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Elijah Siegler

Professor of Religious Studies

Education

• Ph.D. in Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
• A. in Comparative Study of Religion, Harvard University

 Research Interests

• New religious movements
• Religion and popular culture
• Asian religions in America
• Religious Studies Pedagogy

Courses Taught

• RELS 101: Approaches to Religion
• RELS 105: World Religions
• RELS 118: Modern History of Religion
• RELS 120: Religion, Art & Culture
• RELS 205: Sacred Texts of The East
• RELS 210: Theories in the Study of Religions
• RELS 247: The Daoist Tradition
• RELS 248: Religious Traditions of China & Japan
• RELS 250: Religions in America
• RELS 280: Religion and Film
• RELS 298: Special Topics - Contemporary Daoism
• RELS 298: Special Topics - The Daoist Tradition
• RELS 298: Special Topics - The Religion of Trump
• RELS 315: New Religious Movements
• RELS 348: Asian Religions in America
• RELS 450: Senior Seminar
• RELS 451: Capstone
• ASST 105: Value & Tradition in Asian Civilizations
• HONS 175: Approaches to Religion - The Varieties of Religious Experience
• HONS 381: American Evangelicalism
• FYSE 134: First-Year Experience
• FYSM 160: American Evangelicalism

Publications

Books:

• (editor and author of three chapters), (Waco, Tex: Baylor University Press, 2016)
• (Prentice Hall, 2007).

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• "Adventure Time and Sacred History: Myth and Reality in Children’s Animated Cartoons" a chapter in Religion and Popular Culture in America, 3rd edition, Bruce Forbes and Jeffrey Mahan, eds. in press, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017)
• “Television” in John C. Lyden and Eric Michael Mazur, eds. The Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture(New York: Routledge, 2015), 41-64
• “,” in David Palmer and Liu Xun, eds. Daoism in the 20^thcentury: Between Eternity and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press), 2011
• “What Is American Daoism?” Yang Shengonline journal, May 2011
• “” (co-written with Richard Madsen) in David Palmer, Glenn Shive and Philip Wickeri, eds. Chinese Religious Life: Culture, Society and Politics(Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2011
• “’Back to the Pristine’: Identity Formation and Legitimation in Contemporary American Daoism” Nova Religio1 October 2010: 45-66
• “” in Eric Mazur and Kate McCarthey eds, God in the Details:American Religion in Popular Culture, 2^nd edition (New York: Routledge Press, 2010).
• “” in Diane Winston, ed. Small Screen, Big Picture: Television and Lived Religion(Waco, Tex.: Baylor University Press, 2009), 401-426.

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