The Subjective Eye: Essays in Culture, Religion, and Gender in Honor of Margaret R. Miles
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"One of the great joys of the academic life is to pay homage in a Festschrift to a scholar who has influenced both colleagues and students over years of interaction and friendship both professional and personal. This volume honors a scholar and theologian of historical theology, a theorist and a practitioner of religion and the arts, and a keen analyst of cultural trends both ancient and modern. . . . "[Margaret R.] Miles's prodigious production as a scholar has legendary qualities. Her dozen-plus books alone explore history, patristics, ancient philosophy, art and art history, spiritual formation and religious practice, critical theory, film, ethics and values, personal growth, gender and women's studies, as well as her true academic loves, Augustine and Plotinus. . . . The breadth and depth of her own work and her influence upon others demands an expansive volume, which the editors of this Festschrift unfortunately had to restrict to four categories--Historical Theology, Religion and Culture, Religion and Gender, and Religion and the Visual Arts--in order to capture the heart of our appreciation for her." --from the Introduction
Product Details
- Title : The Subjective Eye: Essays in Culture, Religion, and Gender in Honor of Margaret R. Miles
- Authors:
- Valantasis, Richard
- Haynes, Deborah J.
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Publication Date: 2006
- ISBN: 9781630878702
Richard Valantasis holds degrees in Historical Theology, Church
History, and New Testament and Christian Origins from Harvard
University, where he received his doctorate in 1988. His academic
research and writing has focused on the theory of asceticism and
the Greek ascetical tradition of Late Antiquity. He has taught at
Harvard University, Saint Louis University, Hartford Seminary, and
the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado. He is a co-editor
of the Oxford University Press reference volume, Asceticism,
and is known for his ascetical reading of the sayings traditions in
The Gospel of Thomas (Routledge, 1997) and The New Q:
Translation and Commentary (Trinity International, 2005). He is
author of Third-Century Spiritual Guides (Fortress, 1991),
Centuries of Holiness (Continuum, 2005), The Beliefnet
Guide to Gnosticism and Other Vanished Christianities
(Doubleday, 2006), and Walking the Byzantine Road
(forthcoming); he is the editor of Religions of Late Antiquity
in Practice (Princeton University Press, 2000). Dr. Valantasis
is Professor of Asceticism and Christian Practice and the Director
of the Anglican Studies Program at Candler School of Theology /
Emory University.
An artist as well as a teacher and scholar, Deborah J. Haynes
received her Ph.D in Fine Arts and Religion at Harvard University.
She is currently Professor of Fine Arts at the University of
Colorado at Boulder.
James D. Smith III also received his Th.D. from Harvard University
and is currently Associate Professor of Church History at Bethel
Seminary San Diego and Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies
at the University of San Diego. He also serves on the pastoral
staff of College Avenue Baptist Church.
After many years on staff at several scholarly and educational
publishers, Janet F. Carlson is currently an independent editor and
writer. She has been a friend and admirer of Margaret R. Miles for
twenty-five years.