 I completed
the coursework for a second doctorate, this one in comparative sociology
at FIU. I have begun work on a new casebook in environmental ethics;
the first of a series of articles on postmodernism in ethics has been
accepted in the JAAR; others have been submitted to other journals.
Selected Articles Contemporary Readings in Biomedical Ethics |
