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Donna Freitas is Assistant Professor of Religion at Boston University. Her most recent book project is Sex and the Soul (Oxford, March 2007), based on a national study about the influence of sexuality and romantic relationships on the spiritual identities of America’s college students. A devoted fan of the celebrated British children’s author Philip Pullman, her book about the religious and ethical dimensions of his award-winning trilogy: Killing the Imposter God: Philip Pullman’s Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials (Jossey-Bass/Wiley), just recently hit the bookshelves. Much of her writing, teaching, and lecturing centers around struggles of belonging and alienation with regard to faith, particularly among young adults and especially with regard to young women. She loves to ask Big Questions (Why are we here anyway?) and delights in discovering the many possible forums in which to dabble with the stuff of faith, religion, spirituality, and gender. This attitude accounts for her upcoming venture into the world of fiction, since she will see the publication of her first novel, The Possibilities of Sainthood—about a 15 year old girl, Antonia Lucia Labella, who aspires to become the first official living saint in Catholic history—with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (FSG) in 2008. A regular contributor to The Washington Post/Newsweek’s online panel “On Faith,” the religion webzine Beliefnet,and Publishers Weekly, she has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Christian Century, School Library Journal, and she has appeared as a commentator on NPR’s All Things Considered. Her books also include Becoming a Goddess of Inner Poise: Spirituality for the Bridget Jones in All of Us, and Save the Date: A Spirituality of Dating, Love, Dinner & the Divine. Born in Rhode Island, Donna now splits her time between New York City and Boston. She can be contacted directly through her website at www.donnafreitas.com.
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CAS RN 315 Spiritual Autobiography
CAS RN 427 Topics in American Religion: Sexuality, Spirituality, and American Youth Culture
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