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Academic Training:
Bachelor
of Arts, Gardner-Webb University, 1980
Master of Divinity, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1983
Doctor of Philosophy, Emory University, 1990
Research Interests:
Fred Glennon's
field of teaching and research is in the areas of Religion, Social Ethics, and
Society. In terms of Religion and
Ethics, he has co-authored the book, Introduction
to the Study or Religion (Orbis Books, 2012), now in its second
edition. In addition, he highlights
the interrelationship between religious faith and ethics in his essay,
“Has the ‘End of Faith’ Come for 21st Century
Ethics? H. Richard Niebuhr’s Challenge,” (Perspectives
in Religious Studies 40/3 (Fall 2013): 87-102). He has recently authored a textbook, Christian Social Ethics: Models, Cases,
Controversies (Orbis Books, 2021),
which lays out key traditions in Christian social ethics (Situation Ethics,
Evangelical Ethics, Natural Law Ethics, Feminist Liberative Ethics, Womanist
Liberative Ethics, and Hispanic Liberative Ethics), and then analyses ethical
issues associated with sexuality, criminal justice, the environment, etc., from
those traditions.
He also researches the interrelationship between religious ethics and public
policies, particularly welfare, poverty, and labor market policy. In addition to the textbook noted above,
he co-organized a workshop and
co-authored the introduction to “The Religious Ethics of Labor,” which
was published in the Journal of Religious
Ethics (June 2017). His
publications also include, “Has the ‘End of Faith’ Come for
21st Century Ethics? H. Richard
Niebuhr’s Challenge,” Perspectives
in Religious Studies 40/3 (Fall 2013):
87-102; “Just-War or Justice?
Reflections on Getting into and out of the Iraq War,” (essay
written for the journal, Motives
(online journal of Marsh Chapel, Boston University, Spring 2009): 23-27; “Catholics and the Welfare State:
How the Preferential Option for the Poor Relates to Preferences for Government
Policy," with Matthew Loveland and Frank Ridzi, Journal of Catholic Social Thought 5/1
(Winter 2008): 45-6; and
"Desperate Exchanges: Secondary Work, Justice, and Public Policy," (Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics,
1992). Finally, he has interest in the relationship between religion, ethics,
and culture evidence in his essays, "Baseball's Surprising Moral Example:
Branch Rickey, Jackie Robinson, and the Racial Integration of America," in
The Faith of Fifty Million: Baseball and
Religion in American Culture (Westminster/John Knox Press), and “Even
Cyborgs Cast a Shadow: Christian Resources and Responsibilities in Response to
Transhumanism,” in Transhumanism
and the Church, Ron Cole-Turner and Steve Donaldson, eds. (Palgrave
MacMillan, 2018): 209-227.
As a Carnegie
National Scholar (2001-2002), Fred also engages in the scholarship of teaching
and learning, in which the classroom setting becomes a locus of sustained scholarly
focus. The result of that project was the publication, "Experiential
Learning and Social Justice Action: An Experiment in the Scholarship of
Teaching and Learning," in Teaching
Theology and Religion (February 2004), which continues to be cited by other
scholars in the field. He has also explored the role of service learning in the
religious studies classroom, "Service Learning and the Dilemma of
Religious Studies: Descriptive or Normative?" in the AAHE series on
service learning in the disciplines, From Cloister to Commons: Concepts and
Models for Service Learning in Religious Studies (2002).
He has developed an approach to teaching called "the learning
covenant." He discusses developments in this approach at length in his
paper, "Promoting Freedom, Responsibility, and Learning in a General
Education Religious Studies Course:
The Learning Covenant a Decade Later," Teaching Theology and
Religion 11/1 (February 2008), which has been viewed by over 100 professors
in the field. He has explored the
ethical issues associated with outcomes assessment in his paper, "Assessment for the Right Reason: The Ethics of
Outcomes Assessment," published in, Teaching Theology and
Religion, Vol. 2, No. 1 (February 1999): 14-25. Most recently he has been
editor and contributor to Spotlight on Teaching (2013-2017), an online journal
that highlights pedagogical issues and approaches in the religious studies
classroom.
For a more complete listing of his background, experience, and research interests, see his Teaching Portfolio and Curriculum Vita.
Personal Information:
Fred Glennon is married to Lindy Bradley Glennon. She retired as Executive Director of CAPCO, a community action agency located in Cortland, New York. Aside from her busy role at the agency, she is former President of the Family Development Association of New York (FDANY), former President and member of the Board for NYSCAA, and she assisted Cornell University in the development of a Family Development credentialing program which has been adopted by the state of New York. Lindy and Fred have one child, Michael, who is married to Heather Glennon and has two children: Amelia and Maeve.
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