Kate Temoney

Biography

Dr. Kate E. Temoney is Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of Global Cultural Studies at Montclair State University. She is a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Religion and the Holocaust; an Editor for Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal; and former American Academy of Religion co-chair of the Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit. 

Dr. Temoney teaches courses on Religious Ethics, the Holocaust, Genocide, African Religions, Religions of the World, and Religion & Human Rights, and her international publications and presentations—in such places as Brazil, Cambodia, Poland, Belgium, Morocco, Canada, and Australia—address the intersections of religion, human rights, mass atrocities, and theory of history. 
 

In addition to national and international guest lectures and presentations to government and non-governmental agencies, her scholarship appears in several journals and edited volumes. A selection of her work includes: “The 1994 Rwandan Genocide: The Religion/Genocide Nexus, Sexual Violence, and the Future of Genocide Studies” in Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (2016); “Anatomizing White Rage: ‘Race is My Religion!’ and ‘White Genocide’” in The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Racial Progress (University of Edinburgh Press, 2020); “The War Came Alive Inside of Them: Genocidal Rape, Religion, and Moral Injury” in the Journal of Religious Ethics (2021); History for ‘Reconciliation’: A Critical Assessment of Three Models and Their Implications,” in SHISO (2022, a Japanese humanities journal); “An Assessment of the Plan of Action for Religious Leaders and Actors to Prevent Incitement to Violence that Could Lead to Atrocity Crimes" in the Routledge Handbook on Religion and Genocide (Routledge, 2022); and “Religion and Genocide Studies” in The Handbook of Genocide Studies (Edward Elgar Press, 2023); and "Memory,Religion, and Authoritarianism in Post (1994)- Genocide Rwanda" in the Journal of Hostility, Anger, Repression and Malice or HARM (2024). 

She is a former Assistant Dean of Students and trained as a comparative religious ethicist, earning a BA from Wake Forest University, an MEd from The College of William & Mary, and an MA and PhD from Florida State University. 

To access the above publications: https://montclair.academia.edu/KateTemoney 

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Research

Religious Ethics, Human Rights, Genocide Studies, Theory of History

Publications

For access to these publications: https://montclair.academia.edu/KateTemoney 

 

“Memory, Religion, and Authoritarianism in Post (1994)-Genocide Rwanda” in the Journal of Hostility, Anger, Repression and Malice (HARM), pp January 2024, pp. 1-10. Peer Reviewed.

“Religion and Genocide.” Handbook of Genocide Studies. David Simon and Leora Kahn, eds. Edward Elgar Press. March 2023, pp. 197-212. Peer Reviewed.

“In Honor and Memory of Sumner B. Twiss.” Journal of Religious Ethics, Vol. 51, Iss. 4. September 2023, 563-565. Not Peer Reviewed.

“Historical Understanding and Reconciliation after Violent Conflict.” Co-author Berber Bevernage. In Historical Understanding, Zoltán Boldizsár Simon and Lars Deile, eds. Bloomsbury Academic. April 2022, pp. 185-194. Peer Reviewed.

“History for ‘Reconciliation’: A Critical Assessment of Three Models and Their Implications.” Co-author Berber Bevernage. SHISO Special Issue “History, Memory and Politics in the Age of Populism: Historical Studies against the Crises of Democracy.” In Japanese. January 2022, pp. 101-123. Peer Reviewed.

“An Assessment of the United Nations’ Plan of Action for Religious Leaders and Actors to Prevent Incitement to Violence that Could Lead to Atrocity Crimes.” In The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Mass Atrocity, and Genocide, Stephen Smith and Sara Brown, eds. Routledge. January 2022, pp. 391-40. Peer Reviewed.

“The War Came Alive Inside of Them: Genocidal Rape, Religion, and Moral Injury.” Journal of Religious Ethics Focus Issue on Moral Injury, Vol. 49, Iss. 4. September 2021, pp. 479-494. Peer Reviewed.

Violence Based on Religion or Belief: Taking Action at the United Nations. Stimson Issue Brief. Adutu Gorur and Julie Gregory. January 2021, pp.1-18.  Named Contributor. Not peer reviewed

“Anatomizing White Rage: ‘Race is My Religion!’ and ‘White Genocide’” in The Religion of White Rage: White Workers, Religious Fervor, and the Myth of Racial Progress, Lori L. Martin, Biko Gray, and Stephen C. Finley, eds. University of Edinburgh Press. September 2020, pp. 149-165. Peer Reviewed.

“Empowered Women Empower Women: Peacebuilding in the Age of #MeToo” in Building Peace in America. Co-authors Shelly Clay-Robison, Elizabeth Hume, Melinda Burrell, Gretchen Sandles, Deena R. Hurwitz, and Emily Sample. Rowman & Littefield. August 2020, pp. 209-232. Not Peer Reviewed.

“Mass Violence and Moving Forward.” In Selection 1 - Zoom session # 6 (June 12): Reform and Revolution: Reform or Revolution? Envisioning Better Futures Through Transnational Frames.” Diana J. Fox and Fawzia Afzal-Khan, eds. Journal of International Feminist Studies, Vol. 21, Iss. 4. Three Months of the Global Covid-19 Pandemic: A Selection of Liberatory, Anti-racist, Feminist Webinars, Panels and Interviews.” 45:48-52:45. June 2020. Peer Reviewed. 

“Counter-Terrorism and Religious Violence in Nigeria: A Human Rights Perspective on the Doctrine of Necessity.” Co-author Simeon O. Ilesanmi. In Law and Religion in Africa Series: Religion, Law & Security. AFRICAN SUNMeDIA. June 2018, pp. 177-93. Peer Reviewed.

“Religion and Genocide Nexuses: Bosnia as Case Study.” Religions: Religion and Genocide Special Issue, Vol. 8, Iss. 6 (112) doi:10.3390/rel8060112. June 2017, pp. 2-19. Peer Reviewed.

“Jainism and War.” In “War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict,” Jeffrey Shaw, ed. ABC-CLIO. April 2017, pp. 415-16. Not Peer Reviewed.

“The 1994 Rwandan Genocide: The Religion/Genocide Nexus, Sexual Violence, and the Future of Genocide Studies.” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, Vol.10, Iss. 3 doi.org/10.5038/1911- 9933.10.3.1351. December 2016, pp. 3-24. Peer Reviewed.

‘“Those Who Have the Sin…Go to This Side’: Genocide, Religion, and Genocide and Religion.” In The Routledge History of Genocide, Cathie Carmichael and Richard Maguire, eds. Routledge. May 2015, pp. 227-40. Peer Reviewed.

The ‘D’ is Silent, but Human Rights Are Not: Django Unchained as Human Rights Discourse.” In Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained: The Continuation of Metacinema, Oliver C. Speck, ed. Bloomsbury Academic. July 2014, pp. 123-40. Peer Reviewed.

“A Shadowy Presence: Ethnic Faculty Recruitment and Retention.” Black Issues in Higher Education 29 April 1999:80. Peer Reviewed.