Faculty

Profile

The study of religion and liberal education are indispensable to each other because religion is so often illiberal and liberals so often anti-religious.

Degrees Held

Ph.D. in Religion, Princeton University; B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Worcester College, Oxford

Professional Affiliation

• American Academy of Religion

Recent Publications

• Realizing The New School: Lessons from the Past, with Julia Foulkes (Public Seminar Books), 2020
• "Learning to do Philosophy of Religion in the Anthropocene," in The Future of the Philosophy of Religion, ed. M. D. Eckel, C. Allen Speight and Troy DuJardin (Springer), 2020
• "Reception History of Job," The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature, ed. Samual L. Adams and Matthew Goff, 2020
• "Loyalty in the Time of Catastrope: Anthropocene Reflections," with C. Hannah Schell, Social Research, 2019
• “Kailas Beyond World Religions,” in Kevin Bubriski and Abhimanyu Pandey, Kailash Yatra, 2018
• “Tactiques spirituelles: vers une théorie certalienne de la religion vécue,” in Michel de Certeau; Le voyage de l’Oeuvre, ed. Luce Giard, 2017
• “Simone Weil, Friend of Job,” Public Seminar 2016
• “Wider Moral Communities: A Framework for Comparative Religious Ethics,” Religious Studies Review, 2015
• “Mythologizing and Demythologizing the History of the New School for Social Research,” The New School Economic Review, 2015
• Queer Christianities: Lived Religion in Transgressive Forms, edited with Michael Pettinger and Kathleen Talvacchia (NYU Press), 2014
• The Book of Job: A Biography (Princeton University Press), 2013
• “Unsettled: On teaching about Aboriginal Australian religion in an American liberal arts college,” Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian/New Zealand Literature, 2012
• "Religion and the Promise of Happiness,” Social Research 77/2, 2010
• “Antinomies of Race: Diversity and Destiny in Kant," in Naming Race, Naming Racisms, ed. Jonathan Judaken, 2008/2009

Research Interests

Modern manifestations of religion and the politics of their study in the United States and internationally; the problems of evil and good; comparative ethics; interfaces of religion and the arts; lived religion; interpretations of the Book of Job; the future of the liberal arts; religion and the Anthropocene.

Awards And Honors

• 2005, Distinguished Teaching Award, New School University