Religion & Catholic Studies
A wide-ranging discussion of the present state and future prospects of Catholic studies, 60 years after the close of Vatican II. What do recent institutional crosscurrents (e.g., synodality and increasing lay participation versus an increasingly conservative American priesthood) mean for the field? What is the status of Catholic studies in the wider academy? What are the neglected areas in scholarship, whether historical, theological, or social scientific?
Host: Peter J. Thuesen
Peter J. Thuesen is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University Indianapolis and co-editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. From 2009 to 2015, he chaired Indiana University Indianapolis’ Department of Religious Studies. A historian of American religion and the Christian tradition, he is author, most recently, of Tornado God: American Religion and Violent Weather (Oxford, 2020), which received the 2021 Christianity Today Book Award for History/Biography.
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