Race, Religion, Gender, and Multidisciplinary Studies
Dr. Betsy Perabo, Interim Chair/Professor of Religious Studies
B.A., Northwestern University; M.Div., Harvard Divinity School; Ph.D., Yale University
Coordinator, Department of Race, Religion, Gender, and Multidisciplinary Studies
Program Coordinator, African American Studies, Religious Studies, and Women鈥檚 Studies
Dr. Perabo joined the Department in 2005.
Contact Info
Office: Morgan Hall 232C
Phone:
(309) 298-2214
E-mail:听BC-Perabo@wiu.edu
Office Hours: Please contact Dr. Perabo for the current semester's office hours.
Courses
- LAS 195 - Introduction to Liberal Arts and Sciences
- LAS 495 - Liberal Arts and Sciences Senior Capstone
- REL 101 - Religion and Popular Culture
- REL 111 - Introduction to Western Religions
- REL 300 - Religion, Ethics, and Law
- REL 301 - Religion in America
- REL 303 - Women in Religion
- REL 456 - Religion and War
- REL 494 - Religion and African American Culture
- WS 190 - Introduction to Women鈥檚 Studies
Areas of Specialization
Religious Ethics; Religion and War; Women and Religion
Selected Publications
Russian Orthodoxy and the Russo-Japanese War (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017).
鈥淲hat People are For: Agrarianism and Religion in the Heartland.鈥 In Tom Sadler, ed., Local Food Systems and Activism in the Heartland: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Common Ground Publishing, 2013): 146-161.
"How Soldiers, Too, Can Be Saved: Allegiance and Idolatry in the U.S. Military." Political Theology 11:2 (2010): 247-270.
"The Proportionate Treatment of Enemy Subjects: A Reformulation of the Principle of Discrimination." Journal of Military Ethics 7:2 (2008): 136-156.
Selected Conference Presentations
Refereed:
鈥淐lergy, Protest, and Rebellion: Russia鈥檚 1905 Revolution.鈥 Society of Christian Ethics, Louisville, Kentucky, January 3-6, 2019.
鈥淭he Novel as Sacred Text:听 Teaching听Station Eleven.鈥 Teaching Religion Section and SBL Academic Teaching and Biblical Studies Section, American Academy of Religion, San Antonio, Texas, November 19-22, 2016.
鈥淭he Christ-Loving Military: War, Empire, and Political Theology in Russia." Society of Christian Ethics, Toronto, Ontario, January 8-10, 2016.
鈥淐hrist-Loving Soldiers of a Christian Nation?听 Religion and the Military in Late Imperial Russia.鈥 Sixth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture, Memphis, Tennessee, September 17-19, 2015.
鈥淐hurches at War: The Conflict between Protestant and Orthodox Missions in the Russo-Japanese War.鈥 Ecclesiological Investigations Group, American Academy of Religion, San Diego, CA, November 21-24, 2014.
鈥淧olitical Theology in Time of War: Nikolai of Japan on Patriotism and Orthodoxy.鈥 Religion and Politics Section, American Academy of Religion, Baltimore, MD, November 22-25, 2013.
Organizational Memberships/Affiliations
American Academy of Religion; Society of Christian Ethics; Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture
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