Religious Studies Faculty
B.A. Drew University, M.Div. Princeton, Ph.D. Duke University
History of World Christianity - Examines the key figures, events and turning points in the history of the largest religion in the world. Poverty, Wealth and Social Change - Examines the greatest thinkers on the topic of poverty and wealth and contemporary implications. The European Reformations - Examines religious, political and social developments in late medieval to early modern Europe. Christianity and Politics in East Asia - Examines the historical relationship between religion and politics in China, Japan and Korea. Poverty, Religion and Social Change - Examines the role of religion in shaping social change around poverty and welfare issues.
History of World Christianity, Religion Conflict, Poverty and Wealth, Authority and Leadership, Reformations in Early Modern Europe, Early Modern Poor Relief
U.C. Santa Barbara (Ph.D), Dartmouth College (Fellow), Harvard University (Master's), Princeton Seminary (Master's)
American Religions; Religion & Politics; Religion & Civil Rights; Latino Religions; Religion & Film; Pentecostal/Charismatic Movements; Religion & Violence
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
Jewish studies, particularly Judaism in the Second Temple and early rabbinic periods,Origins of Christianity and its development before the time of Constantine
Involvement of gentiles in Jewish social and religious life,Influence of Roman political thought on the development of early Christianity,Jewish/Christian relations
A.B., Grinnell College; M.A., Ph.D., University of Iowa
Method and Theory in Religious Studies,South Asian Religions,Goddess Traditions,Models of Hindu Leadership
Gender and Religion, Modern Hindu Goddess Worship, History of Hinduism in America
Bowdoin College, BA John Carroll University, MEd University of California, Santa Barbara, MA and PhD
South Asian Culture and Religion, Religion and Modernity, Digital Humanities
Religion and Material Culture India Digital Humanities, Archaeology, and the Production and Representation of Virtual Places Indo-Portuguese Contact
B.A., Haverford College; M.A. McGill University; Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara
"The End of the World as We Know it" (a comparative examination of apocalypticism); Islamic Thought; Islamic Empire and Political Philosophy; Dreams, Visions and the Afterlife in Islam; Contemporary Issues in Islamic Studies; Religion of Islam
Islamic apocalypticism and eschatology; Islamic intellectual history; Shiism; coffee and its reception history
Visiting Faculty
B.A. Barnard College; M.A. and Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A. Boston University; M.F.A. Warren Wilson College
Religions of South Asia; Sikhism; Hinduism; Jainism; Buddhism; Islam in South Asia; Asian American Religions; Ramayana; Devotional Worlds of South Asia; Religious Autobiography; Poetry and Religion; Creative Writing
Religion and Literature in South Asia; Medieval North India; Devotional traditions; Rajasthan and Punjab; Autobiography and Hagiography; Asian American Religions; Poetry and Religion.
African American Religious History and Islam in the United States
Watling’s research has focused on the twelfth century Almohad Caliphate and its place within Islamic intellectual history
Emeritus Faculty
B.A., Whitworth University; M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University
Philosophy of religion
Analytic Theology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Christian Thought, History of Philosophy (ancient)