Dr. Lorna Bowman

Professor
Office: BR 181
Email: lbowman@uwo.ca
Telephone: 519 432 8353 ext 28240

Academic Background

B.Sc. University of Toronto,
M.A., Columbia University, New York City
M.Ed., University of Ottawa
Ed.M., Ed. D., Columbia University, New York City

Research and Scholarly Interests

As an educator I am interested in the intersection of religion and education. My earlier work focused on the manner in which the charisma of the founder of a Catholic religious congregation became routinized and institutionalized in the philosophy of education. Later work has included the dimension of inculturation whereby women educated (in West Africa) who received a mission education based on a philosophy of Catholic education developed in Europe interpreted and adapted it to their religio-cultural context throughout their professional lives. Using the literary genre of educational biography I have recently completed a short biography of Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, religious educator and champion of publicly-funded Catholic education in Canada, for the Christian Educators of the Twentieth Century series out of Talbot University.

Academic and Administrative Experience

Following completion of my doctorate I served as Director of Student Evaluation and taught at Loyola University, New Orleans where I participated in the early development of the Loyola Institute for Ministry Extension graduate programs in pastoral ministry and religious education. From 1988-2001 I served as Director of Religious Education Programs & Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology/Religious Education, Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology and was a full member of the Advanced Degree Faculty, Toronto School of Theology (January 1, 1988 - June 30, 2001) and an associate member of the School of Graduate Studies for the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. In 2001 I was appointed Academic Dean, Brescia University College. At Brescia I introduced and taught Education for Religious & Spiritual Development, a course which calls upon the work of the developmental theorists as well as James Fowler’s classic Stages of Faith: The Psychology of Human Development and the Quest for Meaning

Representative Publications

Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter: An Educational Biography. Christian Educators of the Twentieth Century http://www.talbot.edu/ce20/
Understanding the Study of Religion in Undergraduate Programs of Religious Studies as Religious Education. Religious Education 101: 2 (Spring 2006): 143-146. Part of Forum: Research in Religious Education.
Guest Editorial: Embracing the Past, Envisioning the Future: Religious Education in an Age of Transition. Religious Education 99:2 (Summer 2004): 211-213.
Transcending Boundaries: Presidential Address to the Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education November 2003. Religious Education 99:2 (Summer 2004): 215-224.
Catholic Mission Education of Women in West Africa and Grassroots Inculturation. Journal of Religious Education (Australia) 50/3 ( 2002 Jubilee Volume): 55-61.
Working with Experience: The Mentor, the Context, the Possibility. British Journal of Theological Education 12/1 (August 2001): 37-52.
Glimpses of Christ Incarnated and Communicated in West Africa. Source, no.35 (1997):85-93.
The Inculturation of Holy Child Education: Actions Not Words. Religious Education 91:3(Summer 1996): 334-350.
The Spirit of Holy Child Education: Actions Not Words. Source, no. 31 (1995): 1-5.
Actions Not Words: The Inculturation of Holy Child Education. Source, no. 31 (1995):15-24
The History of Women, Religion and Education: A Methodological Approach. Toronto Journal of Theology 11/2 (Fall 1995):201-216.
Women's Religious Education: Liberation or Socialization? A Case Study. Religious Education 88:1 (Winter 1993):22-39.
Women in Religious Education: The Cause of Cornelia Connelly. The Living Light 27:3 (Spring 1991):240-247.
Catholic Religious Education in Ontario, Canada. Religious Education 86:3 (Summer 1991):362-376.

Professional Memberships

Senior Women Academic Administrators in Canada (SWAAC)
Religious Education Association: An Association of Professors, Practitioners and Researchers in Religious Education (REA)
Canadian Oral History Association/Société canadienne d’histoire orale
Canadian Catholic Historical Association
Catholic Theological Society of America (CTSA)
History of Women Religious (HWR)