Darby Kathleen Ray
          Professor of Religious Studies
          Director of the Millsaps Faith & Work Initiative
          Millsaps College
          Jackson, Mississippi

          Selected Course Offerings:

          • Introduction to Religious Studies
          • Religion and American Culture
          • (G)race Matters: Race, Religion, & Contemporary Black America
          • African American Religious Traditions

          • The Seven Deadly Sins

          • Evil

          • The Meaning of Work

          • Suffering, Tragedy, and Liberation in the Ancient World

          • Eat, Drink, Man, Woman: Body and Spirit in the Medieval World
          • Tradition Transformers: A Seminar in History of Christian Thought
          • Rethinking Jesus: Ancient and Contemporary Portrayals
          • Spirit and Nature
          • Contemporary Theology
          • Theologies Opague: Christianities in Black, Brown, and Yellow
          • Religious Autobiography
          • Introduction to New Testament and Early Christianity


          Academic Interests

          • contemporary Christian thought and practice
          • justice issues (economic, environmental, racial, and sexual) in relation to Christianity
          • Christian theology and practice in a global context and in relation to other religious traditions
          • the ethical stances and moral imagination of marginalized groups in Christian history


          Publications:

          • Incarnation and Imagination: A Christian Ethic of Ingenuity
            author
            Fortress Press, 2008
          • Empire & the Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians
            contributing author
            Fortress Press, 2007
          • Theology That Matters: Ecology, Economy, and God
            editor and contributing author
            Fortress Press, 2006
          • Constructive Theology: A Contemporary Approach to Classical Themes
            chapter editor and contributing author
            Fortress Press, 2005
          • Deceiving the Devil: Atonement, Abuse, and Ransom
            author
            Pilgrim Press, 1998
          • "A Praxis of Atonement: Confronting Evil Through Cunning and Compassion"
            in Religious Studies And Theology 18:1, June 1999
          • "Location, Location, Location: Using Community Based Learning to Localize and Decolonize the Subject in the Religious Autobiography Course"
            in Teaching Theology & Religion 3:1, February 2000


          Select College Activities

          • Tenure and Promotion Committee
          • 1 Campus, 1 Community Project Director
          • Chair, Department of Religious Studies
          • Director, Millsaps Faith & Work Initiative
          • Arts & Letters Division Personnel Committee
          • Academic Advising Committee
          • Honor Council
          • Faculty Council
          • Faculty Sponsor, Millsaps Project Yellow Ribbon (suicide awareness, prevention, and support)
          • Faculty Sponsor, Millsaps Canterbury Club
          • Board Member, Center for Ministry


          Hobbies and Interests:

          • swimming
          • hiking
          • canoeing
          • independent films
          • music
          • dancing
          • playing with Chandler and Elena


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          Professor Ray

          raydk@millsaps.edu