Curriculum Vitae
CLÁUDIO CARVALHAES
1904 Roanoke Ave, Apt 3
Louisville, KY – 40205
Phone: (502) 649.3399
carvalhaes1@gmail.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Union Theological Seminary in New York City New York, NY, 2007
M.Phil. (2006) and Ph.D. (2007) in the interdisciplinary fields of Liturgy and Systematic Theology.
Committee Chairs: Janet R. Walton and Delores Williams
Dissertation: Globalization and the Borders of Liturgical Practices. Redrawing the Lines of Eucharistic Hospitality”
Comprehensive Exams: “Three Theologians: Augustine of Hippo, Soren Kierkegaard and Leonardo Boff on Love;” “The Doctrine of Providence and the Problem of Evil.” “The Body and Sexualities in New Strands of Latin American Theologies.” And “A Dialogue Between Theater and Liturgy.”
M.Phil. Methodist University of São Paulo, Ecumenical Institute of the Graduate School of Religion, São Paulo, Brazil, 1997
Fields of Study: Theology, Philosophy and History, with distinction
Thesis: “Albert Camus and Christianity”
M.Div. Independent Presbyterian Theological Seminary, São Paulo, Brazil, 1992
B.A., Theology, with distinction
Specialization Studies in Ecumenism.
Ecumenical Institute of Bossey – World Council of Churches, Geneva,
Switzerland, 1995
Thesis: ” Koinonia and the Ecumenical Movement”
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor of Worship and Preaching, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, (2007-Present), Louisville, KY
Courses: Introduction to Worship; Ritual, Performance and Liturgy; Worship and the Arts; Sacraments and Globalization; Women and Worship; Liturgy Travel Seminar: Liturgy, Social Ethics and World Situations; The Body and Sexualities; Postcolonial Themes for Liturgical Studies; African American Worship; Worship Practicum.
Faculty Member of The Black Church Studies Program at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, (Spring 2010-Present): Professor of African American Worship
Faculty Member of the Programa Hispano de Pastores Laicos Comisionados, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. (Fall 2010): Professor of Latino/a-Hispanic Worship
Faculty Member of the Institute of Theology in Bahia, Brazil (Summers 2007-2008): Professor of Liturgy and Theology
Teaching Assistant, Union Theological Seminary in New York City (2004-2006)
Introduction to Preaching and Worship (Profs. Barbara Lundblad, Janet
Walton and Troy Messenger – Fall 2005/Fall 2006)
Freedom in a Bonded World (Prof. Ivone Gebara – Spring 2005)
Ethical Trends in the 21st Century (Prof. Ivone Gebara – Spring 2005)
Introduction to Islam (Prof. Isma Sayeed – Spring 2004)
Worship and the Arts (Prof. Janet R. Walton – Fall 2004)
Foundations of Christian Theology I (Prof. James H. Cone – Fall 2003)
How to do Rituals Workshops- Baptism, Wedding, Funeral and Memorial Services, (Fall 2004- Spring 2005)
Teacher, Development of the Hispanic Leadership Program, Princeton Theological Seminary, Congregational Leadership Program, (Fall 2003– Spring 2004).
Union Student Liaison (USL) to the AAR – Union Theological Seminary, American Academy of Religion, (January 2006 to May 2007). USL serves as a bridge between the AAR and UTS students.
HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS
Grant, AAR/Luce Summer Seminars on Theologies of Religious Pluralism and Comparative Theology, (2010-2011)
Honor, The Kentucky Metroversity Outstanding Faculty of Adult Learners Award, (2009-
2010)
Grant, Calvin Institute of Christian Worship for the Worship Renewal at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, (2008-2009)
Grant, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Workshop for Pre-Tenured Faculty at Theological Schools, (2008-2009)
Summer Research Fellowship, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion (2009)
Honor, Daniel Day Williams Fellow Award on Excellency in Theological Studies, 2006-2007
Doctoral Fellowship, The Roothbert Fellowship Fund, Inc., (2004-2007)
Doctoral Scholarship Grant, Magee Christian Education Foundation Scholarship, 2004-2007
Amy Brown DeForest Scholarship, (2001-2005).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Books
Transgressões: Religião, Performance e Arte. (Transgressions: Religion, Performance and Art). (Emblema Ideas: Sao Paulo, July 2005).
In this series of essays, I use philosophical post-structuralist tools to get at the connections between theology, religion and ritual. Transgressing the rationality of religion, I try to undermine its excluding metaphysical structures, its universal categories and desire of appropriation and autonomy. It is a philosophical/theological/ritual attempt to rescue that which was left out in theological and religious discourses as I invoke/evoke arts and performances as transgressive partners in this endeavor.
Forthcoming
Eucharist and Globalization. Redrawing the Borders of Eucharistic Hospitality. Wipf and Stock, Pickwick Publications, 2011
Oi Pai. Imaginário De Um Pai Encantado. (Hi Dad. An Imaginary Conversation Between a Son and a Father). (Editora Maud: Rio De Janeiro, 2012).
Chapters
“Albert Camus: Do Absurdo para a Revolução e para o Amor,” (Albert Camus: From Absurd to Revolution and to Love) in Escritos Sagrados: Mística e Literatura Moderna (Holy Writings: Mystic and Modern Literature), Maria Clara Bingemer and Jimmy Sudário Cabral, editors, Mauad editora, São Paulo, forthcoming.
“O Pobre Não Tem Sexo: A Ausência do Corpo e da Sexualidade na Construção da Subjetividade na Teologia da Libertação na America Latina” (The Poor Don’t Have Sex: The Blind Spots of Bodily and Sexual Discourses in the Construction of Subjectivity in Latin American Liberation Theology) in Sexualidade – abordagem bíblica, teológica e pastoral (Sexuality – Biblical, Theological and Pastoral Approaches), Fonte Editorial, Sao Paulo, Brazil, forthcoming.
“God´s Petticoat and Capitalism-full Fashion,” Cláudio Carvalhaes and Nancy Cardoso Pereira in Dancing Theology in Fetish Boots: Essays in Honour of Marcella Althaus-Reid, Lisa Isherwood and Mark D. Jordan, editors, London: SCM Press, 2010.
“Storytelling Renewed, a Response to Charles Rice” in The Re(New)ed Homiletic, O. Wesley, Jr. Allen, editor, (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2010).
“In Spirit and in Truth: The Liturgical Space as Territory” in Common Worship in Theological Education, Todd E. Johnson and Siobhan Garrigan, editors, Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2009.
“O Vestido Dela Está Pendurado Ali, e Nós Também,” (Her Dress is Hanging There and we Too), a chapter published in (Re)leituras de Frida Kahlo: por uma ética estética da diversidade machucada,” (Re-readings of Frida Kalho: Ethical Aesthetics of a Broken Diversity) in University of Santa Cruz do Sul, and EST, Ensino Superior de Teologia, Brazil, Fall/2008.
“A Complexidade da Religião – O Pensamento de Mark C. Taylor,” (The Complexity of Religion – The Thought of Mark C. Taylor) in Teologia e Pensamento Pós-Moderno (Theology and Post-Modern Thought), edited by Jaci Maraschin and Frederico Piper. Fonte Editorial, São Paulo, Brazil, 2008.
“Teologia e Estética” (Theology and Aesthetics) in Theology for What?, Mauad and Instituti Mystherium Publishing House, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2007.
“O Que Será que Será. A Limping A/Theological Thought in Brazil” in Liberation Theology and Sexuality, ed. Marcella Althaus-Reid, Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, June, 2006.
“Uma Crítica das Teologias Pós-Modernas à Teologia Ontológica De Paul Tillich” (Post-Modern Theologies and a Critique of Paul Tillich’s Ontological Theology), in A Forma da Religião. Leituras de Paul Tillich no Brasil (The Form of Religion: Readings on Paul Tillich in Brazil), edited by Jaci Maraschin and Etienne A. Higuet, São Pernardo do Campo: Universidade Metodista de São Paulo, 2006.
Articles
Preaching God’s Transformative Justice: A Commentary on the Lectionary with 22 New Holy Days for Justice, edited by Ronald J. Allen, Dale P. Andrew, and Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm, “Year A Proper 10: Genesis 25: 19-34 and Isaiah 55: 10-13; Psalm 119: 105-112 and Psalm 65: (1-8), 9-13; Romans 8: 1-11; Matthew 13: 1-9, 18-23;” “Year B Proper 10: 2 Samuel 6: 1-5, 12b-19 and Amos 7: 7-15; Psalm 24 and Psalm 85: 8-13; Ephesians 1: 3-14; Mark 6: 14-29;” “Year C Proper 10: Amos 7: 7-17 and Deuteronomy 30: 9-14; Psalm 82 and Psalm 25: 1-10; Colossians 1: 1-14; Luke 10: 25-37,” Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2011, 2012, forthcoming 2013 . Three volumes.
“Surprising Wonders in Worship & Sacraments,” in Advocate News Journal of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators, Quarterly Journal, Sue Poss, Editor, (Greenville, SC ) August 1, 2011.
“Communitas – Liturgy & Identity, ” in Mission and Ecclesiology of migrant/multicultural churches, Editors: Raafat Girgis &Michael Blair. The Ecumenical Review: International Review of Mission (Journal): World Council of Churches. (Blackwell Publishing: Oxford, UK, 2011).
“The Season of Easter: Imaginative Figurings for the Body of Christ,” Cláudio Carvalhaes and Paul Galbreath, in Interpretation, A Journey of Bible and Theology, Forthcoming winter 2011.
“At Pentecost…” in Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching & the Arts, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Louisville, KY, Forthcoming January, 2011.
Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, Year A, Ordinary Time Feasting on the Word: “Proper 14 – Psalm 105: 1-6, 16-22, 45b; Proper 15 – Genesis 45:1-15; Proper 15 – Psalm 133,” Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, forthcoming, 2011.
Apresentação/Preface, of Jaci Maraschin book: Da Leveza e Da Beleza. Liturgia na Pós-Modernindade, (Of Lightness and of Beauty. Liturgy within Postmodernity), São Paulo: Aste, 2010. pp.9-17.
“Christology and Capitalism,” Cláudio Carvalhaes and Nancy Cardoso Pereira in Oekumenischer Kirchentag, Germany, 2010.
“Borders, Globalization and Eucharistic Hospitality,” in Boundaries, Border Identities, and Immigration, Dialog: A Journal of Theology, 49:1, Gettysburg, PA: Wiley-Blackwell, Spring 2010.
Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, Year B, Volume 3: “Proper 19 – Genesis 50: 1-21; Proper 20 – Jonah 3:10 – 4:11; Proper 21 – Ezekiel 18: 1-4; 25-32,” Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox, 2009.
“Por Un Mundo Sin Muros – For a World Without Walls,” Bible and Migration, edited by Nancy Cardoso Pereira. Revista de Interpretacion Biblica LatinoAmericana. Quito, Ecuador y Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Fall 2009.
“Canta Y No Llores – Life and Death Around the Borders of US and México” in Insights: The Faculty Journal of Austin Seminary, Spring 2009.
“‘Gimme de kneebone bent’ Liturgics, Dance, Resistance and a Hermeneutics of the Knees”, in Studies in World Christianity: the Edinburgh Review of Theology and Religion, Volume 14, Part 1, Edinburgh University Press, Spring 2008.
“Reformed Worship and the Other – Fixing our Defects,” in Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching & the Arts. Vol. 41, Issue 2. Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), Louisville, KY, November 2007.
“Speak louder please, I can’t hear you: Voices, Spiritualities and Minorities,” in Reformed World, Geneva, Switzerland, March, 2007.
“Come Spirit: Art and Reformed Faith” in Call to Worship: Liturgy, Music, Preaching & the Arts, Volume 39.2, November, 2005.
“Promessas de Epifania: Religião e Estética nos Portões de Christo e Jeanne-Claude no Central Park-Nova York” (Promises of Epiphanies: Religion and Aesthetics in the Gates of Christo and Jeanne-Claude in Central Park, NY), in Correlatio, Paul Tillich’s Society in Brazil, Number 7, Methodist University of Sao Paulo, March 2005.
“Relações entre Teologia, Liturgia e Vida no Século XXI”. (Relations Between Theology, Liturgy and Life in the Twentieth First Century), in Temas Atuais em Teologia Anglicana II, Inclusividade, Numero 10, Revista Teologica: Centro de Estudos Anglicanos, Sao Paulo: March 2005.
“Kierkegaard, the Poet of the Unknown” (Published both in English and in Portuguese), in Margens, Postmodern Religious and Theological Studies in Brazil, Year 1, Number 1. February 2005.
“Rastros de Deus nos Estudos Teológicos Pós-Modernos” (Mapping the Traces of God in Post-Modern Theologies), in Cadernos de Pós-Graduação. Ciências da Religião 24. São Bernardo do Campo: Universidade Metodista de São Paulo-UMESP, 2004.
“A Postmodern Exercise on the Idea of God in the Wake of 9/11,” In USQR: Union Seminary Quarterly Review (Volume 55, Numbers 3-4. 2001), 151-167.
“Teologia e Literatura: João Guimarães Rosa – A Terceira Margem do Rio,” (Theology and Literature: Joao Guimaraes Rosa – The Third Margin of the River) in Teologia e Literatura. Cadernos de Pós-Graduação. Ciências da Religião 9. São Bernardo do Campo: Universidade Metodista de São Paulo – UMESP, 1997.
Reviews
Jennifer L. Lord, “Finding Language and Imagery,” (Fortress Press Publishers: Minneapolis 2010), Interpretation, A Journey of Bible and Theology, Richmond, Virginia, forthcoming, 2011.
Andrea Bieler, “Eucharist: Bodies, Bread, & Resurrection.” (Augsburg Fortress: Minneapolis, 2007), Interpretation, A Journey of Bible and Theology, Richmond, Virginia, 2008.
James V. Brownson, “The Promise of Baptism. An Introduction to Baptism in Scripture and the Reformed Tradition.” (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, 2007), Interpretation, A Journey of Bible and Theology, Richmond, Virginia, 2008.
Ivone Gebara, “Out of Depths. Women’s Experience of Evil and Salvation,” (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002). In USQR: Union Seminary Quarterly Review Volume 58 Numbers 1-2, (2004): 216-218.
Rubem Alves, “The Poet, The Warrior, the Prophet” (Norwich, UK: Scm Press, 2002). In USQR: Union Seminary Quarterly Review Volume 57 Numbers 1-2, (2003): 151-152.
Articles in Magazines, Websites, Devotional Booklets and Newspapers
“Immigration and Justice,” www.ecclesio.com, April 17-23
“Books and Bytes,” The Clergy Journal, Volume 87, Number 6, November/December 2010.
“Preaching the Lesson July 4, 11, 18, 2010,” in Lectionary Homiletics, June-July 2010.
“Worship I and II,” The Thoughtful Christian, Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, Fall 2008.
“Eucharist,” The Thoughtful Christian, Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, Fall 2008.
“Baptism,” The Thoughtful Christian, Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, Fall 2008.
“Lesson and the Arts: Articles on Matthew 18:15-20; Matthew 18:21-35; Matthew 20:1-16; Matthew 21:23-32”. In Lectionary Homiletics, September 2008.
“Restoration.” in Peacemaking Advent Devotional Booklet 2008, General Assembly Council Office, Louisville, KY, 2008.
“Do justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God.” The General Assembly Bible Studies and Daily Devotionals. The Bible studies and daily devotionals were developed in partnership with the Office of the General Assembly and The Thoughtful Christian, a ministry of the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation. Daily Devotional for 6/28/2008.
“Where are your Dreams? Martin Luther King Jr. Day” in Register for the Company of Pastors, a publication of the Office of Theology and Worship, PC-USA, Louisville, KY, Spring/Summer 2008.
“Liturgical Performances: A Foretaste of God’s Glory,” in Mosaic, a magazine of Louisville Presbytery Theological Seminary, April 2007.
“Homily – Unexpected Gestures-Holy at Home,” in Family Ministry: Empowering Through Faith, June 2005.
“Teologia e Cultura” (Theology and Culture), monthly columnist of an on-line theological magazine called Brazilian Theology. From March 2005 to July 2006 www.teologiabrasileira.com.br
“Where was God on September 11th?,” The Turning House. Student Journal of Union Theological Seminary. Volume 3 Issue 1. November 07, 2002.
“How to Be Successful in Religious Business,” The Herald News, Fall River Newspaper, Fall River, MA, 2001.
“Deus Também é Brasileiro,” (God is also Brazilian), Bi-Monthly column in O Jornal, Portuguese Newspaper, Fall River and New Bedford: MA, from Fall 1999 to Spring 2001.
“To See, To Judge and To Act,” The Herald News, Fall River, MA, 2000.
“Religião, Uma Teia de Simbolos” (Religion, A Net of Symbols), Revista Brasileira nos EUA, Boston, MA, 1999.
Conferences and Presentations
Speaker, Preacher and Worship Coordinator for the Annual Conference for the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators, Grand Rapids, MI, January 26-29, 2012.
Preacher and Workshop Leader, The Art of Preaching in the 21st Century, conference at Candler School of Theology, (October 2011).
Speaker, Festival of Homiletics, Transformational Preaching, Minneapolis, MN, (May 2011).
Worship coordinator, Resurrecting Church: Re-Imagine, Re-Ignite, Re-Engage. The Alliance of Baptists Annual Convocation, Louisville, KY, April 29 – May 1, 2011.
Worship coordinator. Worship Service at Presbyteries and Synods Moderators’ Conference, PC(USA) Louisville, November 2010.
“Homecoming and the Theological Notion of Displacement,” Keynote Speaker at Stony Point Conference Center, Homecoming Conference, October 20, 2010.
“Epiphany and Advent,” Workshop at 2010 Choristers Guild Institute, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, July 2010.
“Holy Kissing and Other Holy Things,” Keynote Speaker, at Association for Reformed and Liturgical Worship, Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, MI, July 2010.
“The Preaching of Joy,” at Festival of Homiletics, Nashville, TN, May 2010.
“Globalization and Sacraments,” Multicultural Ministries Conference, May 2010, Chicago, IL
“Quien Soy y a Quien Pertenezo?, Who Am I and to Whom do I Belong? Quen Sou Eu e a Quem Pertenço? VI Gathering of Indigenous People – ALEAPI / World Council of Churches, Berlin, El Salvador, November 30 to December 4, 2009.
“Indigenous Spirituality,” at the IX PC (USA) Native American Conference, Ford, WA, November 6-8, 2009.
“Social Witness for the 21rst Century – a Liturgical-Ethical Perspective,” at the Theological Educators for Presbyterian Social Witness Gathering,” Chicago, IL, October 1-4, 2009.
“World Communion, Challenges and Blessings,” Focus on Faith, Independent Presbyterian Church, September, 2009, Birmingham, AL.
“And the Word became flesh,” Preacher at the Big Tent Event PC (U.S.A.) June 11-13, 2009, Atlanta, GA.
“Paul Tillich and Postmodernity,” at the Ecumenical Institute of Graduation, Methodist University, Rudge Ramos, Sao Paulo, February 23, 2009.
Speaker, All African Conference of Churches, Youth Ecumenical Conference, “Liturgy, Life, Poverty and Dignity,” Theological Institute in Maputo. Mozambique, December 2008.
“Coming of Age: Rite and Rituals.” Louisville Center for Interfaith Relations’ 13th annual Festival of Faiths, November 10, 2008.
“Between Babel and Pentecost,” in Young Voices in Homiletics, Festival of Theology, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, March 2008.
“Preaching from the Borders: The Impossibility of Hospitality,” in Young Voices in Homiletics, Festival of Theology, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, March 2008.
Landless Movement, Environment and Social Justice: How the World’s Largest Social Movement is changing Brazil (and the World) in “Mending the Earth Teach In at Louisville Presbyterian theological Seminary,” September 2007.
“Liturgy After Liberation Theology,” at the Anglican Institute for Theological Studies, São Paulo, Brazil, July 2007.
“Speak louder please, Voice, Spiritualities and Minorities”. Delivered at the Valdensian Conference. The Role of Religious Minorities in Pluralistic Societies: A Conference Celebrating the Centennial of the American Waldensian Society, New York City, NY, March, 23-26, 2006.
“The Poor Doesn’t Have Sex: The Blind Spots of Sexualities and the Bodies in the Construction of Subjectivity in Latin American Theologies,” American Academy of Religion (AAR), Program Unit: Religion in Latin American and the Caribbean Group; Seminar: A Theological Post-Colonialist Approach, November, 2005.
“The Spiritual Marks of the Body,” Anglican Institute for Theological Studies, São Paulo, Brazil. July, 2005.
“Religion, Art and Contemporary Culture,” delivered at The Society for the Arts, Religion, and Contemporary Culture, ARC Board Meeting – New York City – May 2005.
“Come Spirit, Come: Art and Reformed Faith,” paper presented at the “Seminar Liturgy and the Postmodern Dialogue” at North America Academy of Liturgy (NAAL) – Louisville, KY, January, 2005.
“Response to Mark C. Taylor’s lecture “Languages that Shape the Soul: The Role of Arts in Theological Education,” Sponsored by The Society for Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture. Fall Symposium. New York City, November 2004.
“Halloween and Christian Religion: The Uncanny, the Parasite and Memory,” Reformation Lecturer on Earth Ritual Movements, sponsored by Auburn Theological Seminary, New York City, October 2004.
“Globalization: The Response of Latin American Theology,” visiting lecturer at New York Theological Seminary, class “Theology and Globalization,” New York City, September 2004.
“The Relations Between Theology, Liturgy and Life in the Twentieth Century,” Anglican Institute for Theological Studies, São Paulo, Brazil, June 2004.
“Gustavo Gutierrez and Latin American Liberation Theology,” St John The Divine Episcopal Church, New York City, May 2004.
“Secular Liturgies: Considerations on Religion-Belief-Ritual,” delivered at the “Seminar Ritual-Language-Action” at North America Academy of Liturgy (NAAL) –New York City, January 2004.
“Mapping the Traces of God in Post-Modern Studies”. Research Group of Religion and Post-Modernism. Methodist University, São Paulo, Brazil, June, 2003.
“Why do we have to scream every time we talk?,” delivered on a panel discussion with Latino/a Theologians and Prof. Dr. Daisy L. Machado, Union Theological Seminary, NYC. April, 2003.
Summer lectures on Theology, Art and Liturgy, Independent Presbyterian Seminary of Sao Paulo, Summer 2003.
Interviews
Fast Chat, Presbyterians Today, December 2009, p. 9.
“Her Dress is Hanging There and We Too,” an interview about Frida Kahlo, published by the University of Unisinos, Brazil, edition no 227, 07/09/2007. http://www.unisinos.br/ihuonline/uploads/edicoes/1184157438.15word.doc
“The Coming Back of Religion. An Interview with Mark C. Taylor”. Published in the following places: Trópico, Idéias de Norte a Sul, a cultural and academic on-line magazine published by UOL, Folha de São Paulo, Brazil, 2006. http://p.php.uol.com.br/tropico/html/textos/2753,1.shl;
Methodist Church of Brazil. August 2006 http://www.metodista.org.br/index.jsp; Margens, Postmodern Religious and Theological Studies in Brazil, Year 2, Number 1. (May, 2006) www.margens.org.br and ARC Newsletter, The Society for Arts, Religion and Contemporary Culture, Fall 2006.
Scholarly Projects in Progress
Early Christian Practices: Liturgical, Theological, Social-Cultural and Economical Approaches. Book Project.
Ritual/Liturgical Religious Practices as Social Resistance. Study Cases: Roman Catholic Eucharistic Ritual in El Salvador, Jewish Prayers at Concentration Camps during Nazism, Buddhist bowl of alms upside down in Burma and Candomblé’s possession in Bahia, Brazil. Book Project.
Immigration and World Religions, Developing a Program Session at AAR
LITURGICAL LEADERSHIP
Chapel Coordinator at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary since 2008.
Worship Coordinator for the Faithful Politics Conference, Montreat, NC, August 2010
Member of the Worship Team that prepared the worship services for the conference Edinburgh 2010, Witnessing to Christ Today that commemorates the World Missionary Conference at Edinburgh in 1910. June 2-6, 2010.
Worship Co-Coordinator and Organizer of all of the worship services of “Africa, Step Forth in Faith,” 9th General Assembly of the All African Council of Churches in Maputo, Mozambique, December 2008.
Liturgical Consultant and Workshop Leader: “World Mission Celebration” October 2009, Pittsburgh.
Liturgical Consultant, “Hospitality in the Household of God,” Fall 2001, Congregations and the Global Church, Worldwide Ministries, PC-USA, World Mission 2007: A Celebration of Grace.” – PC-USA, Fall 2007.
Liturgist, “James Chapel,” Union Theological Seminary, September 2001- May 2007. Led several traditional and contemporary liturgies/performances.
CHURCH AFFILIATION AND RELATED WORK
Pastor, Christ is Life Presbyterian Church, Fall River, MA, USA – April 1997 to July 2001,
Presbytery of Southern New England, PC (USA)
Member of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) since 1999.
Pastor, Vila Romana Independent Presbyterian Church, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1995 to 1997)
Pastor, Cambuci Independent Presbyterian Church, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1994 to 1995).
Ordination, Independent Presbyterian Church of Brazil, 1994
Speaker, Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, visited churches around the country to talk about issues of justice and peace in Brazil, and in US, especially related to the immigrant community, Fall 2002.
Field Consultant, The Office of Immigrant Groups Ministries in the USA, Fall 2000-Fall 2001
Church Event organizer, “The Bible and the Human Rights,” Interfaith gathering in Fall River, MA, Presbytery of Southern New England, November 1999.
Delegate to the General Assembly of the PC (USA). The 25th General Council for World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) uniting the WARC with the Reformed Ecumenical Council. The uniting General Council will give birth to the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC). June 21-28, 2008.
MEMBERSHIP AND AFFILIATIONS
Co-Chair, Hispanic Latino Coalition of Louisville. 2009-2010
Member of the Cross Cultural Connections, Louisville Metro Human Relations Commission, 2008-2009.
Member of Consultation on Common Texts/Revised Common Lectionary. Representing the Presbyterian Church (USA). Since Spring 2008.
Member of the Board of Directors at the Society for the Arts, Religion, and Contemporary Culture since Fall 2005.
Member, The North American Paul Tillich Society 2005-2009.
Chair of the Friends of MST-Landless Movement of Brazil – New York Chapter, 2002-2004.
Member, American Academy of Religion AAR since 2001 (member of the Seminar “Religion and Latin American Studies”).
Member North American Academy of Liturgy since 2008 (member of the Seminar “Emerging Critical Resources for Liturgical Studies”).
Member, Albert Camus Studies Association/Société des Études Camusiennes,1998- 2008
Founding member and member of the Board of Editors of the Postmodern Religious and Theological Studies in Brazil from 2004 to 2007.
Member of the Preaching Excellence Committee that awarded sermons of UTS students, 2004.
General Secretary of the Brazilian Chapter of the Paul Tillich Society, 1995-1997.
Founding member of the Paul Tillich Brazilian Society since 1995.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Fluent in Portuguese (primary language)
Strong in English (second language)
Proficient in reading Spanish; adequate in spoken Spanish;
Reading knowledge of French
Translation Experience
Translator and Cultural Interpreter for the class “Brazilian Seminar” between Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the Methodist Theological Seminary in Rio de Janeiro and the Institute for Theology in Bahia, ITEBA, Brazil – June 29-July 14, 2010;
Translator and Cultural Interpreter for the class, “The Afro-Brazilian Religions of Salvador, Bahia,” between Union Theological Seminary-NYC and the Institute for Higher Education in Bahia-Brazil- ITEBA, in Brazil – August 6-21, 2004;
Translator for a Summer Theological Conference at the Independent Presbyterian Seminary of Sao Paulo, Summer 2003;
Translator and Cultural Interpreter between the Presbytery of Southern New England-USA and Sao Paulo Presbytery-Brazil from 1997 to 2002.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal Website: www.claudiocarvalhaes.com
References Upon Request
