Faculty

Angelyn Dries, OSF
Professor, Danforth Humanities Chair
driesa@slu.edu

Education

Ph.D. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California, 1990 Historical Theology

M.A. Fordham University, 1972 Religious Studies

Recent Publications

Prayer and Practice in the American Catholic Community, edited with Joseph P. Chinnici (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2000).

The Missionary Movement in American Catholic History (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1998).

"Beyond the Reflection of Patent Leather Shooes: The Catholic Ethos in Grades K-12 in the Twentieth Century," in Robert Wister and Christopher Kauffman, eds. Catholic Education and American Culture: Historical Essays on the Centennial of the National Catholic Education Association (Washington, DC: National Catholic Education Association, 2003.

"American Catholics and World Religions: Theory and Praxis, 1893-1959," American Catholic Studies 113.1-2(Spring-Summer 2002). 2003 Catholic Press Award, Honorable Mention for a scholarly article.

Forthcoming publications

"Roman Catholic Women and Mission," in Rosemary Radford Ruether and Rosemary Skinner Keller, eds., Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America. 2 volumes. University of Indiana Press, 2004.

Courses Taught

American Catholicism, The U.S. Catholic Mission Movement, American Seminar, Women and Religion

Current Areas of Interest

The Modern Missionary Movement, Women and Mission, Asian-American Catholics, World Christianity.

Through a future link at this webpage, I am hoping to connect students, faculty, and researchers whose topics relate to the U.S. Catholic missionary movement and include research on Asian-American Catholics.