Mark Larrimore

Associate Professor of Religion

Email:

larrimom@newschool.edu

Office Location:

Eugene Lang Building

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:

• American Academy of Religion
• Japan Ethics Association (Nihon Rinri Gakkai)

Recent Publications:

• Queer Christianities: Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms, edited with Michael Pettinger and Kathleen Talvacchia (NYU Press), 2014

• The Book of Job: A Biography (Princeton University Press), 2013
• “Unsettled: On teaching about Aboriginal Australian religion in an American liberal arts college,” Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature, 2012

• "Religion and the Promise of Happiness,” Social Research 77/2, 2010
• “Antinomies of Race: Diversity and Destiny in Kant," in Naming Race, Naming Racisms, ed. Jonathan Judaken, 2008/2009
• “Evil as Privation: Seeing Darkness, Hearing Silence,” in Deliver Us From Evil, ed. M. David Eckel and Bradley L. Herling, 2006
• “Evil” and “Theodicy” in New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 2005
• “Ethical challenges and dangers of mésologie: Watsuji Tetsurô between stasis and contingency,” in Modernity in Milieux and Technique, ed. Nobuo Kioka, 2005
• “Evil and wonder in early modern philosophy,” in Teaching New Histories of Philosophy, ed. J. B. Schneewind, 2004
• The Problem of Evil: A Reader (Blackwell), 2001

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 history of religious ethics; interfaces of religion and the arts; lived religion; interpretations of the Book of Job; the future of the liberal arts

Awards And Honors:

• 2005, Distinguished Teaching Award, New School University