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Joshua Urich

He/Him/His

Title

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Department

Religious Studies

Information

  • [email protected]
  • Lovejoy 346

Office Hours

Monday 11:30-12:30

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
RE128 Introduction to the Study of Religion A
RE237 Cults in America A

Joshua D. Urich studies American religion from the colonial period through the modern day. He holds degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and Northwestern University. His focus is on how bodily experiences generate religion, including concepts like the sacred, religious worldviews, and religious classifications (saints vs. sinners, for example, or purity vs. pollution). His current research project is a cultural history of suspicion, which examines the role of suspicion in shaping modernity.

 

Selected publications:

“‘But all had great reason to dread!’: Religion, Affect, and Conspiracy in the Stamp Act Crisis,” Church History 91, no. 2 (June 2022).

“Don’t be Ridiculous!: How Ridicule Turns Social Territory into Religious Maps,” American Examples: New Conversations about Religion, Volume 2, Samah Choudhury, Prea Persaud, and Michael J. Altman eds., Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. (forthcoming, 2024)

Public Scholarship:

“The Curious Life of General Jackson’s Horse’s Hair,” Not Even Past, 5/6/2015. http://notevenpast.org/the-curious-life-of-general-stonewall-jacksons-horses-hair/

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