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Gerald Boodoo, Ph.D.Associate ProfessorActing Director of the
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COURSES TAUGHT
Theological Foundations, Theologies of Liberation, Hermeneutics, Theological Method.
RESEARCH, PUBLICATIONS AND SERVICE
Dr. Boodoo’s research interests are in global and “third world” theology and in particular, theology in the Caribbean. He has published numerous articles and chapters on theology in the Caribbean and is currently working on texts that explore theology in the Caribbean and among Caribbean immigrants in North America. He serves on the international committee of the recently formed World Forum on Theology and Liberation, on the executive board of the Conference of Theology in the Caribbean Today, on the board of Caribbean Catholics of North America, and has served for six years as convener of the World Church Theology Group of the Catholic Theological Society of America.
Selected publications:
“Caribbean Catholics of North America: Call and Response,” in Groundings: Catholic Theological Reflections on Issues Facing Caribbean people in the 21st Century 19 (2007).
“Abyss and Dislocation: Metaphysics and Context,” in Religious Experience and Contemporary Theological Epistemology (ed. L. Boeve, Y. De maeseneer, S. Van Den Bossche; Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2005), 133-139. [pdf]
“Understanding Church and Theology in the Caribbean Today,” in Many Faces, One Church: Cultural Diversity and the American Catholic Experience (ed. Peter C. Phan and Diana Hayes; Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), 117-136. [pdf]
“De Schrijver’s Wager, Theology and Dehumanization: The Meaning of Liberation in a Forced Theological Context,” in Mediations in Theology: Georges De Schrijver’s Wager and Liberation Theologies (ed. Jacques Haers, et al.; Leuven: Peeters, 2003);
“La Divina Pastora Feast of Trinidad: Conversation, Power and Possibilities”, in Theology and Conversation: Towards a Relational Theology (ed. J. Haers & P. De Mey; Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2003), 487-501. [pdf]
