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Dan McKanan joined the Harvard Divinity School faculty in July 2008 as Ralph Waldo
Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity. Before coming to Harvard,
he served as department chair and associate professor of theology at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint
John's University, where he began teaching in 1998. He studies religious movements for social
transformation in the United States from the abolitionist era to the present. His first book,
Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United
States (2002), explores theological understandings of violence and nonviolence among abolitionists,
pacifists, and temperance activists. Touching the World: Christian Communities Transforming Society
(2007) and The Catholic Worker After Dorothy: Practicing the Works of Mercy in a New Generation (2008)
deal with the Camphill and Catholic Worker networks of intentional communities. Professor McKanan's
current book project, tentatively entitled "Prophetic Encounters," is a general history of the religious
left in the United States.
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On leave spring term 2010.
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