JMT Newsletter - August 2022
Welcome
Welcome to the August Journal of Moral Theology Newsletter.
Most of our readers are professors who work in US colleges and universities. Most of them are beginning the academic year now. The mission of being an educator and teaching theology is a gift coming from God’s grace to serve the world by serving others who seek to learn and grow. May this new academic year be a great time of learning and transformation. I want to express gratitude to Kathy Criasia for her ten years of service to the JMT as Managing Editor. She decided to step down at the end of last month. Thank you very much for all your service for the growth of this journal and the promotion of moral theology.
This month, I highlight: (1) Call for papers on Catholicism and Democracy (2) the most recent JMT Issue, featuring a symposium on Teaching Catholic Social Thought, (3) staff changes, and (4) an invitation to a writing and publishing workshop
Nobody educates anybody else, nobody educates himself, people educate among themselves mediated by the world.
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Call for Papers
§ We are still accepting manuscripts for the forthcoming JMT issue “Catholicism, Challenges to Democracy, and the Legacy of Jacques Maritain.” 2023 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Jacques Maritain. Maritain was a key shaper of modern Catholic Social Teaching on politics, human rights, and democracy, and had a significant influence on Vatican II, Populorum Progressio, and more. Essays do not need to focus on Maritain himself; we welcome articles on Catholicism and challenges to democracy—of which there seem to be a growing number. (Submission due December 15, 2022).
§ As always, we also invite you to submit your article for consideration for our 2023 open issues (January and July).
Staff Changes
As mentioned above, this Spring, Kathy Criasia decided that her ten years as JMT Managing Editor would end as of July 31. As will come as no surprise, we discovered that it’s going to take two people to do the work she’s been doing! Happily, current Associate Editor Mary Doyle Roche has agreed to move into the position of Managing Editor. Mary will be joined by Aaron Weisel who will be joining us as our inaugural Editorial Assistant. Aaron comes to us well prepared, having worked with Kathy on the Journal as an undergraduate student worker and having taken classes with Bill Collinge. Having just completed his MA at Mount Saint Mary’s, he is heading to Ave Maria University this Fall to start his PhD in theology. So please join me in welcoming Aaron to the editorial staff and welcoming Mary to her new role!
New JMT Issue
The July 2022 issue features a symposium on “Teaching Catholic Social Thought," guest edited by Jon Kara Shields. The series of short articles, by both highly experienced and new teachers, is devoted to the fruits of reflection on pedagogy. Articles by Daniel Cosacchi, Casey Mullaney, Teofilo Giovan Pugeda, Bernard Brady, and Joyce Bautch are joined by an account by Sarah DeMarais on teaching CST to African women religious and a companion reflection by three African women religious (Srs. Charity Bbalo, Lucy Kimaro, and Jane Frances Mulongo) on teaching in their contexts. Together the articles focus on transformative experiences, contextual adaptations, pedagogical interventions, and the contextual challenges of teaching CST. The July 2022 issue also features articles by Antonio Autiero on the resistance to Amoris Laetitia, by Mary Lilian Akhere Ehidiamhen on nonviolent communication, by Victor Carmona and Robert W. Heimburger on cross-cultural episcopal responses to migration, and by Roberto Dell’Oro and M. Therese Lysaught who review a new volume by the Pontifical Academy for Life.
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Global Theological Ethics Book Series
In the last newsletter, we announced that the second book in our book series in partnership with the CTEWC – The Rising Global Cancer Pandemic: Health, Ethics, and Social Justice, edited by Andrea Vicini, SJ, Philip J. Landrigan, and Kurt Straif – will be out soon. Look for the announcement on Twitter or keep an eye out for free access here.
Pre-AAR Writing & Publishing Workshop
So You Want to Write a Trade Book?
Many scholars want to write a trade book, such as hard-hitting nonfiction in their area of focus, but aren’t sure how to go about doing so. Donna Freitas, author of more than twenty books, both fiction and nonfiction, for adults, children, and young adults, is offering two-day (November 17-18) pre-AAR workshop, designed to help a small group of eight scholars (religion and theological fields open) prepare a book proposal (or at least, get one started) toward the end of publishing a trade book, be it nonfiction or memoir. For more information and details, see here.
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Alexandre Martins, Associate Editor
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