- Professor
University of Calgary
Department of RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Wayne McCready
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Research Interests
Currently Teaching
Not currently teaching any courses.
Areas of Interest
Working within the western stream of the Department of Religious Studies, my primary areas of teaching and research have to do with Second Temple Judaism (ca. 200 BCE to 200 CE). In particular, I concentrate on how Second Temple Judaism was a birthing environment for the origins of Christianity and early Judaism. I am interested in group identity and self-definition in the ancient context.
Currently, I am the Director of the Calgary Institute for the Humanities at the University of Calgary. My
research
at the Humanities Institute focuses on the role of the humanities for
meaning-making in light of ‘place’ studies, as well as authority and
civil society.
Graduate Student Supervision
Not accepting new Graduate Students as of January 2012.
Publications
Book Chapter
- McCready, Wayne. "Pilgrimage, Place and Meaning-making by Jews in Greco-Roman Egypt" Dynamics of Identity and Cultural Minorities in the Roman Empire Ed. Harland, Philip A. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009. Print.
- McCready, Wayne. "Martyrdom: In Accordance with the Gospel" Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Sardis and Smyrna Ed. Ascough, Richard Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005. 141-155. Print.
- McCready, Wayne. "Friendship and Second Temple Jewish Sectarianism" Text and Artifact in The Religions of Mediterranean Antiquity Ed. Desjardins, M. and Wilson, S.G. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2000. 402-422. Print.
- McCready, Wayne. "Nature and Function of Oral and Written Scripture for the Christian Devotee" Experiencing Scripture in World Religions Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1999. 34-62. Print.
- McCready, Wayne. "The Historical Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls" Whose Historical Jesus? Ed. Arnal, W.M. and Desjardins, M. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1997. 190-211. Print.
- McCready, Wayne. "Ecclesia and Voluntary Associations" Voluntary Associations in the Graeco-Roman World Ed. Kloppenborg, J.S. and Wilson, S.G. Oxford: Routledge, 1996. 59-73. Print.
Conference
- McCready, Wayne. From Space to Place. The Role and Function of Artistic Expression in Public Space 2007.
- McCready, Wayne. Authority as a Determining Principle for the Evolution of Civil Society 2005.
- McCready, Wayne. Realizing a Civil Society. Joint Perspectives from Eastern and Western Traditions 2005.
- McCready, Wayne. Realizing a Civil Society. Recommendations from Antiquity 2005.
- McCready, Wayne. Religious and Civil Identities at Roman Carthage 2003.
Edited Book
- McCready, Wayne and Reinhartz, Adele (eds). Common Judaism. Explorations in Second-Temple Judaism Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Press, 2008. 320. Print.
Journal Article
- McCready, Wayne. "What Is a City?". Western Humanities Review 61.2 (2007): 111. Print.
- McCready, Wayne. "The Sectarian Status of Qumran: The Temple Scroll". Revue de Qumran 42. (1983): 183-191. Print.
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