Religion Department Faculty
FacultySteven Sacks (chair), 108 Prall House, (319) 895-4209
Joseph Molleur, 101 Prall House, (319) 895-4237
Adjunct Faculty
Michael Gomez
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Joseph Molleur, Associate Professor of Religion, teaches courses in Christian Studies and Comparative Religion, including Religions of the World, Jesus in the Gospels, Issues in Christianity Today, The Hindu Vision, and The Buddhist Way. He is the author of a book on comparative theological method: Divergent Traditions, Converging Faiths: Troeltsch, Comparative Theology, and the Conversation with Hinduism. He has also published articles in Encyclopedia of Religious and Spiritual Development, Sewanee Theological Review, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Indian Journal of Theology, and Studies in Interreligious Dialogue. Ph.D., Boston College; M.A., Episcopal Divinity School; B.A., Grinnell College |
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| Steven Sacks, Assistant Professor of Religion, teaches courses in Judaic Studies and Comparative Religion, including Hebrew Bible, Issues in Contemporary Judaism, The Islamic Path, and Religions of China and Japan. He has also developed two study abroad courses: Religions of Mongolia, and Islam and Postcoloniality in Contemporary Morocco. Professor Sacks is the author of Midrash and Multiplicity: The History of Rabbinic Interpretation in the Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer (book in preparation), as well as articles in Spiritual Dimensions of Judaism and Recent Developments in Midrash Research. Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School; B.A., Grinnell College |  |
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Catherine Quehl-Engel, Chaplain of the College, teaches Suffering and the Sacred. She is an Episcopal priest and has studied and researched in the fields of religion and visual arts, theology of human suffering, the history of Jewish-Christian relations, and anti-semitism and Holocaust Education (including a summer of study at Yad VaShem World Holocaust Center/Hebrew University in Jerusalem). M.A. and M.Div., Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA; B.A., Cornell College |
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