John Corrigan

John Corrigan

John Corrigan is a religion scholar, known for being the author of a number of books on religion. He currently is the Edwin Gaustad Scott Professor of Religion, and Professor of History at Florida State University.

Biography

Corrigan (1952- ) holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago since 1982. He served as a regular or visiting faculty at the University of Virginia, Harvard, Arizona State University, Oxford University, University of London, University of Halle-Wittenberg, University College (Dublin), and visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome.

Work

His books include "The Hidden Balance" (Cambridge University Press, 1987); "The Prism of Piety" (Oxford University Press, 1991); "Religion in America" (coauthor, Prentice Hall, 1992, 1998; 2003); "Jews, Christians, Muslims" (coauthor, Prentice Hall, 1998); "Readings in Judaism, Christianity and Islam" (coeditor, Prentice Hall, 1998); "Emotion and Religion" (coauthor, Greenwood, 2000); "Business of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century" (University of California Press, 2002); "Religion and Emotion: Approaches and Interpretations", ed., (Oxford, 2004), and ["French and Spanish Missions in North America"] [http://www.ecai.org/na-missions/] , an interactive electronic book (co-author, California Digital Library/University of California, 2004). He recently has written a short online study of religious encounter between European missionaries and Native Americans in New Spain and New France, and currently is writing an overview of emotion, religion, and capitalism since the sixteenth century, and a book-length study of religion in America, Religious Intolerance in America: A History of Cultural Hatred and Forgetting. His current research interests are emotion and commodity in religious practice; religious hatred; mapping religion; and theorizing emotion.

External links

* [http://www.fsu.edu/~religion/faculty/corrigan.htm Florida State University - Faculty Profile]


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