Agnes M. Brazal

Agnes M. Brazal is a Filipina theologian, known for her work in feminist theology, a theology of migration, and cybertheology.

Biography

Brazal received her first degree in 1981, a BS in management engineering from Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, Philippines. She later pursued studies in theology, first at Maryhill School of Theology in Quezon City, before completing a STL (1994) and a SThD (1998), both from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.^[1]

She taught at Maryhill School of Theology (1998–2012), St. Vincent School of Theology (2012–2015), and, since 2016, has been at De La Salle University, where she is presently a full professor in theology and religious education.^[1][2] She was a founding member and past president of the Catholic Theological Society of the Philippines (DaKaTeo) and a founding member and past president of the Ecclesia of Women in Asia (EWA),^[2] an organization that encourages Catholic Asian female theologians to be heard as equal partners with male theologians.^[3]

Works

• Brazal, Agnes M.; Si, Andrea Lizares, eds. (2007). Body and Sexuality: Theological-pastoral Perspectives of Women in Asia. Quezon City: Ateneo University Press. ISBN 978-971-550-516-1.
• Brazal, Agnes M.; Abraham, Kochurani, eds. (2014). Feminist Cyberethics in Asia: Religious Discourses on Human Connectivity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-39586-3.
• Brazal, Agnes M.; De Guzman, Emmanuel S. (2015). Intercultural Church: Bridge of Solidarity in the Migration Context. Borderless Press. ISBN 978-0-9962017-0-4.
• Brazal, Agnes M.; Davila, Maria Theresa, eds. (2016). Living With(Out) Borders: Catholic Theological Ethics on the Migrations of Peoples. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN 978-1-60833-633-3.
• Snyder, Susanna; Brazal, Agnes M.; Ralston, Joshua, eds. (2016). Church in an Age of Global Migration: A Moving Body. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-137-51812-5.
• Brazal, Agnes M. (2019). A Theology of Southeast Asia: Liberation-Postcolonial Ethics in the Philippines. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books. ISBN 978-1-60833-758-3.

References

1. "Brief Profile". Agnes Brazal. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
2. "Brazal, Agnes M." De La Salle University. Retrieved 7 December 2019.
3. Viehland, N.J. (16 October 2014). "Q & A with Agnes Brazal". Global Sisters Report. Retrieved 7 December 2019.