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John Corrigan


Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor
Chair, Religion Department

 

Departmental Area: American Religious History
Research Areas: American Religious History; Method and Theory in the Study of Religion; Religious Conflict; Emotion in Religious Practice; Mapping Religion

Address: 303 University Way
P.O. Box 6061520
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 also works in the emerging area of the spatial humanities. 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; 2009); 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), French and Spanish Missions in North America, with Tracy Leavelle (California Digital Library/University of California-Berkeley 2005), The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion, ed., (Oxford, 2008), Religious Intolerance in America: A Documentary History, with Lynn Neal (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), Religion in American History, co-edited with Amanda Porterfield (Blackwell, 2010), and The Spatial Humanities, co-editor (Indiana University Press, 2010). He is co-editor, with Amanda Porterfield, of the journal Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture and serves on editorial boards of several other journals. He is the editor of the Chicago History of American Religion book series published by the University of Chicago Press and co-editor of The Spatial Humanities book series at Indiana University Press. He recently has written about the rhetoric of religious intolerance in colonial America, space and place in the study of religion, religious experience and meaninglessness, and the production of knowledge in the humanities and social sciences. Recent courses he has taught include Religion and Emotion; Religion and Region in America; Religion in the American 19th Century; Religious Intolerance in America; Religion in the Colonial Americas; Historiography of American Religion; Writing for Publication.