The Religious Studies Program
    The University of Missouri-Kansas City

    Religious Studies Faculty


     

     

    UMKC Faculty in Religious Studies

    Name

    Research area

    Office/Phone

     

    Jeffrey Bennett, Ph.D.

     

    Social Theory, Historical Anthropology, Revitalization Movements, Tropes of Social and Bodily Disorder, Psychoanalysis, Portugal, India

    NOTE: also Faculty Member of Department of Sociology/ Anthropology

     

    Haag Hall 204

    816.235.2975
    email
     

     

    Virginia Blanton, Ph.D.

     

     

    Old and Middle English Languages and Literatures and representations of women in the religious culture of medieval England.  My research examines the production and reception of female saints' lives and how the social, historical, and political contexts of these narratives inform our understanding of medieval religious culture and medieval social life.

     

    Dept. of English Language and Literature

    Cockefair Hall 16H

    816.235.2766
    email
     

     

    Gary Ebersole, Ph.D.

    Program Director

     

    History of Religions, methodology, Japanese Religions

     

    Haag Hall 204

    816.235.5704
    email
     

     

    Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox, Ph.D.

     

    Classics & Ancient religions

    Dept. of English Language and Literature

    Cockefair Hall 106

    816.235.2560
    email
     

     

    Theresa Torres, Ph.D.

    Latinos/Hispanics in the United States, particularly Kansas City area; Diversity on College Campuses, Marian Devotion, Gender Issues, History of Latinos within the U.S. Roman Catholicism, Immigrants in the U.S., Hispanic Women & the Role of Religious Belief within Their Social and Civic Activism

    NOTE: also Faculty Member of Department of Sociology/ Anthropology

     

    Haag Hall 204

    816.235.1492
    email

     

    Adjunct Faculty in Religious Studies

    Name

    Research area

    Office/Phone

     

    J. Bradley Chance, Ph.D.

     

     

    New Testament Studies, phenomenology of religion

    William Jewell College

    Liberty, Missouri

    816.781.7700 x5342
    email
     

     

    Joseph Coleson, Ph.D.

     

     

    Biblical and Near Eastern Studies

    Nazarene Theological College
    Kansas City, MO

    816.333.6254 x 210
    email
     

     

    Robert E. Johnson, Ph.D.

     

     

    General Church History, and Missiology, Baptist history and polity, mission, cross-cultural communication, and related subjects

    Central Baptist Theological Seminary,
    Kansas City, KS

    913.371.5313
    email
     

     

    David M. May, Ph.D.

     

     

    New Testament Studies the social and cultural world of

    the New Testament

    Central Baptist Theological Seminary,

    Kansas City, KS

    913-371-5313
    email
     

     

    Craig Prentiss, Ph.D.

     

     

    American Religious History

    Rockhurst University

    Kansas City, MO

    816.501.4697
    email
     


    Daniel F. Stramara, Ph.D.


    Early Christianity, Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Religion and Science, Anthropology & Psychology, Monasticism & Mysticism, Role of Women in the church, Ecumenism, Genealogy in Socio-historical context
     


    Rockhurst University

    Kansas City, MO

    816.501.4005
    email