Seth Dowland
Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Phone: 253-535-8125
Email: dowland@plu.edu
Office Location: Hauge Administration Building - 227 - I
Status:On Sabbatical
- Professional
- Biography
Additional Titles/Roles
- Director, IHON
Education
- Ph.D., American Religions, Duke University, 2007
- M.A., American Religions, Duke University, 2004
- B.A. with distinction, Religious Studies & History, University of Virginia, 2001
Areas of Emphasis or Expertise
- American Christianity
- Christianity and Race
- Evangelicalism
- Gender and Religion
- Religion and Politics
Selected Publications
- American Evangelicalism and the Politics of Whiteness
- A New Book Argues This ‘Divine Institution’ is the Key to Understanding White Evangelical Culture”
- White Evangelical Voters: Trump as a Spiritual Leader
- Evangelical Homeschooling and the Development of “Family Values
- Where Are the Culture Wars?
- A Hard-Edged Gospel: The Rise and Fall of Mark Driscoll
- Government End Times? Pray for the Individual
- The New Dominionist Politics
Books
- Gods, Games, and Globalization: New Perspectives on Religion and Sports Chapters 3, pgs. 58-73 (Mercer University Press 2019) : View Book
- Billy Graham: American Pilgrim Chapters 9, pgs. 216-231 (Oxford University Press 2017) : View Book
- The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Religion and American Politics Chapters 19, pgs. 225-236 (Wiley-Blackwell 2016) : View Book
- Family Values: Gender, Authority, and the Rise of the Christian Right (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015) : View Book
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Authority of Scripture Chapters 4, pgs. 71-90 (Pickwick Publications 2011) : View Book
- Diversity and Dominion: Dialogues in Ecology, Ethics, and Theology Chapters 14, pgs. 157-165 (Wipf & Stock 2010) : View Book
- Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the New South Chapters 13, pgs. 246-268 (University of Georgia Press 2009) : View Book
Biography
Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs. His classes offer interdisciplinary perspectives on American religions, with particular emphasis on the ways religion interacts with gender, race, politics, and violence. His research focuses on the intersection of religion, gender, and American politics in the twentieth century. His book, “Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right”, was published in 2015 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is currently working on a project about the history of Christian masculinity in the United States (under contract with Oxford University Press), and is the author of several articles and book chapters on the history of American evangelicalism, including “American Evangelicalism and the Politics of Whiteness“, published in The Christian Century, 2018.