Paul Soukup, Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University

The Santa Clara University is located in the heart of California's Silicon Valley, Santa Clara University offers a rigorous undergraduate curriculum in the arts and sciences, business, and engineering. It has nationally recognized graduate and professional schools in business, law, engineering, pastoral ministries, and counseling psychology and education.

The 8,377-student, Catholic, Jesuit university has a 155-year tradition of educating the whole person for a life of service and leadership. This diverse community of scholars, characterized by small classes and a values-oriented curriculum, is dedicated to educating students for competence, conscience, and compassion.

Santa Clara University, founded in 1851 by the Society of Jesus as "Santa Clara College," is California's oldest operating institution of higher learning. It was established on the site of Mission Santa Clara de Asís, the eighth of the original 21 California missions.

Paul Soukup S.J.

Academic/professional background: Fr. Soukup earned his Ph.D. in Communication from The University of Texas at Austin in 1985, concentrating on the philosophical grounding of communication research as it developed in the United States from 1920-1950. Before coming to Texas, he earned two degrees in Theology from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley: a Masters of Divinity (1978) and a Masters of Sacred Theology (1980). He also holds a Bachelor's in Philosophy from Saint Louis University (1973).

Teaching areas/responsibilities: Fr. Soukup currently teaches courses in new communication technologies (COMM 012, COMM 161), theology and communication (COMM 175), quantitative research methods (COMM 110), and senior thesis (COMM 112). He has also taught interpersonal communication, most recently at the Gregorian University in Rome.

Research interests: Current research interests include work on orality and literacy studies, the use of new technologies in religious communication, multimedia translation, and the effects of new technologies. He serves as a consultant to the American Bible Society Research Center for Scripture and Media.

Sample publications:

• Soukup, Paul A. & Hodgson, Robert. (Eds.). Fidelity and Translation: Communicating the Bible in New Media. Chicago: Sheed and Ward and New York: American Bible Society, 1999.
• Soukup, Paul A. (Ed.). Media, Culture, and Catholicism. Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1996.
• Rossi, Phillip & Soukup, Paul A. (Eds.). Mass Media and the Moral Imagination. Kansas City: Sheed and Ward, 1994.
• Soukup, Paul A. "Vatican Thinking on Communication." In C. Badaracco (Ed.), Quoting God. Waco, TX: Baylor University Press.
• Soukup, Paul A. "Service Learning in Communication: Why?" In D. Droge & B. Murphy (Eds.), Voices of Strong Democracy: Service-Learning and Communication Studies. Washington, DC: American Association of Higher Education, 1999.
• Soukup, Paul A. "Church, media, and scandal." In J. Lull & S. Hinerman (Eds.). Media Scandals, pp. 224-239. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1997.
• Soukup, Paul A. "Ethics @ Email: Do new media require new ethics?" Issues in Ethics, 8(2): 16-18.

Address:
Paul A. Soukup, SJ
Arts and Sciences Building 223
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA 95053

Conversation

In 1977 Paul established a 'virtual' institiute in communication. The name of this institute is: The Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture (CSCC). This community is responsible for the journal Communication, Research Trends. Paul is the Managing Editor of this journal which started in 1981.

See CSCC

Paul is very much in favour of the project SPIRIN and the new encyclopedia in Spirituality. He agrees that for scholars it is important to have the possibility of peer review. They need credits. For this it is important to have official publications, either by internet of published in the traditional way. Especially scientists are now more and more publishing in digital journals, because for them it is important to publish fast. He thinks that the hesistance among scholars will change eventually. For digital publication it is important to use some kind of legal system like 'science commons'.

Paul was so kind to introduce me to some of his collegueas, who are interested in the field of Spirituality:

Fr. Paul Crowley, S.J.

Paul G. Crowley, S.J. is Chair of the Religious Studies Department. Prof. Crowley is a native Californian. He earned his B.A. with honors in Political and Legal Philosophy from Stanford University in 1973. Within two years, he completed an M.A. in the Philosophy of Religion from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in New York where he also studied with the Jesuit faculty at Woodstock College. In 1984, he took his Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. Post-graduate studies took him to the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies in Toronto, and in 1992 he was awarded the S.T.L. from the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley.

See for more information about the Religious Studies department

The website of the Religious Studies department

J. Buckley, S.J.

Michael J. Buckley, S.J. is the Bea Professor of Theology at Santa Clara University. Prior to his accepting this appointment, Professor Buckley was for fourteen years a member of the theological faculty at Boston College, during which time he served as the Director of the Jesuit Institute and as Canisius Professor of Theology. Previously he was a member of the Pontifical Faculty of Theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, Visiting Scholar at Santa Clara University, Visiting Professor at the Gregorian University, Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Professor of Philosophical Theology at the University of Notre Dame and Faculty Fellow at the Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at the University of Notre Dame. He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.
Professor Buckley received his B.A. and M.A. in philosophy from Gonzaga University, his STM from Santa Clara University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (analysis of ideas). He has received two doctorate honoris causa.

He is very much interested in Spirituality and John of the Cross.

Tom Powers S.J.

Tom Powers is Director of the Graduate Program in Pastoral Ministries and Arrupe Professor.
He is a member of the California Province of the Society of Jesus. He completed his S.T.D. (doctorate in sacred theology) in systematic theology at the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkley (JSTB). His research has taken him to Peru and Spain where he has investigated the theological work being done by women in those countries. The State University of New York Press published his book, The Call of God: Women Doing Theology in Peru, in 2003.
Father Powers was the founding director of The Center for Ignatian Spirituality at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and he taught theology there, at the University of San Francisco, and at JSTB. His courses have focused on Latin American and Feminist theology, spirituality, and ecclesiology.

For more information see:

The website of the School of Education, counseling Psychology, and Pastoral Ministries

I have also met:

Fr. Paul Fitzgerald, S.J.

Fr. Fitzgerald was born in Burbank, California. He earned a B.A. in History from Santa Clara University (1980), and entered the Society of Jesus two years later. After first vows he went to Germany for studies, earning a Ph.B. in Philosophy from the Hochschule für Philosophy, Munich (1986) before returning to the States for two years of high school teaching in Sacramento. Then, he pursued studies for the M.Div. degree at the Weston School of Theology in Boston, Massachusetts (1991), and remained there to complete an S.T.L. with an emphasis in Ecclesiology (the study of the church). He was interested in how God draws people into faith through faith communities. If God interacts with the faithful, both immediately as persons and through communities, then religious experience and corporate discernment can and perhaps should cohere. He explored this thesis at the University of Paris IV - La Sorbonne, where he earned a D.E.A. in the History of Religions (1994), and a D. ès L. in the Sociology of Religion (1997). Concurrently he worked towards an S.T.D. in Ecclesiology from the Institut Catholique de Paris (awarded in 1999).
Since he joined the faculty in 1997, Fr. Fitzgerald has taught courses in both Systematic Theology and Practical Theology. He also directs the interdisciplinary Catholic Studies minor.

At the moment he is Senior Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences.

An important name for Spiriutality and Management is:

André L. Delbecq

André L. Delbecq is the McCarthy University Professor at Santa Clara University, where he served as Dean of the Leavey School of Business from 1979 to 1989. His research and scholarship have focused on executive decision-making processes, organization design, managing innovation in rapid-change environments, and leadership spirituality.

He is the Eighth Dean of Fellows of the Academy of Management, prior President of the Western Academy of Management and former Executive Director of the Organization Behavior Teaching Society. He is recognized internally for executive programs delivered to high technology industries as well as health, human services and government organizations. He has served as member of three corporate Boards of Directors, and twice as Board Chair.
Presently, he serves on the Board of Trustees of Ascension Health. He directs the Institute for Spirituality of Organizational Leadership conducting dialog between theologians, executives and management scholars.