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Margaret R. Miles
President of the American Academy of Religion
In office
1999–2000
Preceded byJudith Plaskow
Succeeded byNinian Smart
Dean of the Graduate Theological Union
In office
1996–2001
Personal details
Born (1937-05-18) May 18, 1937 (age 87)
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma mater
Occupation
  • Theologian
  • historian
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1982)
Academic background
ThesisAugustine's idea of the meaning and value of the body in relation to the whole personality (1977)
Academic work
Discipline
  • Theology
  • History of religion
Institutions

Margaret Ruth Miles (born May 18, 1937) is an American theologian and historian who was president of the American Academy of Religion in 1999 and dean of the Graduate Theological Union from 1996 to 2001. A 1982 Guggenheim Fellow, she has written and edited dozens of books, including Augustine on the Body (1979), Image as Insight (1985), Immaculate and Powerful (1985), Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture (1987), Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies (1997), Plotinus on Body and Beauty (1999), Carnal Knowing (2006), Desire and Delight (2006), and A Complex Delight (2008).

Biography

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Margaret Ruth Miles was born on May 18, 1937, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.[1] After obtaining her BA (1969) and MA (1971) in San Francisco State University, she worked as an instructor at Columbia College and Modesto Junior College.[1] She obtained her PhD from the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in 1977;[1] her dissertation was named St. Augustine's idea of the meaning and value of the body in relation to the whole personality.[2] In 1979, her dissertation was republished as Augustine on the Body as part of the American Academy of Religion Dissertation Series.[3][4]

Miles moved to Harvard Divinity School (HDS), where she was Assistant Professor of Theology from 1978 to 1981, when she was promoted to Associate Professor.[1] In 1985, she was granted tenure, the first woman at HDS to be so.[5] She also served as HDS' department of theology.[6] She later returned to her alma mater GTU, where she worked as their dean from 1996 to 2001.[6] In addition, she worked at the American Baptist Seminary of the West as a professor of historical theology.[6]

In 1982, Miles was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship[7] for "a study of visual formulations of Christian theology in the Middle Ages";[1] this fellowship funded her book Image as Insight.[8] She edited two volumes with Clarissa W. Atkinson and Constance Buchanan: Immaculate and Powerful (1985) and Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture (1987).[9][10] She later wrote several academic books on religion: Seeing and Believing: Religion and Values in the Movies (1997), Plotinus on Body and Beauty (1999), The Word Made Flesh (2004), A Complex Delight (2008), and On Memory, Marriage, Tears and Meditation (2021).[11][12][13][14][15] In 1999, she was president of the American Academy of Religion.[16] She has also released several religion books through Wipf and Stock, including Carnal Knowing (2006) and Desire and Delight (2006).[17][18][19]

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  1. ^ a b c d e Reports of the President and of the Treasurer. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. 1982. p. 75.
  2. ^ Miles, Margaret R. (1977). St. Augustine's idea of the meaning and value of the body in relation to the whole personality (PhD thesis). Graduate Theological Union. OCLC 9614859.
  3. ^ Miles, Margaret R. (2009). Augustine on the Body. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. i. ISBN 978-1-60899-195-2.
  4. ^ a b Wright, David F. (1981). "Review of Augustine on the Body. (American Academy of Religion Dissertation Series, 31.)". The Journal of Theological Studies. 32 (2): 524–526. doi:10.1093/jts/32.2.524-a. ISSN 0022-5185. JSTOR 23959400.
  5. ^ "Two Hundred Years of Milestones". Harvard Divinity Bulletin. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
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  7. ^ "Margaret R. Miles". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved December 5, 2024.
  8. ^ Miles, Margaret R. (2006). Image as Insight: Visual Understanding in Western Christianity and Secular Culture. Wipf and Stock Publishers. p. xiii. ISBN 978-1-7252-1753-9.
  9. ^ a b Barstow, Anne (1988). "Review of Eve: The History of an Idea; Immaculate and Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality". Signs. 13 (3): 566–569. doi:10.1086/494435. ISSN 0097-9740. JSTOR 3174175.
  10. ^ a b Carmody, Denise Lardner (1989). "Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture". Horizons. 16 (1): 195–196. doi:10.1017/S036096690004038X. ISSN 0360-9669 – via Cambridge University Press.
  11. ^ "Seeing and Believing by Margaret Ruth Miles". Penguin Random House. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  12. ^ "Plotinus on Body and Beauty: Society, Philosophy, and Religion in Third-Century Rome". philpapers.org. Blackwell. 1999. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  13. ^ "The Word Made Flesh: A History of Christian Thought". Wiley. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  14. ^ "A Complex Delight by Margaret R. Miles – Hardcover". University of California Press. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  15. ^ "On Memory, Marriage, Tears and Meditation". Bloomsbury. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  16. ^ "Presidents of the AAR". American Academy of Religion. Retrieved December 6, 2024.
  17. ^ "Carnal Knowing". Wipf and Stock. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
  18. ^ "Desire and Delight". Wipf and Stock. Retrieved December 7, 2024.
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  23. ^ Dixon, John W. (1990). "Image as Insight". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 58 (2): 267–276. doi:10.1093/jaarel/LVIII.2.267. ISSN 0002-7189. JSTOR 1464537.
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  27. ^ Berling, Judith A. (1987). "Two Steps Forward in the Study of Women". History of Religions. 26 (3): 329–332. doi:10.1086/463084. ISSN 0018-2710. JSTOR 1062380.
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  30. ^ Clavcric, Elisabeth (1989). "Review of Immaculate and Powerful. The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality. The Harvard Women's Studies in Religion Series". Archives de sciences sociales des religions. 34 (68.2): 197–198. ISSN 0335-5985. JSTOR 41623418.
  31. ^ Hartung, Beth (1988). "Review of Immaculate and Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality". Sociological Analysis. 49 (1): 82–83. doi:10.2307/3711111. ISSN 0038-0210. JSTOR 3711111.
  32. ^ Rabuzzi, Kathryn Allen (1987). "Review of Immaculate and Powerful: The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 55 (2): 373–374. doi:10.1093/jaarel/LV.2.373. ISSN 0002-7189. JSTOR 1464499.
  33. ^ Goldenberg, Naomi R. (1990). "Review of Shaping New Vision: Gender and Values in American Culture; Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols". Signs. 15 (4): 874–878. doi:10.1086/494639. ISSN 0097-9740. JSTOR 3174653.
  34. ^ Maas, Robin (1990). "Practicing Christianity: Critical Perspectives for an Embodied Spirituality by Margaret R. Miles (review)". The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review. 54 (1): 155–159. doi:10.1353/tho.1990.0050. ISSN 2473-3725 – via Project Muse.
  35. ^ Riley, P. Boo (1990). "Practicing Christianity: Critical Perspectives for an Embodied Spirituality". Horizons. 17 (2): 331–332. doi:10.1017/S0360966900020399. ISSN 0360-9669 – via Cambridge University Press.
  36. ^ Jantzen, Grace (March 1, 1990). "Book Review: The Image and Practice of Holiness: A Critique of the Classic Manuals of Devotion". Theology. 93 (752): 167–168. doi:10.1177/0040571X9009300220. ISSN 0040-571X – via SageJournals.
  37. ^ Squire, Aelred (1990). "Review of 'The Image and Practice of Holiness'". New Blackfriars. 71 (839): 313–314. doi:10.1017/S0028428900027438. ISSN 0028-4289. JSTOR 43248795.
  38. ^ Ziolkowski, Eric (1999). "Review of Reading for Life: Beauty, Pluralism, and Responsibility". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 67 (3): 686–688. doi:10.1093/jaarel/67.3.686. ISSN 0002-7189. JSTOR 1466222.
  39. ^ Makarushka, Irena (1998). "Values Made in Hollywood". CrossCurrents. 48 (2): 270–273. ISSN 0011-1953. JSTOR 24460724.
  40. ^ Martin, Joel W. (1997). "Review of Seeing and Believing: Religion and Value in the Movies". Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 65 (2): 498–501. doi:10.1093/jaarel/65.2.498. ISSN 0002-7189. JSTOR 1465779.
  41. ^ Williams, Peter W.; Ostwalt, Conrad E. (2000). "Review Essay: Religion Goes to the Movies". Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. 10 (2): 225–239. ISSN 1052-1151. JSTOR 1123947.
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