TIMOTHY K. SNYDER. 93 Strathmore, #1 Brighton, Massachusetts USA

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1 TIMOTHY K. SNYDER 93 Strathmore, #1 Brighton, Massachusetts USA CURRENT POSITION Research Fellow & Managing Director, StudyingCongregations.org, Boston University School of Theology (2015 ). EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy, Theological Studies, Boston University. ABD: Anticipated completion Fall 17. Major Area: Church & Society; Minor Areas: American Religion & Lutheran Theology Dissertation: Vocation Renewed and Reviewed: Towards a Lived Theology of Daily Work Readers: Prof. Mary Elizabeth Moore and Prof. Nancy T. Ammerman Qualifying Exams: Practical Theology and Lutheran Theology; Congregational Studies and American Religion; Human Development and Lived Religion. Master of Arts, Theology & Ministry, Luther Seminary, Thesis: This is the House of Mercy and Welcome To It : An Ethnographic Exploration of Concrete Ecclesiology and Theological Otherness. Readers: Prof. Christian Scharen, Prof. Andy Root, and Prof. Eileen Campbell-Reed. Bachelor of Arts, Theology, Texas Lutheran University, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS Doctoral Fellow, The Louisville Institute, Competitive fellowship in Vocation of the Theological Educator Program with stipend and six seminars in Louisville, KY. Coolidge Fellow, Auburn Seminary & Cross Currents, Summer Competitive research fellowship in partnership with Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University in New York, NY. Educational Grant, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Scholarship in various amounts. Doctoral Fellow, Center for Practical Theology at Boston University, Full tuition and stipend for doctoral studies in practical theology. T. Snyder Page 1

2 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Adjunct Instructor of Congregational Ministry, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. Courses: Evangelism and Public Witness (January 2017), Transforming Congregations for Mission (Spring 2017). Guest Instructor, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. Course: Transforming Congregations for Mission, co-taught with Mary Sue Dreier (January 2016). Adjunct Instructor of Theology & Spirituality, Wartburg Theological Seminary. Online Course: Spirituality and Discipleship in Daily Life (2015 ). Teaching Assistant with Prof. Steven Sandage, Boston University. Courses: Psychodynamics and Marriage and Families (Fall 2013, 2014), Theories of Human Development (Spring 2014, 2015). Teaching Assistant with Prof. Mary Sue Dreier, Luther Seminary. Courses: Reading the Audiences (Fall 2011, Spring 2012), Starting New Missional Ministries (Fall 2011), Transforming Congregations for Mission (Spring 2012) Teaching Assistant with Prof. Christian Scharen, Luther Seminary Course: Alternative & Contemporary Worship (Spring 2011) TEACHING COMPETENCIES Immediate: Congregational Studies; Faith Formation/Spirituality Across the Lifespan; Public Theology. Competency based on previous teaching experience. Potential: Modern theology (20th century ); Ministry in Digital Culture; Christian Education; Contemporary Ecclesiology; Lutheran theology; Religion in society; Fieldwork in Theology. Competency based on coursework and comprehensive exams. For Future Development: Theologies of Vocation; Contemplative Spirituality; Writing as a Spiritual Practice; Life & Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Tradition, Diversity and Innovation in American Religion. Based on current research interests. MINISTRY EXPERIENCE Candidate for Ordination, New England Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Director of Christian Education, Faith Lutheran Church, Cambridge, MA, T. Snyder Page 2

3 Director of Outreach/Founding Director, The Heights Center for Hope, Hope Lutheran Church, Saint Paul, MN, Mission Developer, The Netzer Co-Op (Synodically authorized worshipping community, Southwest Texas Synod, ELCA), Austin, TX, PUBLICATIONS Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Overture and Variations on an Unsettled Theme: Musical Insights Into Emerging Christianity with April Stace Vega in Currents in Theology and Mission (March/April 2015). Theological Ethnography: Embodied in The Other Journal (May 2014). Footnote No. 3: Cautionary Notes on Dehumanizing Perpetrators in Cross Currents, 64:1 (March 2014). Curating Worship, Culture and The Church, Lutheran Forum, Summer Book Chapters The Possibility of Conflict in Crossing Boundaries, Redefining Faith: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Emerging Church Movement, Michael Clawson and April Stace, eds. Pickwick Publications, forthcoming Improvising with Tradition: A Case (Self) Study in The Hyphenateds: How Emergence Christianity is Re-Traditioning Mainline Practice, Phil Snider, ed. Chalice Press, Book Reviews Sune Fahlgren and Jonas Ideström, eds., Ecclesiology in the Trenches: Theory and Method under Construction (Church of Sweden Research Series Book 10) in Ecclesial Practices. Pickwick Publications, forthcoming Gerado Marti and Gladys Ganiel, The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) in The Review of Religious Research, forthcoming Andrew Root, Christopraxis: A Practical Theology of the Cross (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014) in International Journal of Practical Theology 18:2 (Fall 2014). T. Snyder Page 3

4 David Stowe, No Sympathy For the Devil: Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism (University of North Carolina Press, 2011), in Journal of Religion and Popular Culture (Spring 2014). Pete Ward, ed. Perspectives on Ecclesiology and Ethnography (Grand Rapids: W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2012) in Ecclesial Practice (Fall 2013). Publications for General Audiences The Theological Hijacking of Religious Freedom, Religion Dispatches, April 28, What the Surveys Don t (and Can t) Say About the Rise of the Spiritual but not Religious (Op Ed), Religion Dispatches, July 21, Twitter and Tragedy: A Revamped American Religious Experience (Op Ed), Religion News Service/ Washington Post, September 13, Also appeared on Sojourner s Blog and featured resource on homepage of Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs, Georgetown University. Writing for the Church Contributor, Colaborate, A Lutheran Study Bible. Sparkhouse/Augsburg Fortress, Regular contributor to Living Lutheran (Formerly The Lutheran), online and print publication of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. INVITED PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCE PAPERS Invited Lectures, Workshops & Panels The Vocation of the Family: Luther and Lived Theology in Modern Life (panel), Association of Teaching Theologians, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Gustavus Adolphus College. August 1-3, Spiritual Practices in Digital Culture (workshop) at 2016 e-formation Conference/Participant in Symposium for Theological Educators, sponsored by the Center for Teaching Ministry at Virginia Theological Seminary. June 6-10, Emergence Christianity (two part lecture series) at St. Susanna s Catholic Parish, Denham, MA. January 5 & 12, Social Media as Convergent Practice: Why Social Media is Not Just Another Mission Field (workshop) at The Symposium on Youth and Mission, The Annual Meeting of the American Society of Missiology. June Chicago, Illinois. T. Snyder Page 4

5 Theological Imagination & Wisdom in Alternative Worship. August 21, 2011 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Conference Papers Lives of Work Between Theological and Social Research, at 2015 Ecclesiology and Ethnography Conference, St. John s College, Durham University. September 15-17, 2015 Cautionary Notes on Dehumanizing Perpetrators, at the Religion and Ethics Section: Mid- Atlantic Regional Conference, The American Academy of Religion. March 7-9, Remembering Newtown: A Case Study in Public-Practical Theology in Religion in America Section: Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference, The American Academy of Religion. March 7-9, Remembering Newtown: Online and Offline Practices of Grief and Memorialization as Practical- Public Theology with Ashley Theuring at The US Conference on Ecclesiology & Ethnography. Sponsored by Luther Seminary and The Ecclesiology and Ethnography Research Group (US/UK). May 13-14, St. Paul, Minnesota. Experimentation & Assimilation: Collective Religious Identities in Settled and Unsettled Cultures at The American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. A session sponsored by the Ecclesiological Investigations Group. November 17-20, Chicago, Illinois. Popular Christianity in Sports Media: Tim Tebow as Self-Made Caricature of a Prophet with Kevin M. Snyder. A paper presentation at The Christian Evasion of Popular Culture Conference. November 1-3, Sponsored by Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa. Finding Our Feet with Them: Reconciliation Towards a More Ordinary Ecclesiology at The UK Conference on Ecclesiology and Ethnography. Sponsored by St. John s College, Durham University and The Ecclesiology and Ethnography Research Group (US/UK). September 11-13, Durham, United Kingdom. Irony & Theology: Ethnographic Insights on the Church in Unsettled Culture at The US Conference on Ecclesiology & Ethnography. Sponsored by Luther Seminary and The Ecclesiology and Ethnography Research Group (US-UK). May 21-22, St. Paul, Minnesota. The Swell Season v. Former US Representative Anthony Weiner: A Comparative Case Study on Performative Relationality as Mediated Via Twitter at The International Conference on Digital Religion. January 12-15, Sponsored by The Center for Media, Religion & Culture, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado. T. Snyder Page 5

6 Improvising with Tradition: Christian Identity, Creativity and Diversity in Practice, Changing Contours of Christian Unity Panel at Changing Contours in World Christianity and Mission. November 5, 2010 at Boston College. Boston, Massachusetts. SERVICE TO ACADEMY & CHURCH Member, Steering Committee, Ecclesial Practices group of The American Academy of Religion, 2014 Chair, Graduate Conference on Theological Research and the Church (March 21-23, 2014), Sponsored by the Center for Practical Theology at Boston University. Student Member, Advisory Committee on Assessment, Office of the Dean at Luther Seminary, Member, Advisory Council, Center for Youth, Religion & Community at Augsburg College, Consultant, The Emerging Ministry Team of the ELCA, Advisory Member, The Church Council (board of directors) of the ELCA and The Lutheran Youth Organization, PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP The American Academy of Religion Association of Practical Theology The Network for Ecclesiology & Ethnography REFERENCES Mary Elizabeth Moore, Dean & Professor of Theology and Education, School of Theology. Contact: Nancy T. Ammerman, Professor of Sociology of Religion & Associate Dean for Social Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences. Contact: Christian B. Scharen, Vice President for Applied Research & Director of the Center for the Study of Theological Education, Auburn Theological Seminary. Contact: Mary Sue Dreier, Dean & Professor of Missional Leadership and Pastoral Care, Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary of Lenoir-Rhyne University. Contact: T. Snyder Page 6