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Program Unit Name
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Tenure
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Chair(s) at end of tenure
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Academic Integrity and the New Religious Movements
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1982-1983
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Joe Bettis and Timothy Miller
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Academic Issues in Religious Publishing
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1983-1984
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James Heaney
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African Religions
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1980
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Newell Booth
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Aging and Religious Studies
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1990-1991
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Leo Sandon
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Archives
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1984
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Andrew D. Scrimgeour
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Art and the Bible
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1979
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Joseph Gutmann
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Autobiography and Religious Studies
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1994-1996
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John D. Barbour
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Bible in American Cultures
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1990-1991
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Douglas Jacobsen
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Compositional History of Whitehead's Writings
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1983
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Lewis Ford
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Conversion
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1982
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Paula Fredriksen Landes
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East Asian Religions
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1994-1998
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Tom Selover and Michiko Yusa
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Eastern Christianity
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1977-1984
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Sydney Griffith
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Ecological Issues and Religious Reflection
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1986-1987
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William C. French
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Esotericism/Esotericism and Perennialism
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1984-1990
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James B. Robinson
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Feminist Theory and Religion
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1985-1986
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Dorothy Austin and Naomi Goldberg
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Foucault
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2004-2006
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Thomas Beaudoin
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History of Christianity: Continental Influences Upon American Methodism
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1979
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J. Steven O'Malley
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History of Christianity: Modern British Christianity
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1979
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Dale A. Johnson and James C. Livingston
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History of Christianity: Patristics/Medieval
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1979
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J. Patout Burns
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History of Women in Judaism
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1986
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Barbara Geller Nathanson and Susannah Heschel
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Interreligious Dialogue
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1988-1989
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Thomas Dean and Arvind Sharma
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Issues in Interreligious Interchange
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1992-1997
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Chester Gillis
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Jacques Ellul and the Study of Religion
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1987-1988
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Daniel B. Clendenin
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Jonathan Edwards
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1988-1989
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John F. Wilson
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Jungian Psychology and the Study of Religion
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1980
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James Gross and Luther Martin
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Marxism and Religion
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1990
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Bruce Grelle
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Men's Experience and Religion
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1980-1982
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Joseph Ramisch
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Myth and Symbol
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1985
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Walter B. Gulick
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Narrative Theory and Religion
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1987-1988
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Robert Detweiler
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Palestinian Theology and Interreligious Dialogue in the Middle East
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1997-2000
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Rosemary Radford Ruether & Donald E. Wagner
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Pannenberg Studies
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1989
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Stanley Grenz
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Personal Religious Syncretism
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1978-1979
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Harry Buck and Joanna Macy
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Polanyi Studies
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1980
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Phil Mullins
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Political Theology
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1983-1984
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Vernon Gregson
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Post Modernism
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1978-1979
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Daniel Noel
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Prehistoric Religions
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1987-1988
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James B. Harrod
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Religion and Dream
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1983-1984
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Patricia Cox-Miller and David L. Miller
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Religion and Human Rights
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1997-2002
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Arvind Sharma and Sumner Twiss
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Religion and Public Policy
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1988-1989
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Richard Rubenstein
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Religion in Central and Eastern Europe
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1999-2004
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Andrii Krawchuk & J. Shawn Landres
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Religion in the Courts
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1986
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Allen H. Cutler
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Religious Foundations of Western Civilization
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1978-1980
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Samuel Laeuchli
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Religious Pluralism/Comparative Religion
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1978
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Willard Oxtoby
|
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Religious Studies in the Nuclear Age
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1984
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Ira Chernus
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Religious Totalism
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1989
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Carl A. Taschke
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Sacred Biography
|
1983
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William Darrow
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Simone Weil
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1978-1979
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Thomas Idinopulos
|
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Study of the Latter Day Saints/Study of the Latter Day Saints Religious Tradition
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1986-1987
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Gordon C. Thomasson
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The Spatial Dimension of Religious Life
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1987-1988
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Lonnie D. Kliever
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The Spiritual Journey
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1992-1993
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Paul Mundschenk
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The Urantia Book
|
1985
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John C. Meagher
|
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Theology and Christian Spirituality
|
1978
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Barry Woodbridge
|
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Theology and Post-Modernism
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1988-1989
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David R. Crownfield
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Theology of Catastrophe
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1978-1979
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John M. Oesterreicher
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Theory of and Methods for the Study of Religion
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1983-1984
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Charles Vernoff
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Thomas Merton
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1979-1980
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Mary L. Schneider
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Victorian Religion
|
1980
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Dale Johnson and Dale Livingston
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Visual Arts
|
1979
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John W. Cook
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Western Esotericism from the Early Modern Period
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1999-2001
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James Santucci
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Women and Religious Communities
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1987-1988
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Constance F. Parvey
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Women and the Church
|
1985-1986
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Constance F. Parvey
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World Council of Churches
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1982-1983
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Clifford Green
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