Professor Of Religion Research Articles

Mercer on Mission program makes global impact by integrating study abroad with service‐learning

Craig McMahan, M.Div., Ph.D., was just one year into working as Mercer University's Minister, Dean of Chapel, and Assistant Professor of Religion when the new University President gave him an assignment: to develop a program that integrates study abroad with meaningful service‐learning projects that go beyond “hugging babies and painting walls.” And that's how Mercer On Mission was born. In 14 years, the program has completed 163 trips with 2,877 Mercer students and faculty participants visiting 45 different international sites.

Mercer On Mission program makes global impact by integrating study abroad with service learning

Craig McMahan, M.Div., Ph.D., was just one year into working as Mercer University's Minister, Dean of Chapel, and Assistant Professor of Religion when the new university president gave him an assignment: Develop a program that integrates study abroad with meaningful service‐learning projects that go beyond “hugging babies and painting walls.” And that's how Mercer On Mission was born. In 14 years, the program has completed 163 trips with 2,877 Mercer students and faculty participants visiting 45 different international sites.

Mercer on Mission program makes global impact by integrating study abroad with service‐learning

Craig McMahan, M.Div., Ph.D., was just one year into working as Mercer University's Minister, Dean of Chapel, and Assistant Professor of Religion when the new University President gave him an assignment: Develop a program that integrates study abroad with meaningful service‐learning projects that go beyond “hugging babies and painting walls.” And that's how Mercer On Mission was born. In 14 years, the program has completed 163 trips with 2,877 Mercer students and faculty participants visiting 45 different international sites.

Trad nationalist a/effects

Trad nationalist a/effects

An Interview with Professor David Cook on Islamic Studies

David Cook is a Professor of religion in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University, specializing in Islam. He completed his undergraduate degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1994. He later received his M.A. degree in 1998 and his Ph.D. degree with the study titled “The Beginnings of Islam in Syria during the Umayyad Period”, which he prepared under the supervision of Fred Donner, Walter Kaegi, and Patricia Crone from the University of Chicago (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures) in March 2002. He received most of his training in Arabic and Islamic studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Then he took training in other languages and the research methodology of Islamic studies at the University of Chicago. His areas of specialization include early Islamic history and development, Muslim apocalyptic literature and movements (classical and contemporary), radical Islam, jihad, jihadist movements in Islam such as Salafism, historical astronomy, Judeo-Arabic literature, and West African Islam. This study was prepared as part of an interview with Prof. Cook in July 2022 at Rice University. It covers a number of subjects, including Cook’s educational background, his research into Islamic topics, his methodology, and his opinions on Western Islamic literature.

Philological Studies on Ahmad Mutamakkin Court in Kajen Text Perspective

The Kajen Text Manuscript is a very important reference regarding the history of Haji Ahmad Mutamakkin, which the hands of philologists have not touched. This philological research aims to find out the trial process of Haji Ahmad Mutamakkin from the perspective of the Kajen community through the Kajen Text. This type of research is qualitative research with a philological approach that seeks to answer problems through library research. The results of this study inform that Kajen's text places Haji Ahmad Mutamakkin as a respected faqih because of his far-reaching and broad views. As a professor of religion, Mutamakkin preached from one place to another, which was considered the right target. The accusation of heresy is the implication of a leaflet that intends to corner Mutamakkin. The Kajen's text describes the trial of Mutamakkin's case, which shows Mutamakkin's expertise in providing arguments for his convictions. An advantage possessed by Mutamakkin as described in Kajen's text is his firmness in upholding the principles of establishing his creed. His demeanor seemed calm, and he looked elegant in front of the audience. Kajen's text states that the King eventually became Mutamakkin's disciple after following Mutamakkin's allegiance to teachings, ending with Mutamakkin's acquittal of all his charges.

On the Value of Doubt

On the Value of Doubt

Joseph Fielding Smith's Evolving Views on Race: The Odyssey of a Mormon Apostle-President

Joseph Fielding Smith's Evolving Views on Race: The Odyssey of a Mormon Apostle-President

Fragmented History: Challenges and Perspectives Building a Narrative of the Latter-day Saints in Brazil

Fragmented History: Challenges and Perspectives Building a Narrative of the Latter-day Saints in Brazil

“How Does Nature Deify Us”

“How Does Nature Deify Us”

An Atoning Priority in the Hymns of Calvary and Gethsemane

An Atoning Priority in the Hymns of Calvary and Gethsemane

Policy vs. Ethics.

Editor's Note: As Catholic ethics increasingly diverge from those of other religious traditions and from secular principles, it is important to explore how-if at all-Catholic physicians and institutions can work with those whose view of life and faith are very different. This article presents not only an historical vision of how the Ethical and Religious Directives came to be, it raises questions about just how Catholics go about moral reasoning when there are competing interests and principles at play. The author of the article, Warren T. Reich, was, at the time it was written, a Senior Research Scholar in Medical Ethics at the Kennedy Center for Bioethics, Georgetown University. He went on to be a founding member of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He was also founder and director of the Project for the History of Care, and is Distinguished Research Professor of Religion and Ethics in the Georgetown University Theology Department and Professor Emeritus of Bioethics in the Georgetown University School of Medicine. This article was prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the National Federation of Catholic Physicians' Guilds, New Orleans, November 27. 1971. The issues he raises and the conflicts he perceives are as relevant now as they were 50 years ago. Reich, Warren T. (1972) "Policy vs. Ethics, "The Linacre Quarterly: Vol. 39: No. 1, Article 8. Available at: http://epublications.marquette.edu/lnq/vol39/iss1/8.

Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania, by Sarah Justina Eyerly

Book Review| April 01 2022 Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania, by Sarah Justina Eyerly Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania, by Sarah JustinaEyerly. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020. xvi, 269 pp. With companion website Moravian Soundscapes by SarahEyerly, MarkSciuchetti, and AndyNathan, https://moraviansoundscapes.music.fsu.edu/ Stephen A. Marini Stephen A. Marini STEPHEN A. MARINI is Elisabeth Luce Moore Professor of Christian Studies and Professor of Religion in America and Ethics at Wellesley College. He is also the founder and singing master of Norumbega Harmony, a choral ensemble specializing in early American psalmody and the repertoire of the Southern singing-school tunebook The Sacred Harp (1844). His most recent book is The Cashaway Psalmody: Transatlantic Religion and Music in Colonial Carolina (University of Illinois Press, 2020), which has been awarded the Lloyd Hibbert Endowment by the American Musicological Society. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2022) 75 (1): 200–209. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.1.200 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Stephen A. Marini; Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania, by Sarah Justina Eyerly. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2022; 75 (1): 200–209. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2022.75.1.200 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search The Moravians of colonial Pennsylvania are enjoying renewed attention today from scholars with diverse interests. The Moravians’ rapid rise, communal institutions, controversial devotional and sexual practices, and sudden financial crisis during the mid-eighteenth century have been explored in important recent studies by Aaron Spencer Fogleman, Katherine Carté Engel, and Paul Peucker, among others.1 Now Sarah Justina Eyerly offers a sweeping new interpretation of their rich music culture and distinctive sound environments in Moravian Soundscapes: A Sonic History of the Moravian Missions in Early Pennsylvania. Founded by Nikolaus Ludwig, Count von Zinzendorf of Saxony (1700–1760), the Moravians, or Herrnhut Community of Brothers (Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine), brought together a group of Hussite exiles from Bohemia with followers of the count’s own vision of Lutheran Pietism. In 1722, Zinzendorf welcomed the remnant of the Unity of the Brethren (Unitas Fratrum), Jan Hus’s fifteenth-century religious reform movement, to Herrnhut, a town on his... You do not currently have access to this content.

Notes on Contributors

David Arnold is Professor of History at Columbia Basin College where he teaches courses in US, Native American, and African American history. His first book, The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska (University of Washington Press, 2008) is a social and environmental history of Indian and non-Indian fishermen from precontact to present.Matthew M. Babcock is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Texas at Dallas and author of Apache Adaptation to Hispanic Rule. He received his PhD at Southern Methodist University, and he focuses on the history of North American borderlands, American Indians, and the colonial Southwest.Rosie C. Bermudez is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Her research and teaching interests include Chicana grassroots activism, social movements, and women of color feminisms. Bermudez is currently writing a book about Chicana activist Alicia Escalante and the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization.Dea H. Boster is Associate Professor of History in the Humanities Department at Columbus State Community College in Columbus, Ohio. She has published several works on the history of American medicine and disability, including African American Slavery and Disability: Bodies, Property, and Power in the Antebellum South (Routledge, 2012).Heather D. Curtis is the Warren S. Woodbridge Professor of Religion at Tufts University, where she also holds appointments in the Department of History and the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. Curtis received her doctorate in American Religion from Harvard University. Her research explores how religion has shaped responses to racial injustice, humanitarian disasters, and bodily illness from the late nineteenth century to the present.Justene Hill Edwards is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Unfree Markets: The Slaves’ Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South Carolina (2021).David G. García earned his PhD in US History at UCLA and is Associate Professor in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. He is the author of the award-winning book Strategies of Segregation: Race, Residence, and the Struggle for Educational Equality (University of California Press, 2018).Lyrianne E. González is a History PhD student minoring in Latino Studies at Cornell University. She is a mid-twentieth-century historian with focuses in US labor history, US foreign labor relations, US–Mexico relations, and im/migration. Her research investigates the racial and generational legacies of US agricultural guestworker programs.José G. Moreno is a full-time senior lecturer in ethnic studies and sociology and the Associate Director of the Ethnic Studies Program at Northern Arizona University. He has published various peer review articles, critical essays, and book reviews in academic publications.Mark Newman is a reader in history at the University of Edinburgh. He thanks the University of Edinburgh Development Trust Research Fund, the British Academy, the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, and the Leverhulme Trust for the financial support that made this article possible.Lucy E. Salyer is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of Under the Starry Flag (Harvard University Press, 2018), Laws Harsh as Tigers (University of North Carolina Press, 1995), and numerous articles on the history of immigration and citizenship policy.Ryan E. Santos is a lecturer in the Social and Cultural Analysis of Education program at California State University, Long Beach and in the Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies Department at California State University, Los Angeles. His research and teaching emphasize educational history with an emphasis on race, community resistance, and the law.Cameron Tardif is a PhD student who studies twentieth-century US history at Cornell University. His research focuses on how the relationship of slavery and freedom between the United States and Canada impacts the experiences of transnational black athletes. His work has been published in the Journal of Sport History.Lila Teeters is Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Political Science at Worcester State University. She received her PhD in American History from the University of New Hampshire in 2021. Her dissertation is entitled “Native Citizens: The Fight for and against Native American Citizenship, 1887–1924.”Tara J. Yosso is Professor in the Graduate School of Education at UC Riverside. Her research seeks to recover counter-narratives of race, schooling, inequality, and the law. Her extensively cited publications examine the ways people of color utilize community cultural wealth to survive and resist racism and other forms of subordination.Hao Zou is an independent scholar based in San Francisco. His research interests include Asian American history, immigration history, race and ethnicity, and the history of the American West.

About the Authors

Other| January 01 2022 About the Authors American Journal of Theology & Philosophy (2022) 43 (1): 93. https://doi.org/10.5406/21564795.43.1.05 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation About the Authors. American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 1 January 2022; 43 (1): 93. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/21564795.43.1.05 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Journal of Theology & Philosophy Search Advanced Search Mary-Jane Rubenstein is Professor of Religion and Science in Society at Wesleyan University. She holds a B.A. from Williams College, an M.Phil. from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in from Columbia University. Her research unearths the philosophies and histories of religion and science, especially in relation to cosmology, ecology, and space travel. She is the author of Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (Columbia University Press, 2018). Her book in progress is called Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race.Donald A. Crosby is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus of Colorado State University. His current main research interests are in the areas of religious naturalism, metaphysics, American philosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion. His most recent (2022) books are Sacred and Secular: Responses to Life in a Finite World (SUNY) and The Multiplicity of Interpreted Worlds: Inner and Outer Perspectives (Lexington Books).Laura J. Mueller is an... Issue Section: About the Authors You do not currently have access to this content.

Mormonism and the Emotions: An Analysis of LDS Scriptural Texts

Mormonism and the Emotions: An Analysis of LDS Scriptural Texts

"Portnoy's Complaint at 50": A Podcast About Roth's Most Infamous Book

"Portnoy's Complaint at 50"A Podcast About Roth's Most Infamous Book Brett Ashley Kaplan (bio) and Samuel J. Kessler (bio) Readers of this special issue might be interested in "portnoy's complaint at 50," an episode in the podcast series Adventures in Jewish Studies, produced by the Association of Jewish Studies. In this episode, Jeremy Shere interviews literary scholars Warren Hoffman, Josh Lambert, and Brett Ashley Kaplan to discuss the hilarity and the controversy surrounding Philip Roth's most famous novel as it turns 50 years old. When published in early 1969, Portnoy's Complaint was an immediate sensation, selling thousands of copies and rocketing to the top of the New York Times bestseller list, turning Roth into an overnight celebrity. Critics loved the book. Reviewing Portnoy's Complaint for the Times, Christopher Lehmann-Haupt judged the novel "Roth's best work […] and a brilliantly vivid reading experience." But not everyone was so enthralled. Many Jewish readers, including rabbis and other leaders of the Jewish community, were scandalized by the novel's unsparing, satirical depictions of overbearing Jewish mothers and their sex-obsessed sons. And feminist critics, too, took Roth to task for what they saw as his misogynistic portrayal of female characters, not only in this novel but throughout his writings. The guests discuss all these historical reactions and more. As Kaplan explores, we might alternately consider how Portnoy's central love interest, the sexually liberated and nearly illiterate Mary Jane Reed (whom Portnoy calls "the monkey"), embodies what feminist critics call "consent culture." Hoffman describes the book's portrayal of Jewish masculinity as queer, meaning that Portnoy's sexual neuroses and behavior are outside the norm. Hoffman reads Portnoy as reacting against the stereotype of the hysterical Jewish male to assert his identity as a red-blooded, sexually normative American man. And Josh Lambert notes that, going back to Yiddish literature of the nineteenth century, writers have thought about what it means to be Jewish through the lens of who a particular character is going to sleep with. In this way, diasporism becomes a kind of masturbation, and Israel induces impotence, so issues of continuity and Jewish identity come in through the sexuality of the book. [End Page 131] Finally, as the guests describe, 1969 was a cauldron of everything exciting happening at once. The world was undergoing a major transformation, and right at that moment appears a book that basically puts intimate details that are normally not seen on the printed page outside of pornography into the public realm. And people start talking about it. People start feeling that it represents some part of their own experience. Portnoy's Complaint taps into a vein of sexual repression and longing in mid-century America. Adventures in Jewish Studies takes listeners on exciting journeys that explore a wide range of topics featuring the expertise and learning of scholars of Jewish Studies. The Association of Jewish Studies is the largest learned society and professional organization representing Jewish Studies across the globe, with over 1,800 members from more than 30 countries. Find this episode wherever you get your podcasts. [End Page 132] Brett Ashley Kaplan Brett Ashley Kaplan directs the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies at the University of Illinois where she is a professor of Comparative and World Literature and Director of Graduate Studies. She publishes in Haaretz, The Conversation, Salon.com (picked up from Conversation), Asitoughttobemagazine, AJS Perspectives, Contemporary Literature, Edge Effects, and The Jewish Review of Books. She has been interviewed on NPR, the AJS Podcast, and The 21st, and is the author of Unwanted Beauty, Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory, and Jewish Anxiety and the Novels of Philip Roth. She is the editor of the forthcoming Handbook to New Approaches in Cultural Memory Studies, and co-editor of the collection in process: Blewish: Contemporary Black-Jewish Voices. Her first novel, Rare Stuff, is due out in June 2022. Samuel J. Kessler Samuel J. Kessler is Assistant Professor of Religion and Åke and Kristina Bonnier Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. His work focuses on the interaction of religion and modernity in European history and literature...

Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women's Rights

Written while Ashley Boggan Dreff (PhD, Drew University) was still High Point University's Director of Women and Gender Studies and Assistant Professor of Religion, Nevertheless: American Methodists and Women's Rights recounts ‘American Methodist women's efforts to fight for women's rights, from the Women's Christian Temperance Union to the #MeToo movement’ (back cover). The title of Dreff's introductory chapter, ‘Introduction to a Movement’, hints that this slim volume is not intended for the standard academic audience, but rather ‘to help Methodists—women and men, as well as non-Methodists—reflect on their own roles in political engagement and how their faith informs their social engagement in this world’ (14). Its hortatory tone and second-person discussion questions at the end of each chapter further indicate that this book's ideal readership seems to be a combination of United Methodist laypeople and perhaps the denomination's top executives, among whom Dreff now ranks, having been elected General Secretary of the General Commission on Archives and History (GCAH) not six months after the publication of Nevertheless.Unlike more straightforwardly academic historical and theological prior texts by Priscilla Pope-Levison (an endorser) and Laceye Warner, among others, this book is aimed primarily at an audience seeking guidance from the past for present and future progressive action. A key to Dreff's argument is that it is precisely their faith that has propelled women of various Methodist traditions out of their homes and into the public arena as activists.After the introduction's brief treatment of John Wesley and women, as well as the concept of and commitment to social holiness, five chapters address women's involvement in the struggles for suffrage, racial equity, the Equal Rights Amendment, reproductive rights (including but not limited to abortion access), and sexual harassment. The conclusion, ‘She Continues to Preach’, summarizes all and highlights United Methodism's 2016–19 struggle to ratify equality-related amendments to its constitution.In presenting these problems, Dreff demystifies jargon—both of the denomination and of the field of religious studies—quite effectively. Historians of polity may bristle at her repeated reference to the approval of women's ordination in 1956 (10, 60, 109), when in fact the Revd Maud K. Jensen, the first woman to benefit in 1956 from the approval to which Dreff actually refers (that of women's full clergy rights as voting members of Annual Conferences), already was ordained in 1952, as the Revd Dr Georgia Harkness and others had been before her. Theologians might wish that mentions of ‘enthusiasm’ included attention to its negative connotations in the eighteenth century (17–18). Yet such technicalities do not seriously diminish Dreff's argument.Dreff takes an unflinching look at the difficulties women have faced (so unflinching that the reader may wish the publisher had required content warnings to precede each chapter) and does not sugar-coat the legacies of often celebrated but really complicated figures, such as Frances Willard. In doing so, she names and lifts up so many works by women throughout centuries that the reader wishes for attention to the published works of black laywoman and first Women's Division executive Theressa Hoover (curiously misspelled with only one s throughout the book), rather than only her congressional testimony. The use of the Revd James M. Lawson Jr's case of expulsion from Vanderbilt Divinity School over the lunch counter sit-ins would benefit from facts available in GCAH's Methodist History journal to clarify the magnitude and timeline of Lawson's contributions to the Civil Rights Movement, underscoring the value of advocacy for him by the Woman's Division.Before her rousing conclusion, Dreff draws attention to the often overlooked issue of laymen's sexual harassment of clergywomen. This chapter's framing and approach are an admitted departure from the rest of the book, presenting survey evidence regarding the ‘stained glass ceiling’ (100–16). The willingness to attend to this vital matter is laudable. While some readers may feel lost in a sea of data and others may desire more consistent presentation of studies’ methodological approaches, the analysis leaves room for the reader to pursue further understanding. Even if one argues that, for example, the reason ‘harassment of clergywomen … rarely makes news’ is not so much political (Dreff's suggestion) as it is a matter of policy to protect victims and witnesses from further harassment and retaliation, her presentation requires the reader to reflect on the impact of such policy (112).As Dreff calls for improved theology in the pews that dismantles patriarchal assumptions and inspires church members to take action, this book invites partnership between history and theology scholars and between church and academy in ways that she is uniquely positioned to help make a reality.

Walter Brueggemann. Truth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age.

Walter Brueggemann. <i>Truth and Hope: Essays for a Perilous Age</i>.

Jonah and the Human Condition: Life and Death in Yahweh’s World

Jonah and the Human Condition: Life and Death in Yahweh’s World