Sheila Greeve Davaney
Biographic Data
| ID | 602473 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheila Greeve Davaney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheila Greeve |
| FAMILY NAME | Davaney |
| SIGNATURE | DAVANEY S G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iliff School of Theology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Funding and Teaching Challenges Facing Faith-Based Organizing
Faith-based organizing in the United States faces two major practical challenges: funding its work and teaching its approach to the next generation of pastors. With these challenges in mind, the editors asked Sheila Greeve Davaney, until recently a programme officer with the Ford Foundation, to reflect on her experience of funding the work of faith-based organizing networks. John Bowlin, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Jarrett K…
The Religious-Secular Divide
This essay summarizes the themes and issues of the conference and raises further questions concerning how religion and the secular might be theorized and related
Beyond Supernaturalism
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed enormous changes and challenges for inhabitants of the United States. America was a land in need of a reconstructed national identity in the aftermath of the devastating Civil War and a country undergoing rapid economic and demographic change as it became increasingly industrialized and urbanized and as wave after wave of new immigrants altered its face and character. These developments …
Introduction
THE MODERN STUDY of religion has been, in significant part, a product of European and American academic institutions and frameworks and of the wider political, social, and economic developments of which the modern university has also been a part. As many scholars and critics of these developments have noted, the descriptive, analytic, explanatory, and evaluative categories utilized by much of the academic study of religion have thereby reflected …
Converging On Culture
Theologians are increasingly looking to cultural analysis and criticism, rather than philosophy, as a dialogue partner for cross-disciplinary studies. This book explores the importance of this shift by bringing together scholars from a variety of theological perspectives to analyze different contemporary theories of culture and cultural movements. The essays here examine the theoretical relationship between theology and cultural studies and then …
Understanding Modern Theology II
Religion and the Changing Role of Women
As the role of women in the society at large has changed, religion in America has responded to the changes in a number of ways. New professional roles in church and synagogue have been opened to women, including, in most mainline denominations, that of ordained clergy. Lay leadership positions as well are increasingly being filled by women. Along with these structural changes, a number of theological issues have been engendered, including the rec…
Religion and the Changing Role of Women
As the role of women in the society at large has changed, religion in America has responded to the changes in a number of ways. New professional roles in church and synagogue have been opened to women, including, in most mainline denominations, that of ordained clergy. Lay leadership positions as well are increasingly being filled by women. Along with these structural changes, a number of theological issues have been engendered, including the rec…
Funding and Teaching Challenges Facing Faith-Based Organizing
Faith-based organizing in the United States faces two major practical challenges: funding its work and teaching its approach to the next generation of pastors. With these challenges in mind, the editors asked Sheila Greeve Davaney, until recently a programme officer with the Ford Foundation, to reflect on her experience of funding the work of faith-based organizing networks. John Bowlin, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Jarrett K…
Religion and the Changing Role of Women
As the role of women in the society at large has changed, religion in America has responded to the changes in a number of ways. New professional roles in church and synagogue have been opened to women, including, in most mainline denominations, that of ordained clergy. Lay leadership positions as well are increasingly being filled by women. Along with these structural changes, a number of theological issues have been engendered, including the rec…
Understanding Modern Theology II
Converging On Culture
Theologians are increasingly looking to cultural analysis and criticism, rather than philosophy, as a dialogue partner for cross-disciplinary studies. This book explores the importance of this shift by bringing together scholars from a variety of theological perspectives to analyze different contemporary theories of culture and cultural movements. The essays here examine the theoretical relationship between theology and cultural studies and then …
Introduction
THE MODERN STUDY of religion has been, in significant part, a product of European and American academic institutions and frameworks and of the wider political, social, and economic developments of which the modern university has also been a part. As many scholars and critics of these developments have noted, the descriptive, analytic, explanatory, and evaluative categories utilized by much of the academic study of religion have thereby reflected …
Beyond Supernaturalism
The late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed enormous changes and challenges for inhabitants of the United States. America was a land in need of a reconstructed national identity in the aftermath of the devastating Civil War and a country undergoing rapid economic and demographic change as it became increasingly industrialized and urbanized and as wave after wave of new immigrants altered its face and character. These developments …
The Religious-Secular Divide
This essay summarizes the themes and issues of the conference and raises further questions concerning how religion and the secular might be theorized and related
Funding and Teaching Challenges Facing Faith-Based Organizing
Faith-based organizing in the United States faces two major practical challenges: funding its work and teaching its approach to the next generation of pastors. With these challenges in mind, the editors asked Sheila Greeve Davaney, until recently a programme officer with the Ford Foundation, to reflect on her experience of funding the work of faith-based organizing networks. John Bowlin, a professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Jarrett K…
Sociology (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Religion and Society Interactions (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works)