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UMKC Faculty in
Religious Studies
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Name |
Research area |
Office/Phone |
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Jeffrey
Bennett, Ph.D.
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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
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Virginia Blanton, Ph.D.
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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.
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Dept. of English Language and
Literature
Cockefair Hall 16H
816.235.2766
email
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Gary Ebersole, Ph.D.
Program Director |
History of Religions,
methodology, Japanese Religions |
Haag Hall 204
816.235.5704
email
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Jeffrey Rydberg-Cox, Ph.D. |
Classics & Ancient religions |
Dept. of English Language
and Literature
Cockefair Hall 106
816.235.2560
email
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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
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Name |
Research
area |
Office/Phone |
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J. Bradley Chance, Ph.D.
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New Testament Studies,
phenomenology of religion |
William Jewell College
Liberty,
Missouri
816.781.7700 x5342
email
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Joseph Coleson, Ph.D.
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Biblical and Near Eastern Studies |
Nazarene Theological College
Kansas City, MO
816.333.6254 x 210
email
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Robert E. Johnson, Ph.D.
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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
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David M. May, Ph.D.
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New Testament Studies
the social and cultural world of
the New Testament |
Central Baptist Theological
Seminary,
Kansas City, KS
913-371-5313
email
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Craig Prentiss, Ph.D.
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American Religious History |
Rockhurst University
Kansas City, MO
816.501.4697
email
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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
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Rockhurst University
Kansas City, MO
816.501.4005
email |
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