Dr. King is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto. At MTSU, Dr. King teaches courses on global Christianity, the bible, ethnographic methods, religion and film, and the academic discipline of religious studies. In addition to her work in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Dr. King is a faculty resident at the MTSU Honors College, where she serves as a committee chair for honors undergraduate theses and has taught the UH 3000 - Honors Lecture series course.

Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Dr. King’s research examines the negotiation of boundaries within contemporary North American Christianity. Her first book, The New Heretics: Skepticism, Secularism, and Progressive Christianity (NYU Press, 2023), outlines the development of progressive Christianity as a variety of Christianity that is simultaneously secular and religious. Her second major project, which has received funding from the American Academy of Religion Individual Research grant and MTSU’s FRCAC program, explores the syntheses of Judaism, indigenous religions, and Christianity within a movement known as Jewish Affinity Christianity. She has two edited volumes, Key Categories in the Study of Religion (Equinox, 2022) and Representing Religion in Film (co-edited with Tenzan Eaghll, Bloomsbury, 2022).

Before coming to MTSU, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Candler School of Theology, Emory University. Dr. King currently leads a faculty working group on community-engaged pedagogies. From 2021-2023, she served as the President of the North American Association for the Study of Religion. Prior to that, she served as Co-chair of the Sociology of Religion program unit of the American Academy of Religion and as an editor for Critical Research on Religion.

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Book

The New Heretics: Skepticism, Secularism, and Progressive Christianity (New York University Press, 2023)

Edited Volumes

Key Categories in the Study of Religion (Equinox, 2022).  

Representing Religion in Film co-edited with Tenzan Eaghll (Bloomsbury, 2022).

Articles and Book Chapters

Forthcoming. “‘Now You Know’: Reception of the Religious Studies Scholar.” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses.  

2023. “Finding your Place on the Map,” pp.187-196 in Teaching and Learning Religion: Engaging the Work of Eugene V. Gallagher and Patricia O’Connell Killen. Ed. Tom Pearson and Davina Lopez. London: Bloomsbury.

2022. “Imagining an Ethnic Ecumene: Evangelical Landscapes as Gentile, Jewish, and Native in the American South,” pp. 136-154 in Landscapes of Christianity: Destination, Temporality, Transformation. Eds. James S. Bielo and Amos S. Ron. London: Bloomsbury.  

2022. “The Subtlety of Subtitles: A Closer Look at Institutions, the Study of Religion, and Canada.” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 51(2): 162-167

2022. “Intercepted Dispatches: A Speculative History of the Future of Religious Studies,” pp. 121-128 in On the Subject of Religion: Charting the Fault Lines of a Field of Study. Ed. James Dennis LoRusso. Sheffield: Equinox.  

2022. “Introduction: Critique in Context,” pp. 1-5 in Key Categories in the Study of Religion: Contexts and Critiques. Ed. Rebekka King. Sheffield: Equinox.

2022. “The Subtlety of Subtitles: A Closer Look at Institutions, the Study of Religion, and Canada.” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 51(2): 162-167.

2019. “Competencies and Curricula: The Role of Academic Departments in Shaping the Study of Religion,” pp.246-255 In Constructing Data in Religious Studies - Examining the Architecture of the Academy, edited by Leslie Dorrough Smith. Sheffield: Equinox.  

2019. “Intersections of Would, Can, and Will: What to Do When White Supremacists Come to Town,” pp. 171-180 in Grounding Education in Environmental Humanities: Exploring Place-Based Pedagogy in the South. Eds. David Aftandilian and Lucas Johnston. New York: Routledge.

2019. “Teaching in Contexts: Designing a Competency-Based Religious Studies Program.” [second author] Co-authored with Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand. Teaching Theology and Religion 22(3): 191-204.

2019. “On a More Constructive Relationship between the Secular and Religious Left.” Co-authored with Warren Goldstein and Jonathan Boyarin [second author]. Critical Research on Religion 7(2): 3-5. 

2018. “Critical Trajectories and the Timing of Critique.” Co-authored with Warren Goldstein and Jonathan Boyarin [first author]. Critical Research on Religion 6(1): 3-8.

2018. “Specter and Horizon: Critique in Ethnographies of North American Christianity.” Critical Research on Religion 6(1): 21-27.

2017. “On a Balanced Critique: (or on the limits of critique).” Co-authored with Warren Goldstein and Jonathan Boyarin [second author]. Critical Research on Religion 5(1): 4-8.

2017. “Religion is Bullshit,” pp.149-161 in Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés. Eds. Craig Martin and Brad Stoddard. London: Bloomsbury Press. 

2017. “Can One Study One’s Own Religion Objectively?” pp.290-292 in Religion in Five Minutes. Eds. Russell McCutcheon and Aaron Hughes. Sheffield, UK: Equinox.

2016. “Precision and Excess: Doing the Discipline of Religious Studies,” pp. 150-154 in Theory in a Time of Excess. Ed. Aaron Hughes. Sheffield: Equinox Press.

2016. “Civic Engagement in the Heart of the City,” pp. 74-87 in Teaching Civic Engagement in the Religion Classroom. Eds. Forrest Clingerman and Reid Locklin (Oxford: Oxford University Press).

2016. “Critical Theory of Religion vs. Critical Religion.” Co-authored with Warren Goldstein and Jonathan Boyarin [second author]. Critical Research on Religion 4(1): 3-7. 

2015. “How Can Mainstream Approaches Become More Critical?” Co-authored with Warren Goldstein, Roland Boer, and Jonathan Boyarin [third author]. Critical Research on Religion 3(1): 3-12.

2014. “The Anthropology of Christianity Goes to Seminary.” Religion and Society: Advances in Research 5: 255-260.

2013. “Coffee with McCutcheon: A Conversation about Language, Pedagogy and Critical Pluralism,” pp.81-84 in Supplements to Method and Theory in the Study of Religion. Eds. Aaron Hughes, Russell McCutcheon and Kocku von Struckrad (Leiden: Brill).

2013. “Open Space Technology and the Study of Religion: A Report on an Experiment in Pedagogy.” Co-authored with Tyler Baker, Nicholas Dion, Jinging Liang, James McDonough, and Joshua Samuels. Bulletin for the Study of Religion 42(2): 28-32.  

2012. “The Academe, the Author and the Atheist: Bourdieu and the Reception of the Study of Religion” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 41(1): 14-19.  

2010. “Canada: Protestantism and the United Church of Canada.” In The Encyclopaedia of Religion in America (eds.) Charles H. Lippy and Peter W. Williams, 395-404. Washington: C.Q. Press.

2009. “Notes on a North American Anthropology of Christianity” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 39 (1): 11-16.  

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“Popular Receptions of Historical Jesus Scholarship.” Society for Biblical Literature – San Antonio, Texas (November 2022)

“Toward an Anthropology of Prophecy: A Case Study on Mediation, Materiality, and the Failure of Meaning.” International Association for the Study of Religion – Auckland, New Zealand (2020, canceled due to COVID-19)

“History of the Field: A Response to Russell McCutcheon.” North American Association for the Study of Religion – San Diego, California (November 2019)

“Critique as Horizon, Critique as Specter: Reflections from the Anthropology of Religion.” Roundtable Discussant, Society for the Anthropology of Religion – New Orleans, Louisiana (May 2017)

“Moving Toward a New Theoretical Framework: Exploring the Concept of ‘Lived Secularism’ in Contemporary Religions.” Implicit Religion, Denton Conference – Sarum College, Salisbury, England (May 2016)

“Affinity and Intimacy: Representational Economies in Jewish Affinity Christianity.” American Academy of Religion – Atlanta, Georgia (November 2015)

“Cultivating Rabbinical Christianity: Evangelicals, Messianics, and Redistributed Ethnic Imaginaries.” Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion – Nashville, Tennessee (March 2015)

“Playing Jewish in Rural Tennessee: A Case Study of Jewish Affinity Christianity and Messianic Judaism.” Southern Studies Conference – Auburn University, Montgomery (February 2015)

“Placing Judaism before Jesus: Rhetorical Constructions of the Proto-­Christian Other in Contemporary Evangelicalisms.” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion – Brock University (May 2014)

“Bible Reading and Bible Rejecting: Negotiating Discursive Identities through Biblical Criticism and Interpretations.” American Academy of Religion – Baltimore, MD (November 2013)

“The Bible and Beyond: Evangelical Material Culture, Experiencing and Exhibiting History.” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion – University of Victoria (June 2013)

“Experiencing the Bible and Exhibiting History: Translation and Tradition as Evangelical Affect and Material Culture.” Society for the Anthropology of Religion – Pasadena, California (April 2013)

It’s Not You, It’s Me: Student-Centered Pedagogy in the Classroom.” American Academy of Religion, Eastern International Region – University of Waterloo (May 2012)

“Resisting the Post-Secular Public Sphere: Progressive Christianity and the Politics of Secularism.” American Ethnological Society – New York, New York (April 2012)

“The Cyber-Social Sanctuary: The Performance of the Christian Subject Online and In church.” American Academy of Religion – San Francisco, California (November 2011)

“Mining the Text: An Anthropological Exploration of the Role of Popular Biblical Criticism in Progressive Christianity.” Society of Biblical Literature – San Francisco, California (November 2011)

“An Artifact and an Obstacle: Anthropological Explorations of Popular Biblical Criticisms in Contemporary Christianity.” Historical Studies Prandium – University of Toronto Mississauga (September 2011)

“Hegemonies and Heresies for the Not-So ‘Other’: The Anthropology of Christianity in a North American Context.” American Anthropological Association – New Orleans, Louisiana (November 2010)

“The Academe, the Author and the Atheist: The Reception of the Study of Religion by Progressive Christians.” American Academy of Religion – Atlanta, Georgia (November 2010)

“‘Still, Already, Yet’: A Discourse Analysis of Temporal Adverbs in Progressive Christian Communities.” International Association for the History of Religions – Toronto, Ontario (August 2010)

“When the Sacred Courts the Secular: Representation, Identity and Deconversion Among Atheist Christians.” American Academy of Religion – Montreal, Quebec (November 2009)

“The City, the Concept and the Classroom: Teaching Lived Religions in North America’s Most Religiously Diverse City.” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion – Carlton University (May 2009)  

“But is it Christian?: Labels and Lived Religion in Post-Christian Communities.” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion – University of British Columbia (June 2008)

“Tom Harpur and the Sociology of Dissent.” American Academy of Religion, Eastern International Region – University of Waterloo (May 2007)

“Preaching to the Choir: The Lives and Literature of Agnostic Christians.” Society for the Anthropology of Religion – Phoenix, Arizona (April 2007)

“Agnostic Christians and the Devolution of Theology?” Centre for the Study of Religion Graduate Student Symposium – University of Toronto (March 2007)

“Neo-literalism and the drive for ‘intellectual integrity’ in contemporary liberal Christianity.” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion – York University (May 2006)

“Constructing the Spiritual Enclave: Dispensationalism and Rapture Narratives in Contemporary Christian Fundamentalisms.” Centre for the Study of Religion Graduate Student Symposium – University of Toronto (March 2006)

“Progressive Christianity in Canada.” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion – University of Western Ontario (May 2005)

“Memories and Truths: A Discussion of Confessional Narratives in Canadian Literature.” American Academy of Religion, Eastern International Region – McGill University (May 2005)

Invited Papers, Responses, and Public Lectures

Respondent, “The New Heretics: Skepticism, Secularism, and Progressive Christianity by Rebekka King: Author Meets Respondents Session.” American Academy of Religion – San Antonio, Texas (2023)

Roundtable Discussant, “Possible Roles, if any, of a Scholar of Religion Regarding Promotion of Public Knowledge and Understanding of Religion.” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion – York University, Toronto (2023)

“Losing My Religion: Locating Gender Scripts in Deconversion Narratives.” Women’s and Gender Studies Research Series, Middle Tennessee State University (2022)

“Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Parabiblical Literature: Doing Biblical Exegesis During the Biblical Era.” Honors College Lecture Series, Middle Tennessee State University (2022)

“Using Thick Descriptions and Ethnographic Analysis.” Construction of Christian Identities Seminar, Society for Biblical Literature – Boston, Massachusetts (November 2017)

“State of the Field: The Religious Studies Department.” North American Association for the Study of Religion – Boston, Massachusetts (November 2017)

“Memory, Representation, and Political Conflict: A Case of Buddhist Monks in Southern Thailand.” Honors College Lecture Series, Middle Tennessee State University (2017)

“An Intentional Interloper: Constructing Kinship in Jewish Affinity Christianity.” Religion Here and Now Lecture Series – Rhodes College, Memphis (2017)

Response to Marla Frederick, Gabriel Acevedo, Randy Styers, and James Spickard, “Rethinking Theory, Methods and Data: A Conversation between Religious Studies and Sociology of Religion.” American Academy of Religion – San Antonio, Texas (November 2016)

“Proportional Prosperity: Class, Language, and Philosemitism in American Evangelicalism.” American Religions Lecture Series – University of North Carolina, Charlotte (April 2016)

Response to Matt Bagger, “Of Cognitive Science, Bricolage, and Brandom.” North American Association for the Study of Religion – Atlanta, Georgia (November 2015)

Respondent, Religion(s) and Neoliberalism Panel, Marxist Section. American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois (August 2015)

Roundtable Discussant, “Being the Change: The Civic Learning Faculty Learning Community at MTSU,” at the 2015 ADP/TDC/NASPA Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana (June 2015)

Roundtable Discussion of Candy Gunther Brown’s The Healing Gods: Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Christian America. Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion – Nashville, Tennessee (March 2015)

“Performing and Analyzing Bi-national, Multireligious Civic Identities: A Case study of Toronto, Canada.” International Research Network on Religion and Democracy – Notre Dame University, Beirut, Lebanon (December 2013)

“How to Think and Talk Christian: A Linguistic Exploration of the Church’s Use and Misuse of Words.” Cordova Bay United Church – Victoria, British Columbia (June 2013)

“Christianity After Christ: Performing Deconversion Narratives and Progressive Christianity.” Centre for Ethnography Lecture Series – University of Toronto, Scarborough (March 2012)

“Saving Christianity from Itself: A Case Study of the Faithful Heretic.” Victoria Secular Humanist Association – Victoria, British Columbia (February 2011)

“Talking Textualities: Approaches to and Appropriations of Historical Data by Progressive Christians.” Christianities Seminar – University of California, San Diego (November 2011)

“Charting the Eschatological Other: A Study of Language and Identity Construction in Progressive Christianity” – London School of Economics, London, England (May 2011)

“The Resolve to Disbelieve: Tracing a Genealogy of Skepticism in Canadian Protestantism.” Wednesday Afternoon Public Lectures – University of Victoria (January 2011)

“A Faithful Heresy: Linguistic Analysis of Eschatological Adverbs for progressive Christians.” Religion Colloquium – University of Toronto (November 2010)

Response to Joel Robbins, “Keeping God’s Distance: Sacrifice, Possession and the Problem of Religious Mediation.” Religion, Culture, Politics Jackman Working Group – University of Toronto (September 2010)

The Gospel of Thomas and Other Gnostic Texts.” Guest Lecture to RLG241: Early Christian Writings –University of Toronto (November 2008)

Round Table Discussant. “The Study of Religion in the Public Sphere.” Centre for the Study of Religion Graduate Student Symposium – University of Toronto (April 2008)

Professional Development Workshop Facilitation, Papers, and Panels

Panelist, “Teaching Religion on the Ground: A Profile of Teaching in Religion Departments.” Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion (online conference) (March 2022)

Panelist, “What Can I Do With A Religion Major?: Professional Development for Undergraduates.” American Academy of Religion – San Antonio, Texas (online conference (November 2021).

Panelist, “Examining Why and How We Teach Religious Competency: Real World Applications.” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion (online conference) (May 2021).

Panelist, “Writing your Dissertation.” University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion, Toronto, Ontario (online workshop) (March 2021).

Panelist, “Strategies for Creating Successful Religion Programs.” American Academy of Religion (online conference) (November 2020).

Workshop Facilitation, “Incorporating Transferable Skills in Liberal Arts and Basic and Applied Sciences Courses.” Learning, Teaching, and Instructional Technologies Center – Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee (2020)

Workshop Facilitation, “Navigating the Politics of Academia.” North American Association for the Study of Religion – San Diego, California (November 2019)  

Workshop Facilitator, “Identity in the Classroom,” Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning at the American Academy of Religion, Denver, Colorado (November 2018)    

Panelist, “Religious Studies in the Public Sphere: Public Engagement and Community-Centred Scholarship.” Canadian Society for the Study of Religion – Regina, Saskatchewan (May 2018)

Panelist, “Digital Media and Communications,” Academic Relations and Leadership Committee. American Academy of Religion – Boston, Massachusetts (November 2017)

Roundtable Discussant, “Being the Change: The Civic Learning Faculty Learning Community at MTSU,” 2015 ADP/TDC/NASPA Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana (May 2015)

Workshop Leader, “Introducing Theory in the Classroom.” North American Association for the Study of Religion – San Diego, CA (November 2014)

Roundtable Discussion on Pedagogy for Graduate Students. – Canadian Society for the Study of Religion – University of New Brunswick (May 2011)

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Recent Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

2024 - Visiting Fellowship, University of Victoria Centre for Studies in Religion and Society (Fall 2024)

2024 - Non-Instructional Assignment Grant, MTSU Provost’s Office (Fall 2024 sabbatical salary)

2024 - Ayne Cantrell Award for outstanding service to the Women's and Gender Studies Program

2022 - Outstanding Honors Faculty

2022 - Sustained Relationships among BA-only and stand-alone MA programs in Religious Studies at public institutions in the Southeast, AAR Regional Grant 

2019 - MTSU International Affairs, Education Abroad Site Evaluation Travel Grant

2018 - Teaching Against Islamophobia, Wabash Teaching and Learning Workshop Fellowship

2017 - MTSU Outstanding Teacher Award

2017 - MTSU Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award

2017 - MTSU Outstanding EXL Faculty Award

2016 - Wabash Summer Fellowship Project

2016 - Online Course Development Grant, MTSU

2015-2016 - Early Career Faculty, Wabash Teaching and Learning Workshop Fellowship

2015 - MTSU Provost’s Faculty Development Grant

2015 - American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant

2014 - MTSU Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award

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Trained as a cultural anthropologist, Dr. King’s research examines the negotiation of boundaries within contemporary North American Christianity. Her first book, The New Heretics: Skepticism, Secularism, and Progressive Christianity (NYU Press, 2023), outlines the development of progressive Christianity as a variety of Christianity that is simultaneously secular and religious. Her second major project, which has received funding from the American Academy of Religion Individual Research grant and MTSU’s FRCAC program, explores the syntheses of Judaism, indigenous religions, and Christianity within a movement known as Jewish Affinity Christianity. She has two edited volumes, Key Categories in the Study of Religion (Equinox, 2022) and Representing Religion in Film (co-edited with Tenzan Eaghll, Bloomsbury, 2022).

Her next project will examine contemporary representations of Enoch in contemporary North American religions. It explores popular interest in Enoch, which has emerged over the past decade or so among a surprisingly disparate group comprising evangelical Christians, Black Hebrew Israelites, and New Age practitioners. This research centers on the ways that race and ethnicity are mediated through the figure of Enoch in each of these cultural frameworks. It also provides commentary on the broader social context of contemporary religions in North America, highlighting the role of assumptions about textual authority, material religion, and biblical imagination.

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Media Interviews

Nov 2023 -  “Student’s Honors Thesis Explores Addiction Recovery.” Robin E. Lee. Daily News Journal, November 27, 2023 (print newspaper). 

August 2022 - "MTSU Fall Honors Lecture Series features ‘Friends,’ ‘Youth Activism’,” Randy Weiler, MTSU News.

Fall 2020 - “Right Place, Right Time: King Establishing Religious Studies Major as a National Brand,” interview by Patsy B. Weiler. Areté: MTSU Honors Magazine, Fall 2020, pp. 32-36 (feature article).

Sept 2020 - “MTSU’s Honors College Hosts First Two Lecture Series This Fall,” Toriana Williams, MTSU Sidelines.

Aug 2020 - “MTSU Honors College Doubles Up with Fall ‘Civic Virtue,’ ‘Images and Icons’ lecture series,” Randy Weiler, MTSU News.

Oct 2019 - “Progressive and fundamentalist Christians read the Bible differently. Here’s how.” Wyatt Massey. Chattanooga Times Free Press.

March 2019 - “‘Redneck Muslim Documentary Screening Portrays Being Muslim in the South.” Emily Blalock. MTSU Sidelines.

April 2018 - “Keeping the Faith: Radio Interview with Gina Logue about Religion and Society course," Gina Logue, MTSU On the Record.

Oct 2018 - “Former Nashville Pastor to Begin Services for LGBTQ+ Accepting Church in Murfreesboro.” Davida Johnson. MTSU Sidelines.

Sept 2018 - “Visiting Professor Holds Lecture on ‘Legacy of Dominance in Japanese-American Monuments.” Emily Blalock. MTSU Sidelines.

Sept 2017 - “Legends in Lyon: The Bell Witch incident at MTSU,” Eric Goodwin, MTSU Sidelines.

Sept 2017 - “Divine Inspiration: MTSU Introduces New Major in Religious Studies.” MTSU College of Liberal Arts Magazine.

May 2017 - “MTSU’s New Religious Studies Major” (with Jenna Grey-Hildenbrand), interview by Andrew Oppmann. MTSU Out of the Blue.

April 2017 - “MTSU to be first public university in Middle Tennessee to offer religious studies major," MTSU Sidelines.

April 2017 - “MTSU Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies hosts lecture on the study of sound, religion,” MTSU Sidelines. 

March 2017 - “Beer Drinkers Guide to God,” Daily News Journal.

April 2014 - “Easter Customs Often Borrowed: Christians adopted symbols, traditions from several different cultures,” Daily News Journal.

March 2014 - “God at the Box Office: Biblical-based films flood theaters,” Daily News Journal.

June 2012 - “Guelph Anglican Church Community to Examine ‘Who We are Going to Become.’” Chris Seto, Guelph Mercury.

Podcasts

 2023. “Critical Approaches to Studying Religion in Film.” Religious Studies Project Podcast.

2022. “Interview: Representing Religion in Film.”  New Books Network Podcast. 

2020. “What Does Religious Literacy Mean in Your Context?” Religious Studies Project Podcast.

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Religious Studies Courses

• RS 1030: Introduction to World Religions
• RS 2030: Religion and Society 
• RS 3020: Comparative Religion 
• RS 3030: Mapping Religious Diversity
• RS 3050: Rites of Passage 
• RS 3600: Religion and Film 
• RS 4010: Global Christianity
• RS 4020: Jesus of Nazareth 
• RS 4050: Judaism, Islam, Christianity (Western Religions)
• RS 4600: Religion and Public Life Internship  
• RS 4700: Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphal Texts from Antiquity (Special Topics Course)

RS 4800: Directed Study Courses – available with special permission

• Religion and Healing in Global Christianity (Fall 2022)
• Implicit Religion (Spring 2019)
• Global Religions (Spring 2019)
• Philosemitism (Fall 2018)
• Reimagining Jesus in History and Place (Fall 2017)
• Religion and Queer Theory (Fall 2015)
• Religion, Travel, and Identity in Israel-Palestine (Summer 2015)
• Religion, Economies and Critical Theory (Spring 2015)
• Religion and the Body (Spring 2015)
• The Ante-Nicene Period in Christian History (Spring 2015)
• Religion and Science (Fall 2014)
• Religion, Hybridity and Ancient Mythologies (Fall 2014)
• Historical Jesus (Spring 2014)
  
  

Master of Liberal Arts Program, College of Liberal Arts

• MALA 6010: Foundations of Liberal Arts – Identity (team-taught course)
• MALA 6040: Thesis Research
• MALA 6050: Topics in Science and Reason
• MALA 6070: American Religions (independent study course)  

MALA Graduate Supervision

• Gina Logue, MA student (2021-2022)
• Keven Lewis, MA student (2017-2021)

Women and Gender Studies Program

• WGST 2100: Introduction to Women’s Studies (online)

Honor’s College  

• Honor’s sections of RS2030: Religion and Society
• Honor's section of RS3020: Comparative Religions
• UH 3000: Honors Lecture Series - Friendship (Fall 2022)
• UH 3000: Honor’s Lecture Series - Icons and Images (Fall 2020)

UH 4900: Honors Independent Study Projects  

• Deanna Lack, “Prison Abolitionist Movements among Progressive Religious Communities in Tennessee” (2022-2024)
• Eli Ward, “Co-memorabilia in Christian Healing: How Modern Material Religion Remembers the Intersections of Health and Holiness” (2022-2023)
• Jessikah Riley, “(dis)Connected: A Series of Interviews on Society and Spirituality in the Modern World” Link to (dis)Connected Podcast (2021)
• Hanan Beyene, “Never Again: Analysis of the Rohingya Crisis and the Role of Religion in Conflict” (2020-2021)
• Melody Cook, “Young Single Adult Mormon Women in Tennessee: A Brief Ethnography” (2014-2015)
• Cheyenne Plott, “The Tennessean Jewish Perspective on Twenty-First Century Judaism, American Society, and the State of Israel” (2013-2014)  
• Second Reader: Jennifer Crow, “Mormon Feminist Activism and Ordain Women: Social Responses to Religious Norm Defection in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” (2016-2017)

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