Anthony Stevens-Arroyo

Who is Anthony Stevens-Arroyo?

Professor Anthony M. Stevens-Arroyo is an American scholar of religion and retired Brooklyn College professor emeritus. At Brooklyn College, starting in 1980, he authored and/or edited a dozen books and wrote more than 100 scholarly articles, book chapters and reviews for leading quarterlies in the United States, Latin America and Spain.

Stevens-Arroyo co-founded and was first President of the Program for the Analysis of Religion Among Latinos, known as PARAL, which published a four book series on various aspects of Latino religious experience in the United States for which Stevens-Arroyo was the editor in chief as a resident scholar at Princeton University. In October 2008, his career achievements were recognized with his reception of the Luzbetack Award for Exemplary Church Research, from Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate.

Stevens-Arroyo was appointed by the National Council of Churches to a commission reporting on religion in Cuba in 1976-77, and later named Director of the Hispanic Project for the Theology in the Americas in a program sponsored through the National Council of Churches. His history of Latino people of faith was published in 1980 by Orbis Press as Prophets Denied Honor; it was later designated as one of 15 outstanding English language books of 1980 by the editors of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. Seven years later the book was selected as a "Landmark of Catholic Literature in the 20th Century" by Philip Gleason in his 1987 book, Keeping the Faith: American Catholicism, Past and Present.