Faculty experts: keyword list AFRICAN-AMERICAN RELIGION Curtis J. Evans AMERICAN RELIGIONS Curtis J. Evans John Howell Christian Wedemeyer (Buddhism) ANCIENT NEAR EAST, ancient Judaism and early Christianity, and the CLASSICAL WORLD Jas' Elsner (art) Jeff Jay David Martinez (papyrology, ancient Greece) Margaret M. Mitchell (ancient Christianity; the New Testament) Jeffrey Stackert (Hebrew Bible; Ancient Near East. Prophecy) ANIMALS ART Jas' Elsner (Greco-Roman, Classical) Karin Krause (Byzantium) ATHEISM Brook A. Ziporyn BIOETHICS (Dean of the School) BUDDHISM Daniel A. Arnold Matthew Kapstein (philosophy; Tibet) Christian K. Wedemeyer Brook A. Ziporyn BYZANTIUM Karin Krause CATHOLICISM Jean-Luc Marion Susan Schreiner CHINA, religions in Brook A. Ziporyn CHRISTIANITY Curtis J. Evans (American, AfricanAmerican) Angie Heo (comparative Christianities) Jeff Jay Cynthia Gano Lindner Margaret M. Mitchell (early) Willemien Otten (medieval) (medieval) Susan Schreiner (ethics, global) Wesley Sun (contemporary ministry) CONFLICT, WAR, VIOLENCE Cynthia Gano Lindner (communal violence and trauma) Richard B. Miller COPTIC Christianity Angie Heo
CULTURE and religion Richard A. Rosengarten Christian Wedemeyer ENVIRONMENTAL issues Sarah E. Fredericks ETHICS Sarah E. Fredericks Richard B. Miller GENDER Francoise Meltzer GLOBAL culture, religion Angie Heo GOD (nature of, belief in; FAITH) Ryan Coyne Kevin Hector Karin Krause Jean-Luc Marion Willemien Otten HINDUISM Wendy Doniger INDIA Wendy Doniger Daniel A. Arnold INTERFAITH / INTERRELIGIOUS topics IRAN Alireza Doostdar ISLAM Yousef Casewit Alireza Doostdar JUDAISM and JEWISH HISTORY Simeon Chavel (ancient) Arnold I. Davidson (modern) Michael Fishbane Sarah Hammerschlag (post-war) Paul Mendes-Flohr Jeffrey Stackert KOREA Angie Heo (evangelicalism in) GRAPHIC NOVELS / comics Wesley Sun HIGHER EDUCATION topics John Howell (undergraduate) LITERATURE / art Sarah Hammerschlag Françoise Meltzer Richard A. Rosengarten (Arabic and Islamic poetry) MEDICINE and religion 2
MEDIEVAL PERIOD/MIDDLE AGES Willemien Otten (emphasis on Judaism) Brook Ziporyn (Chinese) MINISTRY / Religious leadership Cynthia Gano Lindner Wesley Sun MONASTICISM MYSTICISM Brook Ziporyn NATURE Sarah E. Fredericks Willemein Otten PREACHING Cynthia Gano Lindner Wesley Sun PROPHECY Jeffrey Stackert PUBLIC LIFE (religion and) Richard B. Miller SEXUALITY and religion Wendy Doniger SUFISM THEOLOGY (the nature of God and belief) Ryan Coyne Kevin Hector Karin Krause Jean-Luc Marion Susan Schreiner TIBET Matthew Kapstein Christian K. Wedemeyer WOMEN / GENDER WORLD religions, and GLOBAL dynamics Angie Heo RACE and religion Curtis J. Evans SCIENCE and religion Alireza Doostdar 3
Faculty experts, alphabetical list Longer biographies are available on our website. Daniel A. Arnold, Professor of the Philosophy of Religions Buddhism; Indian Buddhist philosophy Yousef Casewit, Professor of Qur anic Studies Qur an; Muslim perceptions of the Bible; North Africa; Islam Simeon Chavel, Professor of Hebrew Bible Bible, Ancient Israel, Early Judaism Ryan Coyne, Professor of Philosophy of Religions and Theology European philosophy; Christian theology and mysticism; religious experience, Professor of Theology and Dean of the Disciples Divinity House Feminist and womanist theologies; protest and resistance; contemporary theology; Disciples of Christ (Christian Church) Arnold I. Davidson, Professor of Philosophy of Judaism and Philosophy of Religions Judaism (modern); European philosophy; the Holocaust; Jewish learning and identity Wendy Doniger, Professor of the History of Religions Hinduism, the Kama Sutra, Indian religion; mythology; religion in public life Alireza Doostdar, Professor of Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion Islam, Iran, Religion and science, gender; New Age and occult topics Jas' Elsner, Professor of Art and Religion Classics; Roman Empire; art of the Roman Empire; Byzantium Curtis J. Evans, Professor of American Religions and the History of Christianity American religion; Race and religion; Slavery and Christianity; the Black Church ; African American religion; Billy Graham; Christian Right; Conservative Protestantism Michael Fishbane, Professor of Jewish Studies Judaism, Rabbinics, Semitic languages, biblical studies; Mishnah; ancient Near East; (Jewish) mysticism; modern Jewish thought Sarah E. Fredericks, Professor of Environmental Ethics Climate change, environmental issue; environmental ethics; nature; conservation Sarah Hammerschlag, Professor of Religion and Literature, Philosophy of Religions, and the History of Judaism Judaism, Postwar France; *Director of Masters programs Kevin Hector, Professor of Theology and of the Philosophy of Religions Christianity, faith; theology (contemporary and historical); belief in and understanding of God
Angie Heo, Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion Global/comparative Christianities; Korean Evangelicalism; religion, media, and economy; Pacific Rim; capitalism; Coptic Orthodoxy (Egypt), Professor of Theology Black theology; Liberation theology; Womanism; contemporary theology; global and world religions; *Ordained American Baptist Minister. John Howell, American Literatures, Religions, and Visual Culture American religion; literature and history; Civil War; religion and American visual and material cultures; *Associate Dean of Students Matthew Kapstein, Professor of Buddhist Studies Buddhism; Tibetan Buddhism; Tibet and China; philosophies of India; evil; death Karin Krause, Professor of Byzantine Theology and Visual Culture Byzantium; Byzantine art; book illumination; iconography; relics; Medieval and Early Christian art; Classical world and heritage Cynthia Gano Lindner, Director of Ministry Studies Religious leadership; Congregational life; preaching pastoral care; communal violence and trauma; *Ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ); member of American Association of Pastoral Counselors and International Association for Spiritual Care. Jean-Luc Marion, Professor of Catholic Studies, Philosophy of Religions and Theology Modern philosophy; God; Catholicism; theology David Martinez, Professor of Classics Classical World; Papyrology; Early Christianity; Ancient Greece Françoise Meltzer, Professor of Philosophy of Religions, Comparative Literature, and Humanities Literature and religion; Modernity; Modernity; Joan of Arc Paul Mendes-Flohr, Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought (Modern) Jewish intellectual history, modern Jewish philosophy and religious thought; Philosophy of religion; German (intellectual) history; intellectualism; Martin Buber Richard B. Miller, Professor of Religious Ethics Religion and public life, political and social ethics, theory and method in religious thought and ethics, and practical ethics; Just War (ethics of war) Margaret M. Mitchell, Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature (Ancient and Early) Christianity; New Testament; Greco-Roman World Willemien Otten, Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity Nature; history of Christianity; Medieval Christianity; humanism; Dutch Humanities ; History of Christianity and Director of Undergraduate Studies Medieval period, The Middle Ages; women in the medieval world; Christianity and gender; religion and ritual; gender studies; gender issues; *Undergraduate students 5
, Professor of the History of Judaism, Islamic Studies, and the History of Religions Medieval period; Middle Ages; Jewish Studies, Jewish history; interactions among Jewish, Islamic, and Christian traditions Richard A. Rosengarten, Professor of Religion and Literature Enlightenment; religion and literature; American literature; Catholicism; Frida Kahlo Susan Schreiner, Professor of the History of Christianity and Theology European history; Protestantism; Reformation; Renaissance; (Early Modern) Catholicism, Professor of Theological Ethics Theological ethics; comparative religious ethics; environmental ethics; global dynamics. *Ordained minister in the United Methodist Church., Professor of Islamic History and Literature Qur an; Qur'anic studies; Sufism; Arabic and Islamic love poetry; mystical literature; religion and violence Jeffrey Stackert, Professor of Hebrew Bible; Director, Center for Jewish Studies Bible, Hebrew Bible; Jewish studies; ancient Near East; prophecy Wesley Sun, Director of Field Education and Community Engagement Religious leadership, contemporary ministry; chaplaincy; preaching, pastoral care; religion in prison. *Ordained minister and endorsed chaplain in the American Baptist Church; *Chaplain Cook County Jail Christian K. Wedemeyer, Professor of the History of Religions Buddhism; Tantric Buddhism; Tibet Brook A. Ziporyn, Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, Comparative Thought Chinese religions, Buddhism; atheism; mysticism, Dean and Margaret E. Burton Professor Bioethics, Jewish studies; neonatal issues; religion and ethics; Jewish philosophy; genetic engineering, stem cell research, synthetic biology, social justice in health care, science and medicine; interreligious dialogue; higher education trends and topics 6