Melinda Krokus
Associate Professor
krokus@marywood.edu
School of the Humanities
570-348-6211 x2169Immaculata Hall 112
Courses taught:
Intro to Environmental Studies ENVS-101ST: Climate Change ENVS-399C
Introduction to Environmental Studies EVST-101
Climate Change EVST-200
Capstone EVST-499
Encountering Faith RST-112
Introduction to Asian Religions RST-217
Sprt/Ntre: Rlgs Dmnsns of Envr RST-240
Dr. Krokus teaches comparative religion courses at 麻花天美星空 focusing on themes such as nature, ecology and environmental justice, health and healing, and women and gender studies. Her research specialization is in Islam with a particular interest in the Sufi tradition and her ethnographic fieldwork has taken her to Turkey, South Africa, Mauritius, and different parts of Europe examining the intersection of sacred text, lived religious experience, and the poetry that emerges from that encounter. Dr. Krokus is committed in her teaching, research, and service to religious literacy and interfaith dialogue and understanding in the hope of contributing to a more just and equitable world for all.
Education:
Ph.D. Boston University
M.Div. Harvard Divinity School
B.A. Prescott College
鈥溾楾here is an 鈥業鈥 deeper than me鈥: The Ansari Qadiri Rifai Tariqa and Transcendence in America鈥 Varieties
of American Sufism. Marcia Hermansen and Elliot Bazzano, eds. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York
Press, 2020.
Book Review. Lucas F. Johnston and Dave Aftandilian, eds. Grounding Education in the Environmental
Humanities: Exploring Place-Based Pedagogies in the South, New York, NY: Routledge, 2019 in The
Wabash Center Journal on Teaching 1 no. 3 (2020): 130.
Presentations
鈥溾楽he鈥檚 Coming Out Dead or Alive鈥: Sufi Jinn Extraction and Healing in the Qadiri Rifa鈥檌 Tariqa鈥 Embodying Modern 鈥淪cientific鈥 Medicine and 鈥淩eligious/Spiritual鈥 Healing: A Comparative
Perspective on Non-Voluntary Spirit Possession and Exorcism (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice,
Italy), December 13-15, 2018.
鈥淚nspiration (wahy) at the Margins: A Vulnerable and Vernacular Sufi Hermeneutics of the Qur鈥檃n鈥
Islamic Mysticism Unit, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting (Boston, MA), November
2017.
Education:
Ph.D. Boston University
M.Div. Harvard Divinity School
B.A. Prescott College
Presentations and Publications
鈥溾楾here is an 鈥業鈥 deeper than me鈥: The Ansari Qadiri Rifai Tariqa and Transcendence in America鈥 Varieties
of American Sufism. Marcia Hermansen and Elliot Bazzano, eds. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York
Press, 2020.
Book Review. Lucas F. Johnston and Dave Aftandilian, eds. Grounding Education in the Environmental
Humanities: Exploring Place-Based Pedagogies in the South, New York, NY: Routledge, 2019 in The
Wabash Center Journal on Teaching 1 no. 3 (2020): 130.
Presentations
鈥溾楽he鈥檚 Coming Out Dead or Alive鈥: Sufi Jinn Extraction and Healing in the Qadiri Rifa鈥檌 Tariqa鈥 Embodying Modern 鈥淪cientific鈥 Medicine and 鈥淩eligious/Spiritual鈥 Healing: A Comparative
Perspective on Non-Voluntary Spirit Possession and Exorcism (Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice,
Italy), December 13-15, 2018.
鈥淚nspiration (wahy) at the Margins: A Vulnerable and Vernacular Sufi Hermeneutics of the Qur鈥檃n鈥
Islamic Mysticism Unit, American Academy of Religion, Annual Meeting (Boston, MA), November
2017.