Professor of Religious Studies
Spellman Hall
845-398-4189
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Craig Martin teaches a wide variety of classes on religion and philosophy at St. Thomas Aquinas College, from Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism to Ethics and Philosophy of Social Science. His scholarly areas of expertise include method and theory in the study of religion, critical theory and feminist theory, discourse analysis, and ideology critique. He's written and co-edited several books, including A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion; Masking Hegemony: A Genealogy of Politics, Religion, and the Private Sphere; Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie; and Discourse and Ideology: A Critique of the Study of Culture. Outside of work he spends a lot of time with his cats and plays lead guitar in a 1990s alternative rock cover band.
Publications & Professional Affiliations
Books
- As yet untitled sequel to Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés. Ed. by Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin. Forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. (Refereed)
- Discourse & Ideology: A Critique of the Study of Culture. Forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic. (Refereed)
- Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés. Ed. by Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin. Bloomsbury Academic (2017). (Refereed)
- A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion, Second Edition. Routledge Publishing (2017). (Refereed)
- Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie. Bloomsbury Academic (2014). (Refereed)
- Religious Experience: A Reader. Ed. by Craig Martin and Russell McCutcheon, with Leslie Dorrough Smith. Equinox Publishing (2012).
- A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion. Equinox Publishing (2012). (Refereed)
- Collaborative Futures: Critical Reflections on Publicly Active Graduate Education. Ed. by Amanda Gilvin, Georgia M. Roberts, and Craig Martin. The Graduate School Press, Syracuse University (2012).
- Masking Hegemony: A Genealogy of Liberalism, Religion, and the Private Sphere. Equinox Publishing (2010). (Refereed)
Articles and Book Chapters
- “Definition and the Politics of Semantic Drift: A Reply to Susan Henking.” In Religion is …: Debating the Academic Study of Religion, ed. by Russell T. McCutcheon and Aaron Hughes. Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
- “Religion is …, Not Like Science: A Response to Laurie Zoloth. In Religion is …: Debating the Academic Study of Religion, ed. by Russell T. McCutcheon and Aaron Hughes. Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
- “Do People Misunderstand Their Own Religion?” In Fabricating Authenticity, ed. by Andie Alexander and Jason Ellsworth. Equinox Publishing (forthcoming).
- “‘[T]he thing itself always steals away’: Scholars and the Constitution of Their Objects of Study.” In Architecture of the Academy, ed. by Leslie Dorrough Smith. Equinox Publishing (2019).
- “On the Strategies of Identity Formation.” In Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity: Towards a Dynamic Theory of People and Place, ed. by Vaia Touna. Equinox Publishing (2019).
- “When Is It OK to Borrow?” In Strategic Acts in the Study of Identity: Towards a Dynamic Theory of People and Place, ed. by Vaia Touna. Equinox Publishing (2019).
- “Incapacitating Scholarship: Or, Why Methodological Agnosticism Is Impossible.” In The Question of Methodological Naturalism, ed. by Jason Blum. Brill Publishers (2018).
- “The Myth of Religion’s Uniqueness.” In Christian Tourist Attractions, Mythmaking, and Identity Formation, ed. by Erin Roberts and Jennifer Eyl. Bloomsbury (2018).
- “Rejoinder.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 29/4-5 (2017).
- “’Yes, … but ...’: The Neo-Perennialists.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 29/4-5 (2017).
- “Is atheism, or secularism, a religion?” In Religion in 5 Minutes: Scholars Answer Your Questions, ed. by Russell T. McCutcheon. Equinox Publishing (2017).
- “Why do people fight so much over their religious beliefs?” In Religion in 5 Minutes: Scholars Answer Your Questions, ed. by Russell T. McCutcheon. Equinox Publishing (2017).
- “Who Are You? I am/am not a McCutcheonite.” In Fabricating Identities, ed. by Russell T. McCutcheon. Equinox Publishing (2017).
- “Who Are You? I’m Wednesday’s Child” In Fabricating Identities, ed. by Russell T. McCutcheon. Equinox Publishing (2017).
- “Experience.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religions, ed. by Steven Engler and Michael Stausberg. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2016).
- “Capitalizing Religion: A Rejoinder to Critique.” Religion 46/3 (2016). • “Brilliant Obsessive: A Reed Weep Comedy.” In Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth, ed. by Alumno Sinllanto. Equinox Publishing (2016).
- “Religion as Ideology: Recycled Culture vs. World Religions.” In After World Religions: Reconstructing Religious Studies, ed. by Christopher R. Cotter and David G. Robertson. Routledge Publishing (2016).
- “Theses on the Critique of ‘Religion.’” Critical Research on Religion 3/3(2015). • “Conceptual Colonialism.” In Claiming Identity in the Study of Religion, ed. by Monica Miller. Equinox Publishing, (2015). • “The Politics of Choice.” In Fabricating Origins, ed. by Russell T. McCutcheon. Equinox Publishing (2015).
- “What Is Religion?” Political Theology 15/6 (2014). (Refereed)
- “Jesus’ Empire or the Empire’s Jesus?” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 26/2 (2014).
- “On ‘Belief’: A Story of Protectionism.” In Twenty-Five Years of Theory and Method, ed. by Aaron Hughes. Brill (2013).
- “Ideology and the Study of Religion: Marx, Althusser, and Foucault.” Religion Compass 7/9 (2013). (Refereed)
- “William James and Jesus Christ in Late Capitalism: Our Religion of the Status Quo.” Studies in Religion 42/4 (2012). (Refereed)
- “Neoliberal Mythmaking: On ‘Well-Being’ as the New Protestant Work Ethic.” Religion & Theology 19/3-4 (2012). (Refereed)
- “William James in Late Capitalism: Our Religion of the Status Quo,” in Religious Studies: A Reader, ed. by Craig Martin and Russell McCutcheon. Equinox Publishing (2012).
- “On the Totems of Science and Capitalism.” Implicit Religion 15/1 (2012). (Refereed)
- “On the Origin of the Private Sphere: A Discourse Analysis of Religion and Politics from Luther to Locke.” Temenos 45/2 (2009). (Refereed)
- “How to Read an Interpretation: Interpretive Strategies and the Maintenance of Authority.” The Bible and Critical Theory 5/1 (2009). (Refereed)
- “Delimiting Religion.” Method and Theory in th`e Study of Religion 21 (2009).
- “Configured for Exclusion: Characterizations of Religion in Liberal Political Philosophy.” Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 19/1-2 (2007). (Refereed)
- “On Using Religion, Or, How to Make Descriptions Carry Imperatives.” Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin, 36/4 (2007).
- “Policing Values and the Private Judgment of the Magistrate.” Council of Societies for the Study of Religion Bulletin, 35/4 (2006).
Degrees & Certifications
B.A., 1999, Anderson University
M.A.T.S., 2002, Claremont School of Theology
M.Phil, 2004, Syracuse University
Ph.D., 2007, Syracuse University
