EDUCATION

GRADUATE

• Ph.D. (Philosophy, 1984) University of Oklahoma
  
Dissertation: "The Infinite Circle: The Chiliastic Soul in Hegel, Jung, and Hesse with Particular Emphasis on Hesse's Glasperlenspiel."


• M.A. (Human Relations, 1975) University of Oklahoma
  
• M.A. (German Literature, 1967) University of Oklahoma
  
Thesis: "Between God and Demon: Else Lasker-Schüler: A Dialectical Interpretation."


• Ph.D. Candidate (American Literature, 1960) University of Innsbruck
  
Dissertation topic: "Suffering of the Righteous. From Tabu-utul-Enlil to Archibald MacLeish's J.B."


• Attended: University of Vienna (1958/59)

• Matura (Abitur) Bundesrealgymnasium für Mädchen, Innsbruck, Austria (with honors, 1958)

• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Human Relations, Member of the Graduate Faculty, University of Oklahoma (1998-)
• Professor of Philosophy and Religion (1988-) and Mary Jo Ragan Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies (1994-) University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma (Assistant Professor 1968-84; Associate Professor 1984-88).
• Special Instructor, German, University of Oklahoma (1967-68).

• NEH Summer Institute: "Religious Studies and Liberal Education: Opportunities and New Directions" (part of the multi-year Berkeley/Chicago/Harvard Summer Institutes: "The Study of Religion in the Liberal Arts: Towards a Global Perspective"), University of Chicago, June 18-July 30, 1986.

• The Individual in Contemporary Society (exploration of the relative roles of individuals, society, and culture in a global perspective)
• Logic and Critical Thinking (an introduction to ways of recognizing and avoiding logical fallacies and especially the barriers to effective communication that result from the ways our world views affect the ways we perceive/create reality);
• World Thought and Culture to AD 500, World Thought and Culture AD 500 - AD 1650, World Thought and Culture AD 1650 - Present (a team taught series of courses dealing with the history of global ideas with special emphasis on fostering cross-cultural understanding and dialogue by introducing students to the various religions and ideologies that affect the ways of thinking of members of the civilizations under discussion);
• Creative Writing (course designed to help participants join their primal natural, dynamic, metaphoric, playful, imaginative, intuitive expression with their conscious, critical, analytic, syntactic formal and grammatical abilities in order to produce simple vignettes, short stories, one-act plays, and poems);
• Senior Seminar (synthesis and culmination of the interdisciplinary experience by doing original research and writing a series of drafts leading to a formal project/paper).
• Toward a Global Ethic: A Dialogue with the World's Religions (online graduate course taught over the Internet for the University of Oklahoma Human Relations Department.

• Editor and desktop publisher of ARCC Light, ARCC's newsletter, published 5-8 times a year (2001--2003; 2005-Present).
• Member, Executive Committee. Global Dialogue Institute. Philadelphia, PA (1998-).
• Associate Director. Global Dialogue Institute. Philadelphia, PA (2002--).
• Editor/(desktop)Publisher of Dialogue & Community, GDI's newsletter (1998-).
• Vice President, ARCC. National Board of the Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church (1998-2001; 2004-2007 [Member 1995-]).
• Resource Person. Public Religions Project (1997-) which "maintains a comprehensive database of contact information about individuals who can address questions about religion and about the role it plays in public life. . . . The database consists of internationally recognized scholars, experts, spokespersons and authorities who have agreed to be listed as resources."
• Associate,  Zygon Center for Religion and Science (formerly: Chicago Center for Religion and Science) (1996-).
• Member, Steering Committee. Global Dialogue Consortium. Philadelphia, PA (1996-1997).
• USAO Representative, HEFA (Oklahoma Higher Education Faculty Association) (1991-1994).
• Secretary, HEFA (1991-92).
• Editor/(desktop)Publisher of HEFA Newsletter (1991-94).
• Delegate Oklahoma Congress On The Arts & Humanities, 28 Feb. 2 March 1991 and 11-12 March 1993.
• Member, State of Humanities in Oklahoma Higher Education Commission, sponsored by the Oklahoma State Regents of Higher Education (Spring 1988).

• Area Chair for Religion and Culture. Popular Culture Association Annual National Meetings: Boston, 4-7 April 2007 (3 panels); Atlanta,12-15 April 2006 (2 panels); San Diego, 23-26 March 2005 (3 panels); San Antonio, 7-10 April 2004 (4 panels); New Orleans, 16-19 April 2003 (3 panels); Toronto, 13-16 March 2002 (2 panels); Philadelphia, 11-14 April 2001 (3 panels); New Orleans, 19-22 April 2000 (4 panels); San Diego, 31 March-3 April 1999 (2 panels); Orlando, 8-11 April 1998 (3 panels); Las Vegas, 22-25 April 1996 (5 panels); Philadelphia, 12-15 April 1995 (5 panels); Chicago, 6-9 April 1994 (6 panels); New Orleans, 7-10 April 1993 (7 panels); Louisville, 18-21 March 1992 (3 panels); San Antonio, 27-30 March 1991 (3 panels).
• Chair for "Religion as Story: A Symposium." Chicago, IL, 31 January, 1998
• Chair for "Catholicism in Transition: From European Roots to Global Branches." Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Karl - Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria, 25 August 1994.
• Chair for "The Works of Andrew Greeley." Le Moyne Forum on Religion and Literature. Syracuse, NY, 15-17 October 1993.
• Area Chair for Andrew Greeley Priest/Sociologist/Storyteller. PCA Annual Conventions, Toronto, 7-10 March 1990 (3 panels); St. Louis, 6-9 April 1989 (3 panels); New Orleans, 23-26 March 1988 (4 panels).

1. Alan Race and Ingrid Shafer, eds. Religions in Dialogue: From Theocracy to Democracy.   Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2002.
2. Translation from the German of the revised text of the Oberammergau Passion Play for the Year 2000. Oberammergau: Gemeinde Oberammergau Eigenverlag, 2000).
3. Andrew Greeley's World: an Anthology of Critical Essays. New York: Warner Books, 1989.
4. The Incarnate Imagination: Essays in Theology, the Arts and Social Sciences in Honor of Andrew Greeley. A Festschrift. (Editor) Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988. With 25 contributors including Joseph Blotner, Lawrence Cunningham, Hans Küng, Martin E. Marty, Jacob Neusner, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, David Riesman, Alice Rossi, Teresa A. Sullivan, David Tracy and Harrison White.
5. Eros and the Womanliness of God: Andrew Greeley's Romances of Renewal. Chicago: Loyola University Press, 1986. (A detailed abstract of the book is included in the second revised edition of T. J. Whitby and Suzanne Frayser, Studies in Human Sexuality [Libraries Unlimited, 1992].)

1. The Seanachie as Evangelist: Religion as Story.
2. Dialogue with the Other: Interreligious Epiphanies.  Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press.
3. Story of Leo Polen (Leizer Polenzweig), a Jew from Warsaw who as a child spent five years in Lublin, Auschwitz, and other concentration camps (I have been videotaping interviews with him since 1994).
4. Translation of Judenstein: das Ende einer Legende, edited by Werner Kunzenmann, the story of the official transformation of a chapel formerly dedicated to the memory of a little boy martyr supposedly murdered by Jews in the 14th century into a chapel dedicated to the suffering of the innocent and specifically of the crimes committed by Christians against Jews.

1. Member of Editorial Team. Insights: the Magazine of the Chicago Center for Religion and Science 6.1 (October 1994).
2. Journal of Popular Film and Television. 19.2 (1991). Special Editions Editor.
3. Journal of Popular Literature. 4.1 (1988). Special Editions Editor.

1. "A Global Ethic for the Global Village." Journal of Ecumenical Studies. 42.3 (Summer 2007): 441-453.
2. "The United States as a Christian Nation." In David Levinson and Karen Christensen, eds. Global Perspectives on the United States: Issues and Ideas Shaping International Relations. Volume III. .  Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2007. 32-37.
3. "The United States and Religious Pluralism." In David Levinson and Karen Christensen, eds. Global Perspectives on the United States: Issues and Ideas Shaping International Relations. Volume III. .  Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2007. 318-323 .
4. "The Phenomenon of Faust: The Faust Challenge: Science as Diabolic or Divine." Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. 40.4 (December 2005): 891-915.
5. Review Essay "In Search of a Non-Dogmatic Theology. By Jeffrey W. Robbins." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 12 (Fall/Winter 2005): 437-456.
6. "Global Conflict and Religious Intolerance – Is Religion Compatible with Genuine Morality? Can Faithful Christians be Religious Pluralists?" Crosstimbers: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Journal. Chickasha: University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Spring/Summer 2005. 2-16.
7. Review Essay: "Hard Choices, A Three-Part series. (VHS tape). By Ireen van Ditshuyzen, director." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 11 (Spring/Summer 2005).
8. Review Essay: "Death and Dying: A Reader. By Thomas A. Shannon." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 11 (Spring/Summer 2005).
9. Review Essay: "Mysticism and Morality, A New Look at Old Questions, By Richard H. Jones. Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 11 (Fall/Winter 2004): 308-314.
10. Review Essay: "Aesthetics and Analysis in Writing on Religion: Modern Fascinations. By Daniel Gold." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 11 (Spring/Summer 2004): 136-139.
11. "Introduction." Smith, Mahlon. H. Gibson Agonistes: Anatomy of a Neo-Manichean Vision of Jesus. Philadelphia, Ecumenical Press, 2004. v-viii.
12. "Facing Death: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. By Stefan Haupt. Icarus Films, 2002." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 11 (Spring/Summer 2004): 162-163.
13. "In the Wake of Terror: Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis. By Jonathan D. Moreno. ed." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 10 (Fall/Winter 2003): 329-335.
14. "The Matrix: Charting an Ethics of Inheritable Genetic Modification. By Marilyn E. Coors, ed." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 10 (Fall/Winter 2003): 305-308.
15. "Ingrid Comes to America, Part IV:From USA-OK to USAO." Crosstimbers: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Journal. Chickasha: University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Spring 2003. 53-67.
16. "Faust through the Ages: God, Grace, Satan, and Science." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 10 (Spring/Summer 2003): 137-166.
17. "Ethical Issues for a New Millennium. By John Howie, ed." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 10 (Spring/Summer 2003): 182-186.
18. "Popes and Politics: Reform, Resentment, and the Holocaust.  By Justus George Lawler." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 9 (Fall/Winter 2002): 293-296.
19. "Western Medical Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. By Mirko D. Grmek, ed." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 9 (Fall/Winter 2002): 282-288.
20. "The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and Public Policy. By Suzanne Holland, Karen Lebacqz, and Laurie Zoloth, eds." Bridges: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Theology, Philosophy, History, and Science 9 (Spring/Summer 2002): 124-126.
21. "From Noosphere to Theosphere: Cyclotrons, Cyberspace, and Teilhard's Vision of Cosmic Love." Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. 37.4 (December 2002):825-852.
22. "The Complex Relationship of the Catholic Church and Human Rights." In Alan Race and Ingrid Shafer, eds. Religions in Dialogue: From Theocracy to Democracy.  Aldershot: Ashgate Press Publishing Ltd., 2002. 177-187.
23. "Ingrid Comes to America, Part III: College of Liberal Arts (1967-1973)." Crosstimbers: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Journal. Chickasha: University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Fall 2002. 57-67.
24. "Cyberspace, Evolution und Teilhards Vision der kosmischen Liebe." In Reinhard Kirste, Paul Schwarzenau und Udo Tworuschka, eds.  RIG 7: Neue Herausforderungen für den interreligiösen Dialog. Balve: Zimmermann Druck, 2002. 137-154. 
25. "What Does It Mean to Be Human? A Personal and Catholic Perspective." Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. 37.1 (March 2002): 121-136.
26. "Ingrid Comes to America, Part II: Oklahoma College for Women." Crosstimbers: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Journal. Chickasha: University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Spring 2002.
27. "The Incarnation as Koan." Interfaith Theology: A Reader. In Dan Cohn-Sherbok, ed. Oxford, England: Oneworld Publications, 2001. 195-197.
28. “Being Human: A Personal and Mostly Catholic Perspective.” In Clifford N. Matthews et al., eds. When Worlds Converge: What Science and Religion Can Tell us about the Story of the Universe and Our Place in It. Chicago: Open Court, 2001. 343-356.
29. "Ingrid Comes to America, Part I: From Innsbruck to Home in Chickasha." Crosstimbers: A Multicultural, Interdisciplinary Journal. Chickasha: University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Fall 2001. 25-43.
30. Is the Virgin Mary Over-Rated by Some?  Trefoil: The Southern African Catholic Quarterly. Vol. 66. No. 262 (Summer/Autumn 2001). 14-15,40.
31. "‘Building the Earth' on the World Wide Web: Hope for the Future." Islamic Millennium Journal. 119-128.
32. One of 6 Advisory Editors, The Guide to United States Popular Culture. Ed. Ray Browne and Pat Browne. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 2001.
33. "The Face of the Other and the Hermeneutics of Love: A Process Catholic Faces Emmanuel Levinas.'" Das Antlitz des '"Anderen": Emmanuel Levinas' Philosophie und Hermeneutik als Anfrage an Ethik, Theologie und interreligiosen Dialog. Loccumer Protokolle 54/99. Rehburg-Loccum, DE: Evangelische Akademie Loccum. 2000. 171-182.
34. "From Confucius through Ecofeminism to a Partnership Ethic of Earthcare."  Chenyang Li,  The Sage and the Second Sex. Open Court. Chicago, 2000. 98-111.
35. "A Synopsis of  the Play."  David Houseley and Raymond Goodburn, A Pilgrim's Guide to Oberammergau and its Passion Play. Pilgrim Book Services Ltd., 1999. 49-63.
36. Participant in a dialogue concerning passion plays and anti-Semitism with Rabbi Leon Klenicki and Prof. Leonard Swidler. Anti Defamation League. In press.
37. "The Intimate Intertwining of Religion, Economics, and Ethics: From Aristotle to  Antoninus of Florence." Proceedings of Religions and Economics - Religions in Economics: An International Comparison. Loccumer Protokolle 15/98.  Rehburg-Loccum, DE: Evangelische Akademie Loccum.1999.
38. "Andrew Greeley." The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America. Ed. Michael Glazier. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P., 1999.
39. "Toward a Universal Declaration of a Global Ethic: A Catholic Perspective." Ed. Leonard Swidler. Toward a Universal Declaration of a Global Ethic.  Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 1999.
40. "Completing the Journey Hand in Hand." Today's Caregiver 4.1 (Jan./Feb. 1998): 44.
41. "Weltethos und Menschlichkeit." Wenn Gott verloren geht: die Zukunft des Glaubens in der säkularisierten Gesellschaft. Wien: Herder und Herder, 1998. 284-292.
42. "The King Who Would be Friend." Partners: For Catholics in Asia and their Partners-in-Dialogue. Newsletter of the Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences. 2.1 (1997). 19.
43. "The Incarnation as Koan or the Unique Universal Ultimate: a Personal Midrash on Paul Knitter's 'Five Theses on the Uniqueness of Jesus.'" The Uniqueness of Jesus: A Dialogue with Paul Knitter. Eds. Leonard Swidler and Paul Mojzes. Orbis, 1997. 126-136.
44. "Spirituality-Love-Dialogue." Envisioning A Global Ethic. Ed. Lawrence S. Bale. Philadelphia: Global Dialogue Institute, 1997. 107-118.
45. "The Holocaust." (Essay and Poem) Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 18.1-2 (1997): 112-115.
46. "Theological Reflections on the February 1997 Announcement of the Cloned Lamb." Insights: the Magazine of the Chicago Center for Religion and Science. In press.
47. "Theological Reflections on the Mars Discoveries." Insights: the Magazine of the Chicago Center for Religion and Science. 8.2 (February 1997): 16-17.
48. "Introduction" [to Workshop #57, 'Catholicism in Transition: From European Roots to Global Branches'] The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms1.4 (1996): 1496-1497.
49. "Religion as Poetry: The Catholic Imagination According to Andrew Greeley." The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms1.4 (1996): 1515-1521.
50. "The Beauty and Strength of Diversity." Rite Speaking: A Newsletter of the Buffalo Diocesan Liturgical Commission. 1.4 (November 1996): 3.
51. "Cyberspace, Evolution, and Teilhard's Vision of Cosmic Love." Computer Ethics. Forthcoming.
52. "The Holy Grail." The Ecole Initiative: Creating a Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History on the World-Wide Web.
53. "Pact with the Devil: Faust and Precursors." The Ecole Initiative: Creating a Hypertext Encyclopedia of Early Church History on the World-Wide Web.
54. "WWW, Teilhard, and Family Values for the Future." Webgeist: an Ezine from a Different Evenue 1.1 (May 1996)
55. "The Jew as Pathogen: Reflections on Marc Weiner's Richard Wagner and the AntiSemitic Imagination" [Review essay]. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 14.2 (Winter 1996):106-114.
56. "Why Do I Stay?" San Francisco Bay Catholic (Sept. 1995).
57. "The Girl Who Loved Advent" San Francisco Bay Catholic (Dec. 1995).
58. "Petition Drive Moves to Germany." National Catholic Reporter 25 August 1995:11.
59. "500,000 Petition for Church Tolerance." National Catholic Reporter 14 July 1995: 8.
60. "Like Luther, Austrians Demand Church Reform." National Catholic Reporter 16 June 1995:9.
61. "Loyal Dissent Vital to Life of Church." National Catholic Reporter 12 May 1995:21.
62. "From the Senses to Sense: The Hermeneutics of Love." Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. 29.4 (December 1994): 579-602.
63. "New Tools for Dialogue: Religions and Sciences on the Internet." Insights: the Magazine of the Chicago Center for Religion and Science 6.1 (October 1994): 31-32.
64. "Faustian Lessons: Science, Technology, and Human Values." Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. In press.
65. "Religion and Science: Toward a Shared Language Beyond Deconstruction." Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. In press.
66. "Silence." (Poem) Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 14.3-4 (1993). 204-206.
67. "Dallas Fort Worth Airport." (Poem) Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 14.34 (1993). 203.
68. "Noogenesis: Weaving Ourselves on Incarnation's Loom." Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. 27.3 (September 1992): 361-370.
69. "The New Tetragrammaton: Beyond Derrida to Genome and God." Insights: the Magazine of the Chicago Center for Religion and Science 3.2/4.1 (April 1992): 19-21.
70. "USAO --The Impossible Dream: A Love Story." Chickasha Oklahoma 1891-1992: Our First Hundred Years. Chickasha: Centennial Committee, 1992. 91-115.
71. "City of God or City of Sin: Chicago in the Novels of Andrew Greeley and Eugene Kennedy." MidAmerica 19 (1992). In press.
72. "Shusaku Endo and Andrew Greeley: Catholic Imagination East & West." MidAmerica 18 (1991): 160-173.
73. "Introduction: The Religious Imagination in Popular Film and Television." Journal of Popular Film and Television 19.2 (1991): 50-57.
74. "Hermann Hesse's Quest for the Infinite: the Path of Awakening." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 10.12 (1990): 9-20.
75. "Alpha-Omega." (Poem) Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 10.2-3 (1990): 87.
76. "Lest We Forget," "The Butcher Twins," and "The Whales of October" (poems), Readings from the Midwest Poetry Festival VIII. Lucia Lockert, ed. East Lansing: Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, 1990. 67- 71.
77. "Religious Matrix and Ecological Responsibility." Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science 69 (1989): 63-69.
78. "Introduction." Andrew Greeley's World: an Anthology of Critical Essays. New York: Warner Books, 1989. xv-xxvii.
79. "The Virgin and the Grail: Archetypes in Andrew Greeley's Fiction." Andrew Greeley's World: an Anthology of Critical Essays. New York: Warner Books, 1989. 63-76.
80. "John Updike and Andrew Greeley: Two Visions of God and Humanity." Andrew Greeley's World: an Anthology of Critical Essays. New York: Warner Books, 1989. 95-110.
81. "Dendrochilum Javieriense, a New Species in Section Acoridium from Luzon, the Philippines." With Lawrence K. Magrath and Glenn Bulmer. Lindleyana 4.3 (1989): 135-138. [Technical illustration and Latin translation of description]
82. "Crystal Night." (Poem) Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 9.23 (1989): 285.
83. "The Uneducation of America: Facing the Facts." Network News & Views 8.6 (1989): 72-81.
84. "Non- Adversarial Criticism, Popular Literature, and Cross-Cultural Understanding." Proteus 6.1 (1989): 6-15.
85. "The Infinite Circle: From Cusanus and the Tao to Hegel and Hesse." The Owl of Minerva: Biannual Journal of the Hegel Society of America 20.2 (1989): 165-182.
86. "A Poem to My Daughter." (Poem) Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 9.12 (1989).
87. "The Dance of Creation and Incarnation: God, Woman and Sex in the Stories of Andrew Greeley." Journal of Popular Literature 4.1 (1988): 107-121.
88. "Mysterium Coniunctionis: The Alchemical Transformation of Joseph Knecht." Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 9.12 (1988): 75-86.
89. "Kitchen Window Sacrament." The Incarnate Imagination. Essays in Theology, the Arts and Social Sciences in Honor of Andrew Greeley. A Festschrift. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1988: 301-314.
90. "Distortions galore." Commonweal 9 October 1987: 573-574.
91. "The Centrality of Marginality: Toward a Postmodern Hermeneutic of Love." Chicago Sourcebook on Religious Studies and Liberal Education, Summer 1987.
92. "Catholic Priests on Andrew Greeley." Chicago Studies 25.2 (1986): 188-97.
93. "Catholic Ideology in the Fiction of Andrew Greeley." Quarterly Journal of Ideology 10.3 (1986): 71-83.
94. "Goethe's Faust and Hegel's Phenomenology: A Comparison." Telos 1.1 (1968).

1. Jacket blurb concerning Lee Irwin's Awakening to Spirit. New York SUNY Press, 1999.
   
2. Jacket blurb concerning Lee Irwin's Visionary Worlds: The Making and Unmaking of Reality. New York: SUNY Press, 1996. 
3. "Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography. By Michael Oren Fitzgerald." The Western Historical Quarterly 23.2 (May 1992): 243. 
4. HEFA press release concerning HB 1017. Editor, HEFA Newsletter 1990-1993. 
5. Editorials pertaining to education and the history of ideas in the Chickasha Daily Express.
6. Book reviews in the National Catholic Reporter. 
7. Sixty-eight homilies published anonymously in Joseph T. Nolan, ed., Good News, vols. 14 (1987), 15 (1988), 16 (1989), 17 (1990), 18 (1991), 19 (1992), 20 (1993), 21 (1994), 22 (1995), 23 (1996), 24 (1997), 25 (1998), 26 (1999), 26 (2000), 26 (2001)  (New Berlin, WI: Liturgical Publications).

1. Beyondterror@yahoogroups.com (international group committed to effective, humanizing responses to terrorism (October 2001-)
2. Ecumene@yahoogroups.com (continuation and expansion of the Temple University Greeley list) (2000-)
3. Vatican2@listserv.temple.edu (public forum for members of ARCC) (1995-)
4. G-ethic@listserv.temple.edu (public forum for the discussion of the Global Ethic project) (1995-).
5. Interrel@listserv.temple.edu (private and confidential list for a select group of invited scholars of the major world religions to discuss ways of building bridges between their various traditions) (1995-1998).
6. Greeley@listserv.temple.edu (public forum for the discussion of the work of Andrew Greeley) (July 1996-2000).
7. Ethic@vm.temple.edu (private and temporary list for teaching of a Global Ethic workshop at USAO, and related courses at Temple University and Southern Connecticut State University). Spring 1996.
8. Quiet Co-Owner (with List-founder Bruce Schuman): Bridge-l@ucsbvm.ucsb.edu (public forum for discussion of psychology, religion, and spirituality) (1995-98).

1. http://www.bishopbhai.org/  (December 2004)
2. Reflections on Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ (February 2004)
3. India-Pakistan Peace (July 20040
4. The Pluralist Model: A Multi-religious Exploration (September 2003)
5. Just Good Company: A Cyber Journal of Religion and Culture (January 2003)
6. The Journal of Ecumenical Studies (December 2002)
7. Asia Peace website and domain (September 2000-)
8. Global Dialogue Partners website and domain (October 2000-)
9. Zygon Center for Religion and Science website and domain (July 1999-)
10. ARCC Domain  website (July 1999-)
11. The International Network for the Rights of Female Victims of Violence in Pakistan (INRFVVP) (April 1999-)
12. Council for Global Consciousness and Spirituality website and domain (January 1999-)
13. Ecumene website and domain (January 1999-)
14. Association for Communal Harmony in Asia (ACHA) (February 1999-)
15. Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS) and Centre for Study of Society and Secularism (CSSS) (February 1999-)
16. "Come my Beloved!" -- from Shoah to Shalom (March 1999-)
17. Masyarakat Dialog Antartar Agama (MADIA) -- Society for Interreligious Dialogue (Indonesia) (September 1998-)
18. International Movement We Are Church (IMWAC) website in Germany. (Sept. 1998-)
19. Religions in Renewal: Dialogue, Reform, Revision Site: Roundhouse Connecting Renewal Sites of World Religions and Ideologies. (April 1997-)
20. Catholics of Vision: Canada--Canadian Renewal Site  (January 1997-)
21. WWW-Site for the CCRS (Chicago Center for Religion and Science) (Oct. 1996-).
22. WWW-Site for the GDI Global Dialogue Institute  and Institute for Interreligious, Intercultural Dialogue. (1996-)
23. WWW-Site for ARCC (Association for the Rights of Catholics in the Church). (Dec. 1995-).
24. Ingrid Shafer's USAO Faculty Homepage. (April 1996-)
25. Ingrid Shafer's Cybersites: One World through Dialogue. (Sept. 1996)

1. "Human Dignity and Ethics." Lecture at a Symposium. University of Dhaka, Dhaka, Bangladesh. 15 January, 2007. Trip funded by the U.S. Department of State.
2. Invited Participant in the "Delhi Consultation of South Asian Scholars and Activists on Peace Building in Islam and Other Religions." New Delhi, 5-6 January 2008. Trip funded by the U.S. Department of State.
3. "Building Dialogue and Peace on the Web." Temple University. "Religion and Society: A Dialogue" (with visiting South Asian scholars). 7 November 2007.
4. Invited Participant (as President of the Assoication for Communal Harmony in Asia) in "A Spiritual Agenda for Peace." United Nations Headquarters. 11 May 2007.
5. "Christian Resources for Dialogue among the Religions of Abraham." Symposium on Three Faiths, One God: Practicing Dialog. Philadelphia Dialog Forum.National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia, PA. 4 May 2006.
6. "Global Ethics and Religious Pluralism." Global Ethics Conference: The Search for Common Ground. Niagara Foundation and University of Chicago Divinity School. The University of Chicago, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. 13-14 April 2005.
7. "Global Ethics,'Captain America,' and America's Self-Proclaimed World-Redemptive Mission." John Shelton Lawrence Special Session. Popular Culture National Conference. 24 March 2005. San Diego, CA.
8. "The Gospel according to Clemens Brentano and Anna Katharina Emmerick -- Mel Gibson's Unscriptural Passion." Popular Culture National Conference. 23 March 2005. San Diego, CA.
9. Keynote Lecture: "Toward Global Peace via Global Communication." Tenth Anniversary Celebration of the Association for Communal Harmony in Asia. Portland, OR, 7 December 2003.
10. Panelist. "Human Nature and the Nature of God: Religious and Scientific Perspectives." Public Forum. Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel. Oklahoma City University. 20 November 2003.
11. "The Making of a Religious Pluralist." The Pluralist Model: A Multi-religious Exploration. Birmingham, England, 6-9 September 2003.
12. "Healing the World with Compassion and Kindness: Harnessing the Gentle Power of Love." FOCAS Distinguished Alumni Lecture. University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. 20 February 2003.
13. "God, Evolution, and Cyberspace." LakeShore Interfaith Institute, Ganges-Fennville, Michigan. 15 September 2002.
14. Workshop: "The Seven Stages of Deep-Dialogue." Keiwa College, Japan. 21-24 August 2002.
15. Keynote Lecture. Workshop on Peace and Dialogue: "'Building the Earth' on the World Wide Web: the Dawning Age of Global Dialogue." Tenth International Philosophy Olympiad. Tokyo, Japan. 12-15 May 2002.
16. Public Lecture: "Iconoclasm in Christianity and Islam." Jakarta Art Festival. Jakarta, Indonesia. 28 June 2001.
17. Panelist. "Interreligious Dialogue on Art and Religion:Vehicle for Creating World Peace." Jakarta, Indonesia. 27-29 June 2001.
18. Team member: "‘Whole Child Education' Through Deep-Dialogue/Critical Thinking".  Workshop-Seminar for Educators. Malang, Indonesia.  1-11 July 2001.  Pilot program of a series of projected UNICEF-funded programs sponsored by the Indonesian ministry of education and presented by the Global Dialogue Institute to help democratize Indonesian education.
19. Presenter: Educating the Whole Child in Indonesian Classrooms. Workshop and planning session for 20 teachers and administrators from pilot clusters as well as 9 ministry and UNICEF personnel. Jakarta, 21-24 February, 2001.
20. Participant: Pilot Project Planning Session. Education Reform in Indonesia:  Deep-Dialogue and Critical-Thinking. Haverford College, 18–23 October, 2000 (http://global-dialogue.com/indonesia2.htm).
21. "Setting the Agenda for the Twenty-first Century: The Next Stage of Jewish and Christian Dialogue." Boston College 18-19 June 2000. Participant in the Ethics session of the Jewish-Christian Center's first invitational scholarly conference.
22. "Catholicism, Democracy, and Communication." International Scholars Annual Trialogue (ISAT). Hotel Menara Peninsula, Jakarta, Indonesia, 14-19 February 2000.
23. "The Meaning of Being Human: Can Religion and Science Learn from One Another?" Parliament of the World's Religions. Cape Town, South Africa, 1-8 December 1999. To be published in Zygon.
24. Invited Lecturer, Discussant, and Workshop Leader. International conference on the work of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. "Toward a Hermeneutic of Love: in Dialogue with Emmanuel Levinas." Lutheran Academy of Loccum (Germany), 24-26 September 1999.  To be published in the Proceedings.
25. Participant: Panel at Conservative Denver Synagogue with Otto Huber concerning the changes in the Oberammergau Passion Play.  Sponsored by Rabbi Wagner and Regis University. 26 May 1999. Shafer's translation was used by all participants and made the event possible.
26. Participant: "Business, Ethics, and Deep Dialogue."  Global Dialogue Institute. Conference/Workshop. Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 13 January 1999.
27. Speaker: "Realizing the Interfaith Ideal: Action Beyond Dialogue." Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace (IRFP). Conference. Washington, DC,  18-20 December 1998.
28. Panelist: Global Ethic Forum.  Paideia: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. Boston, MA, 10-16 August 1998.
29. Discussant and Workshop Leader. "Weaving the Noosphere" (4 sessions) at the The Forty-Fifth Annual Star Island Conference "Interweaving Art, Science, and Spirituality." Star Island, Isles of Shoals, NH, 24 July-1 August 1998.
30. Invited Lecturer, Discussant, and Workshop Leader. "Religions and Economics - Religions in Economics: The Influence of Christianity, Judaism and Islam on Modern Concepts of Economic Ethics: An International Comparison." Evangelische Akademie Loccum, 27-29 March 1998.
31. Chair. "The Seanachie as Evangelist: Symposium on the Religious Imagination." Chicago,  Old Saint Patrick's Church. 31 January 1997.
32. Speaker.  International Symposium on Hate on the Internet, Toronto, ON, Canada, 7-9 September 1997.
33. Invited Scholar. International Conference on Muslim-Christian Relations: Past, Present and Future--Dialogue and Cooperation, Jakarta, Indonesia, 7-9 August 1997.
34. "Internet as Instrument of Dialogue," Demonstration and Lecture, International Conference on Muslim-Christian Relations: Past, Present and Future -- Dialogue and Cooperation, Jakarta, Indonesia, 9 August 1997.
35. "Faith, Love, and the Poetic Imagination," Plenary Lecture. 1997 Conference of the Catholic Network for Women's Equality: Common Ground: A refuge . . . a quest! Brescia College. London, ON, Canada, 5-7 June 1997.
36. Chair and Panelist, "Dialogue on Philosophical Fundamentals", La Casa Invitational, "Ethics, Dialogue, Spirituality -- Action: The Emerging Agenda for Business Leaders", La Casa de Maria, Santa Barbara, CA, 6 May 1997.
37. Member of the Planning Team and Participant, La Casa Invitational, "Ethics, Dialogue, Spirituality -- Action: The Emerging Agenda for Business Leaders", La Casa de Maria, Santa Barbara, CA, 4-8 May 1997.
38. "Half a Loaf? How About a Few Crumbs: A Response to David Carlin." Plenary Lecture at a meeting of Catholics of Vision: Canada. Ottawa, ON, 21 March 1997.
39. "Making Family out of Strangers." Global Dialogue Consortium: 1997 Inaugural Roundtable: "The Crisis of Ethics in Globalizing Economics." Eastern College. Philadelphia, PA, 14 March 1997.
40. Plenary Lecture: "Globale Ethik und Ökumenische Religionswissenschaft: Rolle und Verheissung des Internets." Das Zeitalter des globalen Dialogs. Konferenz des Instituts für Philosophie der Ungarischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Budapest, Hungary, 10-11 March 1997.
41. Dialogue: the Path to Community. Two-day (15 hr) Interactive Seminar with Professor Leonard Swidler of Temple University. USAO (broadcast to a local television audience and two regional universities). 21 - 22 February 1997.
42. Lenten Lecture. "The Body of Christ: Dying into Life." Assumption Catholic Church, Lawton, OK, 19 February 1997.
43. Invited speaker: "Welthethos und wahre Menschlichkeit: Philosophische und theologische Grundlagen und Grundfragen." 2. Wiener Kulturkongress. Vienna, Austria, 28-30 November, 1996.
44. Co-leader, ARCC Workshop on Catholic Constitution and the Parish of the Future. Annual Call to Action Conference. Detroit, MI, 14-17 November 1996.
45. "Catholicism and the Holocaust." Holy Name Catholic Church Altar Society. Chickasha, OK, 21 November 1996.
46. Lecture (with Professor Fusan Zhao from OCU). "Laying the Foundations for a Peaceful World." Multicultural Festival. Del City High School, Del City, OK, 21 March 1996.
47. Lenten Lecture. "Grace and Struggle in Andrew Greeley's Stories." Assumption Catholic Church, Lawton, OK, 20 March 1996.
48. "Cyberspace, Evolution, and Teilhard's Vision of Cosmic Love." Conference on Computer Ethics and Moral Theology. Virginia Theological Seminary, Alexandria, VA, 7 March 1996.
49. "Toward the Third Millennium: The Challenge of Cyberspace." Faith and Life Festival: Preparing for the Next Millennium. Oklahoma City University, 27 February 1996.
50. Co-leader, ARCC Workshop on Catholic Constitution. With Leonard Swidler. Annual Call to Action Conference. Chicago, 3-5 November 1995.
51. Invited Scholar. Business Ethic Roundtable. Haverford College. Philadelphia, PA, 25 October 1995.
52. Invited Participant. Celebrating the Spirit: Towards a Global Ethic. University of California, Berkeley, 19-21 June 1995. Universal Declaration of a Global Ethic Workshop:
53. "Philosophical & Religious Foundations of a Global Ethic." Paper. Morning session, 20 June.
54. Lecture during evening plenary session. Berkeley, 21 June.
55. Discussant and Respondent. 21-22 June.
56. Invited Participant. Interreligious Think Tank, "To make America a better place for us all," The National Conference [of Christians and Jews], 71 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 15 June, 1995.
57. Invited Participant, La Casa Invitational, "A Matter of Life and Death," La Casa de Maria, Santa Barbara, CA, 1-5 May 1995.
58. Lecture: "Hermeneutic of Love." Rhodes Room of the Diamond Club (Mitten Hall), Temple University, Philadelphia, 27 April 1995.
59. Holocaust Workshop. With Survivor Leo Polen. First Presbyterian Church, Lawton, OK, 22 February 1995 (afternoon).
60. Holocaust Workshop. With Survivor Leo Polen. Oklahoma Christian University of Science and Arts, Oklahoma City, OK, 21 February 1995.
61. "Holy War in Cyberspace." ACA/PCA Regional Conference, Stillwater, OK, 10 February 1995.
62. Holocaust Workshop. With Survivor Leo Polen. St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in Oklahoma City, OK, 1 October 1994 (afternoon).
63. "The Damnation of Doctor Faustus and the Reformation." Conference on Christianity and Literature, Shawnee, OK, 1 October 1994 (morning).
64. "David Tracy and Andrew Greeley on Religion as Image and Story." Fourth Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Karl- Franzens Universität, Graz, Austria, 25 August 1994.
65. "The Salvation of Doctor Faustus: Reinterpreting the Fall." Plenary Lecture. Scientific Symposium III. Oklahoma City University, 6 July 1994.
66. "Saying Yes with Molly-Nora: Chasing Joyce's Catholic Ghost through Dublin". PCA National Meeting, Chicago, IL, 7 April 1994.
67. "The Damnation of Doctor Faustus in the Popular Imagination as Function Not of Catholic Medieval Piety but Early Modern Reformation Zeal: from Johann Spies to Andrew Greeley." ACA/PCA Regional Conference, Waco, TX, 4 February 1994.
68. "Celtic Interweave: Andrew Greeley's Happy are the Peacemakers as Travel Chart into the Catholic Core of James Joyce's Ulysses, and Ulysses as Key to the Mystery." Le Moyne Forum on Religion and Literature, Syracuse, NY, 17 October 1993.
69. "Beyond the Senses to Sense: The Hermeneutics of Love." 1993 Templeton Symposium, "Science and Religion: Two Ways of Experiencing and Interpreting the World." 31 August-2 September 1993, Chicago, IL, 1 September 1993.
70. "From Playing God to Being God's Playmate: Faust through the Ages." Public Lecture. 40th Annual Conference of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, "Charting Our Lives: Possibilities, Constraints, and Decisions," 31 July-7 August 1993, Star Island, Isles of Shoals, NH. 3 August 1993.
71. "Faustian Explorations." Five-day Workshop. 40th Annual Conference of the Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, 31 July-7 August 1993, Star Island, Isles of Shoals, NH.
72. "The Family in the Novels of James T. Farrell and Andrew Greeley." MLA National Conference, New York, NY, 29 December 1992.
73. "Father Greeley's Novel Sermons." Conference on Christianity and Literature, Shawnee, OK, 24 September 1992.
74. Visiting Scholar/Speaker for Session 10 (1 June 1992), of What Enables Interaction Between Religion and Science? A Consideration of Primary Concepts, a Chicago Advanced Seminar on Religion in an Age of Science, Lutheran School of Theology, 30 March-8 June, 1992.
75. "Religion as Language of Science; Science as Language of Religion." Midwest AAR Meeting, Terre Haute, IN, 29 March 1992.
76. "Incognito Incarnation: God in Network Television." PCA National Meeting, Louisville, KY, 21 March 1992.
77. "Andrew Greeley on Parish, Priests, and People." PCA Regional Conference, Amarillo, TX, 7 February 1992.
78. Speaker/Panel Leader at the Templeton Foundation Symposium of "Human Viability and a World Theology." Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and University of Chicago. 15-16 November, 1991.
79. Visiting Scholar/Panelist for Session 5, "The Seat of the Soul: Where Religion and the Neurosciences Intersect" (29 April), Session 6, "Did Homo Religiosus Emerge from the Evolution of the Brain?" (6 May) and "Theology in an Evolutionary Mode" (3 June) of Religion, Values, and the Life Sciences, a Chicago Advanced Seminar on Religion in an Age of Science, Lutheran School of Theology, 1 April-3 June, 1991.
80. "In the Image of God: Incarnational Theology and the Future of BioTechnology." PCA National Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 30 March 1991.
81. "Loving God through Nature" and "Loving God through People" (workshop). Oklahoma Catholic Student Convention. University of Oklahoma. Norman, OK, 16-17 Nov. 1990.
82. "Selected Poems." Reading. 1990 Midwest Poetry Festival. East Lansing, MI, 11 May 1990.
83. "Chicago in the Novels of Andrew Greeley and Eugene Kennedy." The Cultural Heritage of the Midwest: A Symposium. East Lansing, MI, 12 May 1990.
84. "From Cardinal Sins to Cardinal Virtues: Hope for the Hesitant Pilgrim." PCA National Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 10 March 1990.
85. "Thinking as Subversive Activity." Oklahoma Philosophers' Annual Conference. Central State University, Edmond, OK, 3 March 1990.
86. "In Vitro Fertilization and Incarnational Humanism." Oklahoma Academy of Science Fall Technical Meeting. Edmond, OK, 10 November 1989.
87. Seminar/Workshop on the USAO core program, interdisciplinary courses, and team-teaching for participants in Rethinking the Curriculum, a national conference on interdisciplinary and integrative studies. San Diego, CA, 1923 June 1989.
88. "Happy Endings: Self-deception or Popular Wisdom." Public lecture. Gwynedd Mercy College, Gwynedd Valley, PA, 26 April 1989.
89. "The Womanly Face of God in the Fiction of Shusaku Endo and Andrew Greeley." PCA National Meeting, St. Louis, MO, 8 April 1989.
90. "Religious Matrix and Ecological Responsibility" Oklahoma Academy of Science Fall Technical Meeting. Chickasha, OK, 11 November 1988.
91. "John Updike and Andrew Greeley: Two Visions of God and Humanity." PCA National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 26 March 1988.
92. "God, Woman and Sex in the Novels of Andrew Greeley." NEMLA Meeting, Boston, MA, 2 April 1987.
93. "Woman-God, Sex, and the Celtic Grail in the Fiction of Father Andrew Greeley." Mid America Medievalist Association, Wichita, KS, 1 March 1986.
94. "Health Professionals and the Dying Patient." Oklahoma Society of Radiologic Technologists Annual Meeting. Oklahoma City, OK, 1984.
95. "Interdisciplinary Studies: Daring to Dream." ACA National Meeting. Wichita, KS, April 1983.
96. "Team Teaching: Proceed with Care." ACA National Meeting. Wichita, KS, April 1983.
97. "Death and Dying: Dimensions of Caring." Oklahoma Anesthesiologists Association Annual Meeting. Oklahoma City, OK, 1982.
98. "God and Self in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism." Human Relations Association Annual Meeting. Lawton, OK, 1977.
99. Participant and Panelist in The Woman's Place, an Educational Television Series (1977).

American Academy of Religion, American Association for the Advancement of Core Curriculum, American Institute for the Study of Religious Cooperation, American Teilhard Association, Christianity and Literature, Hegel Society of America, Institute for Evolutionary Psychology, Institute for Integrative Studies, Institute on Religion in an Age of Science, International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Modern Language Association, Popular Culture Association (Area Chair for Culture and Religion; nominated for National PCA President in 1995).

Distinguished Alumna Award, OU College of Arts and Sciences, Professional Schools (20 February 2003); 2002 Oklahoma Medal for Excellence in College/University Teaching (18 May 2002); “ACHA Star Award in Recognition of Meritorious Work to Promote Peace and Harmony.” The Association for Communal Harmony in Asia. Portland, Oregon. 5 August 2001. Finalist, 2001 Oklahoma Medal for Excellence in Teaching and Administration (2001); USAO Regents' Research Award (2000); Mary Jo Ragan Professorship (1994); USAO Regents' Research Award (1991); USAO Regents' Superior Teaching Award (1981); Presidential Award for Academic Excellence, Republic of Austria (1958); Listed in Who's Who in the South and Southwest (1991-) and Who's Who in American Education (1993-).

George Henderson, Ph.D., Director, Human Relations Advanced Programs,  Regents’ Professor of Human Relations, Education and Sociology, Dept. of Human Relations, The University of Oklahoma, Norman OK 73019

Leonard Swidler, Ph.D, S.T.L., LL.D., LL.D., Professor of Catholic Thought and Interreligious Dialogue, Religion Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122

Philip Hefner, Ph.D.,  Professor of Systematic Theology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60615

John Feaver, Ph.D., President, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, OK 73018