ROBERTST@grinnell.edu
Campus Phone: 
4472
Unit (Dept., Office, Center, etc.): 
Religious Studies
Position: 
Professor of Religious Studies
On-Campus Address: 
1120 Park Street
Department Chair?: 
Yes
Education / Degrees: 
A.B. - Brown University
M.T.S. - Harvard Divinity School
Th.D. - Harvard Divinity School
Curriculum Vitae/Resume: 
application/pdf icontyler_roberts_cv08.pdf
Primary Academic Interest: 
Changing shape of religion in modern western culture
Other Academic Interests: 
History and thought of Christianity
Philosophy of religion

Elected Chair of the Humanities Division for academic years 2005-2006 and 2006-2007. Professor of Religious Studies, has a B.A. from Brown University and an MTS and Th.D. from Harvard University. His area of specialization is religion and critical thought with a special interest in the historical, theoretical and political lines that have been drawn between the religious and the secular in the modern period. Prof. Roberts' first book was a study of Nietzsche's religious thought entitled Contesting Spirit and he is currently completing a book entitled Encountering Religion: Religius Studies and Humanistic Criticism. He teaches courses at Grinnell on major western religions, modern religious thought, religion and politics in the United States, and theory and method in the study of religion.