Craig Martin

Craig Martin received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 2007 and is currently Professor of Religious Studies at St. Thomas Aquinas College, where he has been teaching since 2008. His research focuses on theoretical questions in the study of religion, typically related to modes of analysis arising from critical theory and poststructuralism—including race, class, and gender; social power, hegemony, and domination; and discourse analysis and ideology critique. His books include Masking Hegemony: A Genealogy of Liberalism, Religion, and the Private Sphere, A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion, and Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie. He’s currently working on Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Cliches, Volume II (with Brad Stoddard again), which will have a set of ten all new cliches not covered in the first volume.

Books

Stereotyping Religion: Critiquing Clichés. Ed. by Brad Stoddard and Craig Martin. Bloomsbury Publishing (2017).

A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion, Second Edition. Routledge Publishing (2017).

Capitalizing Religion: Ideology and the Opiate of the Bourgeoisie. Bloomsbury Publishing (2014).

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).

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).

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 Constructing “Data” in Religious Studies: Architecture of the Academy, ed. by Leslie Dorrough Smith, 151-174. 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, 1-17. 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, 96-105. 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 Aaron Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon, 61-63. Equinox Publishing (2017).

“Why do people fight so much over their religious beliefs?” In Religion in 5 Minutes: Scholars Answer Your Questions, ed. by Aaron Hughes and Russell T. McCutcheon, 112-114. 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 (2013). (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 Experience: 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 the 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).