Finbarr Curtis
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Associate Professor, Religious Studies 3301A Newton PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2007 |
| I study religion and politics as well as theory and method in religious studies. My most recent book engages subjects ranging from nineteenth-century revivalism to contemporary legal debates about corporations in order to examine how the rhetoric of religious freedom has participated in the production and distribution of a variety of forms of social power in American life. Before coming to Georgia Southern, I taught at UC San Diego, New York University, Fresno State, Bucknell University, Lafayette College, and the University of Alabama. | |
| RECENT COURSES |
| Introduction to Religion Religion and Politics Religious Movements in the United States Introduction to Christianity Seminar in Religious Studies |
| SELECTED PUBLICATIONS | |
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The Production of American Religious Freedom. New York: New York University Press, 2016. |
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“The State of Burn After Reading,” in Coen: Framing Religion in Amoral Order, edited by Elijah Siegler. Waco: Baylor University Press, 2016. |
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“The Study of American Religions: Critical Reflections on a Specialization,” Religion 42 (July 2012): 355 – 372. |
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“The Fundamental Faith of Every True American: Secularity and Institutional Loyalty in Al Smith’s 1928 Presidential Campaign,” The Journal of Religion 91 (October 2011): 519 – 544. |
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“The Secularity of Intelligent Design,” The Hedgehog Review 13 (Summer 2011): 68 – 78. |
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“Ann Taves’s Religious Experience Reconsidered is a Sign of a Global Apocalypse that Will Kill Us All,” Religion 40 (October 2010): 288 – 292. |
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“No Universalizing Deductive-Nomological Explanations, Please; We’re Irish: A Response to Thomas A. Tweed’s Crossing and Dwelling,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 77 (June 2009): 424 – 433. |
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“Locating the Revival: Jonathan Edwards’s Northampton as a Site of Social Theory,” in Embodying the Spirit: New Perspectives on North American Revivalism, ed. Michael J. McClymond (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004): 47 – 66. |
Last updated: 11/12/2020