Stokes Hall 347N
Telephone: 617-552-3070
Email: megan.ulishney@bc.edu
Monographs
Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference (Oxford University Press, 2023)
Journal articles and contributions to edited volumes
“Biocultural Evolution, Play, and Theological Aesthetics,”Heythrop Journal(forthcoming Spring 2025)
“Restoration of Abundance: Feyerabend, Mysticism, and Science-Engaged Theology,”Theology and Science(forthcoming Fall 2024)
“Theological Anthropology After Darwin,” inOxford Handbook of Theological Anthropology, eds. Ashley Moyse, Jens Zimmermann,Oxford University Press (forthcoming)
“Creaturely Agency in Evolution and Theology,” inGod and the Book of Nature: Experiments in Theology of Science, ed. Mark Harris,Routledge Science and Religion Series (Routledge, 2023)
“Gender as Context in Science and Religion: ‘Natural’ Sexual Difference as a Case Study,”Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences9, no. 2 (2022)
“The Evolution ofHomo Ludens: Sexual Selection and a Theology of Play,”ܲⲵDz57, no. 3 (2022)
“Unity in theMassa Peccati: Original Sin and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis,” inEmerging Voices in Science and Theology: Contributions from Young Women, eds. Alister McGrath and Bethany Sollereder,Routledge Science and Religion series (Routledge, 2022).
“Augustine and the Gendered Self in Time,” inAugustine and Time, eds. Sean Hannan, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021).
“Visiting Iniquity Upon the Generations: Epigenetics, Systems Biology, and Theologies of Inherited Sin,”Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences7, no. 2 (2020).
“Teresa of Avila on Theology and Shame,”New Blackfriars99, no. 1081 (2018).
“A Theologian Standing with God in the World: Developments in Schillebeeckx’s Epistemology and Implications for Feminist Theology,” inSalvation in the World: The Crossroads of Public Theology,eds. Stephan van Erp, Christiane Alpers, Christopher Cimorelli (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2017).
“The Rise of Fundamentalisms and the Concept of Sin,”Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review105, no. 422 (2017).
“Created Sick, Commanded to Be Sound: Augustine on Original Sin After Darwin,”Tijdschrift voor Theologie55 (2015) (online edition).
“Taking Her Stand Beyond All Earthly Hierarchies: Teresa of Avila, Gender Performance, and Contemplative Prayer,”The Sword: A Journal of Historical, Spiritual, and Contemporary Carmelite Issues75 (2015).
Grants
Principal Investigator:Spiritual Naturalism: Nature Spiritualities and EcologicalAction among the“spiritual-but-not-religious”(2024-2027, John Templeton Foundation).
Co-principal investigator:Biocultural Evolution and TheologicalAnthropology(2022-2023, John Templeton Foundation).