Daniel McKanan

Assocaite Professor of Theology, 1998-; A.B., Harvard College, 1989; M.Div., Vanderbilt University, 1993; Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1998. dmckanan@csbsju.edu

Recent Articles

“Self-Unfolding as Communitarian Vision: Brook Farm’s Challenge for Contemporary Communities,” Communal Societies, forthcoming.

“‘Doing the Work’: Can a Community Be Spiritually Diverse and Still Maintain Its Identity?” Communities: Journal of Cooperative Living #124 (Fall 2004): 50-54.

"A Most Particular Vocation," America 193/16 (November 21, 2005).

"Inventing the Catholic Worker Family," Church History, forthcoming.

"The Family, the Gospel, and the Catholic Worker," Journal of Religion, forthcoming, April 2007.

"Self-Unfolding as Communitarian Vision: Brook Farm's Challenge for Contemporary Communities," Communal Societies, forthcoming. 

Books:

The Catholic Worker after Dorothy: Creative Fidelity in a New Generation. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2008 (under contract).

Touching the World: Christian Communities Transforming Society. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2007 (forthcoming).

Book Reviews

Review of Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them, by Robert A. Orsi, Catholic Library World, forthcoming.

Review of In the Trenches with Jesus and Marx: Harry F. Ward and the Struggle for Social Justice, by David Nelson Duke, Communal Societies, forthcoming. 

Review of A Priceless View: My Spiritual Homecoming, by Deirdre Cornell, Communal Societies, forthcoming.

Review of Catholics in America: A History, by Patrick W. Carey, Catholic Library World, forthcoming.

Review of American & Catholic: A Popular History of Catholicism in the United States, by Clyde F. Crews, revised edition, Catholic Library World, forthcoming.

Review of Works of Mercy, by Fritz Eichenberg, Catholic Library World, forthcoming.

Five book reviews forthcoming in Catholic Library World.

Presentations

“Inventing the Catholic Worker Family,” Upper Midwest Regional American Academy of Religion, April 2005.

“A Primer on Protestantism,” Immaculate Conception Church, Rice, Minnesota, January 2005.

“Being Spiritual But Not Religious in Community: A Camphill Case Study,” American Academy of Religion, November 2004.

“Journeys Along the Communal Network,” Communal Studies Association, October 2004.

“Self-Unfolding as Communitarian Vision: Brook Farm’s Challenge for Contemporary Communities,” International Communal Studies Assocation, June 2004.

Notable Activities

Recipient of Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology for 2004-2005.

President of Upper Midwest Region, American Academy of Religion, 2005-2007.

Board Member, Understanding the Need for Interfaith/Intercultural Togetherness and Education.

Director of a $100,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation entitled "Controversial Conversations," studying ways to promote better dialogue on controversial issues on campuses.

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