Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro

 

 

 

Maria Clara Lucchetti Bingemer is an associate professor of theology and dean of the Center of Theology and Human Sciences at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. She holds a Masters Degree in Theology from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, a Doctorate in Systematic Theology from the Pontifícia Universidade Gregoriana in Rome and has completed post-doctorate work at the Katholieke Universität Leuven. She is a member of the editorial board of Revista Eclesiastica Brasileira (REB), Communio (Lisbon), Rhema (Juiz de Fora), Criterio (Buenos Aires), Cadernos Adenauer (Rio de Janeiro), Alceu (PUC-Rio), Perspectiva Teológica (FAJE-Belo Horizonte), Revista Dominicana de Teologia (São Paulo), and Concilium. In addition, she is a member of the theological commission of Charitas Internationalis. She served as a member of JAAR for four years and was the former director of the Loyola Center for Faith and Culture of PUC-Rio.

She has written many articles, book chapters and books in a variety of languages. Among some of her publications are:  Aparecida 2007: An Experience, A Testimony, A Reflection. Asian Christian Review, v. 1, p. 19-28, 2007; Religions and the Dialogue Among Cultures: The Brazilian Challenge. Studies in Interreligious Dialogue, v. 16, p. 72-88, 2006; Living the Faith to Arrive in the Promised Land. Communio Viatorum, Praga, República Checa, v. 47, n. 1, p. 63-89, 2004; Family and Religion in Brazil: Tensions and Perspectives. INTAMS Review, Bruxelas, BE, v. 10, n. 2, p. 177-183, 2004; Mary, Mother of God and Mother of the Poor, NY, Orbis, 1990; War, Suffering and Detachment: Reading the Bhagavad Gita with Simone Weil. In: Cornille, Catherine, Ed., Song Divine. Christian Commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita. 1 ed. Leuven: Peeters, 2006, p. 69-90; Catholic Faith Between Secularization and Pluralism. In: Miller, P.J.; Fossey, R. Ed., Mapping Catholic Cultural Landscape. 1 ed. Toronto, New York, Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., 2004, p. 249-258; A Post-Christian and Post-Modern Christianism In: Amos Maynard. Ed. Liberation Theology, Postmodernity and the Americas. 1 ed. London/New York: Routledge, 1997, p. 83-9; Popular Religion and The Church. In: G.Cook Ed., New Face Of The Church In Latin America. New York: Orbis, 1994, p. 156-162; and Women in the Future of Liberation Theology. In: O. Maduro & M. Ellis. Ed. The Future of Liberation Theology: Essays in Honor of Gustavo Gutierrez. New York: Orbis, 1989, p. 473-490.