OFFICE:                                Iliff School of Theology
2201 University Blvd.

Denver, CO 80210

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SINGLE-AUTHORED           Genesis: A Theological Commentary on the BOOK                                    Bible, Westminster John Knox Press,
PUBLICATIONS:                  forthcoming in 2012.

Latino/a Social Justice: Moving Beyond Eurocentric Moral Thinking, Baylor University Press, forthcoming in 2010.                        

Trails of Hope and Terror: Testimonies on the Current Immigration Debate, Orbis Books, 2009.

Liberating Jonah: Toward a Biblical Ethics of
            Reconciliation, Orbis Books, 2007.  

A Lily Among the Thorns: Imagining a New Christian Sexuality, Jossey-Bass, 2007.                                                                      

Leer la Biblia desde los Marginados, Ediciones
                                                Mensajero, 2005.

Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins, Orbis
                                                Books, 2004.

Santería: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing 
                                                Religion in America, Wm.B. Eerdmans
                                                Publishing Co., 2004.

La Lucha for Cuba: Religion and Politics on the Streets of Miami, University of California Press, 2003.

The Quest for the Cuban Christ: A Historical
                                                Search, University Press of Florida, 2002.

Reading the Bible from the Margins, Orbis
                                                Books, 2002.

Ajiaco Christianity: Toward an Exilic Cuban Ethic of Reconciliation, Ph.D. diss., Temple University, 1999.

MULTI-AUTHORED            Introducing Hispanic Ethics, co-authored with

BOOK PUBLICATIONS:     Maria Teresa Davila, Ismael Garcia, and Hugo Magallanes, Abington Press, forthcoming in 2011.

The Quest for the Historical Satan, co-authored with Albert Hernandez, Fortress Press, forthcoming in 2011.

Introducing Latino/a Theologies, co-authored with Edwin Aponte, Orbis Books, 2001. 

EDITED                                  Beyond the Pale: Reading Christian Theology

BOOKS:                                 from the Margins, co-edited with Stacy Floyd-Thomas, Westminster John Knox Press, 2012.

                                                Beyond the Pale: Reading Christian Ethics from the Margins, co-edited with Stacy Floyd-Thomas, Westminster John Knox Press, 2011.

                                                Out of the Shadows, Into the Light: Christianity
                                                and Homosexuality Chalice Press, 2009. 
                         

            The Hope of Liberation within World Religions,
                                                Baylor University Press, 2008.

AAR Career Guide for Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession,  American Academy of Religion, 2007.

Rethinking Latino/a Religion and Ethnicity, co-                                                edited with Gaston Espinosa, Pilgrim Press,
                                                2006.

Handbook on Latino/a Theologies, co-edited
                                                with Edwin Aponte, Chalice Press, 2006.

Handbook on U.S. Theologies of Liberation, Chalice Press, 2004.

ENCYCLOPEDIA                 Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious 

EDITOR:                               Culture, Volume 2, ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2009.

                                                Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious 
                                                Culture, Volume 1, ABC-CLIO Publishers,
                                                2009.  

JOURNAL                              Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion, Sopher EDITOR:                                Press, since January, 2010.  
                                                http://www.raceandreligion.com/.

                                                Pray for Elián, Elián González: The Critical
                                                Reader, Paul Allatson, ed.  University of
                                                Wisconsin Press, forthcoming in 2011.          

Constructing a Cuban-Centric Christ, Jesus in the Hispanic Community, Harold Recinos and Hugo Magallanes, eds., Westminster John Knox Press, (2010): 58-73.

Beyond Machismo: A Cuban Case Study, Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism: A Critical Reader, Björn Krondorfer, ed., SCM-Canterbury Press, (2009): 444-59.

                                                Dancing with Ochún: Imagining How a Black
                                               Goddess Became White, Black Religion and
                                               Aesthetics: Religious Thought and Life in Africa
                                               and the African Diaspora, Anthony Pinn, ed.,
                                               Cambridge University Press, (2009): 113-34.

Confessions of a Latino Macho: From Gay Basher to Gay Ally, Out of the Shadows and into the Light: Struggling with the Sin of Heterosexuality, Chalice Press, (2009): 59-75. 

Pastoral Care from the Margins: The Hispanic Community, Injustice and the Care of Souls: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care, Sheryl Kujawa-Holbrook and Karen Montagno, eds., Fortress Press, (2009): 59-72.

Dealing with Diversity, Best Advice: Wisdom on Ministry from 30 Leading Pastors and Preachers, William J. Carl III, ed., Westminster John Knox Press, (2009): 57-62. 

For Immigrants, Church and Public Life: An
                                                Agenda for Change, Rebecca Todd Peters and
                                                Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, eds., Westminster
                                                John Knox Press, (2008): 73-84. 

For Strength to Fight for Justice, Prayers for The New Social Awakening: Inspired by the New Social Creed, Chistian Iosso and Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty, eds., Westminster John Knox Press, (2008): 65-66.  

Introduction, Seeking Liberation within World Religions, Baylor University Press, (2008): 1-12.

Religion and Religiosity, Latino/as in the U.S.: Changing the Face of America, Havidán Rodríguez, Rogelio Saenz, and Cecilia Menjivar, eds., Springer Publishing, (2007): 225-40.          

Dealing with Difficult Issues, AAR Career Guide.  Miguel A. De La Torre, ed., American Academy of Religion, (2007): 111-36.

Job Search, AAR Career Guide.  Co-authored with Mary C. Campbell, Miguel A. De La Torre, ed., American Academy of Religion, (2007): 27-48.

Rethinking Mulatez, Rethinking Latino/a Religion and Ethnicity, Miguel A. De La Torre and Gaston Espinosa, Pilgrim Press, (2006):158-75.

Religion and Power in the Study of Hispanic Religions, Rethinking Latino/a Religion and Ethnicity, Miguel A. De La Torre and Gaston Espinosa, eds., Pilgrim Press, (2006):286-98.

Alternative Traditions, Co-authored with Edwin Aponte, Edwin Aponte and Miguel A. De La Torre, eds., Handbook on Latino/a Theologies, Chalice Press, (2006): 206-11.

Pray for Elián: Religion, Politics, and Power in Miami, Hispanic Churches in American Public Life, Gaston Espinosa, ed., Oxford Press, (2005): 249-62.

Cuban Religiosity, entry in A Handbook of the U.S. Latina/o Experience, Hector Avalos, ed., Brill Academic Publishers (2004): 66-85.

Scripture, Handbook of U.S. Theologies of Liberation, Miguel A. De La Torre, ed., Chalice Press, (2004): 85-100.

Afterword, Papal Overtures in a Cuban Key:
                                                The Pope=s Visit and Civic Space for Cuban
                                                Religion, Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo, ed., The
                                                University of Scranton Press, (2002): 125-36.

                                                 La funcion del barrio en la doctrina del pecado
                                                 original, Mas Voces de la Iglesia Hispana, Luis
                                                 G. Pedraja, ed., Arbingdon Press, (2001): 81-94.

Constructing our Cuban Ethnic Identity while in
                                                Babylon, A Dream Unfinished: Theological
                                                Reflections on America from the Margins,

Fernando F. Segovia and Eleazar Fernandez
                                                eds., Orbis Books, (2001): 185-202. 

                                                Cubans in Babylon: Exodus and Exile, Religion,
                                                Culture and Tradition in the Caribbean,
                                                Hemchand Gossai and Nathaniel Samuel
                                                Murrell, eds.,  St. Martins Press, (2000): 73-91.

Miami and the Babylonian Captivity, Sacred Text, Secular Times: The Hebrew Bible in the Modern World, Leonard Greenspoon and Bryan F. Le Beau, eds., Fordham University Press, (2000): 267-282.

ARTICLE                              Why a Journal Like This, Journal of Race, 

PUBLICATIONS:                 Ethnicity, and Religion, Vol. 1, No. 1 (January,
                                               2010): 1-11.                  
 

                                                A Christian Bioethicial Response to Health Care
                                                for Hispanics, American Journal of Bioethics,
                                               Vol. 8, No. 10 (October, 2008).

                                                On Being the Academic Other, “Diversifying Knowledge Production: The Other within Christianity,” AAR Spotlight on Teaching, Vol. 22, No. 4 (October, 2007): ii, xi.

                                                Living on the Borders, The Ecumenical Review,
                                                Vol. 59, No 2-3 (April/July 2007): 214-20.

Career Guide for Racial and Ethnic Minorities,
                                                Religious Studies News, Vol. 21, No. 3 (May
                                                2006): 10, 26.

AAR Produces Career Guide for Racial and
                                               Ethnic Minorities, Religious Studies News, Vol.
                                               20, No. 4 (October 2005): 13, 19.

                                               Response to Houlden=s Book Review,
                                               Conversations in Religion andTheology, Vol 1,
                                               No. 1 (May 2003): 8-11.

The Challenge of Lazarus,  Celebration: An
                                                Ecumenical Worship Resource, Vol. 31, No. 3
                                                (March 2003): 99-100.

Martí=s Contribution to the Construction of the Cuban Christ, APUNTES, Year 22, No. 3, (Fall, 2002): 84-106.

Evangelism: A Hispanic Perspective, Church and
                                                Society, Vol. 92, No. 3 (January/February 2002):
                                                11-24.

Ochún: [N]either the [M]Other of All Cubans, 
                                                [N]or the Bleached Virgin, Journal of the
                                                American Academy of Religion, Vol. 69, No. 4
                                               (December, 2001): 837-61.

Confesiones de un macho cubano, Prespectivas, No. 4 (Summer, 2001): 65-87.

                                                The Quest for the Historical Hispanic Christ,
                                                Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought,
                                                Vol. 14, No. 10 (December 1999): 5-8.

Beyond Machismo, The Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics, Vol. 19 (1999): 213-33.

A Preferential Option for McDonalds, APUNTES, Year 19, No. 2, (Summer, 1999): 51-59.

Masking Hispanic Racism: A Cuban Case Study,
                                                Journal of Hispanic/Latino Theology, Vol. 6, No.
                                                4 (May 1999): 57-73.

Book Review of Teología en Conjunto, by José D. Rodríguez and Loida I. Martell-Otero.  Koinonia, X: 2 (Fall 1998): 256-58.

Cubans Reading Psalm 137, The Schuykill, Vol.
                                                1, No. 2, Feb/Mar 1998.

Toward Cuban Reconciliation: An Ajiaco
                                                Philosophical Foundation, Koinonia, IX: 1 & 2
                                                (Spring/Fall 1997): 58-78.

The Role of the Barrio in the Doctrine of Original Sin, APUNTES, Year 16, No. 3, (Fall, 1996): 78-90.

REFERENCE ENTRIES:      Afro-Caribbean Religions, entry in Cambridge History of Religion in Latin America, ed. by Virginia Garrard-Burnett and Paul Freston, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2011.

Three Lectionary entries for Oct. 9-15, for Preaching Social Justice from the Lectionary: Years A, B, and C, ed. by Ronald J. Allen, Dale P. Andrews, and Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm, Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming in 2011.

                                                Conscientization, Liberation Ethics, and Praxis, entries in Dictionary of Scripture and Ethics, ed. by Joel Green, Baker Academics, forthcoming in 2010.

                                                Ephesians 1:15-23; 1 Peter 3:13-22; and 1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:5-11, theological entries for Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, eds., Westminster John Knox Press, forthcoming in 2010.

Santería, entry in Encyclopedia on Religion in America, Charles Lippy and Peter Williams, eds., CQ Press, forthcoming in 2010.

Latino/as, entry in Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Daniel Patte, ed., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming in 2010.

Thirty entries in Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious Culture, Volume 1, Miguel A. De La Torre, ed., ABC-CLIO Publishers, (2009): xii-xxi, 15, 17, 26-28, 30, 36-38, 110, 124, 131, 153, 156-58, 157, 161, 166, 171-75, 209-12, 220-24, 230-36, 231, 236, 256, 263, 277, 299, 315, 325-27, 346-48, 347, 371, 373.

Twenty-five entries in Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious Culture, Volume 2, Miguel A. De La Torre, ed., ABC-CLIO Publishers, (2009): 400, 411, 441, 443, 447-49, 454-56, 489-91, 498-501, 499, 503, 505, 513-15, 515-17, 518-25, 522, 524, 538-39, 539-41, 561-63, 717, 720, 721, 729, 752.

Fifty biblical expositions in The People=s Bible: New Revised Standard Version with the Aprocrypha, ed. by Curtiss Paul DeYoung, Wilda C. Gafney, Leticia A. Guardiola-S<enz, George Tinker, and Frank M. Yamada, Fortress Press, (2008): 1415, 1417, 1419, 1423, 1434, 1436, 1453, 1460, 1462, 1473-75, 1477, 1486-88, 1490, 1498-99, 1501, 1503, 1509, 1512, 1519-20, 1538-39, 1543, 1547, 1552, 1555, 1579, 1590, 1596, 1603, 1607, 1625-26, 1633, 1637, 1638, 1657, 1668, 1672, 1682, 1702, 1723, 1728.

Social Ethics 3: Latin America, entry in The Encyclopedia of Christianity, Vol. 5, Erwin Fahlbusch, et al., eds., William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company & Brill, (2008): 54-57.

Propaganda: Antireligious (Cuban), entry in The
                                                New Encyclopedia of Unbelief, Tom Flynn, ed.,
                                                Prometheus Books (2007): 620-21.

Eleven dictionary entries in The Westminster Dictionary of Theologians, Justo L. González, ed. Westminster John Knox Press (2006): 96, 98, 126, 166, 169, 172-173, 178-179, 351.                         

Eleven dictionary entries in Diccionario de
                                                teólogos y teólogas, Justo L. González, ed.,
                                                Kairos Press (2004): 133, 137, 168, 226, 230, 
                                                232-34, 239-41, 473.

Cuban American Religious Communities, entry in Religion and American Cultures: An Encyclopedia of Traditions, Diversity, and Popular Expressions, Vol. 1, Gary Laderman and Luis León, eds., Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO Publishers (2003): 187-191.

BOOK SERIES                      New Perspectives in Latino/a Religion, 12 

EDITOR:                                volume-set, Baylor University Press, forthcoming in 2010-2016.   Books include:

a) Edwin D. Aponte, Protestant Churches from a Latina/o Perspectives: Understanding Latino/a Evangélico/a, Evangelical, Pentecostal, and Mainline Protestants

 
b) Jorge Aquino, Racism from a Latina/o Perspective: Nation-Building and Religious Identity in Our America
 
c) Maria Teresa Dávila, Economic Mobility from a Latina/o Perspective: The Latina/o Middle Class and the Option for the Poor
 
d) Alberto Hernandez, Spirituality from a Latina/o Perspective: Encountering God at the Margins
 
e) Hajmil Martinez-Vazquez, Religious History from a Latina/o Perspective: New Methodologies in the Search for Memory

DOCUMENTARIES:             Who is my Neighbor, interviewed on the documentary dealing with the immigration dilemma, produced by the Colorado Council of Churches, 2008.

                                                Beneath the Skin: Baptists and Racism, interviewed on the documentary dealing with the racism within Baptist churches, produced by the Ethics Daily, 2008.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES:   2003- present.  Syndicated column for Ethics Daily, appearing bi-monthly on a Baptist run website: www.ethicsdaily.com

2008-2010.  Syndicated column for Associate Baptist Press, appearing bi-                           monthly on a Baptist run website: www.abpnews.com

2002 - 2005.    Syndicated column for the Holland Sentinel, appearing bi-monthly in the Editorial Section.

2000-2001.        Syndicated column for the Holland Sentinel, co-authored with Deborah De La Torre and titled Salsa for the Soul, appearing bi-monthly in the Saturday Religion Section.

NEWS SPOKESPERSON:     Dr. De La Torre has been an expert commentator concerning ethical issues on several media outlets including, but not limited to: CNN News, CNN Saturday Night with Rick Sanchez, CNN en español, Univision News, Telemundo News, NPR Michigan, NPR North Carolina, Time Magazine, The Miami Herald, The LA Times, The New York Post, Dallas News, The Houston Chronicle, The Denver Post, Grand Rapids Press, The Washington Times, The Orlando Sentinel, and The Winston-Salem Journal.  In addition, Dr. De La Torre has appeared in international media outlets including, but not limited to: Mexico City=s La Prensa, Canada=s The Ottawa Citizen, and  The Kuwait Times.

HONORS:      2005                Received the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for Santería: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America.

2005                Received an Honorable Mention in Educational Books by the Catholic Press      Association  of the United States and Canada for Doing Christian Ethics        from the Margins.

2005                Received ForeWord Magazine=s Book of the Year Finalist Award for Santería: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America.

2004                Summer Writing Grant from Hope College ($3,600).

2003                Received First Place in Educational Books by the Catholic Press Association  of the United States and Canada for Reading the Bible from the Margins.

2003                McGregor Award ($2,000).

2002                "Outstanding Hispanic Educator" award by the Michigan Hispanic Legislative Caucus.

2002                Faculty Fund for Faith ($4000 + a semester sabbatical).

2001                Summer Writing Grant from the Jobe and Julie Morrison Family.  Faculty Development Fund in combination with the Norman and Ruth Peale Fund ($3600).

2000                Post-Doctoral Summer Writing Grant from the Hispanic Theological Initiative ($8000).

2000                The Hispanic Churches in American Public Life Writing Grant ($3000).

1999                Frederick Douglass Summer Teaching Fellowship ($1,800).

PROFESSIONAL       2009-2011  Appointed to the Board of Directors of the 

EXPERIENCE:          American Academy of Religion

                                    2009-2011  Chair of the American Academy of Religion Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Committee

                                    2009-2010 Appointed to the AAR Centennial Advisory Committee                                   

                                    2006 - 2011 Elected to the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics.

2006 - 2009 Co-chair of the American Academy of
                                    Religion Ethics Section

2006  Member of the Human Rights Campaign 

                                    Editorial Advisory Board

2005 - 2007 Member of the American Academy of
                                    Religion Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession
                                   Committee

2005 & 2008 Member of the Society of Christian         

                                    Ethics Program Committee

2004    Visiting Co-Editor for Perspectivas: Occasional

                                    Papers published by the Hispanic Theological Initiative.

                                    2003-2006     Member of the Board of Director of
                                    Lakeshore Habitat for Humanity.

2001 - 2006    Elected Executive Board Director of
                                    Tulipanes, the Latino Art and Film Festival, a non-
                                    profit corporation which celebrates the cultural and 
                                    artistic heritage of Latino/as and their contribution to
                                    the greater Holland area.

2003  Member of the West Michigan Strategic Alliance, whose responsibility is to establish a Asmart growth@ development plan for the West Michigan region.

2000 - 2002    Editorial Board Member of the Journal
                                    of Religious Ethics.

2000 - 2002    Elected Vice-president of LAUP (Latin Americans United for Progress), a civil action group which advocates for the social and political needs         and concern of Latina/o residents in Holland, MI.

2000 - 2001    Elected Vice-president of La Comunidad, an academic organization  which meets during the American Academy of Religion for the purpose of advancing the needs and concern of Latina/o scholars within academia.

1999 - 2001    Member of the Society of Christian
                                    Ethics=s Committee for the 21^st Century, charged with
                                    thinking about future self-understandings and
                                    directions which the Society might adopt, sustain, or
                                    create as it enters a new century.

1998 - 1999    Consultant for a project titled The Community Serving Role of the Hispanic Protestant Church, conducted by Claremont School of Theology for its Urban Leadership Institute, and funded by the Pew Charitable Trust.

1998 - 2001    Founder and organizer of Etica Latina: A Hispanic Ethical Perspective, an interest group for the Society of Christian Ethics.