Peter Charles Herman

Education

2019:     PhD, Georgetown University
Dissertation: “Overcoming Whiteness: A Critical Comparison of
James Cone’s Black Liberation Theology and Shinran’s Jōdo
Shinshū Buddhism”

2011:     MDiv, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

1998:    BA, Drew University

writing and publications

Refereed Journal Articles
2018    “The Blackness of Liet-Kynes: Reading Frank Herbert’s Dune
Through James Cone” Religions 9 (9) (2018)

2014    “We are the Walking Dead: Robert Kirkman’s Zombies and Buddhist Body Image” Implicit Religion 17.4 (2014) pp 433-442

2013    “Reverse-Engineering Belonging: A Foucauldian Archaeology of
Multiple Religious Identity” Journal of Ecumenical Studies 48:3
(2013) pp 328-342

Book Reviews

2015    The Prophet and the Bodhisattva: Daniel Berrigan, Thich Nhat Hanh and the Ethics of Peace and Justice, Reviewed in Journal of Buddhist Ethics 22
(http://blogs.dickinson.edu/buddhistethics/)

Other Publications

2017    “Jesus Doesn’t Want Me for a Sunbeam: Thoughts on Depression, Race, and Theology” at The Other Journal
(https://theotherjournal.com/2017/04/06/jesus-doesnt-want-sunbeam-thoughts-depression-race-theology/)

2015    “Another Debate, More Bad Christianity” at Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-herman/another-debate-more-bad-christianity_b_8527518.html)

“It’s Never as Simple as ‘Religion is Bad’” at Huffington Post   (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-herman/its-never-as-simple-as-religion-is-bad_b_8566104.html)

2013    “Finding Common Ground Between Buddhism and Christianity” at Huffington Post
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-herman/finding-common-ground-between-buddhism-and-christianity_b_3143133.html)

2011    “Occupation, Compassion, and Justice, Parts 1 & 2” at Theology Salon
(http://theologysalon.org/2011/10/30/occupation-compassion-and-justice-part-1-of-2/
http://theologysalon.org/2011/11/12/occupation-compassion-and-justice-part-2-of-2/)

2009    “Dry Bones and Oil Spills: The Dangerous Memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa” at ReligionDispatches
(http://religiondispatches.org/irdpulpiti-dry-bones-oil-spills-the-dangerous-memory-of-ken-saro-wiwa/)