faculty

Sameer Yadav, Th.D.

Associate Professor of Religious Studies
805-565-7042

Office Location

Porter Center Room 12

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Biography/Details

Sameer Yadav is a scholar of Christian mysticism and religious experience, race and religion, and theological method.  His research is interdisciplinary, engaging the historical, sociopolitical, philosophical, and moral dimensions of Christian faith and practice.  He is the author of The Problem of Perception and the Experience of God (Fortress Press, 2015), as well as many articles in academic journals and edited volumes.  Currently he is working to complete two books: God and Race (Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Brock Bahler), and From Story to Doctrine (Baker Academic). Works in progress also include a project on Job and Christian pessimism, another on Howard Thurman’s mystical theology, and a third on Christian social ontology and antiracist theologies of “peoplehood.” He earned his B.A. in philosophy from Boise State University, an S.T.M. from Yale Divinity School, and a Th.D. in Theology and Ethics from Duke Divinity School.