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Lloyd Steffen
Professor of Religion Studies
University Chaplain,
Director, Center for Dialogue, Ethics and Spirituality
Ethics, Philosophy of Religion, Religion and Psychology
Email: lhs1@lehigh.edu
 Phone: (610) 758-3877
Office: The Dialogue Center--Room 202
661 Taylor Street
Office Hours: By appointment
For information about Lloyd Steffen go to:
Lloyd Steffen
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Education
Selected Recent Publications/Writings (2007-09)
Holy War, Just War: Exploring the Moral Meaning of Religious Violence (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007)
Re-Imaging Death and Dying: Proceedings from 6th Global Dying and Death Conference, Dennis Cooley and Lloyd Steffen, eds., Oxford: Inter-disciplinary Press, 2009. (forthcoming)
In Good Conscience: Guidelines for the Ethical Provision of Health Care in a Pluralistic Society (a co-author; information and text of document available at www.rcrc.org.)
"The Presumption of Peace: Where Just War and Non-Violent Resistance Meet (and Diverge), Jason Daverth, ed., Conflict and Conciliation: Faith and Politics in an Age of Global Dissonance (Dublin, Ireland: Columba Press, 2007): 20-38.
"What Religion Contributes to an Environmental Ethic," Environmental Ethics, Vol. 29 (Summer 2007): 193-208.
"Gandhi's Nonviolent Resistance: A Justified Use of Force?", Journal of Philosophy and the Contemporary World 15: 1 (June 2008): 68-80.
"The Death of Innocents: Noncombatant Immunity v. the Divine Fetus," in Layers of Death and Dying, ed. Kate Woodthorpe (Oxford: The Inter- Disciplinary Press, 2007): 97-106.
"Physician Assisted Suicide: A New Approach,” in T. Chandler Haliburton and Caroline Edwards, eds., Mortality, Dying and Death (Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2008): 183-205.
"Demonic Religion and Violence," in Arvind Sharma, ed., The World's Religions after September 11, Vol. I: Religion, War and Peace [Four Volumes], New York: Praeger, 2008: 19-29.
“Warfare Deaths: Ethical and Religious Understanding in the American Context” for Prager Anthology on Religion, Death and Dying in America [Three Volumes], ed. Lucy Bregman.
"The Divine Foetus: Abortion and Absolute Innocence," forthcoming in
edited volume, Rodopi Press (Amsterdam), edited by Asa Kasher,University of Tel-Aviv.
"The Ethics of Physician Assisted Suicide," forthcoming in edited
volume, Rodopi Press (Amsterdam), edited by Asa Kasher, University of Tel-Aviv.
“Nonviolence as Ethical Spirituality: The Case of the Dalai Lama,” Prajña Vihar: Journal of Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 10, no. 2., forthcoming 2009.
"The Ethics of Patient Non-Treatment," Re-Imaging Death and Dying: Proceedings from 6th Global Dying and Death Conference, Dennis Cooley and Lloyd Steffen, eds., Oxford: Inter-disciplinary Press, 2009. (forthcoming). .
Reviews
Review: Thomas Brudholm and Thomas Cushman, eds., The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, forthcoming, CHOICE
Review: Miguel A. De La Torres, Liberating Jonah: Forming an
Ethic of Reconciliation, forthcoming Journal of the Society of Christian
Ethics.
Review: Charlene P. E. Burns, More Moral than God: Taking Responsibility for Religious Violence, CHOICE, Vol. 46, No. 10 (June 2009): 1949.
Review: Bruce B. Lawrence and Aisha Karim, eds., On Violence: A Reader (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), CHOICE, Vol. 45, No. 10 (June 2008): p. 1781.
Review: Ronald Cole-Turner, Design and Destiny: Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification,
(Cambridge: MIT Press, 2008), CHOICE (Vol 45, no. 12, August 2008).
Review: Roger S. Gottlieb, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology, forthcoming, Environmental Ethics.
Review: Judith W. Kay: Murdering Myths: The Story Behind the Death Penalty, Religious Studies Review, Vol. 33, no. 3
(July 2007): 227.
Review: David L. Clough & Brian Stiltner, Faith and Force: A Christian Debate About War (Washington, D.C.:
Georgetown University Press, 2007), CHOICE (Vol. 45, no. 06, February 2008): p. 994.
Public Writings
"Why Spiritual Life is Not a
Competition,” The Morning Call, Faith
and Values Column, Saturday, August 8, 2009: p. GO 7.
web published at:
http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/all-faithsteffen.6977951aug08,0,6393957.story
“Reflecting on Justice and Forgiveness,” The Morning Call, “Faith and Values" Column, Saturday, April 11, 2009: p. D7, D9.
web published at: http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/all-d7_faithsteffen.6846565apr11,0,7967963.story
“Tough Questions at Christmas,” The Morning Call, “Faith and Values" Column, Saturday, December 20, 2008: p. D6, D7.
web published at: http://www.mcall.com/features/religion/all-faithsteffen.6709960dec20,0,5349952.story
"Living the Questions," The Morning Call, "Faith and Values" Column, Saturday, September 13, 2008: D 7.
“Dalai Lama tells us to ‘Reprioritize, Revalue," The Morning Call, Wednesday, July 9, 2008: A 13. (web published several places
internationally, (e.g. http://www.tibet.ca/en/newsroom/wtn/3097, http://temp.phayul.com/news/article.aspx?id=21906&t=1&c=4.
"The Prophetic Voice and the Problem of Cultural Difference,” The Morning Call, Saturday, May 10, 2008: D7, D9.
“The Spiritual Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.”, The Morning Call, “Faith and Values Column,” Saturday, January 19, 2008: D7, D9.
Reprinted various places on web, e.g.,: http://blackpoliticsontheweb.com/?p=459.
“Time Out to Reexamine Executions,” Express-Times, Thursday, October 18, 2007: A6.
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“Mother Teresa’s Saintly Struggles,” The Morning Call, Saturday, September 15, 2007: D7, D9.
“Rethinking Suffering,” The Morning Call, Saturday, May 19, 2007: D9, 11.
“What Makes A Prophet?” Faith and Values Column ( “People with good will. . . .”), The Morning Call, Saturday, February
17, 2007: D9, D11.
Talks and Lectures 2008
Biography
Courses Taught
For information about activities of the Chaplain's Office and Steffen's role as University Chaplain, please go to Chaplain's Office.
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