John Reeder
Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies:
Religious Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 3567
Phone 2: +1 401 863 3104
John_Reeder@Brown.EDU
Professor Reeder's area of expertise include Western philosophy and Christian ethics, with comparative interests in Judaic and Buddhist thought
Interests
Professor Reeder is currently pursuing projects in the following areas: l) religion, secularism, and common morality; 2) justice and love( respect and compassion); 3)religion in the liberal public square ; 4) fundamentalism, theocracy, and religious violence; 5) essays in method and theory especially with regard to comparative ethics ( concepts of religion and morality, belief and practice, understanding and explanation, the role of history in ethics); 6) just war, terrorism, torture.
Awards
Henry Luce Professor of Comparative Ethics, Amherst College, l984-5
National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar (with Donald Swearer) l997
Affiliations
American Academy of Religion
Society of Christian Ethics
Funded Research
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