Aimee Upjohn Light, Ph.D.
Assistant ProfessorMcAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Department of Theology
Fisher 608A
Phone: 412.396.1031
lighta@duq.edu
Education:
Ph.D., Philosophy of Religion, Yale University, 2003M.A., Systematic Theology, University of Notte Dame, 1994
B.A., Loyola University of Chicago, 1993
Dr. Light specializes in comparative theology, theology of religions, inter religious dialogue and feminist theologies.
Dr. Light is the Executive Editor of the Journal of Interreligious Dialogue.
Dr. Light teaches graduate seminars in her fields of specialization and courses in Global and Cultural Perspectives and Women and Christianity at the undergraduate level.
God at the Margins: Interreligious Thought and Feminist Theology (Anselm Academic). Forthcoming February 2014.
"Frontiers in Catholic Feminist Theology: Shoulder to Shoulder," Blackwell Reviews in Religion and Theology 18 (2011): 144-146;
"Liberation Theology and Sexuality," Blackwell Reviews in Religion and Theology 18 (2011): 148-151;
"Weep Not For Your Children," Blackwell Reviews in Religion and Theology 17 (2010): 351-353;
"Christology From the Margins," Blackwell Reviews in Religion and Theology 17 (2010): 372-374;
"Into the Dark: Seeing the Sacred in the Top Films of the 21st Century," Blackwell Reviews in Religion and Theology 17 (2010): 544-546;
"Women and Ordination in the Christian Churches," Blackwell Reviews in Religion and Theology 17 (2010): 561-563;
"Hick, Harris and the Demise of the Pluralist Hypothesis," The Journal of Ecumenical Studies 44 (2009): 467-470;
"Post-Pluralism Through the Lens of Postmodernity," The Journal of Interreligious Dialogue 1 (2009): 67-70;
"Eco-Theology," Blackwell Reviews in Religion and Theology 16 (2009): 414-416;
"An Introduction to Philosophy of Religion," Blackwell Reviews in Religion and Theology 16 (2009): 449-452;
"Panentheism-The Other God of the Philosophers: From Plato to the Present," Blackwell Reviews in Religion and Theology 14 (2007)
"Heidegger's Philosophy of Religion: From God to the Gods," Blackwell Reviews in Religion and Theology 14 (2007)
"For Faith and Clarity: Philosophical Contributions to Christian Theology," Blackwell Reviews in Religion and Theology 14 (2007)
"Thinking About Religion: A Reader," Blackwell Reviews in Religion and Theology 14 (2007)
"Sculpting God: An Exchange," Harvard Theological Review 91 (1998): 205-206. [pdf]