S. Brent Rodríguez-Plate Born in the year of the Fire Horse, Professor Rodríguez-Plate has traveled the world seeking ways that people practice and/or fight against religious traditions, whether ancient or modern. Convinced that religion has less to do with beliefs than with bodies, Rodríguez-Plate queries the ways people connect with physical objects through sense perception:…
João B. Chaves João B. Chaves, Ph.D., is Associate Director for Programming at the Hispanic Theological Initiative, housed at Princeton Theological Seminary. João is the author of several peer-reviewed articles and four books, including Migrational Religion: Context and Creativity in the Latinx Diaspora (Baylor University Press, 2021) and The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South (Mercer…
Stephanie Mitchem I understand teaching and learning as “r/evolutionary acts”* and engage graduate and undergraduate students in the radical art of thinking. As a scholar, I utilize an interdisciplinary lens (history, ethics, theology, cultural studies, anthropology, ethnography) to engage complex and critical topics. I am a religions scholar, who has been accused of being a…
Dr. Erica M. Ramirez Dr. Erica M. Ramirez is Auburn’s Director of Applied Research. Before joining Auburn, she was the Richard B. Parker Assistant Professor of Wesleyan Thought and Heritage at Portland Seminary in Portland, Oregon. A rising star in the field of U.S. Latinx religion, and a scholar of Pentecostalism, she brings to the…