Skip to Content
College of Arts and Sciences

Religion Faculty

The faculty members of the Department of Religion are world-renown scholars with a vast history of research and scholarship in areas such as the Gospels and early Christianity, modern Jewish thought and interfaith theology, among many others. In addition to publishing a voluminous number of books and papers, faculty members serve on the editorial boards of many of the most prestigious journals in the field, including the Biblical Theology Bulletin, the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and the Journal of Biblical Literature. The department’s professors are also highly esteemed speakers and, in just one recent year, delivered invited lectures at universities throughout the world, including Yale University, Emory University, the University of Pennsylvania and Wuhan University in China.

Issam Aburaya
Issam Aburaya
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
View Profile
Profile photo of Professor Nkosi Anderson
Nkosi Anderson
Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
View Profile
Alan Brill
Rabbi Alan Brill
Cooperman/Ross Endowed Chair for Jewish-Christian Studies; Director of Graduate Studies; Professor
View Profile
Charles Carter
Charles Carter
Professor of Religious Studies
View Profile
Colleen Conway
Colleen Conway
Professor of Religious Studies and Chair
View Profile
Father Frizzell
Lawrence Frizzell
Associate Professor, Jewish-Christian Studies Graduate Program
View Profile
Michael Maloney
Michael Maloney
Senior Lecturer
View Profile
Ines Murzaku
Ines Murzaku
Professor of Religion and Director of Catholic Studies Program
View Profile
Anthony Sciglitano
Anthony Sciglitano
Associate Professor of Religion and Executive Director of the Sister Rose Thering Fund for Education in Jewish-Christian Studies
View Profile
Photo of Rachel Slutsky
Rachel Slutsky
Monsignor John Oesterreicher Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity
View Profile
Axel Takacs
Axel Takacs
Assistant Professor of Comparative Theology and Interreligious Studies
View Profile

 

Faculty Emeritus

Peter Ahr
Peter Ahr

Professor Emeritus of Religion

Richard Liddy
Richard Liddy

Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies

Webb
Gisela Goodrich Webb

Professor Emerita of Religious Studies

Affiliated Faculty

David OpderbeckDavid Opderback
Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Institute for Privacy Protection, and Co-Director of the Gibbons Institute for Law, Science and Technology
Seton Hall Law