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History of religion in America; History of psychology in America; Reform and social movements; History of the Holocaust; Jewish studies
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Samer Ali, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Arabic Studies
Department of Middle Eastern Studies
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-475-6467
E-mail: saali@mail.utexas.edu
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Arabic literature, art, culture, politics; Islamic religion, Quran, women and gender in Islam; Arabo-Islamic history and civilization.
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Chinese and Taiwanese popular religion; anthropology of Chinese society; Taiwan studies; ritual production; gender and violence
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Steve Friesen, Ph.D.
Louise Farmer Boyer Chair in Biblical Studies
Department of Classics
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 471-8629
E-mail: friesen@mail.utexas.edu
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Early Christianity; Corinthian society; Apostle Paul; New Testament; Biblical Greek; Revelation; Apocalyptic literature, Religious Studies; Poverty and Inequality in Early Roman Empire; Apocalyptic Literature; Imperial Cults
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Celebrity, popular culture, popular music, popular fads and fashion, youth cultures, UFOs, alien abduction, exorcism, demonic possession, apocalypse, Halloween, folk religion, folklore, Satanism, occult and occultism, new age, cults, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, Freud, Jung, Lacan, scatology, ghosts, haunting, the paranormal, pseudo-science, gothic music, gothic subculture, horror film, popular television, cultural studies, rhetorical studies.
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Islam in South Asia; Urdu language and literature; aesthetics in South Asia and the Middle East
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Cory Juhl, Ph.D.
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-4944
E-mail: cjuhl@mail.utexas.edu
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Philosophy of science; philosophy of mind; logic, philosophy of religion, formal learning theory
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Free will and responsibility; ethics and contemporary moral issues; theory of values; philosophy of religion; politics and culture
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Sociology of religion and culture; peace and conflict studies; western and nonwestern social theory; sociology of South Asia; social movements
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Religious liberty; remedies; constitutional law; civil litigation
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Asian art history; Asian culture; Indian and Tibetan religions, Arts & Humanities.
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Witchcraft; witch trials and prosecution; demonic possession; torture, past and present; Reformation.
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The role of religion in interactions between the United States and Mexico during and immediately after the Mexican Revolution, as well as Mexican migration to the Midwest during that time period; the relationships among race, religion and nationalism for Mexicans in both the United States and Mexico
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Al Martinich, Ph.D.
Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-6770
E-mail: martinich@mail.utexas.edu
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History of political philosophy, Hobbes, Locke, Hume, philosophy of language, medieval philosophy,
Philosophy of language; history of political philosophy; philosophy of religion; seventeenth century England
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African American politics; faith and religion; churches and political activism; race, elections and political behavior.
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Religion and culture; Jesus in popular culture; History of religion in America; Ben Hur.
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19th and 20th century history of India, including religion and politics, intellectual and social history, and women''s movements.
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Journalism politics and religion; conservative Christianity, poverty-fighting; journalism history; media ethics; presidential studies; magazine editing; social issues.
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J. Patrick Olivelle, Ph.D.
Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities
Department of Asian Studies
College of Liberal Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION
Office: 512-471-5811
E-mail: jpo@uts.cc.utexas.edu
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History of Sanskrit Literature; Law and Society in India; Methods in Study of Religion; Sanskrit Culture; History of Hindu Religious Traditions; Ancient to Medieval Indian cultural history.
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Sociology of Religion; Family; Adolescence; Sexuality; HIV/AIDS in Africa; Human Motivation
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Medieval Islamic history, religion, and gender, Islamic historiography, and Islam in Europe and America.
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Impact of missionaries and different colonial governments on education, economic development and democracy in post-colonial societies; spread of religious liberty; international diffusion of social movements; religious influences on political institutions and the economy; religious attitudes of elites; religious tolerance
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