Philosophy and Religious Studies
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Nathan Rein
Department Chair, Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Nathan Rein has been teaching at Ursinus since 2002. His main field is the history of the Protestant Reformation in Germany. His research has focused in particular on the relationship between religious identity and belief.
Department
Philosophy and Religious Studies
Degrees
- B.A., Columbia University
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Teaching
- World Religions (RELS-111)
- What Is Religion? (RELS-212)
- Christianity: An Introduction (RELS-233)
- Religion and Violence (RELS-327)
- Religious Diversity in Southeastern Pennsylvania (RELS-328)
- The Protestant Reformation (RELS-365)
- CIE 1 and CIE 2
Research Interests
History of Christianity
The Protestant Reformation in Germany
Theory of Religion
Religion and violence
Recent Work
- The Chancery of God: Protestant Print, Polemic, and Propaganda against the Empire, Magdeburg 1546-1551 (Routledge, 2008).
- “Enemy Brothers: Gary Lease and the Scholarship of Religion.” Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 21 (2009).
- “From the history of religions to the history of ‘religion’: the Protestant Reformation and the challenge to sui generis religion.” In: R. Head, ed., Orthodoxies and heterodoxies in early modern German culture: order and creativity, 1500-1750 (Brill, 2007).
- Co-chair, American Academy of Religion, History of Christianity section, 2006-2012.
- Associate editor, Bulletin for the Study of Religion.