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John R. Bowen
Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology
Bowen's research explores broad social transformations now taking place in the world-wide Muslim community, including special emphasis on Muslim life in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation. His research focuses on the role of cultural forms (religious practices, aesthetic genres, legal discourse) ...
Expertise: religion and ritual, Islam, social theory, kinship and social organization, historical studies, culture and political change, Sumatra, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5680
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jbowen@artsci.wustl.edu
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Frank Flinn
Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies
Flinn, a consultant in forensic theology, is an expert on religion and the law, including issues related to the separation of church and state, government funding of faith-based social program and the display of religious symbols in schools, courtrooms and other public places. He also is an expert ...
Expertise: separation of church and state, legal rights of religious groups, public display of religious symbols, federal funding of faith-based organizations, religious splinter groups, cults, paramilitary organizations, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-8677
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fkflinn@wustl.edu
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Beata Grant
Professor of Chinese and Religious Studies
Grant teaches a broad range of courses in literature and religious studies, including Introduction to Buddhism and Introduction to Asian Religions. Her writings include a long study of the Woman Huang story-cycle, Mount Lu Revisited: Buddhism in the Life and Writings of Su Shih, and several articles ...
Expertise: Chinese religion and literature, Pre-modern Chinese women's literature and culture, Buddhism
Direct contact: (314) 935-5156
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bgrant@wustl.edu
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Ahmet Karamustafa
Associate Professor of Religious Studies Program
Karamustafa is a medievalist/premodernist and works on the intellectual and social history of Islamic societies from the 13th to the 16th centuries. He is an expert on Islam and the theory and methods of all religions. Karamustafa specializes in premodern Islamic thought. His most recent book, God's ...
Expertise: Understanding Islam, premodern Islamic thought, world religions, religious studies
Direct contact: (314) 935-4446
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akaramus@artsci.wustl.edu
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Hillel J. Kieval
Chair of history and the Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought in Arts & Sciences
Professor Kieval's work focuses on transformations in Jewish culture and society in East Central Europe (Austria-Hungary, Germany and Poland) from the Enlightenment to the Second World War; more specifically, on the effects of modernization projects, ethnic and national struggles, social conflict, ...
Expertise: Jewish culture in East Central Europe, antisemitism on Jewish life, Jewish-Gentile relations, linguistic, cultural and communal affiliations among Jews, Jewish society in Bohemia, Jewish experience in Czech lands, …
Direct contact: 314-935-5426
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hkieval@wustl.edu
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David A. Lawton
Professor and Chair of English in Arts & Sciences
David Lawton has published five books and many articles in English literary and cultural studies and in medieval studies. He is currently preparing editions of Chaucer's poetry and prose, and completing a book on voice and space in medieval literature. He is founding co-editor of a major journal, ...
Expertise: Medieval literatures, Medieval culture, Chaucer, literary history, literary theory, poetics, The Bible, …
Direct contact: (314) 935-5114
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dalawton@wustl.edu
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