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Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, EdD, PhD, FRHistS, is a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, historian, editor, writer, religious educator, retreat leader, and pastoral/practical theologian. As of 2024 is the Historiographer of The Episcopal Church. She is the current editor-in-chief of the academic journal, Anglican and Episcopal History. Kujawa-Holbrook publishes books, articles, chapters, and reviews widely. Kujawa-Holbrook currently serves as professor of practical theology, religious education, and Christian histories at Claremont School of Theology and professor of Anglican Studies emerita at Bloy House, the Episcopal Theological School at Los Angeles. An elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Kujawa-Holbrook is the pastoral theology review editor for Anglican Theological Review and a board member for the journal Magistra. A theological educator for nearly forty years, Kujawa-Holbrook is the former vice president for academic affairs and dean of the faculty at Claremont School of Theology and the former academic dean and Suzanne Radley Hiatt professor of feminist pastoral theology and church history at the Episcopal Divinity School. She is on the board of Stillpoint, California. Active in interreligious education, Kujawa-Holbrook is a Christian Leadership Institute (CLI) fellow sponsored by the American Jewish Committee and the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. She is also an associate of the Society of St. John the Evangelist in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Kujawa-Holbrook lives in California with her husband Paul, daughter Rachel, and cats Xander and Brady.

Recent Publications

Books

A History of the Sisterhood of the Holy Nativity (SHN): Advancing the Anglo-Catholic Movement in the Episcopal Church. Pickwick/Wipf & Stock, 2024.

The Writings of Hildegard of Bingen, Annotated and Explained. Skylight Illuminations. Skylight Paths, 2016.

Pilgrimage – The Sacred Art. Journey to the Center of the Heart. Skylight Paths, 2013. http://artofpilgrimage.org; A “Best Spiritual Book of 2013,” by Spirituality & Practice; Catholic Book Club Selection, April 2014.

The Heart of a Pastor: A Life of Edmond Lee Browning. Forward Movement, 2010.

Deeper Joy: Laywomen and Vocation in the 20^th Century Episcopal Church, with Fredrica Harris Thompsett. New York: Church Publishing, 2005.

‘By Grace Came the Incarnation’: A Social History of the Church of the Incarnation, Murray Hill, New York, 1852-2002. New York: Books Just Books Press, Advent, 2004. Winner, Fish Award for Best Parish History, Historical Society of the Episcopal Church.

‘Freedom Is A Dream’: A Documentary History of Anglican and Episcopal Women in America. New York: Church Publishing, 2002.

Recent Articles

“Foreward,” Biography of James DeKoven by John Magerus, Wipf & Stock, 2024.

“Edward W. Rodman Tribute,” EDS News, May 2024.

“A New Era in Engaged Anglican and Episcopal History: Memory, Legacies, and Embodied Practice,” in Anglican & Episcopal History, 92.4 (December 2023).

“Reflections on Mentoring and Faculty of Color:  A White Academic Dean’s Perspective,” in Religious Education, Fall 2023.

“Prayer Book Liturgical Revision” in the Oxford Handbook of the Book of Common Prayer, Ruth A. Meyers, Paul Bradshaw, Luiz Coehlo, eds. Oxford University Press, 2024.

“Women and the Episcopacy: Insights for Ecclesiology,” in Episcopos. The Role of Bishop in a Shared

Future, edited by Andy Doyle. New York: Church Publishing, 2022.

“Confronting White Supremacy in Interreligious Engagement: Insights from Critical Pedagogy,” in Georgetown Companion to Interreligious Studies, edited by Lucinda Allen Mosher, 2022.

“Desmond Mpilo Tutu and the Transfiguration of the Anglican Pastoral Imagination,” Anglican Theological Review, September 2022.

“An Overview of the Strengths and Challenges of the Field of Anglican History,” in “the Future of Anglican Studies,” Journal of Anglican Studies, 2021.

“Intersectionality and Interreligious Engagement: A Reflection,” in Deep Understanding for Divisive Times, Journal of Interreligious Studies Anniversary Volume, Lucinda Mosher, ed.             Interreligious Studies Press, November 2020.

“New Paths as We Journey Toward the Future”: Reflections on Anglican-Roman Catholic Dialogue since Ut Unum Sint, in “Theological Roundtable: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Ecumenical Relations after Ut Unum Sint, Horizons, the Journal of the College Theology Society (2020): 1-23.

“Passion, Authenticity and Commitment – A Reflection on Theological Education,” in Open and Relational Leadership, edited by Roland Hearn, Thomas Oord, Sheri Kling. SacraSage Press, 2020.

Series

Series Editor, Anglican Studies, Lexington/Fortress Academic, 2020-present. Now Bloomsbury. Titles in the series: Daniel Handschy, Donna Hawk, eds., et al. A Eucharist-Shaped Church. Prayer, Theology & Mission 2021); Brian Douglas, Sacramental Poetics in Richard Hooker and George Hooker: Exploring the Abundance of God (2022); John L. Kater, Jr., Ministry in the Anglican Tradition from Henry VIII to 1900 (2022); Guy Collins, The Goldilocks God: Searching for the Via Media (2022), Lonnie H. Lee, The Huguenot-Anglican Refuge in Virginia: Empire, Land, and Religion in the Rappahannock Region (2023).

Series Editor, Postcolonial and Decolonial Perspectives in Religion and Theology, LexingtonBooks, 2017-present. Titles in the series: Zayin Cabot, Ecologies of Participation: Agent, Shamans,Mystics and Diviners (2018); Nami Kim and Wonhee Anne Joh, Feminist Praxis Against U.S.Militarism (2019); Tat-siong Benny Liew and Fernando F. Segovia, Colonialism and the Bible: Contemporary Reflections from the Global South (2020); HyeRan Kim-Cragg, Postcolonial Preaching: Creating a Ripple Effect (2021); Christine J. Hong, Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education (2021); Lis Valle-Ruiz and Andrew Wymer, eds.,Unmkasing White Preaching: racial Hegemony, Resistance and Possibilities in Homiletics (2022); Shannon Frediani, Decolonizing Interreligious Education: Developing Theologies of Accountability (2022); Tore Johnsen, Sami Nature-Centered Christianity in the European Arctic (2022); Elizabeth O’Donnell and Laurel Marshall Potter, Re-membering the Reign of God (2022); Niall McKay, Mark and Literary Materialism: a Lesson in Reading Liberation (2022); Yara Gonzalez-Justiniano, Centering Hope As A Sustainable Decolonial Practice (2022), Marlene Ferraras, Insurrectionist Wisdom: Toward a North American, Indigenized Pastoral Theology (2022), Leocadie W. Lushombo, A Christian and African Ethic of Women’s Political Paricipation: Living as Risen Beings  (2023), Jose Antonio Morales Torres, Wonder As A New Starting Point for Theological Anthropology: Opened by the World (2023).

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Mostly religious and church publications.

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Country Focus

United States

Expertise by Geography

United States, Western Europe

Expertise by Chronology

Medieval, Pre-17th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, Early Modern, Modern, 20th century, 21st century

Expertise by Topic

American Revolution, American Founding Era, Colonialism, Gender, Indigenous Peoples, Pedagogy, Public History, Race, Religion, Slavery, Women