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Name: Agnes M. Brazal, PhD/SThD

Mini Biography:

Agnes M. Brazal is full professor and holder of Br. A.M. Castillo FSC Professorial Chair in Religious Studies and Br. Flannan Paul FSC Professorial Chair in Rhetoric, at the De la Salle University, Manila. Her publications include Liberation-Postcolonial Ethics in the Philippines (Orbis, 2019), co-authored book Intercultural Church (Borderless Press, 2015) and eight co-edited anthologies: Living with (out) Borders (Orbis, 2016), The Second Plenary Council of the Philippines (AdMU, 2016) Church in an Age of Global Migration (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), Theology and Power (Paulist Press, 2016), Feminist Cyberethics in Asia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Transformative Theological Ethics (AdMU, 2010), Faith on the Move (AdMU, 2008) and Body and Sexuality (AdMU, 2007).

She is editorial board member of the journals, Asian Horizons and Budhi, international advisory board member of Theological Studies, Louvain Studies, and board member of the St. Catherine of Siena Virtual College, UK.

Her awards include 3rd place in the category of immigration, 2017 Catholic Press Association (USA and Canada) Book Award for the anthology Living with(out) Borders, finalist in the 2007 National Book Award granted by the Manila Critics Circle and the National Book Development Board for the anthology Body and Sexuality, and the 2003 MWI (Institute of Missiology, Missio, Aachen) prize for the international academic essay contest on Contextual Theology and Philosophy on the theme “Religious Identity and Migration”. She has been a recipient of fellowships in St. Johns University in New York, De Paul University in Chicago, KULeuven in Leuven and William Duffy Lecture Series Chair at Boston College, Boston.

She is past President and founding member of the DaKaTeo (Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines) and the first coordinator of the Ecclesia of Women in Asia (association of Catholic women theologians in Asia). She obtained her STL/MA and STD/PhD in Theology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Contact Information

Consultation Hours: Thursdays, 11-12:30 am (by appointment)

Telephone:

Email: agnes.brazal@dlsu.edu.ph

Website: https://dlsu.academia.edu/dlsuacademiaeduagnesbrazal/CurriculumVitae (Links to an external site.)