D. James Atwood, Instructor and Assistant to the Dean of Admissions (Ph.D, Vanderbilt). History of Religion in America, Sects and Cults in American Religion.

  Claudia V. Camp, Professor (Ph.D., Duke). Religion and the Search for Meaning in the Old Testament, Love and Sex in the Biblical World.

Mark Dennis, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin). East Asian Religious Perspectives, Buddhism, Religion and Violence.)

J. Sage Elwell, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Iowa). Religion in Visual Culture.

Elizabeth H. Flowers, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Duke) History of Religion in America, Women in American Religion, Evangelicalism.

  Andrew O. Fort, Professor  (Ph.D., Pennsylvania). Hindu Religious Perspectives, East Asian Religious Perspectives, Buddhism: Thought and Practice, Mysticism, India: Texts and Traditions.

  C. David Grant, Professor and Chair of the Department (Ph. D., Harvard). Thinking about Christian Faith, Philosophy of Religion, God in Modern Thought, Religion and Science.

  David M. Gunn, A. A. Bradford Professor of Religion (Ph.D., Newcastle-Upon-Tyne). Interpreting Biblical Narrative: Gender and Violence, The Bible in Western Culture: Word and Image. How to Read the Bible: Story and Politics.

Melanie Harris, Assistant Professor. (Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary). Black Religion in the U.S., Womanist Ethics, Black Literature & Religion, Religion and News Media. (On leave 2008-09).

Jack A. Hill, Associate Professor, (Ph.D., Vanderbilt). Christian Ethics, Faith and Ethical Leadership, Christianity and Contemporary Social Issues, Religion and Environmental Ethics, Constructive Global Ethics.

  Nadia M. Lahutsky, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Vanderbilt). Christian Tradition: Emergence to the Renaissance, Christian Tradition: Reformation to Modernity, Contemporary Catholicism, Women and Womanhood in Western Religion.

Hjamil Martínez-Vázquez, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Lutheran School of Theology). Religion and Politics in Latin America, Being Latina/o in the United States, Latina Feminist Religious Thought, Liberation and Postcolonial Theologies.

  Darren J. N. Middleton, Professor (Ph.D., University of Glasgow). Theology and Literature, Jesus in Fiction and Film, Literary Images of God, Caribbean Religions.

Jan Jaynes Quesada, Instructor (Ph.D., Baylor). Understanding Religion: Texts and Ideas.

   Yushau Sodiq, Associate Professor (Ph.D., Temple). Islam, African Religions, Islam in America

Janet Spittler, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., University of Chicago) Hellenistic Greek, New Testament and Early Christian Literature. Jesus in the Gospels. Paul and the Early Church.