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Professor I am interested in the relationship between religion and social change, and the spiritual and ethical challenges of multiculturalism. In my first book I examined the understandings of truth in contemporary theologies of liberation. In my second, I compared the differences between the understandings of ethical action found in the works of African American women with those found in liberal ethics. My third book was a further exploration of race, ethics, and power, this time drawing on the aesthetic of jazz and the challenges of postmodernity. I have recently completed a book on postcolonial comparative religious ethics, After Empire: The Art and Ethos of Enduring Peace (Fortress: 2004). In this book I compare three understandings of the art of peacemaking: contemporary American Indian philosophy, Western humanism (Erasmus and contemporary social contract theory), and the engaged Buddhism of Thich Nhat Hanh. I am a senior fellow in the Center for Religion, the Professions, and the Public, a co-chair of the MU Committee for the Scholarship of Multicultural Teaching and Learning, and a project leader for the MU Difficult Dialogues initiative. Teaching
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