Terry Shoemaker
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Phone: 480-727-4035
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Mail code: 4302Campus: Tempe
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Terry Shoemaker is a qualitative research scholar focusing on religious change in contemporary life in the United States. This includes the ways that religion and religious people adapt, convert, deconvert, reform, and abandon aspects of their religiosity or spirituality. He is interested also in studying sports in the United States through the lens of religious studies theories and methods. His work is featured at numerous sites like The Conversation, Zócalo Public Square, and Religion Dispatches. These interests lead Terry into various classes at ASU on the topics of Religion and Popular Culture, Religion and Sports, and Spirituality in America.
His latest book Religions and Sports: The Basics provides an introductory text for how to understand the many relationships between religion and sports, and how to study the two phenomena. Religions and Sports follows previously published work like The Prophetic Dimension of Sport (2018) and a second edited volume regarding the future of progressive Christianity and the Millennial generation with Wifp & Stock Publishers. Terry currently serves as vice president of the Society for the Future of Higher Education (SFHE), as the co-editor of the International Journal of Sport and Religion, and on the Religion, Sport, and Play American Academy of Religion steering committee.
PhD Religious Studies - Arizona State University
M.A. Religious Studies - Western Kentucky University
B.A. Religious Studies/History - Western Kentucky University
Transforming Religiosity in the United States
- Exvangelicalism
- White Christian Nationalism
- Spirituality in America
- Religion and Sports
- Religion and Popular Culture
Select Publications:
- Religions and Sports: The Basics 2024. Routledge Publishing
- Shoemaker, Terry. "Skateboarding and Pickleball as Spiritual Practice?," International Journal of Sport and Religion 1:2, 2023.
- Shoemaker, Terry. "Current Issues: Faith and Football Before the Super Bowl," International Journal of Sport and Religion 1:2, 2023.
- Shoemaker, Terry and Ciara Bernal. "Skateboarding and Embodied Subjective-Life Spirituality," Journal of Contemporary Religion 2024, 1-20.
- Shoemaker, Terry. "Religion and Sport: Future Directions for the Field," International Journal of Sport and Religion 1:1, 2023.
- Terry Shoemaker, Rachel Schneider Vlachos, and Xochitl Alvizo, Editors. The Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion, Vol. 2: Curations and Durations, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2022.
- Shoemaker, Terry. “World Religion and ‘Fake News’: A Pedagogical Response in an Age of Post-Truth,” Teaching Theology and Religion 22:4, 2019.
- Shoemaker, Terry. “Deconversion, Sport, and Rehabilitative Hope,” Religions 10 (2019), 1-13.
- Shoemaker, Terry, editor. The Prophetic Dimension of Sport (Springer International Publishing, 2018).
- Shoemaker, Terry (2017) "Escaping Our Shitty Reality: Counterpublics, OITNB, and Religion” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 383 | Religion and Sports |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| ASB 383 | Religion and Sports |
| REL 383 | Religion and Sports |
| ASB 383 | Religion and Sports |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 493 | Honors Thesis |
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 492 | Honors Directed Study |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 502 | The Study of Religion II |
| REL 383 | Religion and Sports |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| ASB 383 | Religion and Sports |
| REL 493 | Honors Thesis |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 383 | Religion and Sports |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 394 | Special Topics |
| ASB 383 | Religion and Sports |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 383 | Religion and Sports |
2022 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 383 | Religion and Sports |
| ASB 383 | Religion and Sports |
| REL 394 | Special Topics |
| REL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 383 | Religion and Sports |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 690 | Reading and Conference |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 383 | Religion and Sports |
| ASB 383 | Religion and Sports |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2020 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 101 | Religion, Culture, Public Life |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 499 | Individualized Instruction |
2019 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 394 | Special Topics |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 202 | Religion and Popular Culture |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 307 | Religion: Theory and Practice |