凯瑟琳泰乐

Dr. 凯瑟琳泰乐 is the 牧师. H. James Yamauchi, S.J. Professor of the 历史 of 宗教s at Loyola University 新奥尔良. 她是该组织的联合主任 Loyola Himalaya Adventure: Summer Study in Dharamsala, India program. She is director of the 宗教与媒体 Minor.  Her primary research and teaching areas are women in religions, 新兴宗教运动, 宗教与媒体, and Tibetan and Indian religions. Her articles in journals and chapters in edited books include history of religions and theoretical treatments of women and religion, 千禧年主义, 新兴宗教运动, 宗教和暴力.

2000年至今. Wessinger has served as co-general editor of Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent 宗教s published by University of California Press. 

Dr. Wessinger是the的编辑 Women in 宗教s series at New York University Press.

她是该组织的联合主任 Women in the World’s 宗教s and Spirituality Project, which is part of the World 宗教s and Spirituality Project online encyclopedia and archive.

Dr. Wessinger has published ten books. 她是……的作者 Annie Besant and Progressive Millennialism (1988); and How the Millennium Comes Violently: From Jonestown to Heaven’s Gate (2000). 她是 Women's Leadership in Marginal 宗教s: Explorations Outside the Mainstream (1993); Religious Institutions and Women's Leadership: New Roles Inside the Mainstream (1996); Millennialism, Persecution, and Violence: Historical Cases (2000); and Oxford Handbook of Millennialism (2011). Her oral history project with surviving Branch Davidians produced three autobiographies, 她编辑过: Memories of the Branch Davidians: Autobiography of David Koresh's Mother, by Bonnie Haldeman (2007); When They Were Mine: Memoirs of a Branch Davidian Wife and Mother，希拉·马丁(Sheila Martin)著(2009); A Journey to Waco: Autobiography of a Branch Davidian, by Clive Doyle with 凯瑟琳泰乐 and Matthew D. Wittmer.  This oral history project has continued on 她的YouTube频道l. 她最近的书是 Theory of Women in 宗教s (2020)

She is currently writing a book on the Branch Davidian-Federal Agents Conflict for the Cambridge Elements Series on 宗教 and Violence and writing a book on Women in New Religious Movements for the Cambridge Elements Series on New Religious Movements.

最近的出版物

• Theory of Women in 宗教s. New York: New York University Press, 2020.
• “The FBI’s ‘Cult War’ against the Branch Davidians.” In The FBI and 宗教: Faith and National Security Before and After 9/11, ed. 西尔维斯特一. Johnson and Steven Weitzman, 203-43. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017.
• “千禧年主义.” In The Bloomsbury Companion to New Religious Movements, ed. 乔治·维. Chryssides和Benjamin E. 西,133 - 48. 伦敦:Bloomsbury出版社，2014.
• 启示录与暴力.” In The Oxford Handbook of Apocalyptic Literature, ed. 约翰J. 柯林斯,422 - 40. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
• “The Second Generation Leaders of the Theosophical Society (Adyar).” In Brill Handbook of the Theosophical Current, ed. Olav Hammer and Mikael Rothstein, 33-50. Brill Handbooks on Contemporary 宗教 series. 莱顿:Brill, 2013.

授课

• 世界宗教
• Cults and 宗教s (Honors)
• Contemporary Issues and Conflicts in World 宗教s (Honors)
• 世界宗教中的女性
• Tibetan and Indian 宗教s
• 基督教中的女性
• Women in 宗教s and Cultures
• 印度通往上帝之路
• 佛教
• 亚洲宗教
• 宗教与媒体
• 宗教, Media and Culture
• 新宗教与媒体
• Religious Responses to Disaster
• 年研讨会
• Fundamentals of Conflict and Peace (team-taught)
• 新奥尔良 宗教s: Before and After Katrina (First-Year Experience seminar)