John
Corrigan
Edwin
Scott Gaustad Professor of Religion
Professor of History
Department
Chair
M05 Dodd Hall
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
Office: 206C Dodd Hall
Phone: (850) 644-8094
Fax: (850) 644-7225
Email: john.corrigan@fsu.edu
Office Hours: TBA
Background
John
Corrigan (Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1982) teaches
American religious history, religion and emotion, and theory and
method in the academic study of religion. He has served as regular
or visiting faculty at the University of Virginia, Harvard, Arizona
State University, Oxford, University of London, University of
Halle-Wittenberg, University College (Dublin) and as a visiting
scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He also has taught in
the FSU program in Florence. 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,
an interactive electronic book (co-author, California Digital
Library/University of California-Berkeley 2005). He is editor
of the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion (OUP,
forthcoming 2007), serves as coeditor of the journal Church
History: Studies in Christianity and Culture and on editorial
boards of several other journals, and is the editor of the Chicago
History of American Religion book series published by the
University of Chicago Press. He recently has written an overview
of emotion, religion, and capitalism since the sixteenth century,
and currently is writing a book-length study, Religious Intolerance
in America: A History of Hatred and Forgetting, and editing,
with Amanda Porterfield, Religion in American History
(Oxford: Blackwell, 2008) and co-authoring, with Lynn Neal, Religious
Intolerance in America: A Documentary History (University
of North Carolina Press, 2008). His current research interests
are religious conflict and emotion in religious practice.
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