Philip Boo Riley
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- Phone: 408-554-2199
- Location: 309 Kenna Hall Campus Map
Philip Boo Riley graduated from Regis College in Denver, Colorado with a degree in Inter-disciplinary Studies (1973), and then moved to Canada for graduate work in religious studies at McMaster University (M.A., 1975; Ph.D., 1980). His work on Jesuit philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan informed his initial courses in Catholic Theology and philosophy of religion as well as his scholarship, including two edited volumes from a 1984 international conference hosted by SCU’s Lonergan Research Center with Timothy Fallon (Philosophy). For most of the 1990’s and early 2000’s he enjoyed a tour of duty in SCU’s administration. When he returned to the department in 2003 his teaching and research interests shifted to ways in which local faith communities and organizations engage dynamics—e.g. globalization, diversity, immigration, civic identity and life, social inequality—that define the Silicon Valley region.
- RSOC 9 - Ways of Understanding Religion
- RSOC 123 - Religions@Silicon Valley
- RSOC 135 - Solidarity in Silicon Valley