Marcia Hermansen

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    About

    Marcia Hermansen is Director of the Islamic World Studies program and Professor in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago where she teaches courses in Islamic Studies and the academic study of religion. She received her Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Chicago and her numerous authored and co-edited books include Religious Diversity at School: Educating for New Pluralistic Contexts (2021), Varieties of American Sufism (2020), Islam, Religions, and Pluralism in Europe (2016), Islam and Citizenship Education (2015), and Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians (2013), as well as translations of works of Shah Wali Allah of Delhi.

    Research Interests

    • Islamic Studies
    • Theory and Method in the Study of Religion
    • Comparative Religion
    • South Asian and Middle East Studies
    • Mysticism
    • Women and Gender
    • Religion in America
    • Critical Theory
    • Youth Cultures
    • Islamic Theology
    • Interfaith Dialogue

    Disciplines

    • Islamic Studies