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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

Title
Mary 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.

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 Restrictions
The 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 Information
Processed 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

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