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 2012
Reconsidering Zeus’ Order: The Reconciliation of Apollo and Hermes, Christopher Bungard
Mercator, 691-802 in English, Version A. NEH Summer Institute: Roman Comedy in Performance., Christopher Bungard and NEH Summer 2012 Institute
Mercator, 691-802 in Latin. NEH Summer Institute: Roman Comedy in Performance, Christopher Bungard and NEH Summer 2012 Institute
Pseudolus, 133-234 in Latin. NEH Summer Institute: Roman Comedy in Performance, Christopher Bungard and NEH Summer 2012 Institute
Review of "An Introduction to Christian Theology", Brent A. R. Hege
Review of "Take My Hand: A Theological Memoir", Brent A. R. Hege
Review of "The Church Event: Call and Challenge of a Church Protestant", Brent A. R. Hege
Review of "What’s Wrong with Sin? Sin in Individual and Social Perspective from Schleiermacher to Theologies of Liberation", Brent A. R. Hege
„Zurück zu Schleiermacher! und von Schleiermacher aus vorwärts!“ Georg Wobbermin and the Legacy of Schleiermacher in Weimar Liberal Protestantism, Brent A. R. Hege
Review of The Messiah: A Comparative Study of the Enochic Son of Man and the Pauline Kyrios, James F. McGrath
Muslim Students in Scriptural Reasoning: Transgressive Readings of the Qur’an, Nermeen Mouftah
Barack Obama as Just War Theorist: The Libyan Intervention, Harry van der Linden
On the Violence of Systemic Violence: A Critique of Slavoj Žižek, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2011
Indian Christian Historiography from Below, from Above, and in Between., Chad M. Bauman
Review of Missionaries and their Medicine, Chad M. Bauman
Lies, Lyres, and Laughter: Surplus Potential in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, Christopher Bungard
Singular and General Causal Relations: A Mechanist Perspective, Stuart Glennan
Review of Introduction to Modern Theology: Trajectories in the German Tradition, Brent Hege
Political Theology in a Postsecularist Key, Brent A. R. Hege
Review of "Thinking with the Church: Essays in Historical Theology", Brent A. R. Hege
Robots, Rights and Religion, James F. McGrath
Mark’s Missing Ending: Clues from the Gospel of John and the Gospel of Peter, James F. McGrath
Religion and Science Fiction, James F. McGrath
Rich Man’s War, Poor Man’s Fight, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2010
Mechanisms, Causes, and the Layered Model of the World, Stuart Glennan
Mechanisms (Oxford), Stuart Glennan
Review of Contemporary Christologies: A Fortress Introduction, by Don Schweitzer., Brent Hege
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
Stories the Religious Left Must Tell Itself, Brent A. R. Hege
The Online Theology Classroom: Strategies for Engaging a Community of Distance Learners in a Hybrid Model of Online Education, Brent A. R. Hege
The Suffering of God? The Divine Love and the Problem of Suffering in Classical and Process-Relational Theisms., Brent A. R. Hege
The Gift Outright: Land Use and Resource Acquisition at Late Bronze Age Mycenae, Lynne. Kvapil
The Blogging Revolution: New Technologies and their Impact on How we do Scholarship, James F. McGrath
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
The Desert of the Real: Christianity, Buddhism & Baudrillard in The Matrix Films and Popular Culture, James F. McGrath
Teaching Islam: Textbooks and Religion in the Middle East., Nermeen Mouftah
From Combat Boots to Civilian Shoes: Reflections on The Chickenhawk Syndrome, Harry van der Linden
Just Military Preparedness and Irregular Warfare, Harry van der Linden
Just Military Preparedness (Jus ante Bellum): A New Category of Just War Theory, Harry van der Linden
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
Review: Bourgeois Hinduism, or The Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare Discourses from Early Colonial Bengal, Chad Bauman
Review of Religious Division and Social Conflict, Chad M. Bauman
The Specter of ‘Spirituality’—On the (In)Utility of an Analytical Category, Chad M. Bauman
Fuzzy But Not Warm: On the (Continuing) Descriptive and Analytical Inutility of ‘Spirituality', Chad M. Bauman, Gene Gallagher, and Davina Lopez
Out of India: Immigrant Hindus and South Asian Hinduism in the United States, Chad M. Bauman and Jennifer Saunders
Lies, Lyres, and Laughter in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, Christopher Bungard
Ephemeral Mechanisms and Historical Explanation, Stuart Glennan
Geschichte und Historie: The problem of Faith and History, Brent A. R. Hege
Jesus Christ as Poetic Symbol: Wilhelm Bousset’s Contribution to the Faith-History Debate, Brent A. R. Hege
Review of The Burial of Jesus: History and Faith, by James F. McGrath, Brent A. R. Hege
Teaching Archaeological Pragmatism through Problem-based Learning, Lynne. Kvapil
Cultural Wars, Then and Now, Richard McGowan
The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in its Jewish Context, James F. McGrath
Barack Obama, Resort to Force, and U.S. Military Hegemony, Harry van der Linden
From Hiroshima to Baghdad: Military Hegemony versus Just Military Preparedness, Harry van der Linden
Questioning the Resort to U.S. Hegemonic Military Force, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2008
Book Review of "Indian Religions: Renaissance and Renewal", Chad M. Bauman
Postcolonial Anxiety and Anti-Conversion Sentiment in the Report of the Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee, Chad M. Bauman
Review of The Crisis of Secularism, Chad M. Bauman
Redeeming Indian ‘Christian’ Womanhood?: Missionaries, Dalits, and Agency in Colonial India, Chad M. Bauman
Productivity, relevance and natural selection, Stuart Glennan
Controlling the Countryside: Defining the Territory of Mycenae, Lynne. Kvapil
History and Fiction in the Acts of Thomas: The State of the Question, James F. McGrath
Review of Kenneth E. Bailey, Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes: Cultural Studies in the Gospels, James F. McGrath
Events not processes: Reassessing and Redating the Lower Fills of the South Stoa Wells at Corinth, Guy D.R. Sanders, Yuki Furuya, and Lynne. Kvapil
Combatant’s Privilege Reconsidered, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2007
Review: Converting Women: Gender and Protestant Christianity in Colonial South India, Chad Bauman
Making Latin Concrete: Strategies for Teaching Latin Through Material Culture, Patrick Beasom and Lynne. Kvapil
Whose Science and whose Religion? Reflections on the Relations between Scientific and Religious Worldviews, Stuart Glennan
Review of Historicism: The Once and Future Challenge for Theology, by Sheila Greeve Davaney, Brent A. R. Hege
Making Ends Meet outside the Palace: The Informal Economy at Mycenae, Lynne. Kvapil
Artificial Minds and Human Religions: An illustration of the diversity of possible intersections between religious thought and practice and technological advances, James F. McGrath
Was Jesus illegitimate? The evidence of his social interactions, James F. McGrath
Coaching the Game of Life, Jeff Rasley
Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900): Commentary, Paul Valliere
Is Global Poverty a Moral Problem for Citizens of Affluent Societies?, Harry van der Linden
Would the United States Doctrine of Preventative War be Justified as a United Nations Doctrine?, Harry van der Linden
Introduction to Rethinking the Just War Tradition, Harry van der Linden, Michael W. Brough, and John W. Lango
Submissions from 2006
Singing of Satnam: Blind Simon Patros, Dalit Religious Identity, and Satnami-Christian Music in Chhattisgarh, India, Chad M. Bauman
Introduction to the Modern Orthodox Tradition, Paul Valliere
Vladimir Soloviev (1853-1900): Selected and edited by Paul Valliere, Paul Valliere
The Left and Humanitarian Intervention, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2005
Modeling mechanisms, Stuart Glennan
The modeler in the crib, Stuart Glennan
Economic Migration and Justice, Harry van der Linden
Questioning Just War Theory, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2004
Conflicting Visions of the Real: Christianity, Buddhism & Baudrillard in The Matrix films and popular culture, James F. McGrath
Two Powers’ and Early Jewish and Christian Monotheism, James F. McGrath and Jerry Truex
The Modernity of Khomiakov, Paul Valliere
Immanuel Kant (Reference Entry), Harry van der Linden
Immigration (Reference Entry), Harry van der Linden
Kantian Ethics (Reference Entry), Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2003
Explaining, Assessing, and Changing High Consumption, Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2002
Rethinking Mechanistic Explanation, Stuart Glennan
Review of Sharon Anderson-Gold, Unnecessary Evil: History and Moral Progress in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (2001), Harry van der Linden
Submissions from 2001
Contextual Unanimity and the Units of Selection Problem, Stuart M. Glennan
Russian Religious Thought and the Future of Orthodox Theology, Paul Valliere
Beyond the liberal peace project: toward peace with justice, Harry van der Linden
High Consumption and Global Justice, Harry van der Linden