• French (professional proficiency) • German (limited working proficiency) • Greek (elementary proficiency) • Latin (elementary proficiency)
Specialization:
Religion in modernity
Distinctions:
Institute for the Arts and Humanities Spray-Randleigh Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring 2004
Dissertations and Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years:
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Relevant Courses Taught:
• Religion, Magic, and Science (RELI 006F/061); Philosophical Approaches to the Study of Religion (RELI 35/122); Heaven and Hell (RELI 125); Gender and Sexuality in Western Christianity (RELI 81/244 and WMST 83); Undergraduate Seminar in Religious Studies (RELI 101/697); Religion and Science (RELI 421); Gender Theory and the Study of Religion (RELI 182/424); Nineteenth Century Critiques of Religion (RELI 186/522)
Recent Publications:
• 2017 Edward Bever and Randall Styers, eds., Magic in the Modern World: Strategies of Repression
and Legitimization (University Park: The Penn State University Press, 2017)
• 2016 “Afterward,” in Melania: Early Christianity Through the Life of One Family, ed. Catherine M. Chin and Carolin T. Schroeder (Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming)
• 2016 “Magic,” in The Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, ed. Kocku von Stuckrad and Robert Segal (Leiden: Brill, 2015)
• 2015 “Magic,” in _The Vocabulary for the Study of Religion_, ed. Kocku von Stuckrad and Robert Segal (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming)
• 2014 Segal (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming)
• 2014 “Magic,” in The Vocabulary for the Study of Religion, ed. Kocku von Stuckrad and Robert
• 2014 “Religion and Cultural Theory,” Critical Research on Religion 1(1) (2013): 72-79
• 2007 "Gianni Vattimo and the Return of the Sacred," Annali d'Italianistica 25 (2007): 47-75.
• 2007 "The Cleansing Flood: Capital Punishment, Atonement, and the Christian Right," Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 18(3) (Fall 2007): 97-127.
• 2006 "Slaughter and Innocence: The Rhetoric of Sacrifice in Contemporary Arguments Supporting the Death Penalty," in Human Sacrifice in Judeo-Christian and Other Ancient Mediterranean Religions, ed. Karin Finsterbusch and Armin Lange, Numen Book Series Vol. 112 (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006), 321-51.
• 2004 Randall Styers, Making Magic: Religion, Magic, and Science in the Modern World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004)
• 2002 "Liberal Values and the Public Classroom: A Response to Stephen Webb," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 70(1) (March 2002): 159-68.
• 2001 "Protestant Perspectives on Justice and Zealous Representation," Fordham Urban Law Journal 28(4) (April 2001): 1047-55.
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