BRAZAL, AGNES M.

BRAZAL, AGNES M.
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AGNES M. BRAZAL is 2017 D’Angelo Visiting Chair of Humanities at St. Johns University, New York, and William Duffy Lecture Series Chair at Boston College, Boston. Among her publications are her books A Theology of Southeast Asia (Orbis, 2019) and Intercultural Church (Borderless Press, 2015) and eight co-edited books, the latest of which are: Living with (out) Borders (Orbis, 2016), The Second Plenary Council of the Philippines (AdMU, 2016) Church in an Age of Global Migration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), and Theology and Power (Paulist Press, 2016). Her awards include 3rd place in the category of immigration, 2017 Catholic Press Association Book Award for the anthology Living with(out) Borders, finalist in the 2007 National Book Award granted by the Manila Critics Circle and the National Book Development Board for the anthology Body and Sexuality, and the 2003 MWI (Institute of Missiology, Missio, Aachen) prize for the international academic essay contest on Contextual Theology and Philosophy on the theme “Religious Identity and Migration”. She is past President and founding member of the DaKaTeo (Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines) and the first coordinator of the Ecclesia of Women in Asia (association of Catholic women theologians in Asia). She obtained her STL/MA and STD/PhD in Theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.