{"id":415,"date":"2018-09-13T17:28:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T21:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/religion\/?page_id=415"},"modified":"2020-09-30T13:32:46","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T17:32:46","slug":"faculty-beyond-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/religion\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty-beyond-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty Beyond the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>What our professors do when they aren&#8217;t teaching.<\/h2>\n<p>From research to activism, ÌÇÐÄvlog Religion department faculty members are active, engaged scholars outside the classroom. Below is a sampling of activities they are engaged in.<\/p>\n<h3>The Religious Imagination<\/h3>\n<p>The Sixth Annual Creative Research Center Symposium, in collaboration with the University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/creative-research-center\/\">Creative Research Center<\/a>, featured members of the department of Religion reflecting on the imaginative actions in religion and religious studies.\u00a0 <div class=\"prpl-row\"> <div class=\"prpl-column three-fourths\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Video: Religious Imagination - Creative Research Center - Montclair State U. - 4\/26\/17\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s8RV4rTvS3E?feature=oembed\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen style=\"width: 500px; height: 281px; border: 0px solid #000;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\">\n<p>Panel discussion with entire faculty reflecting on the nature of religion and the role of the imagination in religious practices.<\/p>\n<\/div> <\/div>\n<h3>Dr. Dorothy Rogers<\/h3>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\">\n<div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/religion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2017\/08\/Rogers_Dorothy.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/religion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2017\/08\/Rogers_Dorothy.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Rogers_Dorothy\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Rogers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p>\u00a0<br \/><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-column three-fourths\">\n<p>Dr. Rogers is currently working on a two-part book project:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Women Philosophers: German Thought in the U.S.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Women Philosophers: Entering Academia in the U.S.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both texts are expected to be published by Bloomsbury Press in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>She is also writing &#8220;Sanctuary: Religion and Law in America,&#8221; a book chapter set to appear in <em>Law and Religion in the Liberal State<\/em>, edited by Jahid Bhuiyan and Uddin Khan.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from serving on several campus committees, she is the co-chair of the University&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/center-for-faith-and-spirituality\"> Council for Faith and Spirituality<\/a>, as well as being part of Montclair State&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/presidents-commission-affirmative-action\/\">President&#8217;s Commission on Affirmative Action and Diversity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the last two years Dr. Rogers has coordinated lecture series on religion and social\/political thought in public life for local community groups, where she herself presented on feminism and left-wing Christian activism.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Dr. Mark Clatterbuck<\/h3>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"> <div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/religion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2017\/08\/Clatterbuck_Mark.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/religion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2017\/08\/Clatterbuck_Mark.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Mark Clatterbuck\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Clatterbuck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-column three-fourths\">\n<p>Dr. Clatterbuck recently published\u00a0<a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crow-Jesus-Personal-Religious-Belonging\/dp\/0806155876\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Crow Jesus:\u00a0Personal Stories of Native Religious Belonging <\/em><\/a>(University of Oklahoma Press, 2017).<\/p>\n<p>He is also the co-founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearelancastercounty.org\/\">Lancaster Against Pipelines (LAP)<\/a>, a 501c3 federal non-profit battling the fracked-gas industry in Pennsylvania. Defenders of environmental and community rights, LAP&#8217;s educational, legal, and regulatory efforts against the gas industry are accompanied by ambitious grassroots activism. Over fifty members of LAP have been arrested in non-violent actions aimed at derailing pipeline installation through the community&#8217;s farmland, waterways, forests, and neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>LAP&#8217;s work has been featured in a number of recent documentaries, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/ng-interactive\/2018\/apr\/13\/the-climate-and-the-cross-us-evangelical-christians-tussle-with-climate-change\">The Climate and the Cross (The Guardian, 2018)<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/video\/protecting-the-sacred\/\">Protecting the Sacred (CBS News, 2017)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Clatterbuck is also involved with other climate justice work from a faith-based perspective, including his work with a federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act lawsuit filed against the gas industry by the Adorers of the Blood of Christ, a vowed order of Roman Catholic women. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/acts-of-faith\/wp\/2017\/10\/19\/at-chapel-where-nuns-protest-a-pipeline-23-arrested-including-several-in-their-70s-and-80s\/?utm_term=.605ce98a63a2\"><em>The Washington Post<\/em> reported on their lawsuit in 2017.<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #8b8f9c;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 400\"><\/span><\/p><\/div> <\/span><\/p><\/div><\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Dr. John Soboslai<\/h3>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"> <div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/religion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2018\/04\/Soboslai-profile-image.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/religion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2018\/04\/Soboslai-profile-image.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of John Soboslai\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Soboslai<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-column three-fourths\">\n<p>Dr. Soboslai is a specialist in the comparative study of religion and violence, focusing on martyrdom and self-sacrifice. He has published articles on Tibetan self-immolation, Sikh discourses of sacrifice during WWI, and modern forms of Christian violence.\u00a0He is currently working on a book to be titled <em>Witnessing Death: Global Ideologies of Martyrdom<\/em> which is a comparative study of martyrdom across time and tradition. There, he compares cases of martyrdom in second-century Christianity, Shi\u2019a Islam during the 1980s, anticolonial and loyalist Sikhs in the early twentieth century, and Tibetan Buddhists who have been self-immolating in opposition to the programs of the People\u2019s Republic of China since 2009. This last case led to his co-authored article \u201cThe Bodhisattva, the Dharmar\u0101ja, and the Dalai Lamas: Evaluating the Religious and Political Causes of Tibetan Self-Immolation,\u201d published in the <em>Journal of the American Academy of Religion, <\/em>while his article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/2077-1444\/9\/2\/55\/htm\">\u201cSikh Self-Sacrifice and Religious Representation During World War I\u201d<\/a>\u00a0published as part of\u00a0a special edition of <em>Religions<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Dr. Soboslai was selected as the year\u2019s Sherman Emerging Scholar by the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. As part of the award he gave a presentation \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/188853759\">Dying For God? Martyrdom Across Time<\/a>,\u201d and was also <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/188726130\">interviewed for UNC-TV<\/a> on the subject of martyrdom and suicide bombing. He is also the co-author of the 2015 book <em>God in the Tumult of the Global Square<\/em> (UC Press, with Mark Juergensmeyer and Dinah Griego).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<h3>Dr. Kate Temoney<\/h3>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"> <div class=\"prpl-column one-fourth\">\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/religion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2017\/12\/Temoney-Kate-IMG_7339-3x4-ratio.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/religion\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/33\/2017\/12\/Temoney-Kate-IMG_7339-3x4-ratio.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"Headshots of Prof. Kate Temoney\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Temoney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"prpl-column three-fourths\">\n<p>Dr. Temoney is a comparative religious ethicist with a specialization in religion and human rights, and her current research analyzes the intersections of religion and genocide. Her most recent and forthcoming works are: Anatomizing White Rage: \u2018Race is My Religion!\u2019 and \u2018White Genocide,\u2019\u201d <em>The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Racial Progress<\/em> (University of Edinburgh Press, 2020); \u201cAn Assessment of the Plan of Action for Religious Leaders and Actors to Prevent Incitement to Violence that Could Lead to Atrocity Crimes,&#8221; <em>Routledge Handbook on Religion and Genocide<\/em> (Routledge, forthcoming), and an \u201cHistorical Understanding and Reconciliation after Violent Conflict,\u201d <em>Historical Understanding<\/em>, co-author Berber Bevernage (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming). Her courses include the Holocaust: Religious Perspectives, Applied Jewish Ethics, African Religions, Religions of the World, Religious Ethics, and Religion and Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining Montclair State\u2019s faculty in 2016, she has traveled throughout the U.S. and abroad to countries such as Australia, Brazil, Poland, Cambodia, and Morocco as an invited speaker and conference presenter or participant. She also is the co-founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/religion\/events\/genocide-education-and-prevention-project-geapp\/\">Genocide Education and Prevention Project<\/a>,\u00a0which held its first conference at the University in the Summer of 2017, and co-chair of the Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aarweb.org\/AARMBR\/About-AAR\/AARMBR\/About-AAR.aspx?hkey=32443cfe-2a95-439d-a625-25831c44b085\">American Academy of Religion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2020, Dr. Temoney delivered a lecture on religious actors and genocide prevention at The <a href=\"https:\/\/umanitoba.ca\/colleges\/st_pauls\/mauro_institute\/events\/affiliation\/index.html\">University of Manitoba&#8217;s Arthur V. Mauro Institute for Peace &amp; Justice at St. Paul&#8217;s College in Winnipeg, Canada<\/a>, and in September 2020, she was invited by the US State Department to contribute to the panel: &#8220;Working with Religious Actors to Mitigate Environmental Conflict.&#8221; She is a 2020-2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabashcenter.wabash.edu\/programs\/digital-salons\/mid-career-african-american-faculty\/\">Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning Theology <\/a>awardee and a 2021 selected participant in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ushmm.org\/research\/about-the-mandel-center\/initiatives\/ethics-religion-holocaust\">United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Ethics, Religion, and the Holocaust Seminar.<\/a>\u00a0Her upcoming conference presentations include papers on moral injury and genocidal rape (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aarweb.org\/AARMBR\/About-AAR\/AARMBR\/About-AAR.aspx?hkey=32443cfe-2a95-439d-a625-25831c44b085\">American Academy of Religion<\/a>, November\/December 2020, USA); holographic representations of Holocaust survivors (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.inth.ugent.be\/inthconferences\">International Network for Theory of History<\/a>, April 2021, Puebla, Mexico); and the perspectives and prospectives of Genocide Studies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cish.org\/index.php\/en\/\">International Commission of Historical Sciences<\/a>, August 2021, Poznan, Poland).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What our professors do when they aren&#8217;t teaching. 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