JDP Faculty in Religion

Faculty at Iliff and those in DU's Department of Religious Studies and the Center for Judaic Studies are listed here.

  • Antony Alumkal
    Antony Alumkal

    Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion
    Iliff School of Theology

    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍:听Effects of race, ethnicity and immigration on religion in the United States; cultural and institutional aspects of American mainline and evangelical Protestantism; dynamics of congregations

    Publications:

    • Paranoid Science: The Christian Right's War on Reality听(New York: New York University Press, 2017)
    • 鈥淩acial Justice in the Protestant Mainline: Liberalism and Its Limits,鈥 in听Faith and Race in American Political Life, eds. Robin Jacobson and Nancy Wadsworth (University of Virginia Press, 2012)
    • 鈥淎merican Evangelicalism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: A Racial Formation Theory Analysis,鈥澨Sociology of Religion听听65 (2004): 195-213


    Courses:
    Race and Religion in the United States
    Science and the Christian Right

    Professional Label:听听Sociology of Religion

    Email:听aalumkal@iliff.edu
    Phone:听(303) 765-3131听
    Office:听Iliff School of Theology

  • Philip R. Butler

    Assistant Professor of Theology and
    Black Posthuman Artificial Intelligence Systems
    Iliff School of Theology

    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍:听the intersections of neuroscience, technology, spirituality and Blackness

    Publications:

    • 鈥淏eyond the Zoomiverse鈥 in Ecclesiology for a Digital Church: Theological Reflections on a New Normal, ed. by Heidi Campbell and John Dyer (London: SCM Press, 2022), 155-166.
    • 鈥淏lackness: Spectres and Monsters are the Future of Theological Subjectivity." Concilium 3 (2021): 21-30.
    • 鈥淎ime C茅saire鈥 Political Theology Network: Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0, ed. by Alex Dubliet and Vincent LLoyd, June 15, 2021.
    • 鈥淎 Black Tetratic Future: Blackness and the Age of Hyper-Exponentiation (Hyper-4)鈥 Critical Black Futures: Volume I, ed. by Philip Butler, Springer Nature (2021): 37-60.
    • Black Transhuman Liberation Theology: Technology and Spirituality (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019).


    Courses:
    Decolonizing AI
    Data Storytelling
    Black Theology
    Post-/Transhumanism & Process Thought
    Black Posthumanism
    Neuroscience, Spirituality & Blackness
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    Professional Labels: Black posthumanism, artificial intelligence, and pluriversal future realities.

    Email:听preed-butler@iliff.edu
    Phone:听303.765.3124
    Office:听Iliff School of Theology

  • Christy Cobb
    Christy Cobb

    Assistant Professor of Christianity
    Department of Religious Studies
    黑料门

    Specializations: New Testament (Luke-Acts); Early Christianity; Enslavement; Gender and Sexuality; Ancient Fiction (Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian)
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    Publications:
    • Cobb, Christy. 鈥淓nslaved Women, Women Enslavers: Kyriarchy And Intersectionality In The New Testament.鈥 Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 40, no. 1, (2024).
    • Sex, Violence, And Early Christian Texts. Edited by Christy Cobb and Eric Vanden Eykel. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 2022.
    • 鈥淓ntangled Tongues: A Poststructuralist and Postcolonial Reading of Acts 2:1-13鈥 in听Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies听(Vol.4.1, Summer 2022), pgs. 1-16.
    • Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts and Other Ancient Narratives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2019.
    • 鈥淢adly in Love: The Motif of Lovesickness in the Apocryphal Acts of Andrew鈥 in Reading and Teaching Ancient Fiction: Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman Narratives. Sara Johnson, Rub茅n Ren茅 Dupertuis, and Chris Shea, Editors.听Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series, Number 11 (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018), pgs. 27-40.听
    • 鈥淗idden Truth in the Body of Euclia: Page duBois鈥 Torture and Truth and the Acts of Andrew鈥 in Biblical Interpretation (Volume 25.1, 2017), pgs. 19-38.


    Courses:
    Christian Classics
    Introduction to Christianity

    Professional Label:听Biblical Studies; Ancient Judaism, and Early Christianity

    Email:听christy.cobb@du.edu
    Office:听270 Sturm Hall, DU

  • Miguel De La Torre
    Miguel De La Torre

    Professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specialization:听Social and Political Ethics in the U.S.; Effects of religion on race, gender, and class; Liberationist ethics; Postmodern/postcolonial social theory; critical race theory; gender studies听
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    Publications:

    • Reading Jos茅 Mart铆 from the Margins (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
    • Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins听(3rd ed.; Orbis Books, 2023)
    • Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers (Eerdmans: 2021)听
    • Embracing Hopelessness听(Fortress Press, 2017)
    • Genesis: Belief, A Theological Commentary on the Bible听听(Westminster John Knox Press, 2011)
    • Encyclopedia on Hispanic American Religious Culture, Vols. 1 and 2 (ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2009)


    Courses:
    Fanon, Foucault, and Friends
    Formative White Male Figures in Christian Ethics
    Biblical Ethics

    Professional Label:听听Ethics

    Email:听mdelatorre@iliff.edu
    Phone:听(303) 765-3133听
    Office:听Iliff School of Theology
    Personal website: 听

  • Sandra Dixon
    Sandra Dixon

    Associate Professor in Psychology of Religion
    Department of Religious Studies
    黑料门

    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍:听Religion and the Human Sciences; Religion and Psychology; Moral Reasoning

    Publications:

    • Dixon, S. L., Doody, J., & Paffenroth, K. (Eds.). (2013). Augustine and Psychology. Lanham, MD, USA: Lexington Books.
    • Dixon, S. L. (2013). Reading Augustine, Monica, Milan with Attention to Cultural Interpretation and Psychological Theory. In S. L. Dixon, J. Doody, & K. Paffenroth (Eds.), Augustine and Psychology (pp. 39-67). Lanham, MD, USA: Lexington Books.
    • Dixon, S. L. (2013). Teaching Freud and Interpreting Augustine's CONFESSIONS. (S. L. Dixon, J. Doody, & K. Paffenroth, Eds.), Augustine and Psychology. Lanham, MD, USA: Lexington Books.
    • Dixon, S. L. (2013). Ethics. Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. Heidelberg, Germany: Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions.
    • Dixon, S. L. (1999). Augustine: The Scattered and Gathered Self. St. Louis, MO, United States : Chalice Press.
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    Professional Labels: psychology of religion, moral psychology, cultural psychology, St. Augustine, religion and moral psychology

    Email:听sdixon@du.edu听
    Phone:听303-871-2753听
    Office:听DU, Sturm Hall 488

  • Pamela Eisenbaum
    Pamela Eisenbaum

    Professor of Biblical Studies and Christian Origins
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations: Paul; Epistle to the Hebrews; Jewish-Christian relations; biblical manuscripts; history of biblical interpretation; formation of the canon; the Bible and technology; comparative scripture

    Publications:

    • Paul Was Not a Christian: The Original Message of a Misunderstood Apostle 听(HarperOne, 2009)
    • Invitation to Romans. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2006.
    • The Jewish Heroes of Christian History: Hebrews 11 in Literary Context. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1997.


    Courses:
    Formation of the Bible
    New Testament Language and Text
    Epistle to the Romans

    Professional Label:听听Biblical Studies; Early Judaism; New Testament and Christian Origins

    Email:听peisenbaum@iliff.edu
    Phone:听(303) 765-3167
    Office:听Iliff School of Theology

  • Amy Erickson
    Amy Erickson

    Professor of Hebrew Bible
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specialization:听Hebrew Bible; Biblical Interpretation; Theories of identity and constructions of the self; Poetic and mythological texts in ancient Near Eastern literature; religion and body; Poetry and metaphor (Hebrew Bible)

    Publications:

    • Jonah: Introduction and Commentary. Illuminations Series. Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2021.
    • 鈥淩ecent Research on the Megilloth (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther).鈥 With Andrew R. Davis. Currents in Biblical Research. June 2016: 1-21.
    • 鈥淕od鈥檚 Birthing and Begetting Body in Job 38:28-30.鈥 Pages 98-113 in Imagination, Ideology, and Inspiration: Exploring Walter Brueggemann鈥檚 Influence in Biblical Studies. Edited by Robert Williamson, Jr. and Jonathan Kaplan. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2015.
    • 鈥淛onah and the Scribal Habitus,鈥 in听Methods, Theories, Imagination: Social Scientific Approaches in Biblical Studies, eds. David J. Chalcraft, Frauke Uhlenbruch, and Rebecca S. Watson (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014)
    • 鈥溾榃ithout My Flesh I Will See God鈥: Job鈥檚 Rhetoric of the Body,鈥澨Journal of Biblical Literature听132.2 (2013): 295-313


    Courses:
    Identity and the Hebrew Bible
    The Body and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible
    Jonah and Its Afterlives

    Professional Label: Hebrew Bible

    Email:听aerickson@iliff.edu
    Phone:听(303) 744-1287
    Office:听Iliff School of Theology

  • Mark K. George
    Mark K. Geroge

    Professor of Bible and Ancient Systems of Thought
    Iliff School of Theology

    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍:听Hebrew Bible: Pentateuch and Narrative Texts; Subjectivities and Societies in Ancient Systems; spatial studies; critical theory; aniconism; religion and political theory

    Publications:

    • Religious Representation in Place: Exploring Meaningful Space and the Intersection of the Humanities and Sciences, ed. with Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati, Religion and Spatial Studies 1 (Palgrave, 2014)
    • 鈥淚sraelite Aniconism and the Visualization of the Tabernacle,鈥澨Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series 8听(2012): 40-54
    • Israel鈥檚 Tabernacle as Social Space, Society of Biblical Literature Ancient Israel and Its Literature 2 (SBL Press, 2009)


    Courses:
    Sacred Space in Comparative Perspective (with Jacob Kinnard)
    Deuteronomy
    Methods and Theories of Biblical Interpretation

    Professional Label: Hebrew Bible

    Email:听mgeorge@iliff.edu
    Phone:听(303) 765-3168听
    Office:听Iliff School of Theology

  • Albert Hern谩ndez
    Albert Hernandez

    Associate Professor of the History of Christianity
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specialization: History of Christianity from Medieval to Early Modern Periods (c. 1100-1650); Religious diversity in Medieval Spain; Mysticism and Pneumatology in Christian History

    Publications:

    • Subversive Fire: The Untold Story of Pentecost听(Emeth Press, 2010)
    • The Quest for the Historical Satan听co-authored with Miguel A. De La Torre,(Fortress Press 2011)


    Courses:
    Introduction to the History of Christianity
    The Holy Spirit: History and Traditions
    Violence and Toleration in Medieval Europe
    Sixteenth Century Mystics and Reformers
    Happiness: A History
    Christianity in the Middle Ages

    Email:听ahernandez@iliff.edu
    Phone:听303-765-3180
    Office:听Iliff School of Theology

  • Jason Jeffries
    Jason Jeffries

    Assistant Professor,听
    Department of Religious Studies
    黑料门

    Specialization: African American Religions; Religion and Popular Culture; Embodiment and Religion; Critical Race Theory; Black Mythology; Psychology of Religion; Black Sacred Rhetoric and Religion; Black Pentecostalism听

    Phone:听303-871-4713
    Office:听黑料门
    Email: jason.jeffries@du.edu

  • Catherine Kelsey
    Catherine Kelsey

    Interim Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Interim Dean of the Faculty
    Iliff School of Theology

    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍:听Vocation; Spiritual life; Theology; Practices of ministry听

    Email:听ckelsey@iliff.edu听
    Phone:听(303) 765-3103听
    Office:听Iliff School of Theology

  • Kishundra King
    Kishundra King

    Assistant Professor Pastoral and Spiritual Care
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations: Pastoral Theology; Pastoral Care & Counseling; Womanist Theology & Practice; Womanist Practical Theology; Childhood Studies; Womanist Ethnography; Qualitative Research

    Lectures & Paper Presentations:听

    • Being Womanish: Revisiting and Reimagining Black Girlhood听
    • Embodiment, Spirituality, and Self Care in Social Activist Work听
    • A Kaleidoscope Analysis: Toward a Womanish/st Theology听


    Courses:听

    Intro to Pastoral & Spiritual Care and Counseling
    Womanist Pastoral Theology & Care
    Practical Theology
    Psychodynamic Perspectives in Pastoral Care

    Professional Label: Womanist Pastoral & Practical Theologian; Religion, Psychology, & Culture

    Email: kking@iliff.edu
    Phone: (303) 765-3192
    Office: Iliff School of Theology

  • Boyung Lee
    Boyung Lee

    Professor of Practical Theology
    Iliff School of Theology

    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍:听Feminism and Religion; Transformative Pedagogy听

    Publications:

    • Keun-joo Christine Pae and Boyung Lee, editors. Embodying Antiracist Christianity: Asian American Theological Resources for Just Racial Relations. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
    • 鈥淒iversity Within Korean Diaspora: Toward Solidarity.鈥 In The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Korea, edited by Won Lee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
    • 鈥淓xploring a Transnational Practical Theology: Learning from Kwok Pui-lan.鈥 In Theologies of the Multitude for Multitudes: The Legacy of Kwok Pui-Lan, edited by Benny Liew and Rita Nakashima Brock. Claremont, CA: Claremont Press, 2021.听
    • 鈥淪ubversive Leadership of Asian and Asian American Women.鈥 In Asian and Asian American Women in Theology and Religion: Embodying Knowledge, edited by Kwok Pui Lan. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
    • Transforming Congregations through Community: Faith Formation from the Seminary to the Church. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2013.
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    Email:听blee@iliff.edu听
    Phone:听(303) 578-4601听
    Office:听Iliff School of Theology

  • Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi
    Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi

    Associate Professor of Leadership and Formation;听Director of the Office of Professional Formation
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:听Leadership theory and praxis; congregational and community formation and change; applied research methods; U.S. Christianities; critical approaches for ministry praxis

    Publications:

    • Unraveling Religious Leadership: Power, Authority, and Decoloniality (Fortress Press, 2024)
    • Explore: Vocational Discovery in Ministry听(Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
    • 鈥淟atino Congregations: Trends from the Faith Communities Today (FACT) and Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations (EPIC) Studies鈥 (Hartford Institute for Religion Research, 2023)
    • 鈥淗ow Can We Learn Across Difference? A Conversation about Ethical Research and Writing vis-a-vis Identity and Positionality,鈥 Journal of Religious Leadership听21.2 (2022): 123-42
    • 鈥淭heological Field Education as a Bridge across Disciplines,鈥 Religions 12.1 (2021)
      鈥淧rocesses toward Post/Decolonial Pastoral Leaderships,鈥 Journal of Religious Leadership 20.1 (Spring 2021): 136-67
    • 鈥淔rameworks toward Post/Decolonial Pastoral Leaderships,鈥 Journal of Religious Leadership 19.2 (Autumn 2020): 100-30
    • 鈥淓ngaging Young Adults: American Congregations 2015,鈥 Faith Communities Today (Hartford Institute for Religion Research, 2016)
    • 鈥淜irkwood United Church of Christ,鈥 in How Religious Congregations Are Engaging Young Adults in America, eds. M. Sahlin and D. Roozen (Hartford Institute for Religion Research, 2015): 111-36.


    Courses:
    Research Methods and Ethics in Lived Religion/Practical Theology
    Leadership and Organizational Development
    Decolonizing Congregational Leadership
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    Professional Labels: Social Science and Religion; Practical/Praxis Theology; Leadership and Education

    Email:听听klizardy@iliff.edu
    Phone:听303-765-3116
    Office:听Iliff School of Theology


  • April M. Mack
    April Mack

    Assistant Professor of Religion and Social Justice
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:听Black and Womanist Theologies, Christian Ethics, Religious Studies, Religious Violence, African American Identity/Experience in the US

    Publications:

    • Mack, April, 鈥淲omanist Ethics as a Contribution to Bioethics,鈥 in A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti-Black Racism through Intergenerational Dialogue, ed. Fletcher, Faith E. et al., special report, Hastings Center Report 52, no. 2 (2022): S69鈥 S71. DOI: 10.1002/hast.1376.听听
    • Woodson, April, 鈥淚 Can鈥檛 Breathe鈥: Neocolonial Geotrauma and Violence in the Age of Trump. De La Torre, Miguel A. (2021). Faith and Reckoning after Trump. Orbis Books.
    • Woodson, April Michelle, "鈥淒ialogical Offense:鈥 A Postcolonial Womanist Deconstruction of the Colonial Experience of African American Women Through U.S. Institutional Apparatus Known as Criminal Justice Policy" (2020). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1870.听听


    Courses:
    Black Theology: From Cone to Warnock
    Womanist Theoethics
    Social Issues, Social Ethics
    Public Policy: Design, Intersectionality, and Praxis
    Feminist Theoethics
    God, Religion, and Violence
    Race, Religion, and Public Policy as Colonial Tools

    Professional Labels:
    A decolonial Black feminist scholar and theo-ethicist concerned with ethics related to complex social issues, structural inequality, and holistic justice for marginalized peoples.

    Email: ammack@illiff.edu听


  • Benjamin Nourse
    Ben Nourse

    Assistant Professor 听
    Department of Religious Studies
    黑料门

    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍:听Asian Religions;听Buddhist Studies; Tibetan Studies; History of the Book in Asia听

    Publications:

    • Nourse, Benjamin J. 鈥淭ranslating The Cult Of The Book: Publishing And Performing The Fifth Dalai Lama's The Wish-Fulfilling King From Lhasa To Beijing.鈥 East Asian Publishing and Society 11, no. 1,(2021): 34鈥67. .
    • Nourse, Benjamin James. 鈥淶huchen Tsultrim Rinchen (B. 1697 - D. 1774)鈥 The Treasury of Lives. 2019. .听
    • Nourse, Benjamin James. 鈥淩evolutions Of The Dharma Wheel: Uses Of Tibetan Printing In The Eighteenth Century.鈥 In Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, And Change. edited by Hildegard Diemberger, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, and Peter Kornicki. 524-550 Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. 2016. .听
    • Nourse, Benjamin James. 鈥淢akzor G枚npo And The Chon茅 Kangyur.鈥 In Sources Of Tibetan Tradition. edited by Kurtis R. Schaeffer, Gray Tuttle, and Matthew T. Kapstein. 596-600 New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press. 2013.


    Email:听Benjamin.Nourse@du.edu听
    Phone:听303-871-3539
    Office:听DU, Sturm Hall 482

  • Sarah Pessin
    Sarah Pessin

    Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Thought, Department of Philosophy; Hecht Interfaith Chair; Center for Judaic Studies
    黑料门

    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍:听Jewish philosophy; Neoplatonisms; Comparative Jewish, Islamic and Christian medieval philosophy; Modern Jewish philosophy; post-Holocaust theology (esp. Levinas); philosophical theology; philosophy of religion

    Publications:

    • Pessin, S. (2021). Emanationist Powers: Plotinus, Theology of Aristotle, and Ibn Gabirol. In J. Jorati (Ed.), Powers: A History (pp. 56-81). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
    • Pessin, S. (2019). The Jewish Tradition. (B. Foltz, Ed.),听Medieval Philosophy: A Multicultural Reader. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
    • Pessin, S. (2018). America鈥檚 Love Problem: How Oprah鈥檚 Call to Friendship Feeds Bannon鈥檚 Call to Racism (or: On Three Strains of Liberal Lovesickness).听Political Theology Network. Retrieved from听
    • Pessin, S. (2017). Khoric Apophasis: Matter and Messianicity in Islamo-Judeo-Greek Neoplatonism. In M. Fagenblat (Ed.),听Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
    • Pessin, S. (2014). Islamic and Jewish Neoplatonisms. In P. Remes & S. Slaveva-Griffin (Eds.),听The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism听(pp. 541-58). Durham: Acumen Press/ Routledge.
    • Pessin, S. (2013).听Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire: Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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    Courses:
    Jewish Philosophy
    Levinas
    Neoplatonism
    Maimonides
    Philosophy of Religion
    Religious Existentialism
    Medieval Philosophy (Islamic, Jewish, Christian)
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    Professional Label: Comparative Neoplatonisms; Jewish Philosophy; Comparative Medieval Philosophy; Philosophical Theology; Post-Holocaust Theology; Levinas

    Email:听spessin@du.edu听
    Phone:听303-871-7731
    Office:听DU, Sturm Hall 265
    Personal website: 听

  • Carl Raschke
    Carl Raschke

    Professor of Philosophy of Religion
    Department of Religious Studies
    黑料门

    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍:听Continental Philosophy/Philosophy of Religion; Political Philosophy/Political Theology; Globalization Theory听

    Publications:

    • Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics.听Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
    • Postmodern Theology: A Biopic. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2017. ISBN 1498203892.
    • Critical Theology: Introducing an Agenda for an Age of Global Crisis. Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic, 2016. ISBN 9780830851294.
    • Force of God: Political Theology and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. ISBN 9780231539623.
    • Postmodernism and the Revolution in Religious Theory: Toward a Semiotics of the Event听. Studies in Religion and Culture. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2012. ISBN 9780813933085.


    Courses:
    Globalization and Religion
    Political Theory
    Theory of the Subject
    Kant on Religion

    Email:听carl.raschke@du.edu听
    Phone:听303-871-3117听
    Office:听DU, Sturm Hall 273
    Personal website:

  • Alison Schofield
    Alison Schofield

    Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Judaic Studies
    Department of Religious Studies
    黑料门

    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍:听Hebrew听Bible and Judaic Studies; Dead Sea Scrolls; Religious and cultural influences of ancient Israel, Egypt and Babylonia

    Publications:听

    • Schofield, Alison. 鈥淩eading Sectarian Spaces: Critical Spatial Theory and the Case of the Yahad鈥 in The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Study of the Humanities. Proceedings from the 2013 IOQS Meeting in Munich. E. Tichgelaar, A. Schofield, S. Thomas, eds. Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah 125. Leiden: Brill, 2018, pp. 176鈥194.
    • Schofield, Alison. 鈥淩e-Placing Priestly Space: The Wilderness as Heterotopia in the Dead Sea Scrolls鈥 in A Teacher for All Generations: Essays in Honor of James C. VanderKam, vol. 1, E. Mason, K. C. Bautch, A.K. Harkins, D. Machiela, A. Schofield, S. I. Thomas, E. Ulrich, eds. Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, Volume: 153. Leiden: Brill, 2011, pp. 469-490.


    Email:听aschofie@du.edu 听
    Phone:听303-871-2752
    Office:听DU, Sturm Hall 271
    Personal website: 听

  • Eric C. Smith
    Eric C. Smith

    Associate Professor of Early Christian Texts and Traditions
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specialization:听Christian origins; New Testament and other early Christian literature; Jewish-Christian relations in antiquity; Materialist theories of religion; religion and spatial theory; Biblical reception and exegesis

    Publications:

    • Paul the Progressive? : The Compassionate Christian鈥檚 Guide to Reclaiming the Apostle as an Ally听(Chalice Press, 2019)
    • Jewish Glass and Christian Stone: A Materialist Mapping of the "Parting of the Ways"听(Routledge: 2018)
    • Foucault鈥檚 Heterotopia in Christian Catacombs: Constructing Spaces and Symbols in Ancient Rome听(Palgrave Macmillan: 2014)


    Courses:
    New Testament
    Biblical Exegesis
    History of Christianity
    Ancient Christian Practices

    Professional Label:听听Biblical Studies, New Testament, and History of Christianity

  • Andrea Stanton
    Andrea L. Stanton

    Professor of Islamic Studies
    Department of Religious Studies
    黑料门听

    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍:听Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern history; media and politics; nationalism and sovereignty听

    Publications:

    • Kaneva, Ndezhda S., and Andrea Stanton. 鈥淎n Alternative Vision Of Statehood: Islamic State's Ideological Challenge To The Nation-State.鈥 Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 46, no. 5, (2023): 640-658. .听
    • Stanton, Andrea. The Wireless World: Global Histories Of International Radio Broadcasting. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2022.
    • Stanton, Andrea. 鈥淪ober Masculinity And Nurturing Femininity: A Gendered Analysis Of The Syrian Presidency Instagram Account.鈥 Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 18, no. 4, (2022): 346-356. .听
    • Stanton, Andrea. 鈥淔rom Mecca With Love: Muslim Religious Apps And The Centering Of Sacred Geography.鈥 In Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media In The Internet Age. 161-175 London: Bloomsbury. 2022.
    • Stanton, Andrea L. 鈥淐an Imperial Radio Be Transnational? British-Affiliated Arabic Radio Broadcasting In The Interwar Period.鈥 History Compass 18, no. 1, (2020): .听
    • Stanton, Andrea L. 鈥淪audi Arabia's Ministry Of Hajj Apps: Managing The Operations And Piety Of The Hajj.鈥 Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture, (2020).
    • Stanton, Andrea. 鈥淟ocating Palestine's Summer Residence: Mandate Tourism And National Identity.鈥 Journal of Palestine Studies 47, no. 2, (2018): 44-63.
    • Stanton, Andrea. 鈥淭he Search For A Young Imam Begins Now: Imam Muda And Civilizational Islam In Malaysia.鈥 In Religion And Reality Tv Faith In Late Capitalism. Routledge. 2018. .听
    • Stanton, Andrea. 鈥淚slamic Emoticons And Religious Authority: Emerging Practices, Shifting Paradigms.鈥 Journal of Contemporary Islam, (2017).
    • Stanton, Andrea. This Is Jerusalem Calling: State Radio In Mandate Palestine. Austin, USA: University of Texas Press. 2013. 260.


    Courses:
    Contemporary Islam
    Qur鈥檃n and Hadith
    Islamic Fundamentalisms

    Professional Label:听Islamic Studies

    Email:听andrea.stanton@du.edu听
    Phone:听303-871-3503听
    Office:听DU, Sturm Hall 272

  • Dheepa Sundaram
    Dheepa Sundaram

    Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies
    Department of Religious Studies
    University 黑料门

    Specializations:听South Asian Religious Traditions; Rituals, Praxis, Media and Performance; Gender, Caste and Performance in South Asia; Sanskrit and Tamil Poetics; Literature and Performance; Digital/Virtual Religion

    Publications:

    • "Social media, hashtags and state-sponsored cultural marketing 1"听in听Digital Hinduism听(Routledge, 2019)听
    • Current monograph project Globalizing Dar艣an: Virtual Soteriology and Hindu Branding


    Courses:听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
    Modern Hinduism
    "Woman as the Gateway to Hell": Gender and Identity in South Asia
    History of Yoga
    Religion in the Virtual Space
    Performing India

    Professional Label:听听South Asian Studies; South Asian Religious Traditions; Hindu Studies

    Email: dheepa.sundaram@du.edu听
    Phone: 303.871.2888
    Office: Sturm Hall 487F
    Personal website: 听

  • Katherine Turpin
    Katherine Turpin

    Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education
    Iliff School of Theology

    厂辫别肠颈补濒颈锄补迟颈辞苍:听Religious education; Practical theology; Teaching about difference, social location, and structural inequality; Relationships between education and social change; Vocational development in youth and young adults

    Publications:

    • Drama Tweens: Engaging the Bible with Younger Adolescents听(Wipf and Stock, 2016)
    • Nurturing Different Dreams: Youth Ministry Across Lines of Difference, co-authored with Anne Carter Walker听(Pickwick Press, 2014)
    • Branded: Adolescents Converting from Consumer Faith听(Pilgrim Press, 2006)


    Courses:
    Teaching and Learning in the Community of Faith
    Practical Theology
    Education and Social Change
    Children in the Community of Faith
    Pedagogy and the Teaching of Religion

    Professional Label: Religious education

    Email:听kturpin@iliff.edu
    Phone:听(303) 765-3139 听
    Office:听Iliff School of Theology

  • Ted Vial
    Ted Vial

    Professor of Theology and Modern Western Religious Thought
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specializations:听Modern Theology; Enlightenment and听Post-Enlightenment Theories of Religions; Religion in the Public Square; Gender in Early German Romanticism

    Publications:

    • Modern Religion, Modern Race听(Oxford, 2016)
    • Schleiermacher: A Guide for the Perplexed听(T & T Clark, 2013)
    • Liturgy Wars: Ritual Theory and Protestant Reform in Nineteenth-Century Zurich听(Routledge, 2004)
    • Ethical Monotheism, Past and Present: Essays in Honor of Wendell S. Dietrich,听co-editor听(Brown Judaic Studies, 2001)


    Courses:
    Race and Religion听
    Religion, Gender, and Judaism
    The Pantheism Controversy
    The Atheism Controversy
    Theory and Methods in the Study of Religion
    Religion in the Public Square

    Professional Label:听Modern theology

    Email:听tvial@iliff.edu
    Phone:听(303) 765-3166听
    Office:听Iliff School of Theology

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