Matthew C. Bagger
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies:
Religious Studies
Phone:
Matthew_Bagger@brown.edu
My research integrates philosophical and theoretical approaches to understand and explain religious phenomena, especially religious discourse.
Biography
Matthew Bagger is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies. He teaches courses in philosophy of religion, modern Western religious thought, Christian ethical theories, and theory and method in the study of religion.
He is the author of Religious Experience, Justification, and History (Cambridge University Press, 1999) and The Uses of Paradox: Religion, Self-Transformation, and the Absurd (Columbia University Press, 2007). His articles on topics such as the epistemology of religious experience, mysticism, Hume, the ethics of belief, and the place of religion in American public life have appeared in Religious Studies, The Journal of Religion, The Journal of the History of Philosophy, and Religious Studies Review among other journals. He also contributed multiple entries on theoretical topics to the Encyclopedia of Women and World Religions and the Encyclopedia of Science and Religion. He has held residential fellowships at the Humanities Institute of Dartmouth College and the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard University . Before coming to Brown, he taught at Dartmouth College and Columbia University .
Degrees
AB Dartmouth College, 1986; MALS Dartmouth College, 1990; MPhil Columbia University, 1992; PhD Columbia University, 1994
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Affiliations
Member American Academy of Religion
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