{"id":59937,"date":"2026-02-20T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=59937"},"modified":"2026-02-20T13:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:38:48","slug":"busth-announces-faculty-publications-and-presentations-for-february-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/busth-announces-faculty-publications-and-presentations-for-february-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"BUSTH announces Faculty Publications and Presentations for February 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications and scholarly presentations for February 2026:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/daryl-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anastasia Kidd (&#8217;04,&#8217;18)<\/a><\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Presentation<\/em>: \u201cDietbolical: A History of Anti-Fatness in the Christian Church\u201d on January 17, 2026. Featured speaker at the third-annual &#8220;FatCon West\u201d Conference in Seattle, WA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/filipe-maia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Filipe Maia<\/strong><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Book review:<\/em> Protesting Poverty: Protestants, Social Ethics, and the Poor in Brazil, by By Raimundo C. Barreto, translated by Stephen R. Di Trolio Coakley. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2023. International Bulletin of Mission Research 50 (1), <span class=\"s1\">71-73. <\/span>https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/23969393251387685<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/james-mccarty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>James McCarty<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cJustice as Healing: An Interpretation of Christian Ethics in Traumatic Times,\u201d Society of Christian Ethics, January 9, 2026<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Keynote speaker: <\/em>\u201cDemocracy is a Group Project,&#8221; City of Somerville Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, Saturday, January 17, 2026, Somerville, MA<\/li>\n<li><em>Organizer<\/em>: Streams Become Rivers: Skills for Building Power Together,\u201d One-day pre-conference on ethics and community organizing, Society of Christian Ethics, Washington DC, January 8, 2026<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/luis-menendez-antuna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Luis Men\u00e9ndez-Antu\u00f1a<\/strong><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Panelist<\/i>: Biblical Interpretation for Straight People. Underexplored and Untheorized Principles of Queer Biblical Hermeneutics. University of California-Riverside on Queer and Trans Studies in Religion (February 13-15), 2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/dana-l-robert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Dana L. Robert<\/b><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgcm\/2026\/02\/10\/cambridge-center-for-christianityworldwide-seminar-17-february-2026-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Challenges of Sacred Charters for World Christianity<\/a>.\u201d Annual Day Lecture of the Cambridge Centre for Christianities Worldwide, at the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge University<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/andrew-shenton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Shenton<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Recording: <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2mlVxfyeyQY85KBkAVZJX0?si=447_XVYMQga5xn30T27W3A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arvo P\u00e4rt | Fu\u0308r Alina | Covers<\/a> (Kelham, \u00a9 2026)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/nimi-wariboko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nimi Wariboko<\/strong><\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Olufemi Vaughan and Nimi Wariboko (eds.) Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Nigeria (New York: Routledge, 2026)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Wisdom of Kalabari: Essays on Relationships Between Language and Body (Abuja, Nigeria: Paperworth, 2026)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Soap Bubble. (Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2026)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Soul of Kalabari Culture: Essays on Language and Reality (Abuja, Nigeria: Paperworth, 2025)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Songs of Childhood: Biafran War Memories (Abuja, Nigeria: Paperworth Books, 2025)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Half and Half of a Dream (Abuja, Nigeria: Paperworth Books, 2025)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cTheorizing Pandemics, Africa, and Christianity: Apocalyptic\/Eschatological Re-Mapping in African Pentecostalism\u201d in J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu, Mark S. Aidoo and Esther Acolatse (eds.), Where is our God? African Christianity and Responses to Pandemic (Oxford: Regnum, 2024), 35-45<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Lecture<\/em>: The Nation That Remains: Christian Nationalism and Incompleteness Inaugural Tandean Rustandy Annual Lecture on World Christianity,\u00a0 University of Chicago Divinity School: January 28, 2026<\/li>\n<li><em>Lecture<\/em>: The Spirit and the Economy: Reimagining Money as Mission in African Christian Ethics<br \/>\nPlenary Address, African Roundtable on the Theology of Generosity and Fundraising, Nairobi, Kenya:\u00a0 February 2, 2026<\/li>\n<li><em>Sermon<\/em>: \u201cSaint Paul (Romans 8) and the Contemporary America\u2019s Moral Question.\u201d Grace Church of All Nations. Dorchester, MA. February 22, 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/nimi-wariboko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nimi Wariboko<\/a>, et al<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nimi Wariboko and Raimundo Barreto (eds.), Theology and Ethics of Oppressed and Marginalized Peoples: Social Ethics and Agency in World Christianity (Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/luther-young-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luther Young, Jr.<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Book Review<\/em>:\u00a0Review of The Contemporary Black Church: The New Dynamics of African American Religion by Jason E. Shelton. Journal of Church and State. <span class=\"s2\">doi:<\/span>10.1093\/jcs\/csaf080<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/profile\/luther-young-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luther Young, Jr.<\/a>, et al<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li>Woods, Mo and Luther Young. 2026. \u201cBlack Church, Gay Church: Identity Prioritization and Church Preference Among Black Sexual Minorities.\u201d Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. doi:<span class=\"s1\">10.1111\/jssr.70032<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Theology is pleased to announce the following faculty publications and scholarly presentations for February 2026: Anastasia Kidd (&#8217;04,&#8217;18) Presentation: \u201cDietbolical: A History of Anti-Fatness in the Christian Church\u201d on January 17, 2026. Featured speaker at the third-annual &#8220;FatCon West\u201d Conference in Seattle, WA Filipe Maia Book review: Protesting Poverty: Protestants, Social Ethics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12612,"featured_media":46200,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[200,201,202,203],"tags":[369,280,214,194,250,401,389,398,257,434,261],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59937"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59941,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59937\/revisions\/59941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}