Janet R. Walton
Janet R. Walton[edit]
Biography[edit]
Janet Roland Walton, Professor Emerita of Worship, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, is known for her work infusing liturgy with the arts to create worship that actively involves the congregation and reflects the concerns of the conmmunity.
Professor Walton graduated from Catholic University with the B.M. in 1967, received the M.M. in Piano Performance from Indiana University in 1971 and the Ed.D. from Union Theological Seminary/Columbia University in Religion and the Arts in 1979. She is a Past President of the North American Academy of Liturgy (1995-97), a Henry Luce Fellow in Theology and the Arts (1998), the recipient of a Henry Luce Travel/Research grant (1988), the 2003 recipient of the AAR Excellence in Teaching award and the 2009 recipient of the Berakah Award, a lifetime award for distinctive work in worship given by the North American Academy of Liturgy. In 2018, she was recipient of the Unitas Distinguished Alumni/Alumnae award at Union Theological Seminary. Professor Walton is a Roman Catholic and a member of the Sisters of the Holy Names, a congregation of Catholic women.
Professor of Worship at Union Theological Seminary[edit]
Professor Walton joined Union in 1980, invited by then Union President, The Rev. Dr. Donald Shriver, to develop a worship program for the newly-renovated James Chapel. From the outset, Professor Walton permeated the space with the arts. She worked directly with student worship planners to evoke the living practice of liberation theologies, through music, dance, poetry, visual arts, culinary arts, scripture, and preaching, into spiritually-evocative and community-relevant worship. Professor Walton has particular interests in feminist liturgical practices and, in the community, working with the poor.
Dr. Walton, with Dr. Troy Messenger, Director of Worship and Assistant Professor of Worship at Union, and The Rev. Susan Blain, former Director of Worship at Union, created a video, James Chapel Worship- Practicing for Life, on the history of James Chapel worship since its 1979 renovation. This video helps document the evolution of worship in James Chapel during Walton's 36 years at Union.
Professor Walton coordinated the program in Theology and the Arts at Union with Dr. Messenger. For students in any of the degree programs at Union who had professional artistic backgrounds, this program enabled them to continue their artistic training alongside their theological study with artists in the city as mentors. For all students, the program provided possibilities to enjoy artistic resources of New York City as a part of their theological training.
Dr. Walton regularly lead and attended daily worship and co-lead the monthly “At Table” liturgies with Dr. Hal Taussig, Professor of New Testament (retired) at Union. “At Table” is a form of worship based on the Greco Roman meal that influenced the development of the Christian meal traditions. Together with Dr. Messenger, Professor Walton also worked on all public events at Union that included ritual components. Such events included convocations, commencements, presentation of Union medals, faculty inaugurations and retirements, and rituals that are a part of visiting groups such as the week-long presence of the Dalai Lama and the international peacemakers, and more recently, an interfaith ritual to conclude a conference on Religions for the Earth.
Professor Walton retired from Union in 2016. Currently, she leads workshops, gives lectures, participates in varied seminars and professional programs, and serves as an ongoing consultant for Christian and Jewish congregations. She travels frequently to many different countries, most often to a place where she can continue her study of Spanish and the Latino/a culture.
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'At Table' worship in James Chapel.
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The Union community at worship.
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Fabric and colored light in James Chapel.
Publications[edit]
Books[edit]
Feminist Liturgy: A Matter of Justice.[1]
Art and Worship: A Vital Connection.[2]
Women at Worship: North American Diversity. (editor with Marjorie Procter-Smith)[3]
Sacred Sound and Social Change: Liturgical Music in Jewish and Christian Experience. (editor with Lawrence A. Hoffman)[4]
Book Chapters[edit]
"The Road is Made by Walking”[5]
“Women’s Ritual Music”[6]
“Liturgy That Does Justice: Acts of Imagination, Courage, Curiosity”[7]
“Responses of the Tragedy of September 11”[8]
"The Current Prophetic Challenge to Liturgists: To Enact the Impossible"[9]
"Ritual Expression in the Urban Church"[10]
"The Missing Element of Women's Experience"[11]
Articles[edit]
"New and Borrowed Rites" (editor with Siobhan Garrigan)[12]
“ Music as worship”, “Hymnody” and “Feminist Worship”[13]
"Bursts of Imagination: A Teaching Strategy for Interfaith Ritual Planning"[14]
“In the Beginning Was the Beat”[15]
“Dwelling in Possibility”[16]
“Not For Us But By Us”[17]
“Radical Choice: Losing a Part of One’s Body”[18]
“New Feminist Ritual”[19]
"Imagination and Improvisation: Holy Play"[20]
"Worship: An Act of Risk-taking"[21]
"Eucharist"[22]
"Toward a Measure of Worship"[23]
"Aesthetics" and "Art" and "Beauty"[24]
"Feminism and Liturgy" and "Inclusive Language"[25]
"Worship and the Arts at Union Theological Seminary"[26]
"Ecclesiastical and Feminist Blessing"[27]
"The Challenge of Feminist Liturgy"[28]
"Did the Liturgy Work? Some Thoughts About Evaluation"[29]
"Planning Worship: Responding to the Creativity"[30]
"Worship Planning, Part I"[31]
"Worship Planning, Part II"[32]
"Multicultural Contributions to Hymnody"[33]
"Women, Worship and the Church"[34]
Book Reviews[edit]
"Review of Transforming the Stone: Preaching Through Resistance to Change by Barbara Lundblad"[35]
"Review of Defecting in Place: Women Claiming Responsibility for Their Own Spiritual Lives by Miriam Therese Winter, Adair Lummis and Allison Stokes"[36]
"Review of What Language Shall I Borrow: God Talk in Worship: A Male Response to Feminist Theology, by Brian Wren"[37]
References[edit]
- ↑ The Liturgical Press, January 2000.
- ↑ Wilmington, Delaware: Michael Glazier, 1988. Translated and published in Japanese in 1997.
- ↑ Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993.
- ↑ University of Notre Dame Press, 1992.
- ↑ in New Feminist Christianity: Many Voices, Many Views, Mary Hunt and Diann Neu, editors, SkyLight Paths Publishing, 2010.
- ↑ in Music in American Religious Experience. Philip V. Bohlman, editor. Oxford University Press, 2005
- ↑ in Postmodern Worship and The Arts. Doug Adams and Michael E. Moynahan, SJ, editors, San Jose, California: Resource Publications, 2002.
- ↑ in Union Seminary Quarterly Review, vol.55, numbers 1-2, 2001.
- ↑ in The Future of Prophetic Christianity: Essays in Honor of Robert McAfee Brown. Denise and John Carmody, editors. Westminster/John Knox Press, 1993.
- ↑ in Envisioning A New City: A Reader in Urban Ministry. Eleanor Scott Meyers, editor. Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992.
- ↑ in The Changing Face of Jewish and Christian Worship. Paul E. Bradshaw and Lawrence A. Hoffman, Editors, University of Notre Dame Press, 1991.
- ↑ Journal of The Liturgical Conference (editor with Siobhan Garrigan) vol.23, no. 1, 2008
- ↑ in the Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity, Daniel Patte, General Editor, 2010
- ↑ in Teaching Theology and Religion, vol. 13 no 3, Blackwell Publishers Ltd.
- ↑ in New World Outlook, The Mission Magazine of the United Methodist Church, March/April 2009, 30-34
- ↑ Proceedings of the North American Academy of Liturgy, 2009
- ↑ in HaShuir, September 2006 Quarterly Publication of Central Synagogue, New York, NY
- ↑ in WISING UP: Women, Ritual and Aging edited by Kathy Black and Heather Murray Elkins , Pilgrim Press, 2005
- ↑ in The Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America Rosemary Skinner Keller and Rosemary Radford Ruether, editors. Bloomington, ID, Indiana University Press, 2005
- ↑ in The Papers of the Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology, vol. IV, Matthew Zyniewicz, editor. Pittsburgh, PA; The 75, no. 4. Association of Theological Schools, 2000; and in Worship, July 2001, Vol. 4
- ↑ in Union Seminary Quarterly Review, vol.50.1997. Response to "The Human Imprint on Christian Worship" ("L'empriente de l'human sur le culte chrétien") in Studia Liturgica, 1996, Volume 26, No. 1.
- ↑ in The Dictionary of Feminist Theologies, Shannon Clarkson and Letty Russell, editors. Westminster/John Knox Press, 1995.
- ↑ in Proceedings of the North American Academy of Liturgy: Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts. 5-8 January 1995, Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, David G. Truemper, editors. Valparaiso, Indiana, NAAL, Inc., 1995.
- ↑ in The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality, ed. Michael Downey. Collegeville, Minnesota, The Liturgical Press, Michael Glazier Books, Inc., 1992.
- ↑ in The New Dictionary of Sacramental Worship, ed. Peter Fink. Wilmington, Delaware, Michael Glazier, Inc., 1990.
- ↑ in Let the People Worship, Janet Walton, Robert E. Seaver, Susan A. Blain. Autumn, 1988, vol. 3, issue 4. San Carlos, California. Schuyler Institute for Worship and the Arts.
- ↑ in Blessing and Power, Mary Collins and David Power, editors, Concilium 178 (2/1985). Also published in Seid fruchtbar und wehrt Euch, Elizabeth Moltmann-Wendel, Annemarie Schonherr, and Reinhold Traitler, editors. Munich: Kaiser Traktate, 1986.
- ↑ Liturgy: The Ecumenical Journal of the Liturgical Conference, Washington, D.C., Fall, 1986.
- ↑ Service: Resources for Pastoral Ministry, Paulist Press, April/May/June, 1986, No. 2.
- ↑ Service: Resources for Pastoral Ministry, Paulist Press, January/February/March, 1986, No. 1.
- ↑ Service: Resources for Pastoral Ministry, Paulist Press, July/August/September, 1985, No. 3.
- ↑ Service: Resources for Pastoral Ministry, Paulist Press, October/November/December, 1985, No. 4.
- ↑ Liturgy, Spring, 1983. "The Art of Worship," Grapevine, July, 1980.
- ↑ Liturgy: The Ecumenical Journal of the Liturgical Conference, Washington, D.C., December, 1973.
- ↑ Union Seminary Quarterly Review, Vol. 55, 2001, pp.183-185.
- ↑ The Princeton Seminary Bulletin, Vol XVI, No. 1, 1996.
- ↑ Horizons, Spring 1991, pp. 165-166.
External links[edit]
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Trailer: James Chapel Worship Practicing for Life 2:42
James Chapel Worship Practicing for Life 41:58
At Table. An experimental ritual focused on having meaningful conversations over a meal. Narrated by Janet Walton, Professor of Worship, Union Theological Seminary. A video by Ronald L. Grimes. 6:22
Improvisation, Imagination, and Christian Worship. An interview of Janet Walton. A video by Ronald L. Grimes. 54:21
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