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.

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Submissions from 2010

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Mechanisms, Causes, and the Layered Model of the World, Stuart Glennan

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Mechanisms (Oxford), Stuart Glennan

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Review of Contemporary Christologies: A Fortress Introduction, by Don Schweitzer., Brent Hege

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A Reforming Tradition Struggles with Change: The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s Historic Vote on LGBT Ordination, One Year Later, Brent A. R. Hege

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Stories the Religious Left Must Tell Itself, Brent A. R. Hege

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The Online Theology Classroom: Strategies for Engaging a Community of Distance Learners in a Hybrid Model of Online Education, Brent A. R. Hege

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The Suffering of God? The Divine Love and the Problem of Suffering in Classical and Process-Relational Theisms., Brent A. R. Hege

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The Gift Outright: Land Use and Resource Acquisition at Late Bronze Age Mycenae, Lynne. Kvapil

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The Blogging Revolution: New Technologies and their Impact on How we do Scholarship, James F. McGrath

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Reading the Story of Miriai on Two Levels: Evidence from Mandaean Anti-Jewish Polemic about the Origins and Setting of Early Mandaeism, James F. McGrath

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The Desert of the Real: Christianity, Buddhism & Baudrillard in The Matrix Films and Popular Culture, James F. McGrath

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Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East., Nermeen Mouftah

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From Combat Boots to Civilian Shoes: Reflections on The Chickenhawk Syndrome, Harry van der Linden

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Just Military Preparedness and Irregular Warfare, Harry van der Linden

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Just Military Preparedness: A New Category of Just War Theory, Harry van der Linden

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Just Military Preparedness, U.S. Military Hegemony, and Contingency Planning for Intervention in Sudan: A Reply to Lango and Patterson, Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 2009

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Review: Bourgeois Hinduism, or The Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare Discourses from Early Colonial Bengal, Chad Bauman

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Review of Religious Division and Social Conflict, Chad M. Bauman

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The Specter of ‘Spirituality’—On the (In)Utility of an Analytical Category, Chad M. Bauman

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Fuzzy But Not Warm: On the (Continuing) Descriptive and Analytical Inutility of ‘Spirituality', Chad M. Bauman, Gene Gallagher, and Davina Lopez

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Out of India: Immigrant Hindus and South Asian Hinduism in the United States, Chad M. Bauman and Jennifer Saunders

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Lies, Lyres, and Laughter in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, Christopher Bungard

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Ephemeral Mechanisms and Historical Explanation, Stuart Glennan

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Geschichte und Historie: The problem of Faith and History, Brent A. R. Hege

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Jesus Christ as Poetic Symbol: Wilhelm Bousset’s Contribution to the Faith-History Debate, Brent A. R. Hege

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Review of The Burial of Jesus: History and Faith, by James F. McGrath, Brent A. R. Hege

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Teaching Archaeological Pragmatism through Problem-based Learning, Lynne. Kvapil

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Cultural Wars, Then and Now, Richard McGowan

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The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in its Jewish Context, James F. McGrath

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Barack Obama, Resort to Force, and U.S. Military Hegemony, Harry van der Linden

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From Hiroshima to Baghdad: Military Hegemony versus Just Military Preparedness, Harry van der Linden

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Questioning the Resort to U.S. Hegemonic Military Force, Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 2005

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Modeling mechanisms, Stuart Glennan

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The modeler in the crib, Stuart Glennan

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Economic Migration and Justice, Harry van der Linden

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Questioning Just War Theory, Harry van der Linden

Submissions from 2003

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Explaining, Assessing, and Changing High Consumption, Harry van der Linden