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WELLMAN, JamesAssistant Professor of Western Religions, Jackson School of International Studies
Office: 420 Thomson Phone: 206 543-0339 email: jwellman@u.washington.edu |
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. The University of Chicago, 1995 Religion and the Human Sciences M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary, 1984 Philosophical Hermeneutics B.A. The University of Washington, 1981 Graduated with distinction, honors program, English ACADEMIC POSITIONS2002-present Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Comparative Religion Program, Jackson School of International Studies 1997-2002 Lecturer, University of Washington, Comparative Religion Program, Jackson School of International Studies
AWARDS AND HONORS Selected, 2005, “Teaching Introductory Religion: Lessons from the Practices of Fifty Effective Teachers,” research by Wabash Center for Teaching, University of Notre Dame Selected for University Course, 2005, Undergraduate Course Development Fund, University of Washington, “Religion, Violence, and Peace: Patterns across Time Selected, University of Washington’s Institute for Teaching Excellence, June, 2003 Francis Makemie Award, 2001, Committee for the Presbyterian Historical Society. Given annually for the outstanding book in Reformed history: The Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism Student Paper Award, 1994, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Annual Meeting Dissertation Fellowship, 1993 – 1994, Louisville Institute for the Study of Protestantism and American Culture The Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Center Studies Award, 1984
PUBLICATIONS
Books
1999. Gold Coast Church and the Ghetto: Christ and Culture in Mainline Protestantism. Champaign: University of Illinois Press 1999. The Power of Religious Publics: Staking Claims in American Society. Co-editor with William H. Swatos, Jr. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers
Journal Articles
2004 with Kyoko Tokuno. “Is Religious Violence Inevitable?” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43:3 (2004) 291-296
2002. “Religion without a Net: Strictness in the Religious Practices of West Coast Urban Liberal Christian Congregations.” Review of Religious Research, Volume 44:2 Pages 184-199. 2002. “Finding a New Center: The Future of the Liberal Protestant Mainline.” The Journal of Presbyterian History. Reprint. 80:3 (Fall): 172-188 1999. Introduction to "The Debate Over Homosexual Ordination: Subcultural Identity Theory in American Religious Organizations.” Review of Religious Research 41:184-206 1998. “The Decentering of the Protestant Mainline: John Timothy Stone, The Chicago Years 1913-1930.” The Journal of Presbyterian History 76 (Fall): 199-213
Special Guest Editor 1999. “Special Issue: Religious Organizational Identity and Homosexual Ordination: A Case-Study of a Protestant Denomination.” Review of Religious Research 41:184-274
Book Chapters
2004. “The Churching of the Pacific Northwest: The Rise of Sectarian Entrepreneurs." In Religion and Public Culture in the Pacific Northwest: The None Zone, edited by Patricia O'Connell Killen and Mark Silk. Religion by Region Series. Walnut Creek: Alta Mira Press 1999. “Religion Out of the Closet: Public Religion and Homosexuality.” In The Power of Religious Publics: Staking Claims in American Society, edited by William H. Swatos, Jr. and James K. Wellman, Jr. Greenwood, CT: Praeger Publishing Dictionary ArticlesForthcoming 2004. “The Religious Practices of World Evangelicalism.” In Religions of the World, Volume 1, Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. Thomas Riggs, editor. Gale Publishing 2001. “Secularism.” In The Encyclopedia of Fundamentalism, ed. Brenda Brasher. Religion and Society Series, David Levinson, general editor. New York: Routledge 1997. “Presbyterians.” In The Encyclopedia of Religion and Society, eds. William H. Swatos, Jr., and Peter Kivisto. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press Editorials2004. “Mixing church and state can damage both.” The Seattle Times, August 5 Online Articles2004. “Religious Scholarship and Insider Status: The Question of Teaching and Faith.” Fostering Student Development through Faculty Development,
2003. “The Idol of Empire.” Sightings. Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School. December 3 2001. “God and Business.” Sightings. Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School. August 8 Book Reviews
2001. Decent and in Order: Conflict, Christianity, and Polity in a Presbyterian Congregation, by Ronald R. Stockton, Review of Religious Research 43:1 (September)
2001. Seeker Churches: Promoting Traditional Religion in a Nontraditional Way, by Kimon Howland Sargeant, The Journal of Religion 81 (July): 473-4
WORK IN PROGRESS
Religion, Violence and the State: Patterns across Time and Tradition, co-editor with Kyoko Tokuno, University of Washington Press, under review “War is Normal: The Logic of American Evangelical Christian Religion.” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, under review
Dueling Christianities: Evangelicals vs. Liberals in the American Northwest. Book proposal, Oxford University Press, under review
“The Domestication of Religion: The False Choice in the Either/or Debate between Naturalistic and Religious Approaches to the Study of Religion.” Paper being revised for submission
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Co-Principal Investigator, University of Washington Simpson Center Grant Comparative Religion Program Colloquium Series “Religion and Democratic Culture: The Problems and Possibilities for Peace” $3,300 Co-Principal Investigator, University of Washington Simpson Center Grant Comparative Religion Program Colloquium Series and Symposium “Religion, Conflict and Violence: Exploring Patterns Past and Present, East and West” $12,500 Co-Principal Investigator, University of Washington Arts and Sciences Exchange Program Comparative Religion Program Colloquium Series and Symposium “Religion, Conflict and Violence: Exploring Patterns Past and Present, East and West” $10,000 Principal Investigator, Louisville Institute “The Churching of an Unchurched Region: Evangelical Entrepreneurs in the Pacific Northwest” $15,743 Principal Investigator, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion “The Influence of Global Evangelicalism on Pacific Northwest Entrepreneurial Christianity” $3,000 Principal Investigator, Constance H. Jacquet Research Award, 2003-2004 “Pacific Northwest Megachurches and the New Knowledge Economy” $2,700 Principal Investigator, Spiritual Transformation Grants Scientific Research Program, Templeton Foundation. Proposal: “Understanding the Spiritual Capital of Business Leaders” $150,000 matching grant finalist, 60 out of 470 applications (Rejected; revising proposal for resubmission) Principal Investigator, Lilly Endowment Grant, Religion by Region, 2001-2002 Book chapter: “Sectarian Entrepreneurs: Pacific Northwest Religionists” $2,000 Principal Investigator, Constance H. Jacquet Research Award, 1999-2000 Religious Practices of West Coast Lay Liberals $2,000 Principal Investigator, General Research Grant, Louisville Institute, 1998-1999 The Protestant Mainstream Church and the Religious Practice of Lay Liberals $25,000
CONFERENCE PAPERS
“Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: Sectarian Evangelical Christians.” Paper presentation at the American Society of Church History, American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington, (January 2005) “War is Normal: The Logic of American Evangelical Religion.” Paper presented at the University of Washington Comparative Religion Symposium: “Religion, Conflict and Violence: Exploring Patterns Past and Present, East and West,” (May 2004)
“War is Normal: The Logic of American Evangelical Religion.” Paper presentation at the Pacific Northwest Region, American Academy of Religion, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, (May 2004) “Sectarian Entrepreneurs in the Pacific Northwest: Rethinking Patterns in Church and Sect.” Paper presentation at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Norfolk, Virginia, (October 2003)
“Theorists Meet Practitioners.” Panel presentation at the Religious Research Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, (October 2002) “Religious Truth and the Sociology of Knowledge.” Paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion,
“The Domestication of Religion: Religious Studies Programs and the Secularization Process.” Paper by invitation for “The Secular Revolution: Power, Agency, and Conflict in the Secularization of American Public Life,” sponsored by the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, (June 2001) “The Characteristics of Successful Urban,
“Religion without a Net: Religious Practice of Lay Liberals.” Paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion,
“Ideological Backlash or Institutional Boundary Maintenance? An Examination of the Re-Imagining Controversy.” Paper presented at the Women and Religion section,
“The Transformation of a Protestant Establishment Church: A Social History of an Elite Downtown Protestant Church, 1961-1984.” Paper presented at the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion,
“Boundaries Maintained and Transgressed: An Examination of an Elite Downtown Protestant Church.” Paper presented at the Religious Research Association,
“A Counter-Example of Liberal Protestant Failure: A Case-Study of an Elite Downtown Protestant Church, from 1984-1994.” Paper presented at the Association for the Sociology of Religion,
“Peculiar Partners: A Gold Coast Church and Cabrini Green.” Paper presented at the Chicago Group for the Study of Religious Communities. R. Stephen Warner, organizer, University of Illinois at Chicago, Sociology Department, (February 1994)
OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES
Organizing Committee: International Conference: “Unity and Diversity in Religion and Culture: Exploring the psychological and philosophical issues underlying global conflict.” Sponsored by the UNESCO Chair on Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, a part of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Institute for Cultural Research; Seattle, Washington, (January 27-30, 2005) Organizer with Kyoko Tokuno, University of Washington Comparative Religion Symposium: “Religion, Conflict and Violence: Exploring Patterns Past and Present, East and West,” (May 13, 14, 2004)
Moderator, “Types of Relics: Toward a Typology and Location.” American Academy of Religion, annual meeting, (November 22, 2003)
Session Organizer, “Pacific Northwest Religion: Secularization or Revival?” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, annual meeting, (October 2003) Discussant, “Vital Liberal Congregations Consultation,” Louisville Institute, (December 9, 10, 2002) Session Organizer, “The Future of Theory in the Social Scientific Study of Religion,” Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, annual meeting, (October 2001) Respondent: Author Meets Critics, Teenagers in Religious Institutions, by Roger L. Dudley. Religious Research Association, annual meeting, (October 2001) Discussant, “Understanding Religious Social Capital in the Pacific Northwest,” Pacific Lutheran University, (October 2000)
Discussant, Lilly Regional Conference on Religion in the News, University of Washington, (July 1998) Conference Organizer, Program director, Religious Research Association, annual meeting, (October 1997) Chair and Organizer, The Power of Religious Publics: Staking Claims in American Society, Religious Research Association, (October 1997) Organizer: Author Meets Critics, Money Matters: Personal Giving in American Churches, by Dean Hoge, Charles Zech, Patrick McNamara, and Michael J. Donahue, (October 1997) Organizer and Discussant: Author Meets Critics, Vital Signs: The Promise of Mainstream Protestantism, Milton J. Coalter, John M. Mulder, and Louis Weeks, (October 1997)
GUEST LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
“Patterns in Church Growth and Vitality: Evangelicals in the Pacific Northwest.” Presentation for religious practitioners and social service workers, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, (April 22, 2004) “Augustine for Protestants.” Presentation to the Newman Center, University of Washington, (April 21, 2004) “Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Northwest: A Symposium for Journalists.” Book launch, Religion and the Public Life in the
“Patterns in American Religion.” Presentation for the English Language Program, University of Washington, (February 26, 2004)
“Religion, Conflict and Violence.” Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium, Anthropology Department, University of Washington, (November 3, 2003). “Theory in Understanding Religion and Violence.” Colloquium for Religion, Conflict and Violence: Patterns Past and Present, East and West, University of Washington, (October 15, 2003. “The Protestant Reformation.” Presentation to Bainbridge High School European Honor’s Program, Bainbridge Island, Washington, (September 23, 2003) Panel Discussant, University of Washington Qualitative Research Conference, (May 20, 2003) “Developing Your Personal and Professional Legacy.” Workshop for Proctor & Gamble Alumnae Meeting, Cincinnati, Ohio, (April 26, 2003) “The Bible and War: The Defense of Territory in American Christianity.” Lecture for the
Discussion facilitator, Brandywine West Conference on Global Religious Freedom, Institute for Global Engagement, (April 12, 2003) “Faith and Reason in the Western Religious Tradition.” Lecture for Kenneth Clatterbaugh’s Honor’s course in Philosophy of Religion, (April 8, 2003)
“Peace and War in the Christian Tradition.” Lecture for “Peace: It’s Spiritual and Ethical Roots,” Unity Church panel discussion, Bainbridge Island, (March 30, 2003) “American Alternative Religions: Messiahs and Mystics.” Phi Beta Kappa, annual meeting, University of Washington, (March 6, 2003) “Developing a Professional Legacy.” Workshop for JPMorgan Chase, Diversity Mentoring Program, Houston, Texas, (February 12, 2002) “History of Christian Ethics.” Adult Education Course, Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church, (January 5-March 2, 2003) “The Joys and Dangers of the Comparative Study of Religion.” Lecture for the Interfaith Council, Bainbridge Island, (October 20, 2002) “Appreciating Religious Diversity in the Workplace.” Workshop for JPMorgan Chase, (October 10, 2002) “Relics and Territory: Cosmogony and Divine Dismemberment.” Discussant for the Comparative Religion Program Colloquium, University of Washington, (November 28, 2001) “Augustine: History and Thought.” Adult Education Course, Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church, (September 9-October 14, 2001) “Critical Bible Studies: Genesis, Matthew and Romans.” Weekly Bible Study, Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church, (September 1999-2001) “The North American Spiritual Marketplace.” Lecture for Coca Cola Marketing Executives, Atlanta, Georgia, (November 20, 2000) “Revitalizing the Urban
“World Religions in a Comparative Mode.” Adult Education Course, Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church, (September 17-October 22, 2000) “Liberal Protestantism: Past, Present and Future.” Lecture for Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Illinois, (November 21, 1999) “The Third Way: Transcending the Conflicts in Liberal and Conservative Protestantism” Workshop for the Annual Snohomish/King County Lutheran Cluster, (October 23, 1999) “The Jesus Seminar: The Contemporary Debate.” Adult Education Course, Rolling Bay Presbyterian Church, (September 12-October 17, 1999) “Religious Ethics and the Global Economy.” Lecture for Northwest Ethics Institute, (May 15, 1999) “The History of the
“Creativity and the Soul.” Workshop for Starbucks International Executive Retreat, (February 17-19, 1999) “Business Ethics and Spiritual Practice.” Lecture for Plymouth Congregational Church, Seattle, WA, (November 3-24, 1998)
MEDIA SERVICE Interview, Protestantism in the Pacific Northwest, Bothel Kenmore Reporter, (March 19, 2004) Interview, Pacific Northwest Religion, Knute Berger, Editor, Seattle Weekly, (March 18, 2004) Television interview: Evangelicals, Religion and Conflict, “UO Today.” Part of the Oregon Humanities Center symposium, “War and Martial Metaphor in Scripture.” University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, (March 1, 2004) Interview, Purpose Driven Evangelicals, Susie Oh, Bremerton Sun, (December 19, 2003) Interview, Pacific Northwest Alternative Churches, Vanessa Ho, Seattle Times, (August 8, 2003) Interview, Pacific Northwest Religious Leadership, John Tullic, Legislative Assistant for Paul Chin’s office, State Legislature, (October 23, 2002) Interview, Proposal for Spiritual Transformation Conference, Kristin Holmes, Religion Editor, Philadelphia Enquirer (October 13, 2002) OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES University of Washington Comparative Religion Program: Chair of CRP, beginning in 2005 Graduate Admissions Committee (2002-present) Teaching Assistant Committee (2002-present) Webb Scholarship Committee (2002-present) Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Committee (2001) Jackson School of International Studies: Curriculum Committee: Developing Global Cultures Core Course Honor’s Committee Committee for Internships Advisory Board member, University of Washington Qualitative Research Group Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Nominating Committee Member (2003-2004) Religious Research Association Board Secretary (2002-03) Chair, Jacquet Grant Committee (2001) Long Range Planning (1999-2000) Program director, annual meeting (1997) Article Referee Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Review of Religious Research Book Reviewer The Journal of Religion Review of Religious Research Book Manuscript Referee Southern Illinois University Press Technical Expert Group, Religion and Society, King County Health Indicator Initiative, Seattle-King County Department of Public Health, 1998-1999 Interviewer for Lilly Endowment Project on the Family, 1993-1994 TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Washington The Nature and Study of Religion Modern Religious Thought Introduction to Western Religions American Religions American Enthusiastic Religion (graduate seminar) Theories in Religion (graduate seminar) JSIS Task Force:
TEACHING FIELDS History of Western Christian thought and culture; Middle Ages to present History and sociology of American religion: Puritanism, nineteenth- and twentieth -century religious history and thought Theoretical Study of Religion: classical and contemporary theory, Marx, Weber, Freud, Durkheim, Berger, Warner, Bourdieu, Geertz, Frankenberry and Penner Religion and culture: global evangelicalism, religion and the state, religion and conflict, private and public religion Religious Experience: history and contemporary theoretical debates on Christian mysticism; psychological and sociological aspects of religious experience Ph.D. THESIS Changing Boundaries: A Social History of a Downtown Protestant Establishment Church from 1908-1995 Co-advisors: Martin E. Marty and Don S. Browning PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Religious Research Association American Academy of Religion The Society for Christian Ethics LANGUAGES
German and New Testament Greek Basic reading proficiency Hebrew and French Passed graduate reading exam
REFERENCES Martin Marty, History of Christianity, University of Chicago Divinity School 239 Scottswood Rd., Riverside, IL 60546, H: (708) 442-9453 memarty@aol.com Catherine Bell, Chair, Religious Studies, Asian Studies, Santa Clara University 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053-0335, O: (408) 554-4035 cbell@scu.edu Martin Jaffee, Professor, Chair, Comparative Religion Program University of Washington Box 353650, Seattle, WA 98195, O: (206) 543-9846 jaffee@u.washington.edu Brannon Wheeler, Comparative Religion Program, Islamic Studies University of Washington Box 353120, Seattle, WA 98195, O: (206) 543-7343 wheelerb@u.washington.edu Rodney Stark, University Professor of Sociology, Baylor University 170 Camino Rayo Del Sol Corrales, New Mexico 87048, H: (505) 890-5171 SOCSTARK@aol.com Douglas Oakman, Department of Religion, Pacific Lutheran University 870-120th Street South, Tacoma, WA 98444 H: (253) 537-2376, O: (253) 535-7317 oakmande@plu.edu Patricia O'Connell Killen, Chair, Department of Religion Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA 98447-0003, O: (253) 535-7776 F: (253) 536-5132 killenpo@plu.edu James W. Lewis, Executive Director, Louisville Institute 1044 Alta Vista Road, Louisville, KY 40205-1798 O: (502) 895-3411 ext. 270 F: (502) 894-2286 jlewis@louisville-institute.org |
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