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  • 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

  • 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

  • articles and chapters on Quaker antislavery efforts, global theology and colonial American theology. His book on John Woolman is currently under peer review, as is a book on Quakers and mysticism. A chapter on evangelicalism and global Christianity will soon be published in the new Cambridge Companion to Quaker Studies. His teaching interests include theologies of peace and justice, historical theology and the history of Christianity. Dr. Kershner makes his home in Renton with his wife Jessica, a high

  • traditions that have shaped Chinese culture, asking if we can understand them using the Western category of "religion". The course covers Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Chinese folk practices, and Christianity. It closes with a study of the interplay of government policy and religious reality in China today. (4) RELI 235 : Islamic Traditions - RL, VW, GE An introduction to the history, teachings, and practices of Islam. (4) RELI 236 : Native American Religious Traditions - RL, VW, GE Introduction to a

  • , Presbyterian, Pentacostal To learn more:  https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity#ref67408 https://www.history.com/topics/religion/history-of-christianity Books available at the PLU library:  Click here for the library guide to Christianity Christianity, by Keith Ward Christianity, Islam, and Orisa Religion : Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction, by J. D. Y. Peel Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism, by Damon T Berry On Being Rich and Poor: Christianity in a Time of

  • Patricia O’Connell Killen Professor Emerita and Faculty Fellow in Humanities Email: killenpo@plu.edu Professional Biography Education Ph.D., Stanford University, 1987 M.A., Stanford University, 1976 B.A., Gonzaga University, 1974 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise History of Christianity in North America Religion and Spirituality in the Pacific Northwest Theological Reflection and Faith-Inspired Higher Education Books The Future of Catholicism in America (New York: Columbia University Press 2019

  • Daoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Chinese folk practices, and Christianity. It closes with a study of the interplay of government policy and religious reality in China today. (4) RELI 235 : Islamic Traditions - RL, VW, GE An introduction to the history, teachings, and practices of Islam. (4) RELI 236 : Native American Religious Traditions - RL, VW, GE Introduction to a variety of Native American religious traditions, emphasizing the ways sacred traditions construct identity, promote individual and

  • least eight hours in each of the two lines. Transfer minors under this option normally take 16 hours in residence. Courses taken to satisfy the General University Requirement in religion (eight hours) may be applied toward either minor option. Selected course offerings Christian Traditions Religion and Literature of the New Testament Jesus and His Early Interpreters Pauline Literature Gospel of John The Christian Tradition Early Christianity Medieval Christianity Luther American Church History

  • Coordinator of the University Gallery (including the University Gallery Annex and the Karen Hille Phillips Gallery) and manages the University’s Permanent Art Collection.Dr. Lisa MarcusWho: Dr. Lisa Marcus, Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program, Professor of English at PLU PLU Faculty ProfileDr. Seth DowlandWho: Dr. Seth Dowland, Associate Professor of American Religious History at PLU Bio: Seth Dowland teaches courses on American Christianity, Islam in America, and the intersection of religion

  • a student who changed his research trajectory and the university’s limited engagement with the critical issue of food justice.Samuel Torvend, Professor of the History of Christianity Samuel Torvend teaches courses in the history of early, medieval, and reformation Christianity as well as historical courses on the reform of social welfare, Christian responses to local and global hunger, Christian art and architecture, and Christian rituals. He has taught in PLU’s International Honors Program and