{"id":1650,"date":"2015-04-12T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/?p=1650"},"modified":"2016-12-01T10:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T15:57:58","slug":"read-this-book-roundup-april-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/2015\/04\/read-this-book-roundup-april-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"READ THIS BOOK Roundup April 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Here is a roundup of the faculty and their\u00a0recommendations\u00a0from the 2014 – 2015 academic year. <\/em><\/p>\n

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March 2015<\/a>
\n<\/span>Evon Flesberg<\/a>, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology and Counseling
\n<\/span><\/em>Alone Together:\u00a0 Why We Expect\u00a0More<\/strong> from Technology and\u00a0Less<\/strong> from Each Other <\/em>by Sherry Turkle<\/span><\/p>\n

February 2015<\/a>
\nJ<\/a><\/span>ames Hudnut-Beumler<\/a>, Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History <\/span><\/em> Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics<\/em> by Ted A. Smith<\/span><\/p>\n

January 2015<\/a>
\n<\/span>Phillis I. Sheppard<\/a>, Associate Professor in Religion, Psychology, and Culture
\n<\/span>A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence by Stephanie M. Crumpton<\/em><\/p>\n

December 2014<\/a>
\n<\/span>Herbert Marbury<\/a>, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible
\n<\/span>Eighth Century Prophets: A Social Analysis by\u00a0D.N. Premnath<\/em><\/p>\n

November 2014<\/a>
\n<\/span>Ellen Armour<\/a>, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Feminist Theology, Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality
\n<\/span>God, Sex and Politics: Homosexuality and Everyday Theologies by\u00a0Dawne Moon<\/em><\/p>\n

October 2014<\/a>
\n<\/span>David A. Michelson<\/a>, Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity, Affiliate Faculty Member in Classics and Islamic Studies
\n<\/span>On Asetical Life\u00a0Saint Isaac of Nineveh\u00a0translated by Mary Hansbury<\/em><\/p>\n

September 2014<\/a>
\n<\/em>Paul Lim<\/a>, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Affiliate Professor, Department of History
\n<\/span>Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by\u00a0Siddarth Kara and <\/em>Development as Freedom by\u00a0Amartya Sen<\/em><\/p>\n

August 2014<\/a>
\n<\/span>Bonnie Miller-McLemore<\/a>, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture
\n<\/span>Writing Methods in Theological Reflection by\u00a0Heather Walton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Here is a roundup of the faculty and their\u00a0recommendations\u00a0from the 2014 – 2015 academic year.               March 2015 Evon Flesberg, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Pastoral Theology and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1576,"featured_media":1094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[389,593,12,592,595,525,484,480,570,482,578,356,183,180,421,597,550,571,386,535,594,1050,324,112,453,574,387,536,552,604,31,1051],"class_list":["post-1650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-read-this-book","tag-amartya-sen","tag-american-religious-history","tag-bonnie-miller-mclemore","tag-counseling","tag-culture","tag-d-n-premnath","tag-dawne-moon","tag-ellen-armour","tag-evon-flesberg","tag-feminist-theology","tag-gender","tag-heather-walton","tag-hebrew-bible","tag-herbert-marbury","tag-history-of-christianity","tag-islamic-studies","tag-james-hudnut-beumler","tag-pastoral-theology","tag-paul-lim","tag-phillis-i-sheppard","tag-psychology","tag-readthisbook","tag-reading","tag-religion","tag-religious-studies","tag-sherry-turkle","tag-siddarth-kara","tag-stephanie-m-crumpton","tag-ted-a-smith","tag-the-carpenter-program","tag-vanderbilt-divinity-school","tag-vdsfaculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1650"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2566,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1650\/revisions\/2566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}