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Terry Shoemaker
Faculty Affiliate
Faculty, TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 4302
Biography:
Terry Shoemaker is an Americanist scholar focusing on religious change in contemporary life, particularly as it pertains to evangelicalism, exvangelicals, and evangelical adjacent groups. This includes the ways that religion and religious people adapt, convert, deconvert, reform, and abandon aspects of their religiosity or spirituality. Additionally, he is interested in studying sports in the United States through the lens of religious studies theories and methods. His work is featured at numerous sites like The Conversation, Zócalo Public Square, and Religion Dispatches. These interests lead Terry into various classes at ASU on the topics ofReligion and Popular Culture, Religion and Sports, and Spirituality in America.
His first edited volume, The Prophetic Dimension of Sport, was published in 2018 and a second edited volume regarding the future of progressive Christianity and the Millennial generation with Wifp & Stock Publishers. Terry currently serves as vice-president of the Society for the Future of Higher Education (SFHE) and on the Religion, Sport, and Play American Academy of Religion steering committee.
Education:
PhD Religious Studies - Arizona State University
M.A. Sociology - Arizona State University (in progress)
M.A. Religious Studies - Western Kentucky University
B.A. Religious Studies/History - Western Kentucky University
Research Interests:
Transforming Religiosity in the United States
- Exvangelicalism
- White Christian Nationalism
- Spirituality in America
- Religion and Sports
- Religion and Popular Culture
Publications:
Select Publications:
- Bain-Selbo, Eric and Terry Shoemaker (2016) "Southern Reconstructing," in Sport and Religion in the Twenty-First Century Lexington Books
- Shoemaker, Terry and James Edmonds (2016) "The Limits of Interfaith?" Culture and Religion
- Shoemaker, Terry and Alexandria Griffin (2016) "Religion, Counterprivates, Disabilities," Critical Research on Religion
- Shoemaker, Terry (2017) "Escaping Our Shitty Reality: Counterpublics, OITNB, and Religion” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.
- Shoemaker, Terry, editor. The Prophetic Dimension of Sport (Springer International Publishing, 2018).
- Shoemaker, Terry. “Deconversion, Sport, and Rehabilitative Hope,” Religions 10 (2019), 1-13.
- Shoemaker, Terry. “World Religion and ‘Fake News’: A Pedagogical Response in an Age of Post-Truth,” Teaching Theology and Religion 22:4, 2019.
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Terry Shoemaker, Rachel Schneider Vlachos, and Xochitl Alvizo, Editors. The Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion, Vol. 2: Curations and Durations, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022.
| Summer 2022 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| Spring 2022 | |
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| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| ASB 383 | Religion and Sports |
| REL 383 | Religion and Sports |
| REL 394 | Special Topics |
| REL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| Fall 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 383 | Religion and Sports |
| Summer 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| Spring 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| ASB 383 | Religion and Sports |
| REL 383 | Religion and Sports |
| REL 690 | Reading and Conference |
| Fall 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| Summer 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| Spring 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
| Fall 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 307 | Religion: Theory and Practice |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 394 | Special Topics |
| Summer 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 100 | Religions of the World |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| Spring 2019 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| SGS 107 | Religion and Globalization |
| REL 107 | Religion and Globalization |
| REL 201 | Religion and the Modern World |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| Fall 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| Summer 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 100 | Religions of the World |
| Spring 2018 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| Fall 2017 | |
|---|---|
| Course Number | Course Title |
| REL 394 | Special Topics |