Profile:
The study of religion and liberal education are indispensable to each other because religion is so often illiberal and liberals so often anti-religious.
Degrees Held:
Ph.D. in Religion, Princeton University; B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Worcester College, Oxford
Professional Affiliations:
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American Academy of Religion
Recent Publications:
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“Kailas Beyond World Religions,” in Kevin Bubriski and Abhimanyu Pandey, Kailash Yatra, 2018
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“Tactiques spirituelles: vers une théorie certalienne de la religion vécue,” in Michel de Certeau; Le voyage de l’Oeuvre, ed. Luce Giard, 2017
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“Simone Weil, Friend of Job,” Public Seminar 2016
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“Wider Moral Communities: A Framework for Comparative Religious Ethics,” Religious Studies Review, 2015
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“Mythologizing and Demythologizing the History of the New School for Social Research,” The New School Economic Review, 2015
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Queer Christianities: Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms, edited with Michael Pettinger and Kathleen Talvacchia (NYU Press), 2014
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The Book of Job: A Biography (Princeton University Press), 2013
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“Unsettled: On teaching about Aboriginal Australian religion in an American liberal arts college,” Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature, 2012
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"Religion and the Promise of Happiness,” Social Research 77/2, 2010
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“Antinomies of Race: Diversity and Destiny in Kant," in Naming Race, Naming Racisms, ed. Jonathan Judaken, 2008/2009
Research Interests:
Modern manifestations of religion and the politics of their study in the Unites States and internationally; the problems of evil and good; comparative ethics; interfaces of religion and the arts; lived religion; interpretations of the Book of Job; the future of the liberal arts; religion and the Anthropocene.
Awards And Honors:
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2005, Distinguished Teaching Award, New School University