Klaus Yoder
Klaus C. Yoder is an historian of religion and politics in the modern West. His research examines embodiment, ritual, and state power in Christian and post-Christian contexts. His current book project tells the intersecting histories of the Catholic Church and the New York Police Department, laying out the political impact of their powerful alliance. He teaches courses on Christianity, the state, the body, the problem of evil, and the end of the world.
He podcasts on Seven Heads, Ten Horns: The History of the Devil
Departments and Programs
Courses
RELI 103: Religion and Sports
RELI 106: Radical Evil:The History of Wickedness in the West
RELI 108: Climate Change and the Apocalypse
RELI 111: Christian Theology and the Body
RELI 208: Religion, Revolution, and Reaction
RELI 209: The Devil You Know: Personifying Evil in the West
RELI 256: Theology of the Prison
Selected Publications
Photos
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