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Dr. Robert C. Fuller
Religious Studies
Rm: BR 295
Office Phone: (309) 677-3282
Office Hours: By appointment
E-mail: rcf@bradley.edu
Personal Information
Robert Fuller came to Bradley in 1978 from the University of Chicago where he received his Ph.D. in the fields of "Religion and Psychological Studies" and "American Religion." He teaches courses titled "Survey of Eastern Religion", "Religion in Contemporary America", "A Philosophical Description of the Human Condition" and "Religion and the Life Cycle." Professor Fuller's research concerns the relationship between psychology and religion as well as the study of contemporary religion in the United States. In addition to more than thirty journal articles, Dr. Fuller has published eleven books and his current project is "Spirituality in the Flesh: The Body in American Religious Life."
Courses
RLS 331 - Religious Cultures of East Asia
RLS 200 - Contemporary Religion in the United States
RLS 497 - Problems in Religious Studies
RLS 498 - Problems in Religious Studies
Educational Background
B.A. 1974 Denison University
M.A. 1975 University of Chicago
Ph.D. 1978 University of Chicago
Books:
Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality (University of North Carolina Press, 2006)
Religious Revolutionaries (Palgrave/McMillan, 2004)
Spiritual, But Not Religious: Understanding Unchurched America (Oxford University Press, 2001)
Stairways to Heaven: Drugs in American Religious History (Westview Press, 2000)
Religion and Wine (University of Tennessee Press, 1996)
Naming the Antichrist (Oxford University Press, 1995)
Ecology of Care: An Interdisciplinary View of the Self and Moral Obligation (Westminster Press, 1992)
Alternative Medicine and American Religious Life (Oxford University Press, 1989). Japanese edition by Shinjuku Shobo Co., 1992
Religion and the Life Cycle (Fortress Press, 1988)
Americans and the Unconscious (Oxford University Press, 1986)
Mesmerism and the American Cure of Souls (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982)
Selected Articles
"Sprituality in the Flesh: The Role of Discrete Emotions in Religious Life," Journal of American Academy of Religion (March, 2007)
"Wonder and Religious Sensibility," Journal of Religion (July, 2006)
"American Psychology and the Religious Imagination," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (July, 2006)
"Fresh Takes On A Classic: William James's 'Varieties' Approaches its Centennial" Religious Studies Review (Spring, 2000).
"The Will to Believe: A Centennial Reflection," Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Fall, 1996).
"Erikson, Psychology, and Religion," Pastoral Psychology (Fall, 1996).
"Wine, Symbolic Boundary Setting, and American Religious Communities," Journal of the American Academy of Religion (Fall, 1995).
"American Pragmatism Reconsidered: William James’s Ecological Ethic," Journal of Environmental Ethics (Summer, 1992).
"Biographical Origins of Psychological Ideas: Freud’s Cocaine Studies," The Journal of Humanistic Psychology (July, 1992). The Turn to Alternative Medicine," Second Opinion (Summer, 1992).
"Psychological Religiousness: Resisting the Tide of Disenchantment," Pastoral Psychology (Spring, 1988).
"Unorthodox Medicine and American Religious Life," The Journal of Religion (January, 1987).
"Religion and Empiricism in the Works of Peter Berger," Zygon (December, 1987).