June 6, 2024
Brenna Moore, Ph.D.
Professor Fordham University
“Spiritual Friendship and a Forgotten Catholic History: Insights for Today
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Biography
Brenna Moore is a specialist in the area of Modern Christianity, with a focus on Catholic intellectual and cultural history in Europe. She is particularly interested in questions concerning women gender and religion; mysticism and spirituality; a movement in theology known as ressourcement; and the various Catholic responses to modernity.
She is most recently the author of Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism (University of Chicago Press, 2021), winner of the John Gilmary Shea book prize from The American Catholic Historical Association.
She is the author of Sacred Dread: Raissa Maritain, The Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival, 1905-1945 (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013) and co-editor, with Mary Dunn, of the Volume Religious Intimacies: Intersubectivity in the Modern Christian West (Indiana University Press, 2020). She has also presented research on the Resistance of Nazism in Franc, and has published short pieces on the Religious Imagination of Artists like Sinead O’Connor and Beyonce, and on exhibits at the MET.
At Fordham, Brenna teaches introductory courses in theology, seminars for majors, and graduate course. She loves helping students think about what it means to major in the humanities, is interested in Ignatian and Jesuit Pedagogy, and is the 2014 recipient of the Fordham University Faculty Award for mentoring undergraduate research.