Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Jeffrey Scholes is a Professor of Religious Studies in the Department of Philosophy and the Director of the Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. His research interests center on the relationship between religion and sports and American political theology. He is the author of Vocation and the Politics of Work: Popular Theology in a Consumer Culture (Lexington 2013), Religion and Sports in American Culture (Routledge 2014), Christianity, Race, and Sport (Routledge, 2021), and co-editor with Randall Balmer of Religion and Sport in North America: Critical Essays for the Twenty-First Century (Routledge, 2022). He is currently working on a book on Religion and Sports Fandom.
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–presentAssociate Professor of Religious Studies, Dept. of Philosophy , University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Education
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2009University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology, Ph.D./Religious and Theological Studies
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