Conversations at the Well
Emerging Religious Life in the 21st-Century Global World: Collaboration, Networking, and Intercultural Living
by Jung Eun Sophia Park and Teresa Maya
Foreword by Pat Farrell
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
Jung Eun Sophia Park, SNJM, is associate professor in Religious Studies and Philosophy Department at Holy Names University, CA. She is the author of A Hermeneutic on Dislocation as Experience (2011), Border-Crossing Spirituality (2019), and the editor of Interreligious Pedagogy (2018). She is also the author of several books on women’s spirituality in Korean, including Beauty of the Broken (2015), How Women Experience Transformation? (2017), and Time for Sorrow (2019).
Tere Maya, CCVI, has served as a teacher, history professor, and administrator. She has passion for the formation of ministers for Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Sister Tere got her BA at Yale University, her MA at the Graduate Theological Union at Berkeley, and a PhD in El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City. She is currently serving as congregational leader for her congregation and in the presidency for the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR).
“Jung Eun Sophia Park and Tere Maya have produced a remarkably lucid and original reflection on the reality of religious life today and where it is going. . . . Breaking new ground in the conversation, this well-written and insightful reflection makes a much needed contribution to our efforts to understand and imagine the future of all forms of ministry in these times of epochal change.”
—Allan Figueroa Deck, SJ, Loyola Marymount University
“Sophia Park, SNJM, invites women religious to see the present moment as a graced, if difficult, period that can be—indeed already is—taking religious life to a new moment.”
—Elizabeth Liebert, SNJM, San Francisco Theological Seminary