John Sheveland

John N. Sheveland (Ph.D. Boston College) is Professor of Religious Studies and current Flannery Chair in Catholic theology at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA., USA, and teaches courses in theology, interreligious dialogue, and religion and violence. In 2019 he began a four year term on the National Review Board, an advisory body for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He received a Master of Arts in Religion (M.A.R.) from Yale Divinity School in 1999 and a Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Systemic and Comparative theology from Boston College in 2006. He organized the annual lecture series entitled 'Being Religious Interreligiously' for ten years. John received in 2013 a Faculty Diversity Leadership Award and in 2015 an Exemplary Faculty Award from Gonzaga University. He serves on the board of directors of the Society of Buddhist-Christian Studies and the College Theology Society, and is a book review editor for Horizons. His articles appear in a variety of journals and books, and is the author of Piety and Responsibility (Ashgate, 2011; Routledge, 2017).