Re-Imagining Worship as Acts of Defiance and Alternatives in the Context of Empire

The Department of History & Ecumenics, the Religion & Society Program, and the Office of Multicultural Relations is honored to host Dr. Cláudio Carvalhaes on October 16, 2018. Dr. Carvalhaes will present on “Re-Imagining Worship as Acts of Defiance and Alternatives in the Context of Empire.”

A much sought-after speaker, writer, consultant, and liturgist, Dr. Carvalhaes has preached and performed worldwide. He led worship for the All African Council of Churches in Mozambique, taught at the Global Institute of Theology of the World Communion of Reformed Churches, and has led worship and taught in the Hispanic Summer Program since 2013. In recent years, he preached at the Academy of Homiletics, the Jubilee 800 Order of Preachers of the Dominican Order in Rome, and was one of the main speakers at the Societas Liturgica in Belgium. In 2018 he is speaking at the Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry, at the Council of World Mission in Mexico, at the Forum of Liturgics and Ethics at Hildesheim Germany, and other places.

Dr. Carvalhaes is the author of three books in Portuguese and two edited volumes celebrating the work of Jaci C. Maraschin and Ivone Gebara. He has one book in English, Eucharist and Globalization: Redrawing the Borders of Eucharistic Hospitality (Wipf & Stock, 2013), and he is the editor of Liturgy in Postcolonial Perspectives – Only One is Holy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan: Postcolonialism and Religions Series, 2015). His forthcoming books include: What Does Worship Have to do With it? Interpreting Life, Church and the World Liturgically (Cascade Books, 2018) and Preaching and Liberation Theology: Metaphors For Our Time (Abingdon Press, 2019).