Main 203A

Courses Taught: Christian Theology; God and Gender; Luther and and Lutheranism; Creation, Christology, and the Church (Religion Senior Seminar); Practicing Embodiment; Vocation as a Call to Citizenship; Otherness, Displacement, and Embodiment: Feminist Theories and Practices (WGST Senior Seminar); Religion and Culture in Brazil; Egypt: Where Faiths Meet; Mosque and State: Turkey and Jordan (will be offered January 2012)

Research Interests: Contextual Christian Theologies (particularly feminism and liberation), Reformation, Ecumenism, Interdisciplinary Studies on Embodiment, and Interfaith Dialogue

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Main 204

Courses Taught: Intro to the Bible; Apocalypse Then and Now; The World of the Bible: Dead Sea Scrolls; Apostle Paul: Discourse and Practice  

Research Interests: Discursive and practical strategies deployed by various religious groups in attempts to enhance their authority, prestige, and often, access to material goods; early Judaism (Dead Sea Scrolls, apocalyptic traditions) and earliest Christianity (apostle Paul), as well as the broader cultural milieus within which they developed 

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Main 201 

Courses Taught: Intro to the Bible, Intro to the New Testament, Bible and Christian Faith, Jesus and the Gospels, Sex in the Bible, From Galilee to Hollywood: Portraits of Jesus, Lost Scriptures

Research Interests: Eunuchs, sex in the Bible, queer theory and the interpretation of scripture

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Main 203

Courses Taught: History of Christian Thought, Religion in America, Christianity and Its Modern Critics, Rendering Unto Caesar: Church-State Conflicts from the First Christians to the First Amendment, Reformation Theology, Christian Theology, Secularization in the West (Senior Seminar), Modernity: Social Thought (Honors)

Research Interests: Secularization, church-state relations, and responses to Islam in modern Europe and the U.S.

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Ockham House 104

Courses Taught: Intro to Hinduism; Intro to Buddhism; Confucianism, Daoism, and Shinto; New Religions of East Asia; Modern Chinese Intellectual History; Religions of South Asia; Religions of East Asia; Rastafarianism and Social Protest 

Research Interests: New religions of China and Japan, early-mid twentieth century Chinese Buddhism, animal rights and welfare issues

Ockham House 015

Courses Taught: Religions of South Asia, Religions of East Asia, Gender and Sexuality in Asian Religions, Buddhism in Japan, Topics in Asian Religions, Body Sticks and Mindfulness, Ritual and Performance in Japan 

Research Interests: Zen Buddhist philosophy, Kyoto School, personal identity, deconstruction ethics

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Main 303

Courses Taught: Christian Ethics; Environmental Ethics; Dietrich Bonhoeffer; Hunger for Justice: Globalization and Christian Ethics; Christianity and the Fate of Earth (seminar); and Ethics, Energy, and Climate Policy (Paideia II)  

Research Interests: Ethics, Energy, and Climate Policy; Theological Ethics and Duties to Future Generations; Christian Social Ethics; Campus Renewable Sustainability Initiatives

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Main 303A

Courses Taught: Intro to Biblical Studies, Religions of South Asia, Myth and Meaning: the Structural Analysis of Mythology (January 2012), and Anthropology of Religion (Spring 2012)

Research Interests: Anthropology of Religion (Christianity, Hinduism and Islam), South Asian Christianities, Himalayan Pilgrimage, South Asian Diasporas, Religion and Civil Society, Religious Capital, Faith and Wellbeing, Sacred Space, Theories of Religion, Myth Analysis, Structuralism, Celtic Mythology, Himalayan Culture/Society, Fieldwork: Indian Himalayas (Himachal Pradesh), United Kingdom (Wales and England)

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Main 202

Courses Taught: Intro to the Bible; Intro to the New Testament; Jesus and the Gospels; The Bible and Christian Faith; The Ideal Community; Cultural Hermeneutics – Ideology, Power, and Text Interpretation; Race: The American Dilemma; Reconciliation in South Africa; Slavery, Christianity, and Their Representations in African Literature; The English Theatre: Mirror of Society and the Human Condition

Research Interests: Origins and social history of early Christianity, social implications of biblical interpretation, the relationship between Christianity and empire, the relationship between scripture and faith

Department Head, Main 301

Courses Taught: Intro to the Hebrew Bible, The Bible and Imperial Politics, Intro to Islam, Life After 9/11: Unity and Diversity in Contemporary Islam, Biodiversity  

Research Interests: The Syriac versional tradition of the New Testament, theoretical approaches to the study of religion, Christian-Muslim relations in the contemporary world

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Union 262E

Courses Taught: Religion in America, History of Christian Thought, Hate-Holocaust-Hope, The Reformation Era, Holy Terrors: Fundamentalism-Violence-Terror-and Modernity, Contemporary Religious Diversity in the U.S., A More Perfect Union: Rhetoric and Reality in the American Republic, Religion and Ethnic Conflict, Seminar: Truth and Fiction, Peacemaking: Alternatives to War  

Research Interests: Immigration and religious pluralism in the U.S.; religious fundamentalisms; religion and identity in modern American fiction

Main 302

Courses Taught: Intro to the Bible; Intro to the Hebrew Bible; Judaism; Judaism, Christianity and Islam; God and Gender; Intro to Rabbinic Literature, Religion and the Middle East; British Plays, Players, and Playhouses; Slavery, Christianity, and Their Representation in African Literature; Persuasion and Performance: How Pulpit, Stage, and Market Seek to Shape Reality

Research Interests: Jewish­Christian­Muslim dialogue; biblical interpretation: Jewish Hellenistic, Rabbinic, early Christian fathers, Syriac; Pentateuch; biblical themes in Early Renaissance art

Main 303A

Courses Taught: Intro to the Bible; Intro to the Hebrew Bible; Archaeology and the Bible; Elementary Hebrew; Intermediate Hebrew; Advanced Hebrew; Aramaic; World of the Bible; From biblical studies to Bible Study: The Vocation of Religious Education; Language, Faith, Money, and Women; Ethics and Sport   

Research Interests: Judah at the end of the 8th century BCE, Book of Judges