Jamie Price is presently Research Professor in the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and Executive Director of the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute. He received his A.B. from Lawrence University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
Professor Price has been a faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Georgia State University, and the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America. As a Director at The Shriver Center at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, he developed the Shriver Peaceworker Program, a two-year graduate leadership program for Returned Peace Corps Volunteers that integrates graduate study, community service, and ethical reflection. He also developed and ran CLEARCorps, a national AmeriCorps program that works in economically distressed communities across the country to help families protect their children from childhood lead poisoning. Beginning in 2004, he began to develop the Sargent Shriver Peace Institute, which affiliated with ICAR in 2006.
Professor Price is currently working on research and writing projects focusing on the theory and practice of method in peacebuilding, the role of religious imagination in creating and transforming culture wars, and the philosophy and peacebuilding achievements of Sargent Shriver. He has recently completed a manuscript for a book titled Religious Imagination and Political Conflict in America: On Spiritualizing Politics without Politicizing Religion.
Graduate Courses
"The Shriver Seminar" (CONF 795)
"Conflict and Religion" (CONF 722)
"Moral and Philosophical Foundations of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (CONF 726)
Selected Publications
“Mysticism, Mediation and Consciousness: The Innate Capacity in John Ruusbroec” in The Innate Capacity, edited by Robert K.C. Forman, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
“Lessons in the Creation of a Setting,” with John S. Martello, Universities and Community Schools 5 (1997): 72-78.
“Christian Parenting and the (Gay) Child,” in Our Selves, Our Souls and Bodies: Sexuality and the Household of God, edited by Charles Hefling, Boston: Cowley Publications, 1996, pp. 105-116.
“Naming and Framing Service Learning: A Taxonomy and Four Levels of Value,” with John S. Martello, Metropolitan Universities 7 (1996): 11-23.
“The Geography of the Soul: An Intellectual Map,” with Stephen Happel, in Nourishing the Soul: Discovering the Sacred in Everyday Life, edited by Anne Simpkinson et al, San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1995, pp. 59-70.
“Spiritual Awareness and Sacred Stories,” with Charles Simpkinson, in Sacred Stories: Healing in the Imaginative Realm, edited by Anne and Charles Simpkinson, San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993, pp. 11-26.
“Mystical Texts as an Entry to the Cross Cultural Study of Religion,” in Relations Between Cultures, edited by George McLain and John Kromkowski, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1991: 291-304.
“Images and Transcendence,” Studies in Formative Spirituality 11 (1990): 195-201.
“Typologies and the Cross-Cultural Analysis of Mysticism: A Critique,” in Religion and Culture: Essays in Honor of Bernard Lonergan, edited by T. Fallon and P. Riley, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1987, pp. 81-90.
“Bernard Lonergan and the Foundations of Contemporary Mystical Theology,” in Lonergan Workshop, Volume V, edited by Fred Lawrence, Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1985, pp. 163-195.
“Spirituality and the Future of the Human Spirit,” in Beyond 1984, Proceedings of the World Future society, 1985.
“Mystical Transformation of Consciousness in Symeon the New Theologian, “ Diakonia 12 (1985): 6-20.
“The Objectivity of Mystical Truth Claims,” The Thomist 49 (1985): 81-98.
“Conversion and the Doctrine of Grace in Bernard Lonergan and John Climacus,” Anglican Theological Review 62 (1980): 336-362.
