# Faculty Notes and Books - October 2012 September 27, 2012 ![Professor Amy Hollywood](/sites/g/files/omnuum5526/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/hds2/files/hollywood-news-250x250.jpg?itok=mXzuif69) Amy Hollywood is the Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at HDS. / Photo: University of Chicago Read about the latest news and publications from HDS faculty. **Janet Gyatso**, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies, gave the paper "Values and Ways of Knowing: Conflicts and Confluences between Buddhism and Medicine in Tibet" at Healing Texts, Healing Practices, Healing Bodies: A Workshop on Medicine and Buddhism, held at the University of California. She also participated in the Tibetan Literature Workshop at the University of Toronto. Her recent publications include: "Looking for Gender in the Desi's Medical Paintings," *Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity*, a themed issue on gender, health, and medicine in Tibet (2012); '[Discipline and Resistance on the Tibetan Plateau](http://www.culanth.org/?q=node/528),' *Cultural Anthropology* (April 2012); "Discerning Tibetan Modernities: Moments, Methods, Assumptions," in *Mapping the Modern in Tibet* (Brill, 2011). She will speak at Northwestern University in November 2012 and will participate in the AAR Seminar on Tibetan Religious Literature, also in November. In spring 2013, she will host a workshop on Tibetan literature at Harvard, give a paper on authorship and genre at Oxford University, respond to a panel on manuscript culture at the Association of Asian Studies, and deliver the Evans-Wentz Memorial Lecture at Stanford University. Her forthcoming book, *Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet*, is being published by Columbia University Press. **Amy Hollywood**, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies, published "Thin Wings," a review in the Winter/Spring 2012 issue of *Harvard Divinity Bulletin* of Susan Howe's book *This That*, and the essay "[On Understanding Everything: General Education, Liberal Education, and the Study of Religion](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/on-understanding-everything-general-education-liberal-education-and-the-study-of-religion/044DA749C19B4645D4C71436B3877D02)," *PMLA* (March 2011). She gave two presentations at the American Academy of Religion's Annual Conference in San Francisco in November 2011: 'Derrida's Passion' and 'Reading Michel de Certeau's *The Mystic Fable*.' She has given the following invited papers: 'Truth in Religion,' 'On Truth (and Lies),' a conversation series with Simon Critchley, Onassis Cultural Center, New York (May 2012); ' 'Thin Wings': On Reading, Death, and Devotion,' at Truth and Mystery: A Conference on Faith and Reason, Villanova University (April 2012); 'Love Abyss: Preaching Desire in the 13th and 21st Centuries,' the Antoinette Brown Lecture at Vanderbilt Divinity School (March 2012); 'Love Abyss: Hadewijch's Infinite Desire,' at St. Mary's College (February 2012). She also presented at the Workshop for the Companion to Hadewijch, Antwerp, Belgium (June 2012); ' 'Thin Wings': Reading, Vision, Ecstasy,' Vision Lecture Series, Lehigh University (February, 2012); and 'Song, Experience, and the Book in Christian Monasticism,' Dartmouth Hardigg Family Fund Lecture, Dartmouth College (January 2012). Other invited talks were: 'Teaching Introduction to Theology' at the Center for the Study of World Religions at HDS in March 2012; '20 Questions' on violence with Steven Pinker at Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center in February 2012; and 'Nevermind' at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, January 2012. Along with Patricia Z. Beckman, she published [The Cambridge Companion to Christian Mysticism](http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/religion/religion-general-interest/cambridge-companion-christian-mysticism?format=PB) (Cambridge University Press, 2012). She is the author of the introduction and the essay 'Song, Experience, and the Book in Benedictine Monasticism.' **Jon D. Levenson**, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies, published a new book, [*Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam*](http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9815.html) (Princeton University Press, 2012). He also published '[Category Error](https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/articles/88/category-error/),' a review essay of Yoram Hazony, *The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture*, in *Jewish Review of Books* (Fall 2012). He has given the following talks: 'Discussion of Inheriting Abraham,' a presentation to the incoming fellows of the Tikvah Fellowship Program, New York (August 2012); 'God and Politics' at Jewish Thought and Enduring Human Questions, a seminar for college students sponsored by the Tikvah Project at Princeton University (August 2012); and 'Dimensions of Abraham in a Comparative Perspective,' a seminar at the Tikvah Fund post-BA Fellowship Program, New York (June 2012). **Dan McKanan**, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity, participated in the discussion 'Be Bold: Unitarian Universalist Theologies and Practices of Justice' at the Unitarian Universalist Justice General Assembly in Phoenix. He published 'Faith in the Phalanx: Esotericism, Socialism, and the American Fourierist Movement,' in *Esotericism, Religion, and Politics* (North American Academic Press, 2012). He wrote a preface for Paul Rasor's new book, *Reclaiming Prophetic Witness: Liberal Religion in the Public Square* (Boston: Skinner, 2012). **Charles M. Stang**, Associate Professor of Early Christian Thought, published [*Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: 'No Longer I'*](http://global.oup.com/academic/product/apophasis-and-pseudonymity-in-dionysius-the-areopagite-9780199640423?cc=us&lang=en&) (Oxford University Press, 2012). He is the co-editor, with Zachary Guiliano, of *The Open Body: Essays in Anglican Ecclesiology*, forthcoming from Peter Lang Publishing. See also:- [ Faculty and Research ](/discover-stories-about/faculty-and-research) - [ Faculty Book ](/topic-tags/faculty-book)