Stephen N. Dunning, Résumé

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Qualifications
• Professional Memberships
• Research and Teaching Areas
• Courses Taught
• Professional Positions
• Awards and Honors
• Selected Publications

Summary

Stephen N. Dunning, Professor of Religious Studies
Department of Religious Studies
The University of Pennsylvania
Logan Hall, 249 S. 36TH Street
Philadelphia PA 19104-6304

Phone: (215) 898-5441 Fax: (215) 898-6568

Qualifications

• Ph.D., The Study of Religion (Christian Theology), Harvard University, 1977
• M.Div., Comparative Religion, Harvard Divinity School, 1969
• B.A., Goddard College (Education and Psychology), 1964

Professional Memberships

• American Academy of Religion
• Soren Kierkegaard Society (President, 1991)
• Hegel Society of America
• Philosophy of Religion Group, Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium

Research and Teaching Areas

• modern continental philosophy of religion
• hermeneutics
• dialectical types of thinking

Courses Taught

• Religious Violence and Cults
• Religion and the Search for Meaning
• Theories of Religion
• Seminars on Hegel, Kierkegaard, Gadamer
• Religion in Public Life
• Religious Influences on Organizational Attitudes

Professional Positions

• Professor of Religious Studies,1996- )
• Associate Professor of Religious Studies, 1984-98(/LI>
• Lecturer and Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies (1977-84)
• Chair, Department of Religous Studies, 1996-02
• Chair, Graduate Program in Religious Studies, 1987-94, 1995-96
• Chair, Undergraduate Program in Religious Studies, 1981-82, 83-86, 03-

Awards and Honors

• Templeton Science and Religion Course Award, 1996-97
• Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1993
• NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1982-83
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship, 1974-76
• Kent Fellowship for Graduate Study (Danforth Foundation), 1971-74

Selected Publications

Books

• Dialectical Readings: Three Types of Interpretation. Penn State Press, University Park, 1997. 191 pp.
• Kierkegaard's Dialectic of Inwardness: A Structural Analysis of the Theory of Stages. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985. 304 pp.
• The Tongues of Men: Hegel and Hamann on Religious Language and History. American Academy of Religion Academy Series, No. 27. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press, 1979. 260 + xii pp.

Articles

• "Paradoxes in Interpretation: Kierkegaard and Gadamer." In Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity. Edited by Martin J. Matusik and Merold Westphal. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. Pp. 125-141.
• "Particularity Not Scandalous: Hegel's Contribution to Philosophy of Religion." In Hegel's Philosophy of Religion: Proceedings of the 1990 Meeting of the Hegel Society of America. Edited by David Kolb. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992. Pp. 143-158.
• "Who Sets the Task? Kierkegaard on Authority." In Foundations of Kierkegaard's Vision of Community: Religion, Ethics, and Politics in Kierkegaard. Edited by C. Stephen Evans and George Connell. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1992. Pp. 18-32.
• "History and Phenomenology: Dialectical Structure in Ricoeur's The Symbolism of Evil." Harvard Theological Review, Vol. 76, No. 3 (1983): 343-363.
• "Kierkegaard's 'Hegelian' Response to Hamann." Thought, Vol. 55, No. 218: Soren Kierkegaard Commemorative Issue (September, 1980): 259-270. Reprinted in Neue Zeitschrift fur Systematische Theologie und Religions-philosophie, Vol. 30, No. 3 (1988): 315-326.

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