Assistant/Associate Adjunct Faculty in Theology & Religious Studies (TRS 170) Sociology of Religion

Location: Moraga, CA

Open Date: Nov 08, 2022

Deadline: Nov 23, 2022 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time

Description:
Founded in 1863, Saint Mary's is a residential campus nestled 20 miles east of San Francisco in the picturesque Moraga Valley. Based in the Catholic, Lasallian and Liberal Arts traditions, Saint Mary's currently enrolls more than 4,000 students from diverse backgrounds in undergraduate and graduate programs. The De La Salle Christian Brothers, the largest teaching order of the Roman Catholic Church, guide the spiritual and academic character of the College.

As a comprehensive and independent institution, Saint Mary's offers undergraduate and graduate programs integrating liberal and professional education. Saint Mary's reputation for excellence, innovation and responsiveness in education stems from its vibrant heritage as a Catholic, Lasallian and Liberal Arts institution. An outstanding, committed faculty and staff that value shared inquiry, integrative learning and student interaction bring these traditions to life in the 21st century. The College is committed to the educational benefits of diversity.

Saint Mary's College seeks to hire a per-course adjunct faculty member to teach Theology and Religious Studies, Sociology of Religion, in the traditional undergraduate program in Spring of 2023.

This course will be taught on the Moraga campus, in person, on Mondays and Wednesdays from 6:00pm - 7:35pm during the 2023 Spring term.

Religion is one of the most powerful sources of social cohesion, order, meaning, disruption, protest, and change in human societies, both historically and today in the modern world. While there are many approaches to studying religion—theological, historical, psychological, anthropological, etc., this class will take a distinctively sociological approach which provides a particular disciplinary perspective and analytical tools and theories for describing, understanding, and explaining the nature and influence of religion. This course will engage these kinds of questions: What is religion? Why is religion so primordial and prevalent in human societies? Why are people religious or not religious? What causal role does religion play in human personal and social life? Why and how do religious organizations grow and decline? How, for example, did an obscure, early Jesus Movement manage to become the largest religion in the world today? How and why do people convert to a different religious faith or lose their faith entirely? Is modernity secularizing? What are the religious and spiritual lives of 18- to 23-year-old Americans today like? Why has the Islamist movement become so powerful in recent decades? What is happening today at the global level when it comes to religious movements and their social, cultural, political, and economic impacts?

Qualifications:

Candidates for this position ideally should possess an earned doctorate in theology and/or religious studies or biblical studies with a documented specialization in the sociology of religion and its application to American Catholicism. Those who have reached the ABD stage in their active progress toward a doctoral degree (i.e., completion of all qualifying and competency examinations) will also be considered. Preference will be given to candidates with evidence of teaching effectiveness in the sociology of religion, particularly among undergraduates.

Candidates must reside in California.

To apply, visit https://apptrkr.com/3615133

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