The Department of Philosophy & Religion offers majors and minors in both philosophy and religion, as well as a combined philosophy and religion major.
Below you will find scholarly and other professional works of faculty in Philosophy & Religion.
Submissions from 2023
New Members, James F. McGrath
Climate Activism and the Working Class, Harry van der Linden
War Emissions, Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine, and Just War Theory, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2021
Litigating the Limits of Religion: Minority and Majority Concerns about Institutional Religious Liberty in India, Chad Bauman
Submissions from 2020
Faith, Doubt, and Reason - Conclusion and Epilogue, Brent Hege
The Mandaean Book of John: Text and Translation, James F. McGrath and Charles G. Häberl
“I Want to Love Islam, I Really Do, But . . . ”: Islamophilic Classrooms in Islamophobic Times, Nermeen Mouftah
The Green New Deal: Promise and Limitations, Harry van der Linden
Editors’ Introduction: Radical Philosophy and Politics Amid the Climate Crisis and the Coronavirus Pandemic, Harry van der Linden and Reed M. Kurtz
Submissions from 2019
Exorcising Mythicism’s Sky-Demons: A Response to Raphael Lataster’s “Questioning Jesus’ Historicity.”, James F. McGrath
Learning from Jesus’ Wife: What Does Forgery Have to Do with the Digital Humanities?, James F. McGrath
Climate Change Mitigation and the U.N. Security Council: A Just War Analysis, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2018
Review of Telling Tales about Jesus: An Introduction to the New Testament Gospels, James F. McGrath
The Gospel of John as Jewish Messianism: Formative Influences and Neglected Avenues in the History of Scholarship, James F. McGrath
Writing a Moral Code: Algorithms for Ethical Reasoning by Humans and Machines, James F. McGrath and Ankur Gupta
History and Fiction in Secular Time, Nermeen Mouftah
The Institution of Gender-Based Asylum and Epistemic Injustice: A Structural Limit, Ezgi Sertler
Climate Change and Our Political Future, Harry van der Linden
Drone Warfare and Just War Theory, Harry van der Linden
No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need, Harry van der Linden
Questioning Combatant’s Privilege in Unjust Wars, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2017
The New Mechanical Philosophy, Stuart Glennan
Rudolf Bultmann on Myth, History, and the Resurrection, Brent Hege
Europe at the Time of the Reformation, Brent A. R. Hege
Luther Goes Viral: Mass Communication in the Lutheran Reformation, Brent A. R. Hege
Luther’s Life and Thought, Brent A. R. Hege
Luther, the Flawed Giant, Brent A. R. Hege
Slow Scholarship: Do Bloggers Rush In Where Jesus’ Wife Would Fear To Tread?, James F. McGrath
Faith Development beyond Religion: The NGO as Site of Islamic Reform” in Cultures of Doing Good: Anthropologists and NGOs., Nermeen Mouftah
Faith Development beyond Religion: The NGO as Site of Islamic Reform, Nermmen Mouftah
Trump, Populism, Fascism, and the Road Ahead, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2016
Faith and Foreign Policy in India: Legal Ambiguity, Selective Xenophobia, and Anti-minority Violence, Chad M. Bauman
The “Make Your Own Religion” Project, Chad M. Bauman and Brent A. R. Hege
Christianity and Freedom in India: Colonialism, Communalism, Caste, and Violence, Chad M. Bauman and James Ponniah
What is Religious Freedom?, Brent Hege
Butler University Baccalaureate Faculty Address, May 6, 2016, Brent A. R. Hege
"Introduction" to Theology and Science Fiction, James F. McGrath
Orality and Intertextuality, James F. McGrath
Theology and Science Fiction, James F. McGrath
What has Coruscant to Do with Jerusalem? A Response and Reflections at the Crossroads of Hebrew Bible and Science Fiction, James F. McGrath
A God Needs Compassion, but Not a Starship: Star Trek's Humanist Theology, James F. McGrath
The Production and Reinforcement of Ignorance in Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research, Zachary Piso, Ezgi Sertler, Anna Malavisi, Ken Marable, Erik Jensen, Chad Gonnerman, and Michael O'Rourke
17. Zoology, Tiberiu Popa
Arguments against Drone Warfare with a Focus on the Immorality of Remote Control Killing and “Deadly Surveillance”, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2015
Comedy, Violence, and Undergraduates, Christopher Bungard
Violence in Plautus: Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love performance, Christopher Bungard
When is it Mental?, Stuart Glennan
Butler University Baccalaureate Address 2013, Brent Hege
Englightenment in Philosophy and Religion, Brent Hege
Monotheism, James F. McGrath
Explicit and Implicit Religion in Doctor Who and Star Trek, James F. McGrath
Forward to The Son of God: Three Views of the Identity of Jesus, James F. McGrath
How Jesus Became God: One Scholar’s View, James F. McGrath
Mythicism and the Making of Mark, James F. McGrath
Religion’s Future and the Future’s Religions Through the Lens of Science Fiction, James F. McGrath
Anthropology of the Middle East and North Africa: Into the New Millennium, Nermeen Mouftah
Egypt in the Future Tense: Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence Before and After 2011, Nermeen Mouftah
Drone Warfare and Just War Theory, Harry van der Linden
Review: Killing by Remote Control: The Ethics of an Unmanned Military, edited by Bradley Jay Strawser, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2014
Professor McGrath Offers a Scholarly Take On Religion and Doctor Who, Marc Allen and James F. McGrath
A Blast from the Ancient Past: Using Digital Storytelling in ‘Roman Perspectives’, Christopher Bungard
To Script Or Not To Script: Rethinking Pseudolus as Playwright, Christopher Bungard
Aspects of Human Historiographic Explanation: A View from the Philosophy of Science, Stuart Glennan
Carl F. Craver and Lindley Darden: In Search of Mechanisms: Discoveries Across the Life Sciences, Stuart Glennan
Contesting Faith, Truth, and Religious Language at the Creation Museum: A Historical-Theological Reflection, Brent A. R. Hege
On the Relation between Quantum Mechanical and Neo-Mechanistic Ontologies and Explanatory Strategies, Meinard Kuhlmann and Stuart Glennan
Monotheism, James F. McGrath
“Did Jesus Die in Outer Space? Evaluating a Key Claim in Richard Carrier’s On the Historicity of Jesus, James F. McGrath
Jesus and the Money Changers (John 2:13-16), James F. McGrath
Mythicism and the Mainstream: The Rhetoric and Realities of Academic Freedom, James F. McGrath
Which John? The Elder, the Seer, and the Apostle, James F. McGrath
Woman at the Well, James F. McGrath
A Re-examination of Some of the South Stoa Wells at Corinth, Guy D.R. Sanders, Yuki Furuya, and Lynne. Kvapil
Iris Young, Radical Responsibility, and War, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2013
Hindu-Christian Conflict in India: Globalization, Conversion, and the Coterminal Castes and Tribes, Chad M. Bauman
Determinando un ruolo: immo e improvvisazione nello Pseudolus, Christopher Bungard
Moore, T. 2012. Roman Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Christopher Bungard
Silent and Boisterous Slaves: Considerations in Staging Pseudolus 133-234, Christopher Bungard and Daniel Walin
Trials of the urban ecologist, Rebecca W. Dolan, Tim Carter, Travis J. Ryan, Carmen M. Salsbury, Thomas E. Dolan, and Marjorie Hennessy
Review of "Thinking Christ: Christology and Contemporary Critics", Brent A. R. Hege
Theology, Politics, and Antimodernism in Nazi Germany: Problematizing Theological Rhetoric and Political Theology, Brent A. R. Hege
Agamemnon’s Human Resources: An Examination of Mycenae’s Palatial Workforce, Lynne. Kvapil
Polemic, Redaction, and History in the Mandaean Book of John: The Case of the Lightworld Visitors to Jerusalem, James F. McGrath
Review of The Evolution of Adam: What the Bible Does and Doesn’t Say about Human Origins, James F. McGrath
Review of The Sacrifice of Jesus: Understanding Atonement Biblically, James F. McGrath
He Shall Be Called a Nazorean: Intertextuality without an Intertext?, James F. McGrath
On Hearing (Rather Than Reading) Intertextual Echoes: Christology and Monotheistic Scriptures in an Oral Context, James F. McGrath
Polemic, Redaction, and History in the Mandaean Book of John: The Case of the Lightworld Visitors to Jerusalem, James F. McGrath
Revisiting the Mandaeans and the New Testament, James F. McGrath
Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Religion and Doctor Who, James F. McGrath and Andrew Crome
Investigating the Effectiveness of Problem-Based Learning in 3D Virtual Worlds. A Preliminary Report on the Hadrian’s Villa Project, Lee Taylor-Helms, Lynne. Kvapil, John Fillwalk, and Bernard Frischer
Permanent Wartime, Harry van der Linden
Review of Howard Williams, Kant and the End of War: A Critique of Just War Theory, Harry van der Linden
The Condition of Permanent War: Is There a Way Out?, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2012
Conversion Careers, Conversions-For, and Conversion in the Study of Religion, Chad Bauman
Political Competition, Relative Deprivation, and Perceived Threat: A Research Note on Anti-Chrstian Violence in India, Chad Bauman and Tamara Leach
Christianity and Hinduism: An Annotated Bibliography, Chad M. Bauman, Arun Jones, Brian Pennington, Joseph Prabhakar Dayam, and Michelie Voss Roberts
L’ingannatore ingannato: i due aspetti di Milfione nello Poenulo, Christopher Bungard
Mercator, 691-802 in English, Version B. NEH Summer Institute: Roman Comedy in Performance, Christopher Bungard