Contact Information: 
Email: guider@bc.edu
Office Phone: 617-552-6518; 815-725-8735, ext. 105
Address:
Boston College
School of Theology and Ministry
140 Commonwealth Avenue
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
Areas of Interest:
Teaching interests include World Christianity and Mission Studies, Contextual Theologies, Mariology, and Contemporary Issues in Religion, Culture & Society. Current research focuses on the Church in Brazil, the contemporary relevance of the Franciscan theological tradition for Christian life and practice, and Consecrated Life in the 21st Century.
About:
Sr. Guider joined the Weston Jesuit Faculty in 1990. She is the author of Daughters of Rahab: Prostitution and the Church of Liberation in Brazil (Fortress, 1996) and editor of Doing What Is Ours to Do: A Clarian Theology of Life (Franciscan Institute, 2000). Sr. Guider is past-president of the American Society of Missiology and has served as an advisor to missionary societies, religious congregations, and Catholic institutions. She is a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate. She is on leave during Spring 2009.
Fall 2009
TM 801- Mariology
TM 802- Theology, Education and Liberation
Recent Publications:
“Missionary Activity 1910-2010: A Roman Catholic Perspective.” With Thomas Grenham, S.P.S. Atlas of Global Christianity. Kenneth R. Ross, ed. Edinburgh: forthcoming in 2009.
“From the Ends of the Earth: ‘International Minister” or Missionary?” Antioch Agenda: Essays on the Restorative Church in honor of Orlando E. Costas. D. Jeyaraj, R. W. Pazmino, and R.L. Petersen, eds. New Delhi: ISPCK, 2007.
“Moral Imagination and the Missio ad Gentes: Redressing the Counter-Witness of Racism.” Interrupting White Privilege: Catholic Theologians Break the Silence. Laurie M. Cassidy and Alex Mikulich, eds. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2007.
"Reinventing Life and Hope: Coming to Terms with Truth and Reconciliation - Brazilian Style." Iain Maclean, ed. Reconciliation, Nations and Churches in Latin America. Williston: Ashgate Press, 2006.
“Complexidade e efeitos colaterais do abuso sexual na Igreja Católica.” Revista de Catequese 28:112 (2006).