Department of Religious Studies                                 The University of North Carolina at Charlotte         Charlotte, NC 28223                                              Phone: 704-687-2542  
 spmcclou@.uncc.edu

Fall 2008 Classes

RELS 2108 Religion in American Culture                                                                                      RELS 4600  Senior Seminar

Some Syllabi from Previous Semesters                                                                           RELS 6101: Approaches to the Study of Religion
RELS 4101/5101: Interpreting Religion in Late Modernity
RELS 2108 Religion in American Culture
RELS 4000/5000 Religion and Media
RELS 4050 Perspectives on Religion, Class, and Culture 
LBST 2101 Religion and Its Boundaries                                                                                                          RELS 4050/5000 Ethnography of Religion

Research  and Teaching Interests 
American religions, theories and methods for the study of religions, and new and combinative religious movements

Selected Publications 
Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studies. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.

"Putting Some Class into Religious Studies: Resurrecting an Important Concept." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 75:4 (Dec. 2007): 840-862.

"Liminal Subjectivities and Religious Change: Circumscribing Giddens for the Study of Contemporary American Religion." Journal of Contemporary Religion 22:3  (Oct. 2007): 295-309.

"Religion and Modern American Culture." Choice (May 2007): 1439-1451.

"From Exotics to Brainwashers: Portraying New Religions in Mass Media" Religion Compass 1:1 (Jan. 2007): 214-228.

"New and Alternative American Religions: Changes, Issues, and Trends." In Faith in America: Changes, Challenges, New Directions. Volume I. Edited by Charles H. Lippy. Westport, CN: Praeger, 2006, 227-247.

Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

"Popular Culture Fandoms, the Boundaries of Religious Studies, and the Project of the Self."  Culture and Religion: An Interdisciplinary Journal 4:2 (Nov. 2003): 187-206.