Faculty

Alice Ann Keefe
Professor of Religious Studies

Office: CCC 412
Phone: Phone:  (715) 346-3807
Email: akeefe@uwsp.edu

University Excellence in Teaching Award 2001

Education:
B.A.  Dartmouth College
M.A. Claremont School of Theology
Ph.D. Syracuse University





Courses:
Religious Studies 101, "Religions of the World: Western" 
Religious Studies 311, "Religion in America"
Religious Studies 321, Studies in Religion: "Wild Women in World Religions"
Religious Studies 321, Studies in Religion: "Religion and Cultural Conflict"
Religious Studies 321, Studies in Religion: "Women and the Biblical World"
Religious Studies 330, "Feminine Images and Myths in Religion"
Religious Studies 340, "Buddhism"
Religious Studies 450, "Comparative Mysticism"

 

 

 

 

 
Scholarly Activities:

Women's Body as Social Body in Hosea.  Culture, Gender and Theory Series, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series.  Sheffield Academic Press, 2001.

"When God Says 'Go': Active Mysticism and the Practice of Discernment." In Religious Studies and Theology 17/1 (1998): 19-32.

"Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, Interreligious Dialogue, and the Academic Study of Religion."  In Buddhist-Christian Studies 18 (1998): 123-128.

"Visions of Interconnectedness in Engaged Buddhism and Feminist Theology."  In Buddhist-Christian Studies 17 (1997): 61-76.

"The Female Body, the Social Body and the Land: A Socio-Political Reading of Hosea 1-2."  In The Feminist Biblical Commentary: The Prophets, ed. Athalya Brenner.  Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, pp. 70-100, 1995.

Rapes of Women/Wars of Men," in Women, War and Metaphor. Language and Society in the Study of the Hebrew Bible (Semeia 61), ed. Claudia Camp and Carole Fountaine, pp. 79-98, 1993





















Activities around UWSP:
Advisor for the Comparative Religion Club, the Counterpoint and Falcon's Gate.



Personal:
Professor Alice Keefe came to Stevens Point in 1994 with her husband, Joseph Waligore, and their three children.  She is an active member in the Society for Buddhist Christian Studies and co-founded the Stevens Point Buddhism Awareness Circle, which sponsors meditation practices, dharma study groups, and retreats.  She also directs the ShamaKids Project, which matches sponsors from Wisconsin with needy students from the poorest areas in and around Bombay, India.