Presentations and Publications
Presentations & Interviews
2024
Tuesday, November 12, 2:30PM: Dr. SeyedAmir Asghari presenting, "Beyond Jurisprudence: Imagination as a Catalyst in Shia Political Philosophy"
The "Islam and Imagination: Interpretation, Experience and Contestation Panel" is an annual virtual meeting hosted by the Middle East Studies Association.
For more information on "Beyond Jurisprudence" by Dr. Asghari and the event visit MyMESA.
July 22, 2024: Loving Our Land and Neighbor: Can Agro-Ecology Bring About Ecological Conversion?
This event invited our Drs. Jenny Howell and Matthew Whelan to a series of Integral Ecology Dialogues, hosted by the Laudato Si' Research Institute, Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and the Integral Ecology Research Network.
Learn more about the discussion here, or watch the recording on YouTube here.
Matthew Whelan and Victor Hinojosa (June 12-15, 2024) presented “Romero and the New Migration” at the 2024 International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Bogotá Colombia and Virtual.
April 16-18, 2024: Migration and Food Needs: Latin American and U.S. Perspectives Symposium
Dr. Carlos Cardoza of the Religion Department was the head organizer for this event. The keynote “Religion, Food Security, and Migration in the Americas: Implications for Policy and Research” by Dr. Victor Hinojosa was presented on Wednesday, April 17th 9:15am – 10:45am.
Learn more here: https://religion.artsandsciences.baylor.edu/event/2024
Past Presentations
Publications
Forthcoming
Asghari, S. (Forthcoming, 2026). "Natural Law: Islamic and Christian Approaches," co-authored with Dr. Paul Martens.
Asghari, S. (Forthcoming, 2025). "Sufism and Philosophy in the Contemporary Shia Seminary: The Thought of Scholars and Mystics," Bloomsbury University Press.
Asghari, S. (Forthcoming, 2025) “From Text to Transcendence: Exploring Khwāja Khurd's 'Risāla-yi Nūr-i Waḥdat' and Its Role in Shia Sufism.” In The Oneness of Being (Waḥdat al-Wujūd): Interpretation, Reception, and Implications, Conference Proceeding, Al-Mahdi Institute, AMI Press.
Asghari, S. (Forthcoming, 2025) “Governance in Shia Islam: Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Integration of Philosophy, Sufism, and Political Theory.” In Proceedings of the Conference by the Center for the Study of the Middle East, Indiana University Press.
King, J. (Forthcoming, 2024). “Religio Loci: Wordsworth’s Churchyards and Sacred Ecologies of Place in the 1810s” Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: the 1810s, ed. Emma Mason, Cambridge series on Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition (Cambridge UP) (10,000 words).
Howell, J. (Forthcoming). Imago Dei and Earthly Life: Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Creation and Christ, Bloomsbury Publishing.
King, J. (Forthcoming). “Christina Rossetti’s Cosmic Liturgy and Challenge to Anthropocentrism.” Ecoflourishing and Character: Transdisciplinary Christian Perspectives, eds. Steven Bouma-Prediger and Nathan Carson, foreword Bill McKibben (Routledge) (5,500 words).
King, J. (Forthcoming). “Ecology.” Gerard Manley Hopkins in Context, ed. Martin Dubois (Cambridge University Press, in Literature and Context series). (3,000 words).
King, J. (Forthcoming). “Social and Environmental Justice.” The Cambridge Companion to Religion in Victorian Literary Culture, ed. Mark Knight. (6,000 words).
King, J. (Forthcoming). “The Democratisation of the Bible: Education, Economics, Ecology,” The Victorian Period, ed. Elisabeth Jay in The Bible and Literature, 5 vols., ed. Elisabeth Jay and Stephen Pricket et al. (forthcoming with Bloomsbury T&T Clark 2023) (25,000 words: 10,000-word essay followed by 15,000 words of illustrative material and commentary)
Natalie Carnes and Matthew Whelan. (Forthcoming). “‘Lord, When did We See You? Towards a Topography of the Visual.” International Journal of Systematic Theology.
Whelan, M. (Forthcoming). Agroecology and Christianity (under contract with Cambridge University Press, in progress, one of four chapters drafted)
2024
Ward, T. (2024). After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher. After Stoicism – Word on Fire, to be released on October, 21st.
Asghari, S. (2024). Pilgrimage Theology and Interreligious Dialogue: Exploring Divine Presence in Shi’i Visitation Prayers. Islam and the Contemporary World. https://doi.org/10.22034/ICWJ.2024.442468.1012
Whelan, M. (May, 2024). “Theological Foundations for Agriculture According to Laudato Si’,” a report commissioned by the Laudato Si’ Research Institute, Oxford University, May 2024.
Whelan, M. (April 2024). “Creation, Environmentalism, and Ecology.” In Blackwell Companion to Catholicism, edited by Frederick C. Bauerschmidt, James J. Buckley, Jennifer Newsome Martin, and Trent Pomplun. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.