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

    Specialization: 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 (New York: New York University Press, 2017)
    • “Racial Justice in the Protestant Mainline: Liberalism and Its Limits,” in Faith and Race in American Political Life, eds. Robin Jacobson and Nancy Wadsworth (University of Virginia Press, 2012)
    • “American Evangelicalism in the Post-Civil Rights Era: A Racial Formation Theory Analysis,” Sociology of Religion  65 (2004): 195-213


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

    Professional Label:  Sociology of Religion

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

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  • Philip R. Butler

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

    Specialization: the intersections of neuroscience, technology, spirituality and Blackness

    Publications:

    • “Beyond the Zoomiverse” 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.
    • “Blackness: Spectres and Monsters are the Future of Theological Subjectivity." Concilium 3 (2021): 21-30.
    • “Aime Césaire” Political Theology Network: Critical Theory for Political Theology 2.0, ed. by Alex Dubliet and Vincent LLoyd, June 15, 2021.
    • “A Black Tetratic Future: Blackness and the Age of Hyper-Exponentiation (Hyper-4)” 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
     

    Professional Labels: Black posthumanism, artificial intelligence, and pluriversal future realities.

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

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  • Christy Cobb
    Christy Cobb

    Assistant Professor of Christianity
    Department of Religious Studies
    University of Denver

    Specializations: New Testament (Luke-Acts); Early Christianity; Enslavement; Gender and Sexuality; Ancient Fiction (Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian)
     
    Publications:
    • Cobb, Christy. “Enslaved Women, Women Enslavers: Kyriarchy And Intersectionality In The New Testament.” 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.
    • “Entangled Tongues: A Poststructuralist and Postcolonial Reading of Acts 2:1-13” in Journal for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (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.
    • “Madly in Love: The Motif of Lovesickness in the Apocryphal Acts of Andrew” in Reading and Teaching Ancient Fiction: Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman Narratives. Sara Johnson, Rubén René Dupertuis, and Chris Shea, Editors. Writings from the Greco-Roman World Supplement Series, Number 11 (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2018), pgs. 27-40. 
    • “Hidden Truth in the Body of Euclia: Page duBois’ Torture and Truth and the Acts of Andrew” in Biblical Interpretation (Volume 25.1, 2017), pgs. 19-38.


    Courses:
    Christian Classics
    Introduction to Christianity

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

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

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  • Miguel De La Torre
    Miguel De La Torre

    Professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specialization: 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 
     

    Publications:

    • Reading José Martí from the Margins (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)
    • Doing Christian Ethics from the Margins (3rd ed.; Orbis Books, 2023)
    • Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers (Eerdmans: 2021) 
    • Embracing Hopelessness (Fortress Press, 2017)
    • Genesis: Belief, A Theological Commentary on the Bible  (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:  Ethics

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

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  • Sandra Dixon
    Sandra Dixon

    Associate Professor in Psychology of Religion
    Department of Religious Studies
    University of Denver

    Specialization: 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.
       
    Professional Labels: psychology of religion, moral psychology, cultural psychology, St. Augustine, religion and moral psychology

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

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  • 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  (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:  Biblical Studies; Early Judaism; New Testament and Christian Origins

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

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  • Amy Erickson
    Amy Erickson

    Professor of Hebrew Bible
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specialization: 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.
    • “Recent Research on the Megilloth (Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther).” With Andrew R. Davis. Currents in Biblical Research. June 2016: 1-21.
    • “God’s Birthing and Begetting Body in Job 38:28-30.” Pages 98-113 in Imagination, Ideology, and Inspiration: Exploring Walter Brueggemann’s Influence in Biblical Studies. Edited by Robert Williamson, Jr. and Jonathan Kaplan. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix, 2015.
    • “Jonah and the Scribal Habitus,” in Methods, Theories, Imagination: Social Scientific Approaches in Biblical Studies, eds. David J. Chalcraft, Frauke Uhlenbruch, and Rebecca S. Watson (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2014)
    • “‘Without My Flesh I Will See God’: Job’s Rhetoric of the Body,” Journal of Biblical Literature 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: aerickson@iliff.edu
    Phone: (303) 744-1287
    Office: Iliff School of Theology

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  • Mark K. George
    Mark K. Geroge

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

    Specialization: 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)
    • “Israelite Aniconism and the Visualization of the Tabernacle,” Journal of Religion & Society Supplement Series 8 (2012): 40-54
    • Israel’s 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: mgeorge@iliff.edu
    Phone: (303) 765-3168 
    Office: Iliff School of Theology

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  • Albert Hernández
    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 (Emeth Press, 2010)
    • The Quest for the Historical Satan 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: ahernandez@iliff.edu
    Phone: 303-765-3180
    Office: Iliff School of Theology

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  • Jason Jeffries
    Jason Jeffries

    Assistant Professor, 
    Department of Religious Studies
    University of Denver

    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 

    Phone: 303-871-4713
    Office: University of Denver
    Email: jason.jeffries@du.edu

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  • Catherine Kelsey
    Catherine Kelsey

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

    Specialization: Vocation; Spiritual life; Theology; Practices of ministry 

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

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  • 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

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


    Courses

    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

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  • Boyung Lee
    Boyung Lee

    Professor of Practical Theology
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specialization: Feminism and Religion; Transformative Pedagogy 

    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.
    • “Diversity Within Korean Diaspora: Toward Solidarity.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Korea, edited by Won Lee. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
    • “Exploring a Transnational Practical Theology: Learning from Kwok Pui-lan.” 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. 
    • “Subversive Leadership of Asian and Asian American Women.” 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.
       

    Email: blee@iliff.edu 
    Phone: (303) 578-4601 
    Office: Iliff School of Theology

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  • Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi
    Kristina Lizardy-Hajbi

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

    Specializations: 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 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022)
    • “Latino Congregations: Trends from the Faith Communities Today (FACT) and Exploring the Pandemic Impact on Congregations (EPIC) Studies” (Hartford Institute for Religion Research, 2023)
    • “How Can We Learn Across Difference? A Conversation about Ethical Research and Writing vis-a-vis Identity and Positionality,” Journal of Religious Leadership 21.2 (2022): 123-42
    • “Theological Field Education as a Bridge across Disciplines,” Religions 12.1 (2021)
      “Processes toward Post/Decolonial Pastoral Leaderships,” Journal of Religious Leadership 20.1 (Spring 2021): 136-67
    • “Frameworks toward Post/Decolonial Pastoral Leaderships,” Journal of Religious Leadership 19.2 (Autumn 2020): 100-30
    • “Engaging Young Adults: American Congregations 2015,” Faith Communities Today (Hartford Institute for Religion Research, 2016)
    • “Kirkwood United Church of Christ,” 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
     
    Professional Labels: Social Science and Religion; Practical/Praxis Theology; Leadership and Education

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


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  • April M. Mack
    April Mack

    Assistant Professor of Religion and Social Justice
    Iliff School of Theology

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

    Publications:

    • Mack, April, “Womanist Ethics as a Contribution to Bioethics,” 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– S71. DOI: 10.1002/hast.1376. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.1376 
    • Woodson, April, “I Can’t Breathe”: 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, "“Dialogical Offense:” 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. https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1870 


    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 


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  • Benjamin Nourse
    Ben Nourse

    Assistant Professor  
    Department of Religious Studies
    University of Denver

    Specialization: Asian Religions; Buddhist Studies; Tibetan Studies; History of the Book in Asia 

    Publications:

    • Nourse, Benjamin J. “Translating The Cult Of The Book: Publishing And Performing The Fifth Dalai Lama's The Wish-Fulfilling King From Lhasa To Beijing.” East Asian Publishing and Society 11, no. 1,(2021): 34–67. https://doi.org/10.1163/22106286-12341349.
    • Nourse, Benjamin James. “Revolutions Of The Dharma Wheel: Uses Of Tibetan Printing In The Eighteenth Century.” In Tibetan Printing: Comparison, Continuities, And Change. edited by Hildegard Diemberger, Franz-Karl Ehrhard, and Peter Kornicki. 524-550 Leiden, Netherlands: Brill. 2016. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004316256_020
    • Nourse, Benjamin James. “Makzor Gönpo And The Choné Kangyur.” 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: Benjamin.Nourse@du.edu 
    Phone: 303-871-3539
    Office: DU, Sturm Hall 482

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  • Sarah Pessin
    Sarah Pessin

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

    Specialization: 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.), Medieval Philosophy: A Multicultural Reader. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
    • Pessin, S. (2018). America’s Love Problem: How Oprah’s Call to Friendship Feeds Bannon’s Call to Racism (or: On Three Strains of Liberal Lovesickness). Political Theology Network. Retrieved from https://politicaltheology.com/americas-love-problem/
    • Pessin, S. (2017). Khoric Apophasis: Matter and Messianicity in Islamo-Judeo-Greek Neoplatonism. In M. Fagenblat (Ed.), Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
    • Pessin, S. (2014). Islamic and Jewish Neoplatonisms. In P. Remes & S. Slaveva-Griffin (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Neoplatonism (pp. 541-58). Durham: Acumen Press/ Routledge.
    • Pessin, S. (2013). Ibn Gabirol's Theology of Desire: Matter and Method in Jewish Medieval Neoplatonism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

     

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

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

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  • Carl Raschke
    Carl Raschke

    Professor of Philosophy of Religion
    Department of Religious Studies
    University of Denver

    Specialization: Continental Philosophy/Philosophy of Religion; Political Philosophy/Political Theology; Globalization Theory 

    Publications:

    • Neoliberalism and Political Theology: From Kant to Identity Politics. 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 . 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: carl.raschke@du.edu 
    Phone: 303-871-3117 
    Office: DU, Sturm Hall 273
    Personal website: https://carlraschke.com/

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  • Alison Schofield
    Alison Schofield

    Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible and Judaic Studies
    Department of Religious Studies
    University of Denver

    Specialization: Hebrew Bible and Judaic Studies; Dead Sea Scrolls; Religious and cultural influences of ancient Israel, Egypt and Babylonia

    Publications: 

    • Schofield, Alison. “Reading Sectarian Spaces: Critical Spatial Theory and the Case of the Yahad” 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. 176–194.
    • Schofield, Alison. “Re-Placing Priestly Space: The Wilderness as Heterotopia in the Dead Sea Scrolls” 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: aschofie@du.edu  
    Phone: 303-871-2752
    Office: DU, Sturm Hall 271
    Personal website: https://www.alisonschofield.com/ 

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  • Eric C. Smith
    Eric C. Smith

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

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


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

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

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  • Andrea Stanton
    Andrea L. Stanton

    Professor of Islamic Studies
    Department of Religious Studies
    University of Denver 

    Specialization: Islamic Studies; Middle Eastern history; media and politics; nationalism and sovereignty 

    Publications:

    • Kaneva, Ndezhda S., and Andrea Stanton. “An Alternative Vision Of Statehood: Islamic State's Ideological Challenge To The Nation-State.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 46, no. 5, (2023): 640-658. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2020.1780030
    • Stanton, Andrea. The Wireless World: Global Histories Of International Radio Broadcasting. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 2022.
    • Stanton, Andrea. “Sober Masculinity And Nurturing Femininity: A Gendered Analysis Of The Syrian Presidency Instagram Account.” Place Branding and Public Diplomacy 18, no. 4, (2022): 346-356. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41254-021-00254-y
    • Stanton, Andrea. “From Mecca With Love: Muslim Religious Apps And The Centering Of Sacred Geography.” In Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media In The Internet Age. 161-175 London: Bloomsbury. 2022.
    • Stanton, Andrea L. “Can Imperial Radio Be Transnational? British-Affiliated Arabic Radio Broadcasting In The Interwar Period.” History Compass 18, no. 1, (2020): https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12602
    • Stanton, Andrea L. “Saudi Arabia's Ministry Of Hajj Apps: Managing The Operations And Piety Of The Hajj.” Journal of Religion, Media, and Digital Culture, (2020).
    • Stanton, Andrea. “Locating Palestine's Summer Residence: Mandate Tourism And National Identity.” Journal of Palestine Studies 47, no. 2, (2018): 44-63.
    • Stanton, Andrea. “Islamic Emoticons And Religious Authority: Emerging Practices, Shifting Paradigms.” 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’an and Hadith
    Islamic Fundamentalisms

    Professional Label: Islamic Studies

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

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  • Dheepa Sundaram
    Dheepa Sundaram

    Assistant Professor of Hindu Studies
    Department of Religious Studies
    University Denver

    Specializations: 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" in Digital Hinduism (Routledge, 2019) 
    • Current monograph project Globalizing Darśan: Virtual Soteriology and Hindu Branding


    Courses:                    
    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:  South Asian Studies; South Asian Religious Traditions; Hindu Studies

    Email: dheepa.sundaram@du.edu 
    Phone: 303.871.2888
    Office: Sturm Hall 487F
    Personal website: https://globalizingdharma.com/ 

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  • Katherine Turpin
    Katherine Turpin

    Professor of Practical Theology and Religious Education
    Iliff School of Theology

    Specialization: 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 (Wipf and Stock, 2016)
    • Nurturing Different Dreams: Youth Ministry Across Lines of Difference, co-authored with Anne Carter Walker (Pickwick Press, 2014)
    • Branded: Adolescents Converting from Consumer Faith (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: kturpin@iliff.edu
    Phone: (303) 765-3139  
    Office: Iliff School of Theology

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  • Ted Vial
    Ted Vial

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

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

    Publications:

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


    Courses:
    Race and Religion 
    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: Modern theology

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

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