Rycenga, Jennifer J

Professor, Humanities Department
Coordinator, Comparative Religious Studies Program
Preferred: jennifer.rycenga@sjsu.edu
Alternate: jrycenga@earthlink.net
Telephone
Preferred: (408) 924-1367
Alternate: (650) 440-0063 (cell)
Office Hours
W 2:00 - 5:00 pm (Fall 2017)
W 2:00 - 5:00 pm (F17)
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Graduate Theological Union, 1992
- Master of Arts, Religious Studies, Sacred Heart Univ, Connecticut, United States, 1984
- Master of Music, Music Composition, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1981
- Bachelor of Arts, Music, Yale Univ, Connecticut, United States, 1980
Bio
Jennifer Rycenga is Professor of Comparative Religious Studies at San José State University. Her areas of interest include American religious history, religion and music, feminist analyses of religion, lesbian history, religion and politics, and feminist analyses of music. Her co-edited volume of the writings of feminist Mary Daly, The Mary Daly Reader, with Linda Barufaldi, was published in December 2016 by New York University Press. She has published numerous articles, and co-edited the volumes Frontline Feminisms with Marguerite Waller (Routledge, 2000), and Queering the Popular Pitch with Sheila Whiteley (Routledge, 2006). She is currently finishing a cultural biography of white Abolitionist educator Prudence Crandall (1803-1890) and her Black students.
She received the Ph.D. in the area of Religion and Music from the Graduate Theological Union and the University of California at Berkeley in 1992. She has been teaching at SJSU since 1995.
Prof. Rycenga is an avid birder, with a North American Life List of 716 species, and over 1450 species worldwide. Ask her about your backyard visitors and encounters with birds that go bump in the night! She serves as president of the Sequoia Audubon Society in San Mateo county, where she is an avid advocate for Citizen-Science projects.
Links
- American Progress (Gast) and Manifest Destiny
- American Rhetoric
- Annotated Bibliographies
- Atlas of American Religious Affiliation
- Aztec Philosophy (Tlamatinime)
- Azusa Street
- Baptist/Tornado Correlation
- Bartolomé de las Casas
- Beliefnet
- Bellah's Civil Religion
- Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form
- Biddy Mason, Founder of LA AME
- Bilingual Education - History
- Bird-watching links
- Buddhist Church of America (BCA)
- Bush's Second Inaugural Speech
- C.O.G.I.C.
- Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life
- Chief Seattle's 1854 Speech
- Chris Ofili Painting Attacked
- Christian Reconstructionism
- Church of Satan
- Circle Sanctuary (Neo-Pagan)
- Civil Religion Bibliography
- Civil Religion Encyclopedia Article
- Civil Religion Wikipedia Article
- College of Humanities & the Arts
- Confucius, Women, and Genealogy
- Creative Arts 172 Resources
- Department of Education - US
- Doreen Valiente, Wiccan Thinker
- Easter Bunny's History
- eBird: Data Base of the Sky
- Educational History of America - Timeline
- Educational Statistics
- Educational Statistics from 2006
- Emerson's "Nature" (1836)
- End-of-Life Fact Sheet
- Enuma Elish (ancient Mesopotamian text)
- Ethical Culture Society
- Harlem Hospital WPA Murals
- Humanities Department
- I Still Worship Zeus (movie)
- Inaugural Addresses of US Presidents
- Ingersoll's Complete Works
- Intentional Fallacy
- Ioaan Veniaminov (Saint Innocent of Alaska)
- Iqbal's Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam
- Islamic Center of Cedar Rapids Iowa
- Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
- John F. Kennedy's Inaugural Speech
- John Winthrop's Model of Christian Charity
- Liberation Theology
- Macumba/Candomble Overview
- Madison's Remonstrance
- Malcolm X
- Mapquest
- Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last Speech, Memphis (video)
- Matriarchal Studies
- MCC (Metropolitan Community Church)
- McKinley Assassination
- Means to a Better End (Death in America)
- Meghalaya (India) Matrifocal Tribal Cultures
- Mimbres Pottery
- Moorish Science Temple of America
- Nahua (Aztec) Art Exhibit
- Nation of Islam
- Native American Religion and Law
- Omaha Indian Heritage
- Orthodox Church in America
- Outwin Boochever Competition
- Pantheon Index
- Plymouth Brethren (not the Pilgrims!)
- Quakers
- Quetzalcoatl Statue's Legality
- Responsible Visits to Native American Sites
- Riffat Hassan Article on Women and Ontology in Islam
- Roger Williams
- Ronald Reagan's Farewell Speech
- Sabina Magliocco
- Sabrina Aset's Church of the Most High Goddess
- San Jose Museum of Art Self-Guided Tour Instructions
- San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles
- Santeria Overview
- Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures (MBEddy)
- Secularism and National Prosperity
- Shaw Memorial In-depth
- Sister Aimee Semple McPherson
- SoulForce (Mel White)
- Southern Baptist Convention Official Site
- Swami Vivekananda
- Texas GOP Platform 2006
- The Pomegranate (academic journal)
- Tolstoy Biography
- Treaty of Tripoli Text
- Tsubaki Shinto Shrine in Washington State
- Unity School of Christianity
- Walt Whitman's "The Sleepers"
- Washington as Zeus - Greenough
- Wetamoo
- Women's World Banking
- World and National Religious Membership Statistics
- Zitkala-Sa
- Ten Deadly Sins of College Composition
- Writing Concise Sentences
- Rabbi Julie Schonfeld speaks against Religious Coercion
- How to Avoid Colloquial Writing
- Jarena Lee's Autobiography
- Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (1784)
- Religion Nerd (blog)
- John F. Kennedy's "City on a Hill" speech
- John F. Kennedy's Speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association
- Mother Ann Lee: Testimonies excerpts
- Americans are Flexible about Faith (2008 article)
- George Washington on Religious Tolerance
- Sufism in America
- Hijab Trendz - Hijab Fashion Site
- We Love Hijab - Hijab Fashion and Blog Site
- A Zen Life - D.T.Suzuki film