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OCT.
27, 2003
 SPIRITUALITY
Mysticism molds the mainstream
IN
THE NORTHEAST
• Steven
T. Katz is director of the Center for Judaic Studies at Boston University. He
is an expert on Jewish mysticism and edited the book Comparative Mysticism:
An Anthology of Original Sources (Oxford University Press, 2003). Contact
617-353-8096, judaics@bu.edu.
• Kyriacos C. Markides is a professor of religion at the University of
Maine in Orono. He specializes in Christian and Eastern Orthodox mysticism.
He wrote the book Riding With the Lion: In Search of Mystical Christianity
(Penguin USA, 1996). Contact 207-581-2390, markides@maine.edu.
• Arthur Green is a professor of religion at Brandeis University in Waltham,
Mass. He is an expert in Jewish mysticism and the Kabbalah. Contact 781-736-2971,
green@brandeis.edu.
• Herbert Mason is a professor of history and religious thought at Boston
University. He is an expert on mysticism with a focus on Islam. Contact 617-358-1777,
masonh@bu.edu.
• John Peter Kenney is a professor at St. Michael's College in Colchester,
Vt., where he specializes in Christian mysticism. Contact 802-654-2000, jkenney@smcvt.edu.
• Shimon Shokek is a professor at Baltimore Hebrew University in Baltimore.
He is an expert in Jewish philosophy, mysticism and Kabbalah. Contact 410-578-6900,
sshokek@bhu.edu.
IN
THE EAST
• Janet K. Ruffing is a professor of spirituality and spiritual direction
in the graduate school of religion and religious education at Fordham University
in New York. She has written extensively on Christian spirituality, religious
life, spiritual direction and mysticism. Contact 718-817-4816, ruffing@fordham.edu.
• Jose C. Nieto is a professor of religion at Juniata College in Huntingdon,
Pa. He is an expert on mysticism and wrote the book Religious Experience
and Mysticism: Otherness as Experience of Transcendence (University Press
of America, 1997). Contact 814-641-3000, nieto@juniata.edu.
• Elliot R. Wolfson is a professor at New York University. His focus is
on Jewish mysticism and philosophy. Contact 212-998-8986, erw1@nyu.edu.
• Michael A. Sells is a professor at Haverford College in Haverford, Pa.
He teaches a course on Jewish, Christian and Islamic mysticism and is the author
of Mystical Languages of Unsaying (University of Chicago Press, 1994).
Contact 610-896-1027, msells@haverford.edu.
• Joel Hecker chairs the department of Modern Jewish Civilization and is
Associate Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical
College in Wyncote, Pa. Contact 215-576-0800 ext. 217, jhecker@rrc.edu.
• Robert Eisen is an associate professor of religion at George Washington
University in Washington, D.C. He is an expert on Jewish mysticism. Contact
202-994-6327, eisen@gwu.edu.
• James Wiseman is a professor of religion at Catholic University of America
in Washington, D.C. He is the co-editor of Light From Light: An Anthology
of Christian Mysticism (Paulist Press, 2001). Contact 202-319-6522, wiseman@cua.edu.
• Emil T. Homerin is a professor at the University of Rochester in New
York. He is an expert on Islamic mysticism. Contact 716-275-4760, theh@mail.rochester.edu.
• Seyyed Hossein Nasr is professor of Islamic Studies at George Washington
University in Washington, D.C., and author of The Heart of Islam (HarperSanFrancisco,
2002). He can explain the history of the relationship between mainstream Islam
and Sufi mysticism and why Sufism has been perceived as controversial. Contact
202-994-5704.
IN
THE SOUTHEAST
• Alton Brooks Pollard III is the director of Black Church Studies at Emory
University in Atlanta. He specializes in mysticism and social change. Contact
404-727-4196, abpolla@learnlink.emory.edu.
• Carl W. Ernst is a professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel
Hill. He is an expert on the teachings of Sufism. Contact 919-962-3924, cernst@email.unc.edu.
IN
THE SOUTH
• Gillian Ahlgren is an associate professor at Xavier University in New
Orleans. Her areas of expertise include mysticism and monasticism. Contact 513-645-4247,
ahlgren@xavier.xu.edu.
• Vincent J. Cornell is director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program
at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He teaches courses in Islamic
mysticism. Contact 501-575-4157, vcornell@uark.edu.
IN
THE MIDWEST
• Steven Fanning is an associate professor of history at the University
of Illinois at Chicago. He wrote the book Mystics of the Christian Tradition
(Routledge, 2001). Contact 312-996-3143, sfanning@uic.edu.
• Bernard McGinn is professor of religion at the University of Chicago.
He wrote the book The Flowering of Mysticism: Men and Women in the New Mysticism
- 1200-1350 (Crossroad/Herder & Herder, 2001). Contact 773-702-8249,
bmcginn@midway.uchicago.edu.
• Michael Fishbane is chairman of the Committee for Jewish Studies for
the University of Chicago. He is an expert in Jewish mysticism. Contact 773-702-8234,
mfishban@midway.uchicago.edu.
• Alexander Golitzin is an associate professor at Marquette University
in Milwaukee. He specializes in the origins of the Eastern Christian ascetical
and mystical tradition. Contact 414-288-7510, alexander.golitzin@marquette.edu.
• Valerie J. Hoffman is an associate professor at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in Sufism. Contact 217-333-0953, vhoffman@uiuc.edu.
• George John Renard Jr. is professor of religion at St. Louis University,
St. Louis, Mo. He is the author of Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and
the Religious Life of Muslims (University of California Press, 1996). Contact
314-977-2869, renardgj@slu.edu.
IN
THE SOUTHWEST
• William G. Barnard is an assistant professor of religion at Southern
Methodist University in Dallas. He teaches courses on the philosophy of mysticism
and contemporary spirituality. Contact 214-768-2135, bbarnard@mail.smu.edu.
• Allison Coudert is a professor at Arizona State University in Tempe.
She specializes in comparative mysticism. Contact 480-727-6111, allison.coudert@asu.edu.
• Beverly J. Lanzetta is president of the Interfaith Theological Seminary
in Tucson, Ariz. She is an expert in mysticism and interreligious dialogue.
Contact 520-696-9368, blanzetta@earthlink.net.
• David W. Damrel is professor of religious studies at Arizona State University
in Tempe. He is an expert on Islamic mysticism. Contact 480-727-6112, dwdamrel@imap2.asu.edu.
IN
THE WEST/NORTHWEST
•
Robert S. Ellwood Jr. is emeritus professor at the University of Southern California
in Los Angeles. He is the author of the book Mysticism and Religion (Seven
Bridges Press, 1999). Contact 213-740-3533, robert_ellwood@hotmail.com.
• Pinchas Giller is assistant professor at the University of Judaism in
Los Angeles. He is an expert on Jewish mysticism. Contact 310-476-9777, pgiller@uj.edu.
(Ed. note: The University of Judaism merged with Brandeis-Bardin to become American
Jewish University in 2007.)
• Maria Jaoudi is an associate professor of religious studies at the University
of California, Sacramento. She wrote the book Christian Mysticism East and
West: What the Masters Teach Us (Paulist Press, 1999). Contact 916-278-7483,
jaoudim@csus.edu.
• Carol Lee Flinders teaches courses on mysticism at the Center for Professional
Development at Santa Clara University in California. Contact 408-551-1981, info@tworock.org.
• Arthur G. Holder is dean, vice president for academic affairs and professor
of Christian spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Calif.
He specializes in Christian mysticism. Contact 510-649-2440, aholder@gtu.edu.
• James Fadiman is co-author of Essential Sufism (HarperSanFrancisco,
1999). Contact 415-321-5590, jfadiman@aol.com.
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