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Laurel C. Schneider's Degrees

PhD Theology University of Chicago
Masters Theology University of Chicago
Bachelors Religion Bryn Mawr College

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According to Wikipedia, Laurel C. Schneider is an American theologian and a professor of Religion and Culture as well as a professor of Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University. Schneider is known for her theological analysis of images of God in relation to questions of social justice and liberation. Her work has contributed to the development of a theological framework, using concepts like multiplicity and polydoxy, as an alternative to orthodoxy and more traditional approaches to religious belief and theological reflection. Schneider's work focuses on collaborative models of thinking and publishing. She has worked as co-convener of the National Workgroup in Constructive Theology resulting in a co-written publication entitled Awake to the Moment: Introducing Constructive Theology. Her other areas of research are queer theory and Native American religious traditions.

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The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy (2004) (89)
Black Magic: Religion and the African American Conjuring Tradition (2005) (80)
Beyond Monotheism: A theology of multiplicity (2007) (64)
The Scottish Philosophy of Common Sense. (1973) (59)
Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances (2009) (44)
Aquinas, the Plotiniana Arabica, and the Metaphysics of Being and Actuality (1998) (39)
Black Zion : African American religious encounters with Judaism (2001) (33)
"Truth Does Not Contradict Truth": Averroes and the Unity of Truth (2000) (32)
Abstraction in al-Fârâbî (2006) (29)
Personal Immortality in Averroes' Mature Philosophical Psychology (1998) (27)
James Harrison, The Novelist's Magazine, and the early canonizing of the English novel (1993) (26)
Getting it Right: Getting It Right (2014) (21)
Arabic/Islamic Philosophy in Thomas Aquinas’s Conception of the Beatific Vision in IV Sent., D. 49, Q. 2, A. 1 (2017) (21)
St. Thomas Aquinas. Commentary on the Book of Causes (1996) (20)
Averroes on Psychology and the Principles of Metaphysics (2008) (20)
The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy (2015) (17)
Good and evil : a new direction (1972) (17)
Commentary on the Book of causes (1996) (14)
Ibn Rushd, or Averroes (2005) (13)
Conjure and Christianity in the Nineteenth Century: Religious Elements in African American Magic (1997) (13)
Averroes: Religious Dialectic and Aristotelian Philosophical Thought (2005) (12)
Ethical and political philosophy (2004) (12)
Remarks on the Latin Text and the Translator of the Kalâm fi mahd al-khair / Liber de causis (1989) (10)
Re-Imagining the Divine: Confronting the Backlash Against Feminist Theology (1999) (9)
Change of semen quality after foreign travel: a rare presentation of genital schistosomiasis (2012) (9)
Making Sense of Feminist Theology Today (2008) (8)
Queer Theologies: Queer Theologies (2012) (7)
St. Thomas and the Liber de causis on the Hylomorphic Composition of Separate Substances (1979) (7)
Separate Material Intellect in Averroes’ Mature Philosophy (2004) (6)
Verrucous carcinoma of the foot and enhancement assessment by MRI (2009) (6)
Intellect As Intrinsic Formal Cause In The Soul According To Aquinas And Averroes (2009) (6)
Serious Illness Conversations. (2020) (6)
The 'Kalam fi mahd al-khair' (Liber de causis) in the Islamic Philosophical Milieu (1986) (6)
The Liber de causis: a preliminary list of extant mss (1983) (6)
Averroes (Ibn Rushd) (2005) (6)
Averroes' Epistemology and Its Critique by Aquinas (1999) (5)
Goldsmith As Journalist (1993) (5)
IMPROVING ON NATURE'S EXEMPLAR: AVERROES' COMPLETION OF ARISTOTLE'S PSYCHOLOGY OF INTELLECT (2004) (5)
Ibn Rushd/Averroes and "Islamic" Rationalism (2009) (5)
Polydoxy Theology of Multiplicity and Relation (2010) (5)
Roundtable On Feminist Ideology And Religious Diversity, Part 5: Feminist Theology, Religiously Diverse Neighborhood Or Christian Ghetto? (2000) (5)
Textual and Philosophical Issues in Averroes’ Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle (2012) (5)
Ibn Rushd/Averroes and "Islamic" Rationalism (2009) (5)
Remarks on Cogitatio in Averroes' 'Commentarium Magnum in Aristotelis De Anima Libros' (1999) (5)
A Critical Analysis of the Structure of the 'Kalam fi mahd al-khair' (Liber de causis) (1992) (4)
A Note on Fatalism (1963) (4)
Black Culture and Black Zion African American Religious Encounters with Judaism , 1790-1930 , an Overview (2021) (4)
BET 1: Prednisolone for the treatment of acute gouty arthritis (2017) (4)
Averroes on the Ontology of the Human Soul (2012) (4)
Cogitatio, Cogitativus and Cogitare: Remarks on the Cogitative Power in Averroes (2000) (4)
Queer Soul and Queer Theology (2021) (3)
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Dramatists: First Series (1990) (3)
Intelligibles in act in Averroes (2007) (3)
Neoplatonic Texts in Turkey: Two Manuscripts, Containing Ibn Tufayl's 'Hayy Ibn Yaqzan,' Ibn al-Sid's 'Kitab al-Hada'iq,' Ibn Bajja's 'Ittisal al-'Aql bi-l-Insan,' the 'Liber de causis' and an Anonymous Neoplatonic Treatise on Motion (1982) (3)
Primary and Secondary Causality (2015) (3)
'The Future Life' and Averroes' 'Long Commentary on the De Anima of Aristotle (1996) (3)
Mysticism and philosophy (2004) (3)
Mapping Africana Religions: Transnationalism, Globalization, and Diaspora (2014) (3)
Averroes' Philosophical Analysis of Religious Propositions (1998) (3)
Suhrawardī and Illuminationism (2004) (2)
Averroes’ philosophical conception of separate intellect and God (2011) (2)
Avicenna and the Issue of the Intellectual Abstraction of Intelligibles (2018) (2)
Maimonides and Aquinas on Divine Attributes the Importance of Avicenna (2020) (2)
Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect. (1997) (2)
The Agent Intellect as "form for us" and Averroes's: critique of al-Fârâbî (2013) (2)
More Than a Feeling: A Queer Notion of Survivance (2017) (2)
Providence in Averroes (2014) (2)
Islamic philosophy and Jewish philosophy (2004) (2)
Themistius and the Development of Averroes’ Noetics (2013) (2)
The Judeo-Christian-Islamic heritage : philosophical & theological perspectives (2012) (2)
Averroes on the Sharîʿah of the Philosophers (2012) (2)
Primary Causality and Ibda‘ (creare) in the Liber de Causis (2012) (2)
al-Fârâbi and Avicenna: Two Recent Contributions (2005) (2)
Has President Obama Chosen the Right Strategic Approach to Iran With the 2013 Dual Track Policy of Diplomacy and Sanctions (2014) (1)
Davidson on al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes. A Critical Review (1996) (1)
Liability of Design Professionals for the Review/Approval of Contracting Submittals. (1996) (1)
Introduction: Aquinas and the Arabic Philosophical Tradition (2014) (1)
Averroes and the Philosophical Account of Prophecy (2018) (1)
Fairth and Reason, Religion and PHilosophy: Four Views from Medieval Islam and Christianity (1991) (1)
Canto xlix, futurism, and the fourth dimension (1993) (1)
The Personal Is Professional: What Is a Feminist Pedagogy in a Man's Composition Classroom?. (2000) (1)
Aquinas's Naturalized Epistemology (2005) (1)
Tolle Lege. Essays on Augustine and on Medieval Philosophy in Honor of Roland J. Teske, SJ (2011) (1)
"A Few Good Men" (and Women) Looking for a Profession (1993) (1)
Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi's Epitome of the 'Kalam fi mahd al-khair' (Liber de causis) (1984) (1)
Contextualizing the Kalām fī maḥḍ al-khair / Liber de causis (2020) (1)
Averroes: God and the Noble Lie (2007) (1)
Recent trends in Arabic and Persian philosophy (2004) (1)
Esoteric Writing of Vodou: Grimoires, Sigils, and the Houngan’s Notebook (2015) (1)
The Uses Of The Supernatural: Toward A History Of Black Women's Magical Practices (2009) (1)
White Or Indian? Whiteness And Becoming The White Indian Comics Superhero (2020) (1)
“Our Religion and Superstition Was All Mixed Up”Conjure, Christianity, and African American Supernatural Traditions (2003) (1)
Natural And Supernatural: African American Hoodoo Narratives Of Sickness And Healing (2008) (1)
16. Prophetess of the Spirits: Mother Leaf Anderson and the Black Spiritual Churches of New Orleans (1998) (1)
Hidden Traditions: Black Religion, Magic And Alternative Spiritual Beliefs In Womanist Perspective (1995) (1)
Religion And Supernaturalism (2004) (1)
The Love We Cannot Not Want: A Response to Kwok Pui-lan (2010) (1)
An Anthology: Life-Writings by British Women, 1660–1815 edited by (2003) (0)
Commentary on Book II of the Sentences , Distinction 17, Question 2, Article 1 (2013) (0)
Charlotte Smith to Thomas Cadell: A New Letter (1990) (0)
Thomas Aquinas: Soul and Intellect (Fall 2012) (2012) (0)
The Book of Metaphysical Penetrations by Sadra Mulla, translated by Seyyed Hussein Nasr, edited by Ibrahim Kalin (2015) (0)
Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas (review) (2008) (0)
J. Parens, Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's Laws (1997) (0)
Naftali Rothenberg. The Wisdom of Love: Man, Woman and God in Jewish Canonical Literature. Brighton, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2009. (2010) (0)
Aquinas and "the Arabs:" Thomas d'Aquin et ses Sources Arabes (2010) (0)
The Epistemology of Abstraction (2015) (0)
The Life of Religion: The Marquette University Symposium on the Nature of Religious Belief (1986) (0)
The Logic of the Arabians (2007) (0)
Magic: Theory And Practice (RELG 102) Syllabus (2020) (0)
“Africa was a Land aʼ Magic Power Since de Beginninʼ a History”Old World Sources of Conjuring Traditions (2003) (0)
Review Of "A Separate Canaan: The Making Of An Afro-Moravian World In North Carolina, 1763-1840" By J. Sensbach (1998) (0)
The Originality of John Caryll's Sir Salomon (2016) (0)
James Baldwin's God: Sex, Hope and Crisis in Black Holiness Culture . By Clarence E. HardyIII. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. xvi + 150 pp. $30.00 cloth. (2005) (0)
Religion in the Kitchen: Cooking, Talking, and the Making of Black Atlantic Traditions. By Elizabeth Pérez (2016) (0)
Interlude (2004) (0)
Review Of "The Sermon And The African-American Literary Imagination" By D. Hubbard (1996) (0)
Starting the story again (2007) (0)
Review Of "Creole Religions Of The Caribbean: An Introduction From Vodou And Santeria To Obeah And Espiritismo" By M.F. Olmos And L. Paravisini-Gebert (2016) (0)
“Folks Can Do Yuh Lots of Harm”African American Supernatural Harming Traditions (2003) (0)
Conjure Americana: Creating A Magic Book Archive (2018) (0)
Invasion As Affliction: Worms And Bodily Infestation In African American Hoodoo Practices (2012) (0)
H. A. Davidson, Proofs for Eternity, Creation, and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy (1990) (0)
Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau (2004) (0)
African American Folk Healing . By Stephanie Y. Mitchem. New York: New York University Press, 2007. x + 190 pp. $20.00 paper. (2008) (0)
Review: Mojo Workin’: The Old African American Hoodoo System (2015) (0)
Conjure Americana (RELG 93) Syllabus (2018) (0)
SANTERIA: CORRECTING THE MYTHS AND UNCOVERING THE REALITIES OF A GROWING RELIGION. By Mary Ann Clark (2007) (0)
Conjure And Christianity In The 19th Century: Religious Elements In African American Magic (2016) (0)
The Gravity of Love (2013) (0)
Averroes' Middle Conirneinaries on Aristotle's Categories and De Interpretatione, Charles E. Butterworth, trans. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1983). Pp. 213. (1985) (0)
Michelle Voss Roberts' "Dualities" (2011) (0)
The fourth dimension : an honors thesis [(HONRS 499)] (1975) (0)
“Medical Doctors Can't Do You No Good”Conjure and African American Traditions of Healing (2003) (0)
Review Of "African-American Religion: Interpretive Essays In History And Culture" By T. E. Fulop And A. J. Raboteau (1997) (0)
Averroes' Doctrine of Immortality: A Matter of Controversy By Ovey N. Mohammed (1988) (0)
Review Of "Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives Of Marie Laveau" By M. Ward (2004) (0)
African-American Holiness Pentecostal Movements: An Annotated Bibliography . By Sherry Sherrod DuPree. Religious Information Systems 4. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. lxvii + 650 pp. $95.00. (1997) (0)
Varieties of Spiritual Experience: Magic, Occultism, and Alternative Supernatural Traditions among African Americans in the Cities, 1915–39 (2006) (0)
Graphic Voodoo: Africana Religion In Comics (2016) (0)
Review Of "Conjure In African American Society" By J. E. Anderson (2006) (0)
Book Reviews (2005) (0)
Review Of "The Black Church In The Post-Civil Rights Era" By A. Pinn (2002) (0)
N. Kretzmann, The Metaphysics of Theism. Aquinas's Natural Theology in Summa Contra Gentiles (1998) (0)
Conjuring Scriptures And Engendering Healing Traditions (2008) (0)
Review Of "The African Diaspora And The Study Of Religion" Edited By T.L. Trost (2010) (0)
The Bible And African American Folklore (2000) (0)
Prophetess Of The Spirits (1998) (0)
Review Of "Working The Spirit: Ceremonies Of The African Diaspora" By J. Murphy (1995) (0)
African American Hoodoo And Traditions Of Healing (2008) (0)
11. Conjuring Scriptures and Engendering Healing Traditions (2020) (0)
Conjure Magic And Supernaturalism In Nineteenth-Century African American Narratives (2019) (0)
Embodied beings and desires (2021) (0)
Caribbean Religious History: An Introduction . By Ennis B. Edmonds and Michelle A. Gonzalez. New York: New York University Press, 2010. x + 269 pp. $70.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. (2011) (0)
Donnelly on Good and Evil (1973) (0)
A Note on Chapter I of the Liber de causis (1978) (0)
Review Of "Conversions And Visions In The Writings Of African-American Women" By K.R. Connor (1996) (0)
Review Of "Words Of Fire: An Anthology Of African-American Feminist Thought" By B. Guy-Shefthall (1996) (0)
Review Of "Righteous Content: Black Women's Perspectives Of Church And Faith" By D.C. Wiggins (2005) (0)
Looking for Black Religions in 20th Century Comics, 1931–1993 (2019) (0)
Religion 102 Magic Archive (2020) (0)
A review of "The Long Parliament of Charles II" by Annabel Patterson (2010) (0)
American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 662 (2011) (0)
Thinking being? Or why we need ontology . . . again (2007) (0)
A review of "The Culture of Equity in Early Modern England" By Mark Fortier (2007) (0)
A turn to ethics: Unity beyond monotheism (2007) (0)
Queer relations (2021) (0)
Introducing queer redemption (2021) (0)
Talking to the dead (2021) (0)
Undone by each other: Interrupted sovereignty in Augustine’s Confessions (2010) (0)
"The Evils, I was Born to Bear": Two Letters from Charlotte Smith to Thomas Cadell (1994) (0)
After Christianity. By Gianni Vattimo. Columbia University Press, 2002. 128 pages. $27.00 (2005) (0)
Postlude (2021) (0)
Then came the word: The invention of monotheism (2007) (0)
Islam in the Transmission of Knowledge East to West (2008) (0)
Scandal and improvisation (2021) (0)
Meeting God on the Cross: Christ, the Cross, and the Feminist Critique by Arnfríður Guðmundsdóttir (2013) (0)
An Anthology: Life-Writings by British Women, 1660-1815, and: Plotting Women: Gender and Narration in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Novel, and: Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century Women's Fiction and Social Engagement, and: Hungry Heart: The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe (rev (2003) (0)
Conference Report: Thomas d'Aquin et ses sources arabes: Aquinas and 'the Arabs' (2010) (0)
‘‘I am because we are’’: The roots of multiplicity in Africa (2007) (0)
‘Response’ to Edward Butler’s review of Beyond Monotheism: A Theology of Multiplicity (2010) (0)
‘‘No god but me’’: The roots of monotheism in Israel (2007) (0)
Divine promiscuity (2019) (0)
Queer transformative epistemologies (2021) (0)
Queer creativity (2021) (0)
Catherine. Keller, Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming. London: Routledge, 2003. xx+307 pp. $95.00 (cloth); $25.95 (paper). (2004) (0)
Sexual Disorientations (2020) (0)
A Common Negotiation: The Abrahamic Traditions and Philosophy in the Middle Ages (2012) (0)
Herbert A. Davidson, Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy . New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii, 428. $37.50. (1990) (0)
Averroes on the Attainment of Knowledge (2019) (0)
Averroes on the SharῙ´ah of the Philosophers (2012) (0)
Thomas Aquinas: Soul and Intellect (2012) (0)
Aquinas and the Arabs: Aquinas’s First Critical Encounter with the Doctrine of Averroes on the Intellect, In 2 Sent. d. 17, q. 2, a. 1 (2013) (0)
GOLDSMITH'S FIRST VICAR (1990) (0)
Psychotropic drugs increase the risk of serious falls among nursing home residents (1998) (0)
Select bibliography and further reading (2004) (0)
Prelude (2021) (0)

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