Dr. Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand
Associate Professor
Departments / Programs
Degree Information
- PHD, University of California, Santa Barbara (2012)
- MA, University of Colorado Boulder (2004)
- BA, Western Michigan University (2000)
Areas of Expertise
- Religion in the United States
- Religion & Law
- Religion & Gender
- New Religious Movements
- Theory and Method in Religious Studies
- The Scholarship on Teaching and Learning
Publications
Recent Publications:
Gray-Hildenbrand, Jenna, and Rebekka King. “Teaching in Contexts: Designing a Competency-based Religious Studies Program.” Teaching Theology and Religion 22 (2019): 191-204. (click) To see a May 2017 interview about our Religious Studies program at MTSU click.
Smith Roberts, Martha and ...
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Gray-Hildenbrand, Jenna, and Rebekka King. “Teaching in Contexts: Designing a Competency-based Religious Studies Program.” Teaching Theology and Religion 22 (2019): 191-204. (click) To see a May 2017 interview about our Religious Studies program at MTSU click.
Smith Roberts, Martha and Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand. “Finding Religion, Spirituality, and Flow in Movement: An Ethnography of Value of the Hula Hoop Community.” Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions. 22 no. 3 (Feb. 2019): 36-59.(click) To see a March 2020 interview with Nova Religio's Co-Editor, Benjamin Zeller, about this article click .
Gray-Hildenbrand, Jenna. “The Appalachian ‘Other’: Academic Approaches to the Study of Serpent-Handling Sects” Religion Compass 10 no. 3 (2016): 47-57. (click)
Gray-Hildenbrand, Jenna and Martha Smith Roberts. “Hula Hoop Spiritualities: Social Media, Embodied Experience, and Communities of Practice,” in Practical Spiritualities in a Media Age, edited by Curtis Coats and Monica M. Emerich, 67-88. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015. (click)
In the Media
Recent Interviews and Podcasts:
May 2020 Podcast, "What Does Religious Literacy Mean in Your Context?" with Richard Newton, Chris Jones, Rebekka King, Jenna-Gray-Hildenbrand, Kevin Minister, and Bradly Onishi. Dave McConeghy moderator. click.
March 2020 interview with Nova Religio's Co-Editor, Benjamin Zeller, about “Finding Religion, Spirituality, and Flow in Movement: An Ethnography of Value of the Hula Hoop Community” (co-author Martha Smith Roberts - see above) click .
May 2017 interview about our Religious Studies program at MTSU click.
Courses
For more information on the Religious Studies courses (click). For more information on the Women's and Gender Studies courses (click)
- WGST 2100: Introduction to Women’s Studies
- RS 2030: Religion & Society
- RS 3060: Pilgrimage and Sacred Journeys
- RS 4030: Contemporary Issues in Indigenous Religions
- RS 4120: Cults and New Religious Movements
- RS 4201: Women & Religion
- WGST 4201: Symposium in Women's Studies: Women & Religion
- RS 4130: Religion & Law
- RS 4900: Seminar in Religious Studies
