Tom Beaudoin

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Professor Beaudoin studies how environments and practices considered religious/spiritual/sacred work in a world of diverse peoples, values, and ways of life. His research areas include theologies, philosophies, and religious studies of practice; religious affiliation/disaffiliation; spiritual exercises; popular music; sacred architecture in secular/postsecular contexts; Pantheon (Rome) studies; practical theology. 

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  • M.T.S., Harvard University
    Ph.D., Boston College

  • Theologies, philosophies, and religious studies of practice; Comparative spiritual exercises; Concepts and practices of religious disaffiliation/affiliation; Experiences of ultimacy: religious, spiritual, and secular; Popular music in theological and religious studies.

  • Virtual Faith: The Irreverent Spiritual Quest of Generation X (Simon and Schuster, 1998)

    Consuming Faith: Integrating Who We Are With What We Buy (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003)

    Witness to Dispossession: The Vocation of a Postmodern Theologian (Orbis, 2008)

    Secular Music and Sacred Theology, editor (Liturgical Press, 2013)

    “Postmodern Practical Theology,” in Kathleen Cahalan and Gordon Mikoski (eds.), Opening the Field of Practical Theology: An Introduction (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)

    “White Practical Theology” (co-authored with Katherine Turpin), in Kathleen Cahalan and Gordon Mikoski (eds.), Opening the Field of Practical Theology: An Introduction (Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)

    “Afterword: Reflections from Ecclesiology and Practical Theology” (co-authored with Bradford Hinze), in Christine Firer Hinze and J. Patrick Hornbeck II (eds.), More Than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church, Volume 1: Voices of Our Times (Fordham University Press, 2014)

    “Why Does Practice Matter Theologically?” in Joyce Ann Mercer and Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore (eds.), Conundrums in Practical Theology (Brill, 2016)

    "Secular Catholic Families and Ethics: New Questions, New Answers," in Julie Hanlon Rubio and Jason King (eds.), Love, Sex and Families: Catholic Ethics (Liturgical Press, 2019) [forthcoming]

  • Foundations of Practical Theology

    Faith in Music

    Spiritual Exercises Across Religions and Cultures

    Doctoral Research Seminar

    M.A. Integrating Seminar

    Theology of Ministry

Contact Information

441 East Fordham Road
Keating Hall 303
Bronx, NY 10458

718-817-4800
[email protected]

Thomas Beaudoin Curriculum Vitae

Tom Beaudoin 

Professor, Division of Educational Leadership, Administration, and Policy

Joint Appointment as Professor in the Department of Theology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences

441 East Fordham Road 

New York, New York 10458-9993, USA 

718.817.5965 | [email protected] 

https://sites.google.com/site/tmbeaudoin 

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