Mary Jo Weaver papers, 1972-2010, bulk
1975-2006
A Guide to her papers at the Indiana University Archives
Finding aid prepared by Sarah Venables.
Summary Information
Repository
Indiana University Archives
1320 East Tenth Street
Herman B Wells Library E460
Bloomington, IN 47405-7000
Phone: 812-855-1127
Email: archives@indiana.edu
http://www.libraries.iub.edu/archives
Creator
Weaver, Mary Jo
TitleMary Jo Weaver papers,1972-2010, bulk
1975-2006
Collection No.
C371
Extent
4 cubic feet
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
Mary Jo Weaver served as a professor in
the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University from 1975 until her
retirement in 2006. Her teaching career, scholarly activities, professional service,
and publications are represented in the contents of this collection.
Access Restrictions
The Promotion and Tenure file is closed to researchers at this time.
Advance notice is required for access to the collection.
Biographical Note
Born on December 16, 1942, Mary Jo Weaver began her scholastic career by obtaining a
Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from Ohio Dominican College in 1964. She then went on
to receive a Master’s Degree in Theology from the University of Notre Dame in 1968
before becoming the first lay woman to receive a PhD in Theology from Notre Dame
with her 1973 dissertation, “Pneuma in Philo of Alexandria.” During this time, Dr.
Weaver also served as an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Pontifical
College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, from 1972 to 1975.
Dr. Weaver’s teaching career within the Indiana University Department of Religious
Studies spanned the period from 1975 until her retirement in 2006. She now holds the
title of Professor Emerita. In addition to teaching, she also served in a variety of
administrative roles both within the University and in a number of professional
organizations as well.
Throughout her career, Dr. Weaver has been actively involved in research and
publishing on subjects relating to American Catholicism, contemporary Christianity,
women and religion, and mysticism and spirituality. These research interests are
also reflected in the classes she taught at IU, most notably in her courses
“American Catholicism,” “Introduction to Christianity,” “Women and Religion,” and
“Star Trek and Religion.”
Arrangement
This collection is organized into six series: Biographical records, Publications and
writings, Presentations, Teaching materials, Audio/Visual materials, and Research
notes, grants, and correspondence. The Publications and writings series is further
organized into three subseries: Monographs, Articles, and Miscellaneous
writings.
Scope and Content Note
This collection contains materials ranging from 1972 to 2010 that document the career
of Mary Jo Weaver, a Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana
University. This collection is divided into six series: Biographical records,
Publications and writings, Presentations, Teaching materials, Audio/Visual
materials, and Research notes, grants, and correspondence.
The first series, Biographical records, is arranged alphabetically and contains
materials from 1973 to 2008. This series is comprised of materials that document Dr.
Weaver’s teaching, research, and professional activities throughout her career,
including faculty summary reports for the classes she taught at IU, her degree from
the University of Notre Dame, awards she won, statements about her work written both
autobiographically by her and by others, and correspondence, a scrapbook, and a
certificate related to her retirement from teaching at IU.
The Publications and writings series is arranged chronologically and spans the period
from 1972 to 2010. It is further organized into three subseries: Monographs,
Articles, and Miscellaneous writings. The Monographs subseries contains books and
chapters of books written by or edited by Dr. Weaver. The Articles subseries
contains articles written by Dr. Weaver that appeared in scholarly journals and
religious publications. The Miscellaneous writings subseries contains Dr. Weaver’s
doctoral dissertation, in addition to editorials, pamphlets, and reviews written by
Weaver, as well as reviews written about her publications.
The Presentations series is arranged chronologically and contains copies of lectures
and sermons given by Dr. Weaver from 1974 to 2001. These presentations were given at
churches, professional conferences, and at other universities, and often featured
topics exploring liberal and conservative Catholic viewpoints as well as the
relationship of women and the Church.
The Teaching materials series is arranged alphabetically by the name of the class and
contains items from courses taught by Dr. Weaver from the 1970s to 2005 at IU and
the Pontifical Josephinum, as well as adult education classes early in her career.
These materials are comprised of syllabi, reading lists, exams, and lectures and
lecture notes. Of note in this series are the three folders of materials related to
Dr. Weaver’s course on Star Trek and Religion.
The Audio/Visual materials series is a chronologically arranged collection of
cassette tape recordings of Dr. Weaver’s radio appearances and conference
presentations from 1983 to 1996, as well as a VHS tape recording of Dr. Weaver from
1995 (stored separately; consult Archives staff for details). The audio tapes within
this series include Dr. Weaver’s various appearances on NPR and other radio
programming and feature topics about issues including women and the Catholic Church
as well as Pope John Paul II’s 1995 visit to the United States. The videotape also
discusses women and Catholicism.
The Research notes, grants, and correspondence series contains research notes on a
variety of topics, reports and other correspondence related to grants awarded to Dr.
Weaver, as well as correspondence about the publication of her book Introduction to
Christianity. Additionally, general correspondence regarding Dr. Weaver’s
administrative duties at IU, her professional involvement in a variety of
organizations, and her publications is included in this series.
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Indexing Terms
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
IUCAT, the IU Libraries'
online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by
searching the catalog using these terms.
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Separated Material
A file containing course evaluations was separated from the collection.
VHS Tape – “Is Catholic Feminism a Contradiction in Terms?,” Prof. Mary Jo Weaver,
45:00, 1995 - Pulled and stored with 4111.9
Related Material
Additional publications and research materials may be accessed in IUScholarworks:
http://scholarworks.iu.edu/
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Accession 2010/100
Usage RestrictionsThe donor(s) of this collection have not transferred their copyrights for the materials to the Trustees of Indiana University.
For more information, please contact the Indiana University Archives staff.
The Indiana University Archives respects the intellectual property rights of others and does not claim any copyrights for
non-university records, materials in the public domain, or materials for which we do not hold a Deed of Gift. Responsibility
for the determination of the copyright status of these materials rests with those persons wishing to reuse the materials.
Researchers are responsible for securing permission from copyright owners and any other rights holders for any reuse of these
materials that extends beyond fair use or other statutory limitations.
Digital reproductions of archival materials from the Indiana University Archives are made available for noncommercial educational
and research purposes only. If you are the copyright holder for any of the digitized materials and have questions about its
inclusion on our site, please contact the Indiana University Archivist.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Mary Jo Weaver papers, Collection C371, Indiana University Archives, Bloomington.
Provenance
Gift of Mary Jo Weaver, November 2010.
Appraisal
Student evaluations of courses taught by Dr. Weaver were not found to have long
term historical value and were removed from this collection.
Processing InformationProcessed by Sarah Venables.
Completed in 2011.
Container List
Series:
Biographical records, 1973-2010
Box 1
Awards, Degree, 1973-2006
Conference and Lecture Brochures, 1978-1994
Curriculum Vita,2010
Statements about Weaver’s Activities Written by Others, 1982-2009
Statements Written by Weaver about Her Teaching and Research,
1990-2005
Faculty Summary Reports, 1975-2005
Promotion, Tenure, and Salary Files, 1978-1999 [Restricted]
Retirement Ceremony and Correspondence, 2005-2008
Retirement Certificate, 2006
Retirement Scrapbook, 2006
Series:
Publications and writings, 1972-2010,
undated
Subseries:
Monographs, 1979-2009,
undated
Box 1
“Quest for Self/Quest for God” in
The Bent World, Essays on Religion and Culture,
1979
Letters from a “Modernist”: The
Letters of George Tyrrell to Wilfred Ward 1893-1980
,
Introduced and Annotated by Mary Jo Weaver, 1981
“Thomas Merton and Flannery O’Conner: The Urgency of Vision”
in
Thomas Merton, Pilgrim in
Process
, 1983
Introduction to Christianity,
1st Edition, 1984
New Catholic Women, 1985
Newman and the Modernists,
Edited by Mary Jo Weaver, 1985
“In Defense of Omnipotence: the Case Against Dialogue” in
The Vatican and Homosexuality,
1988
“Who is the Goddess and Where Does She Get Us?” in
Neo-Paganism: A Feminist Search for Religious
Alternatives
, 1988
“Pornography and the Religious Imagination” in
For Adults Only: The Dilemma of Violent
Pornography
, 1989
Introduction to Christianity,
2nd Edition, 1991
“Widening the Sphere of Discourse: Reflections on the
Feminist Perspective in Religious Studies” in
Horizon on Catholic Feminist Theology,
1992
“A Church We Long For: The Fundamentalist Challenge” in
The Struggle Over the Past, 1993
Box 2
Springs of Water in a Dry
Land
, 1993
“Still Feisty at Fifty: The Grailville Lay Apostate for
Women,” 1993
“Feminists and Patriarchs in the Catholic Church: Orthodoxy
and its Discontents” in
Catholic
Lives/Contemporary America
, 1994
Being Right: Conservative Catholics
in America
, Edited by Mary Jo Weaver and R. Scott
Appleby
New Catholic Women, 1995
“Cancer in the Body of Christ” in
Women’s Spirituality, 1996
“Miriam Elder” in
Carmel of the
Resurrection 1922-1997
, 1997
Introduction to Christianity,
3rd Edition, 1998
“American Catholics in the Twentieth Century” in
Perspectives on American Religion and
Culture
, 1999
What’s Left? Liberal American
Catholics
, Edited by Mary Jo Weaver, 1999
“Catholic Fundamentalism” in
The
Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism
, 2001
Cloister and Community: Life within
a Carmelite Monastery
, 2002
“Lower Case Catholic” in
Vatican
II
, 2003
“Catholic Women Since Vatican II” in
Women and Religion in North America – Draft, 2004
“Feminists and Patriarchs in the Catholic Church: Orthodoxy
and its Discontents” in
Re-Imagining God
for Today
, 2005
Introduction to Christianity,
4th Edition, 2009
“The Roman Catholic Heritage” in the
Encyclopedia of Religion in America, undated
“‘Springs of Water in a Dry Land’: A Process Model of
Feminist Spirituality” in
A Discipleship of
Equals
, undated
Subseries:
Subseries: Articles, 1975-2003,
undated
Box 2
“The Chinese Rites Case and Mission Theory,” 1975
“From Sin to Sanctity,” 1976
“Augustine and the Unending Quest,” 1977
“Dante and the Baptized Imagination,” 1977
“Enhancing and Evaluating the Discussion Section,” 1977
“The Feeling Intellect,” 1977
“The Gift of Christmas,” 1977
“Master of the Images,” 1977
“Master of the Images,” 1977
“Leisure: A Way to Live the Gospel,” 1978
“Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day: From Theory to Practice, I,”
1978
“Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day: From Theory to Practice, II,”
1978
“Wilfred Ward, George Tyrrell and the Meanings of Modernism,”
1978
“A Bibliography of the Published Works of Wilfred Ward,”
1979
“Hellfire and Damnation: An Approach to Religion and
Literature,” 1979
“Single Blessedness?,” 1979
“Thomas Merton and Flannery O’Connor: The Urgency of Vision,”
1979
“A Working Catalogue of the Ward Family Papers,” 1979
“George Tyrrell and the Joint Pastoral Letter,” 1981
“The North American Catholic Woman: Relationship to Self,
Family, Institutions of Church and State,” 1983
“Single and Roman Catholic in the 80’s,” 1983
“We Aren’t Sisters,” 1984
“From Immigrants to Emigrants,” 1985
“Lay Signers Reflect on Statement,” 1985
“Lenten Journey 1985,” 1985
“Women and the Future of the Church,” 1985
“Feminist Perspectives and American Catholic History,”
1986
“A Church We Long for: The Fundamentalist Challenge,”
1987
“‘Overcoming the Divisiveness of Babel’: The Languages of
Catholicity,” 1987
“A Discussion of Sallie McFague’s
Models of God: Introduction” in Religion and
Intellectual Life, 1988
“Eleanor Lahr Liberated,” 1988
“Who is the Goddess and Where Does She Get Us?,” 1988
“Widening the Sphere of Discourse: Reflections on the
Feminist Perspective in Religious Studies,” 1989
“Empowered by an Alternative Tradition: Women’s Options in an
Uncongenial Church,” 1990
“John Tracy Ellis,” 1993
“The Most Adventurous of Nuns: Ursulines and the Future,”
1993
Box 3
“Feminists and Patriarchs in the Catholic Church: Orthodoxy
and Its Discontents,” 1994
“Being Right: Conservative American Catholics,” 1996
“Rooted Hearts/Playful Minds: Catholic Intellectual Life at
Its Best,” 1998
“What’s New,” 1999
“Conjectures of a Disenchanted Reader,” 2003
“Sheed and Ward,” 2003
“Celebrating Women Witnesses: Therese of Lisieux,” undated
“Longing for Relationship: Leading a Spiritual Life in
America at the End of the Millennium,” undated
Subseries:
Miscellaneous writings, 1972-2010,
undated
Box 3
Reviews Written By Weaver, 1972-2004
Dissertation: πνεΰμα in Philo of Alexandria, 1973
Letter or Editorial – “Sinless Fun” in
U.S. Catholic, 1977
Editorial –
Commonweal,
1982
Booklets or Pamphlets Written for St. Charles Borromeo
Church, 1982-1985
Reviews of Weaver’s Publications, 1985-1996
Weaver Predicts, 1985-2000
Text Submitted for “Charter of the Rights of Catholics in the
Church,” 1986
Response to Critiques of Her Book New Catholic Women,
1987
Letter to the Editor –
Commonweal, 1996
Interview – Trekdom Blog, 2007
Biography of Sister Elizabeth of the Sacred Heart, 2010
Letter to the Editor –
NCR,
undated
Mary Jo Weaver’s Book List: A Baker’s Dozen, undated
Series:
Presentations, 1974-2001,
undated
Box 3
“Sin,” circa 1974,
1975
“Catholics and the Bible,” given at Monroe Public Library,
1976
“Male God Language and Religious Alienation,” 1980
“Onward Christian Voters,” 1980
“Seduced and Abandoned: Jesus’ Death and God’s Suffering,”
1980
Sermons Given at St. Charles Borromeo Church, 1980-1985
“Reformers, Radicals and Romantics,” 1981
Miscellaneous Sermons, 1981-1982,
undated
Notes and Drafts of Presentations, 1982-2001
Presentations Given at St. Martin’s Abbey in Oregon, 1983
Sermons Given at St. Mark’s Methodist Church in Bloomington,
Indiana, 1983
“We Will Not Comply! Civil and Ecclesiastical Disobedience of
American Catholic Women,” 1984
“Aspects of Feminine Spirituality in the 19th Century: A
Response,” 1985
“Ordination Reconsidered,” 1986
“Research and Writing of History,” 1986
“Response to Jung and Kern,” 1990
“Working on Being Right: Conservative Catholics Thirty Years
After Council,” 1995
“What’s Wrong with Being Right?,”1996
“Who is This Woman? The Life of the Virgin in Textiles and
Prints,” 1998
“Response to Schreiter Talk, 1999
“What’s Left is Us: Liberal Catholics at the End of the
Millennium,” 1999
“Wisdom’s Lure: the Power of Religious Studies,” 1999
“Teresa of Avila,” 2001
“The Creed,” RCIA, undated
“Response to John Carmody,” undated
Sermons Given at a Church in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, undated
“Star Trek and Religion: Theory and Practice,” undated
Series:
Teaching materials, 1972-2005,
undated
Box 3
Adult Education Classes, St. Charles, 1970s
“American Catholicism,” 2000-2005
“American Catholicism at Mid-Century,” 2000
“The Church and the Christian Life,” 1974
“Church as Pilgrim Church,” 1975
“Contemporary Religious Thought: The Pilgrimage from Sin to
Sanctity,” 1976
“Feminist Critique of Western Religions,” 1990-1993
Graduate Seminars, 1977-1993,
undated
“Hellfire and Damnation,” 1977-1985
“History of the Roman Catholic Church,” undated
“Introduction to Christianity,” 1993-2002,
undated
“Introduction to Religion in the West,” 1978-1979
“Modern American Catholicism,” 1981-1997
“Mystical Prayer and Western Spirituality,” undated
“The Pilgrimage of the People of God,” 1975
Pontifical Josephinum Classes, 1972-1975
“Religion and Literature,” 1979-1980
Scrapbook Used in Women’s Studies Courses, undated [located in
Box 4]
“Spiritual Autobiography,” 2001
“Star Trek and Religion,” Folder 1 of 3, 1998-2005
Box 4
“Star Trek and Religion,” Folder 2 of 3, 1998-2005
“Star Trek and Religion,” Folder 3 of 3, 1997-2000
“Women and Religion,” 1985-2000
Series:
Audio/Visual material, 1983-1996,
undated
Box 4
Audiotapes,
Women and the Church 1983/1987, All Things Considered: NPR on
Pope, 1983,
1987
“Let’s Talk: Women Church – Its Struggle and Its Vision”:
Rosemary R. Ruether, Mary Jo Weaver, Marjorie Tuite, Op, Moderator:
Kay Ashe, Op, 2/16/1986
Mary Jo Weaver Copy, 9/27/1986
1991 Future of the American Church Conference 540 – “Roman
Catholic Fundamentalists: Expanding the Matrix of Interpretation” –
Dr. Mary Jo Weaver, 1991
Talk of the Nation: Briggs, LaCugna, Weaver – Bp’s Pastoral,
11/16/1992
Talk of the Nation, 11/16/1992
and 8/16/1993
Fresh Air, 3/8/1993
Aftmag Will Radio: Catholics, Mary Jo Weaver, Scott Appleby,
Msr. Steven Rohlfs, 8/18/1993
Weaver – NPR – JPII Visit, 10/2/1995
1996 Call to Action National Conference 96414-0830: Mary Jo
Weaver – “What’s Right About, and Wrong With, Being Right?,”
1996
Branches Radio, 1/16/1996
All Things Considered #851027: Clergy and Women, undated
Fresh Air Master Interview and Feature, undated
Mary Jo on NPR – Being Right, undated
Program 409: “15 Min. on Easter,” undated
NPR Interview with Robert Siegel, undated
Terry Gross – Being Right, undated
Women in the Church Conference 86003-820: Dr. Mary Jo Weaver
– A Summary of Feminist Theological Developments, undated
VHS Tape – “Is Catholic Feminism a Contradiction in Terms?,”
Prof. Mary Jo Weaver, 45:00, 1995
(Pulled and stored with 4411.9)
Series:
Research notes, grants, and correspondence, 1972-2006,
undated
Box 4
Correspondence – General, 1972-2002
Correspondence – Publication of
Introduction to Christianity, 1982-2006
Grant Report – “Being Right: Conservative American Catholics,”
1993-1996
Grant Report – “Cooperation and the Community of Learning,”
1981
Grant Requests and Correspondence, 1981-1986
Research Notes, 1973-2006,
undated
Beth Johnson, undated
Dorothy Day, undated
Gabriel Daly: Roman Catholicism and Modernity, undated
General Research, 2006,
undated
Homosexuality, 1987-1996
Institutional Roman Catholicism, 1994-2005
Irish Roman Catholics, 1973-1998
Medieval Anti-Minority Violence, 1996
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 2005,
undated
Pope John XXIII, undated
Vatican II, undated
Scrapbook Used in Women’s Studies Courses, undated
Restricted File