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Selected papers in refereed journals

'Dialogue with Waso Boorana Traditional Religious Practices', African Ecclesial Review 35 (2): 101-114, 1993.

'Broken African Pots and a Mission Spirituality', Review for Religious 52 (2): 202-212, 1993.

'Current Waso Boorana Religious Practices: The Kairos for Inter-Religious Dialogue', Verbum SVD 34 (2): 157-170, 1993.

'The Role of the Sarki Dance in Waso Boorana/Somali Symbiosis and Conflict', Anthropos 88 (1-3): 184-190, 1993.

'Nagaa: The Forgotten Quest for Peace in Modern Kenya', The Month: Review of Christian Thought and World Affairs 26 (5): 183-187, 1993.

'On the Louis Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion 1993', Bulletin of the British Association for the Study of Religion 69: 24-26, 1993.

'The Social Experience of Two Gods in Africa', African Ecclesial Review 36 (1): 32-44, 1994.

'Waso Boorana Women's Theology: A Silent Journey', Feminist Theology 5: 40-57, 1994.

'Two Contesting Social Experience of God in Africa: A Note on the African Synod 1994', Verbum SVD 35 (1): 85-96, 1994.

'Divination, Theology and Healing in an African Context', Feminist Theology 7: 34-39, 1994.

'Portraying Society Through Children: Play among the Waso Boorana of Kenya', Anthropos 89 (1-3): 29-38, 1994.

'Anthropology and Anomalies in Kinship Patterns', Anthropology in Action 1: 25-26, 1994.

'African Conversion from a World Religion: Religious Diversification by the Waso Boorana of Kenya', Africa: Journal of the International African Institute 65 (4): 525-544, 1995.

'Recreating a Religious Past in a Muslim Setting: 'Sacrificing' Coffee-Beans among the Waso Boorana of Garba Tulla, Kenya', Ethnos 60 (1-2): 41-58, 1995.

'Walking the Waso Boorana Path to the Peak', The Month: Review of Christian Thought and World Affairs 28 (1): 37-41, 1995.

'Expanding the Concept of Oromia: The Waso Boorana Case', The Oromo Commentary 5 (1): 17-20, 1995.

'An African Theology of Praxis through Small Christian Communities', African Ecclesial Review 37 (3): 142-155, 1995.

'The Eagle as Messenger, Pilgrim and Voice: Divinatory Processes among the Waso Boorana of Kenya', Journal of Religion in Africa 26 (1): 56-72, 1996.

'Writing Biographies of Boorana: Social Histories at the Time of Kenya's Independence', History in Africa 23: 351-367, 1996.

'Historical and Cultural Interaction, Symbiosis and Clientage: Waso Boorana and Somali in Eastern Kenya', Journal of Oromo Studies 3: 1-17, 1996.

'Symbolic Integration to Oromia: Boorana Traditional Practice, Language and God in Eastern Kenya', Journal of Oromo Studies 3: 62-68, 1996.

'Peace and Consensus in the Midst of War: Conflict Resolution in Boorana', The Oromo Commentary 6 (1): 28-30, 1996.

'Dialogue with Islam: An African Perspective', African Ecclesial Review 38 (6): 322-340, 1996.

'Local and Global, Political and Scholarly Knowledge: Diversifying Oromo Studies', African Affairs 96 (2): 277-280, 1997.

'Reinventing Gada: Generational Knowledge in Boorana', The Oromo Commentary 7 (1): 10-14, 1997.

'Emic and Etic Voices in a Spanish Reality', Social Anthropology 6 (1): 127-130, 1998.

'Genuine Concern for the Poor: Basis for Evangelization in Africa', African Ecclesial Review 41 (1): 2-16, 1999.

'The Disappeared: Ritual and Memory in Chile', The Month: Review of Christian Thought and World Affairs 32 (12): 472-475, 1999.

'Pastoral Memories, Memorials and Imaginations in the Postcoloniality of East Africa', Anthropos: International Review of Anthropology and Linguistics 94 (1-3): 149-161, 1999.

'Rethinking the Judean Past: Questions of History and a Social Archaeology of Memory in the First Book of the Maccabees', Biblical Theology Bulletin 30 (2): 58-67, 2000.

'Religion as Culture or Culture as Religion?: The Status Quaestionis of Ritual and Performance', Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1 (2): 233-245, 2000.

'El Muro de los Nombres de Villa Grimaldi (Chile): Exploraciones sobre la Memoria, el Silencio y la Voz de la Historia', European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 69/October: 81-88, 2000.

'History, Religion, and the Perils of Anthropology: A Response to T.O. Beidelman', Anthropos: International Review of Anthropology and Linguistics 95 (1): 314-315, 2000. [reply by T.O. Beidelman, Anthopos 95 (2): 653, 2001]

'The Theology of Inculturation and the Liturgical Writings of F. Kabasele Lumbala', Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses LXXVII (4): 456-466, 2001.

'Kabasele-Lumbala's Contribution to Inculturation in Africa', African Ecclesial Review 43 (1/2): 66-80, 2001.

'Evangelio y Paz: A Dialogue between Church and State in 1970s Chile', The Month: Review of Christian Thought and World Affairs 34 (3): 103-107, 2001.

'The Vicaría de la Solidaridad and the Pinochet Regime (1976-1980): Religion and Politics in 20th Century Chile', Iberoamericana: Nordic Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies XXXI (1): 101-115, 2001.

'Postcolonial African Theology in Kabasele Lumbala', Theological Studies 63  (2): 302-323, 2002.

'Time, Communion and Ancestry in African Biblical Interpretation: A Contextual Note on 1 Maccabees 2: 49-70', Biblical Theology Bulletin 32 (3): 129-144, 2002.

'The Disappeared and the Mesa de Diálogo in Chile 1999-2001: Searching for Those Who Never Grew Old', Bulletin of Latin American Research 21 (3): 413-424, 2002.

'Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez, the Catholic Church and the Pinochet Regime 1973-1980: Public Responses to a National Security State', Catholic Historical Review 89 (4): 712-731, 2003.

'La historiografía de los derechos humanos en Chile: memorias y testimonios historiográficos del régimen military', Diálogos 7: 177-200. Revista do Departamento de História Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Brazil, 2003. Text available at http://www.dhi.uem.br/publicacoesdhi/dialogos/volume01/vol7_atg4.htm

'The Ethnography of the Villa Grimaldi in Pinochet's Chile: From Public Landscape to Secret Detention Centre (1973-1980)', Latin American Studies Association Papers 2003, http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~caguirre/aguilar.pdf

'El Cardenal Raúl Silva Henríquez y el golpe militar: Memoria e historiografía', Revista de Ciencias Religiosas 5 (2): 41-54. Ediciones Universidad Católica Cardenal Silva Henríquez, Santiago, Chile, 2003.

'Los derechos humanos en las memorias del Cardenal Raúl Silva Henríquez: Primer período del régimen militar de Augusto Pinochet, Chile 1973-1980', Puentes 3. Revista de la Comisión de la Memoria, Argentina, 2004.

'The Archaeology of Memory and the Issue of Colonialism: Mimesis and the Controversial Tribute to Caesar in Mark 12:13-17', Biblical Theology Bulletin 35 (2): 60-66, 2005.

'The 'God of the Oromo': A Religious Paradigm in the Work of Lambert Bartels', Journal of Oromo Studies 12 (1/2): 52-67, 2005.

"The Ethnography of the Villa Grimaldi in Pinochet's Chile: From Public Landscape to Secret Detention Centre (1973-1980)", Iberoamericana 18: 7-23, 2005.

'Sacred Rules and Secular Politics: Religion and Rules', International Relations 20 (2006/3): 315-320, 2006.

'Public Theology from the Periphery: Victims and Theologians', International Journal of Public Theology 1: 321-337, 2007.

'The Nagaa Boorana: Contemporary Discussions on Ritual and Political Diversity', The Journal of Oromo Studies 15, February 2007.

Selected contributions to books

'Women Organizing Abilities: Two Case Studies in Kenya and Malawi', with Laurel Birch de Aguilar in William E. Smith, ed. Feminine Principles in the Organizing Process: Implications for Development. Washington, DC: ODII, 8-29, 1993.

'Music and Dance in Ethiopia', in R. Atkins and P. Daswani, eds. Living Traditions of Ethiopia: The Music Village 1993. London: Cultural Corporation, 8-10, 1993.

'The Eagle talks to a Kallu: Waso Boorana Ritual Perceptions of Ethiopia', in H.G. Marcus, ed. New Trends in Ethiopian Studies II. Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press, 756-772, 1994.

'Keeping the 'Peace of the Waso Boorana': Becoming Oromo through Religious Diversification', in P.T.W. Baxter, J. Hultin and A. Triulzi, eds. Being and Becoming Oromo: Historical and Anthropological Enquiries. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet and Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press, 190-201, 1996.

'Models of Church/Ecclesiology', in L. Isherwood and D. McEwan, eds. An A to Z of Feminist Theology. Sheffield: Academic Press, 100-103, 1996.

'Historical Anthropology and Anthropological History: Rethinking the Social Production of an African Past', in S. McGrath, C. Jedrej, K. King and J. Thompson, eds., Rethinking African History. Edinburgh: Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 357-378, 1997.

'The Poetics of Boorana Prayer: Emic Challenges to the Construction of Oromo Nationalism', in K. Fukui, E. Kurimoto and M. Shigeta, eds., Ethiopia in Broader Perspective: Papers of the XIIIth International Conference of Ethiopian Studies II. Tokyo: Kyoto University, 250-261, 1997.

'The Meaning of Dance Terms in Various African Languages', in Esther A. Dagan, ed., The Spirit's Dance in Africa: Evolution, Transformation and Continuity in Sub-Sahara. Westmount, Quebec: Galerie Amrad African Arts Publications, 86-89, 1997.

'Possession and Spirit Dances in Waso Boorana', in Esther A. Dagan, ed. The Spirit's Dance in Africa: Evolution, Transformation and Continuity in Sub-Sahara. Westmount, Quebec: Galerie Amrad African Arts Publications, 292-296, 1997.

'Introduction: Gerontocratic, Aesthetic, and Political Models of Age', in Mario I. Aguilar, ed. The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: Ethnographies of the Past & Memories of the Present. Lawrenceville, NJ: Africa World Press, 1-27, 1998.

'Reinventing Gada: Generational Knowledge in Boorana', in Mario I. Aguilar, ed., The Politics of Age and Gerontocracy in Africa: Ethnographies of the Past & Memories of the Present. Lawrenceville, NJ: Africa World Press, 249-271, 1998.

'Localized Kin and Globalised Friends: Religious Modernity and the `Educated Self' in East Africa', in Sandra Bell and Simon Coleman, eds. The Anthropology of Friendship. Oxford: Berg, 169-184, 1999.

'Pastoral Disruption & Cultural Continuity in a Pastoral Town', in Dorothy L. Hodgson, ed. Rethinking Pastoralism: Gender, Culture & the Myth of the Patriarchal Pastoralist, 249-264. Oxford: James Currey, Kampala: Fountain, Nairobi: EAEP, Athens: Ohio University Press, 2000.

'Text and context: foundation in oral tradition concerning Fr. Andrew Mullen', 'Interim considerations on sanctity (concerning the life of Fr. Andrew Mullen', and 'On the case of the priest Fr. Andrew Mullan 1790-1818', in William Dempsey, A Light from the Grave: Father Andrew Mullen 1790-1818, 159-172, 2000.

'Ritualizing Celibacy: The Politics of Inversion in Chile and Kenya', in Elisa J. Sobo and Sandra Bell, eds., Celibacy, Culture and Society: The Anthropology of Sexual Abstinence, 180-193. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.

'Ndembu Religion', in Stephen D. Glazier, ed. Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions, 214. New York and London: Routledge, 2001.

'Oromo Religion', in Stephen D. Glazier, ed. Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions, 223-224. New York and London: Routledge, 2001.

'Pastoralist Cosmologies', in Stephen D. Glazier, ed. Encyclopedia of African and African-American Religions, 228-231. New York and London: Routledge, 2001.

'Oromo' in Melvin Ember, Carol R. Ember, and Ian Skoggard, Eds. Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Supplement, 263-266. New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 2002.

'Wendy James', 'Phyllis Kaberry', and 'Ivan Karp' in Vered Amit, ed. Biographical Dictionary of Anthropology. London and New York: Routledge, 2003.

'Charles Horman versus Henry Kissinger: US Intervention in 1970s Chile and the Case for the Prosecutions', in Adam Jones, ed. Genocide, War Crimes and the West: History and Complicity, 186-200. London: Zed and US: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

'Protestantism in Africa', in Hans Hillerbrand (ed.) Encyclopedia of Protestantism. New York and London: Routledge, 2004.

'From Age-Sets to Friendship Networks: The Continuity of soda among the Boorana of East Africa' in Youssouf Diallo, Tilo Grätz and Martine Guichard eds., Friendship, Descent and Alliances in Changing African Societies. Halle: MPI, 2004.

'El Obispo y los Chapulines: homenaje al Obispo Fernando Ariztía 1925-2003', in Martín Faunes, ed. Las historias que podemos contar II. Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio/Ediciones Ultimos Tranvías, 2004.

'Uganda', 'Rwanda', in Thomas Riggs, ed. Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. Missoula, Montana: Gale Group. 2004.

'Foreword: Post-Globalization and Indigenous Movements' in Asafa Jalata, ed. State Crises, Globalization and National Movements in the Horn of Africa. London: Frank Cass, 2004.

'Changing Models and the `Death' of Culture: A Diachronic and Positive Critique of Socio-scientific Assumptions,' in M.I. Aguilar and L.J. Lawrence, eds. Anthropology and Biblical Studies: Avenues of Approach, 299-313. Leiden: Deo Publishing, 2004.

'Charles Horman gegen Henry Kissinger: die US-amerikanische Intervention in Chile in den 1970ern ' ein Plädoyer der Anklage', in Adam Jones, ed. Völkermord, Kriegsverbrechen und der Westen, 218-235. Berlin: Parthas Verlag GmbH,
2005.

'Symbolic Wars, Age-Sets and the Anthropology of War in 1 Maccabees', in Philip F. Esler, ed. Ancient Israel: The Old Testament in Its Social Context, 240-253. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2006.

'Michael Woodward', 'Cristianos por el socialismo' and 'Izquierda Cristiana', in Roy P. Domenico and Mark Y. Hanley, Eds. Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics. Greenwood Press, 2006.

'The Mesa de Diálogo and the Fate of the Disappeared in Chile 1999-2000: National Forgiveness Without Political Truth?' in Iain S. Maclean, ed. Reconciliation, Nations and Churches in Latin America, 42-55. Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 2006.

'The Executed', in Adam Jones, ed. Men of the Global South: An Anthology, 252-253. London: Zed Books, 2006.

'Enrique Dussel', 'Ignacio Ellacuría', 'Victor Jara' and 'Pablo Neruda', in Gary Anderson and Kathryn G. Herr (eds.) Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice. London: SAGE, 2007.

'John Paul II and Theologies of Liberation' in Gerard Mannion (ed.), A Companion to John Paul II. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2008.

'Liberation Theology' in Karla Pollmann and Willemien Otten (eds.), A Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.