Gerald M. Boodoo
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gerald M. Boodoo is an associate professor of systematic theology at Duquesne University. He has published numerous articles and chapters on theology in the Caribbean and is currently working on texts that explore theology in the Caribbean and among Caribbean immigrants in North America.Boodoo serves on the international committee of the recently formed World Forum on Theology and Liberation, the executive board of the Conference of Theology in the Caribbean Today and the board of Caribbean Catholics of North America, Inc. He has served for six years as convener of the World Church Theology Group of the Catholic Theological Society of America, and now serves as part of the administrative team of that society’s Catholicity and Mission group. Among his publications are “Understanding Church and Theology in the Caribbean Today”, in Peter C. Phan and Diana Hayes, eds., Many Faces, One Church: Cultural Diversity and the American Catholic Experience, Rowman and Littlefield, 2005; “Caribbean Catholics of North America: Call and Response”, in Groundings (Catholic Theological Reflections on Issues Facing Caribbean people in the 21st Century), July 2007, Issue 19, St. Michael’s Theological College, Kinston, Jamaica; “Christologies: Caribbean”, in Dictionary of Third World Theologies, Virginia Fabella and R.S. Sugirtharajah, eds., Orbis Books.