EDUCATION:

• Aquinas Institute - B.A. (magna cum laude) and M.A.
• University of Chicago - Ph.D., granted, 1975

• Visiting Scholar, Center for Latin American Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2000-2001
• Professor and Director, Hispanic Studies: Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio, 1985-1993
• Research Associate: Columbia University, Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, and Research Institute for the Study of Man, 1980-82 and 1983-85
• Academic Dean, Vice President, and Professor: Aquinas Institute of Theology, 1976-79
• Assistant Professor and Assistant Director: Center for Latin American Studies, 1973-76; Editor, Estudios Andinos, 1971-76, University of Pittsburgh
• President: Bolivian Institute of Social Study and Action, La Paz, Bolivia.
  • Staff included 35: researchers, professors, and auxiliary personnel. Most of published research is available at the U.S. Library of Congress.
• Assistant Professor and Director: Service Learning Project, Saint Xavier University, Chicago Chicago, three years, teaching and administration; founded and directed Service Learning Project for 200 students.
• Teaching and administration: Catholic University, La Paz, Bolivia, four years.
• Visiting professor: University of Pittsburgh, New York University, Florida International University, and Yale University (Graduate School, 1991-92)

Books

• Co-author and co-editor, Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004)
• The Struggle for Human Rights In Latin America (Westport, CT,: Praeger Books, 1997)
• Co-author, co-editor, Power, Politics, and Pentecostals in Latin America (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996)
• Korean translation of Crisis and Change (1994)
• Co-author and co-editor, Conflict and Competition: Religion and Politics in Latin America (Boulder, Co.: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992)
• Editor, Born of the Poor (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1990)
• Editor, Path from Puebla: Latin American Bishops, 1979-88 (Washington: National Catholic Bishops Conference, 1989) Co-edition in Spanish: El camino desde Puebla (Bogota: Latin American Conference of Bishops, 1990)
• Crisis and Change: The Church in Latin America Today (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1985) [Three printings]
• Shaping a New World: An Orientation to Latin America (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1972) [Available through University Reprints]
• Three works, Crisis and Change, Conflict and Competition, and Power, Politics, and Pentecostals are viewable and downloadable at: www.providence.edu/las

Chapters, Articles, and Publications from 1990

2004

• "Shopping Around: Questions about Latin American Conversions," International Bulletin of Missionary Research 28, 2 (April 2004)
• Website on Bartolomé de Las Casas at: www.lascasas.org

2003

• "Religion at the Statehouse: The California Catholic Conference," Journal of Church and State, Winter.
• Consultant and on-screen commentator, film, "Precarious Peace: God and Guatemala," funded in part by U.S. Institute of Peace.
  

2002

• "Examining Guatemalan Processes of Violence and Peace: A Review of Recent Research," Latin American Research Review 37, 1
• "Human Rights Organizations: Growth in Turbulence," in Derek Davis, ed., Church-State Relations and Religious Liberty in Mexico: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Waco, Texas: J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies)
  

2001

• Website on Religion in Latin America receives 5,000 visitors a month from almost 50 countries.
  

2000

• "Religion in the Central American Embroglio," in Thomas Walker and Ariel Armony, eds. Repression, Resistance, and Democratic Transition in Central America (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources).
• "Latin American Pentecostalism," in Douglas Peterson, et al., eds., The Globalization of Pentecostalism (Regency Press).

• "The Catholic Church," in Paul Sigmund, ed., Religious Freedom and Evangelization in Latin America: The Challenge of Religious Pluralism (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis) [Volume in series from Law and Religion Program, Emory University]
• "Crisis, Conflict, and Change: Contemporary Latin American Catholicism," in Mark L. Glover, ed., Religion and Latin America in the Twenty-First Century (Austin, Texas: Seminar on Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials, Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas)

• "Latin America," "Mexico," and "Latin American Bishops Conference" in Robert Wuthnow, ed., The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion (Washington: Congressional Quarterly Books)
• "The Pope in the Land of Fidel," Providence (Summer)
• Articles on Latin America in Gerald H. Anderson, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions (New York: Simon and Schuster Macmillan)

• "Brazilian Catholic Church and Church-State Relations: Nation-Building," Journal of Church and State (Spring)
• "Birth of Latin American Indigenous Theology," in Guilllermo Cook, ed., Crosscurrents in Indigenous Spirituality: Interface of Maya, Catholic, and Protestant Worldviews (New York: E. J. Brill)
• "The Spirit Moves: Why Pentecostal churches are Thriving in Latin America," Commonweal (January 17, 1997)
• "The Birth of Indigenous Theology," published electronically by Latin American Studies Association

• "The Vitality of Religion in a Changing Context," in James Malloy and Eduardo Gamarra, eds., Latin America and Caribbean Contemporary Record. Volume 8. (New York: Holmes and Meier)
• "La lucha por los derechos humanos," Revista Paz y Justicia (Mexico City)

• "Human Rights Organizations in Mexico: Growth in Turbulence," Journal of Church and State (Fall)
• "Struggling for Human Rights in Latin America," Social Issues Resource Series Vol. 4 (Reprint of 1994 America article)
• Contributor/Consultant, Modern Latin America, High School World History Program, Teachers Curriculum Institute, Mountain View, CA.

• "Protestants and Catholics: Rivals or Siblings," in Coming of Age: Protestants in Contemporary Latin America (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America)
• "Struggling for Human Rights in Latin America," America November 5, 1994

• "The Road to Santo Domingo," in Santo Domingo and Beyond (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis)
• "Commentary on Santo Domingo," Commonweal
• "El maltrato a los pentecostales," Pastoral Popular No. 226, March 1993

• Television and video tape, on-screen discussant, "The Renewal of Latin America," University of Notre Dame Golden Dome Productions. 28 min.

• "Ten Years since Puebla," Latin American and Caribbean Contemporary Record Vol. 7 (New York: Holmes and Meier)
• "Politicized Religion," Hemisphere

Book Reviews on regular basis, 1991-1999

Before 1990
 

• Founding editor, Estudios Andinos (1970-76)
• And other publications.

Latin American Government and Politics, Latin American Society, Human Rights in Latin America, Religion and Politics in Latin America, Religion and Politics in the United States, and five seminars for Model Organization of American States (Venezuela, Bolivia, Paraguay, Suriname, and Grenada).

RECENT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES:

• Organized panels and delivered papers at American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, Atlanta 1999; Boston, 1998: and Washington, 1997.
• Organizer and Chair, "New Voice in Latin American Religion, " panel at Latin American studies Association International Congress, Washington 2001.
• Co-Organizer and Chair, "Religion at the Millennium," Latin American Studies Association International Congress, Miami, 2000. Papers given, Chicago, 1998 and Guadalajara, 1997.

• Journal of Church and State

CURRENT PROJECTS:

• Under contract, Rowman and Littlefield, coauthored volume, Representing God at the Statehouse.
• Writing as single author a general work on religion and politics in Latin America.

• University of Texas Press
• University of Notre Dame Press
• State University of New York Press, and
• Oxford University Press

• American Political Science Association
• Latin American Studies Association
• American Sociological Association
• New England Council of Latin American Studies, and
• Association for Sociology of Religion

• Contemporary Authors Volume 140 (1993)