{"id":1400,"date":"2024-07-02T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1400"},"modified":"2024-07-02T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:36:57","slug":"rady-roldan-figueroa","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/profile\/rady-roldan-figueroa\/","title":{"rendered":"Rady Rold\u00e1n-Figueroa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Dr. Rold\u00e1n-Figueroa is a Puerto Rican scholar whose research, publications, and teaching engage a diversity of themes and topics in the history of Christianity from the 15<\/span><sup>th<\/sup><span>\u00a0to the 20<\/span><sup>th<\/sup><span>\u00a0century. He specializes in early modern global Christianity, Christianity in colonial Latin America, the intersectionality of Catholicism, race, and colonialism as well as the history of Christian spirituality.<\/span><span>\u00a0He is the author of\u00a0<\/span><i>The Ascetic Spirituality of Juan de Avila (1499-1569)<\/i><span>\u00a0(Brill, 2010),\u00a0<\/span><span>and\u00a0<\/span><i>The Martyrs of Japan:\u00a0Publication History and Catholic Missions in the Spanish World (Spain, New Spain, and the Philippines, 1597\u20131700)<\/i><span>\u00a0(Brill, 2021). He is also\u00a0<\/span><span>co-editor of four additional volumes:\u00a0<\/span><i>Collected Works of Hanserd Knollys: Pamphlets on Religion<\/i><span>\u00a0(Macon: Mercer University Press, 2017)<\/span><i>; Exploring Christian Heritage \u2013 A Reader in History and Theology<\/i><span> (Baylor University Press, 3rd rev. ed. 2024); <\/span><i>Bartolom\u00e9 de las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion\u00a0<\/i><span>(December 2018, Brill);\u00a0<\/span><span>and,\u00a0<\/span><i>The Transatlantic Las Casas: Historical Trajectories, Indigenous Cultures, Scholastic Thought, and Reception in History<\/i><span>\u00a0(Brill, 2022)<\/span><span>. He has published forty-one articles and book chapters and his articles have appeared in <\/span><i>Critical Research on Religion, European History Quarterly<\/i><span>,\u00a0<\/span><i>Sixteenth Century Journal<\/i><span>,\u00a0<\/span><i>Archiv f\u00fcr Reformationsgeschichte\/Archive for Reformation History<\/i><span>,\u00a0<\/span><i>The Seventeenth Century<\/i><span>, and\u00a0<\/span><i>History of European Ideas<\/i><span>. He has been the recipient of several awards including a Lilly Theological Scholar Grant, a Lilly Teaching Fellowship in Religion and Philosophy, numerous awards from the Hispanic Theological Initiative and a Greenleaf Visiting Scholar award from the Latin American and Iberian Institute of the University of New Mexico. He is the holder of the 2023-24, Rev. Robert Randall Distinguished Professorship in Christian Culture at Providence College. <\/span><span>His courses and seminars include, Christianity in Colonial Latin America, Mystical Theology and Modernity, Christianity Beyond Early Modern Europe, and Spirituality in Historical Perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20263,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1400\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}