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“A multi-year research project on spirituality at UCLA (HERI)  confirmed something I’ve believed for more than three decades: the search for God, the quest for meaning, and the longing for wholeness are dynamic forces in the lives of most college students. At The University of Findlay I have the grand opportunity to be part of a department that dares to address such matters, that doesn’t shy away from the big questions in life. As the philosopher Soren Kierkegaard contended many years ago, religion is far more that the acquisition of knowledge or the recital of creeds; true religion involves engagement, encounter, and experience. I believe this is also the case when we explore spirituality and religious traditions. In other words, the academic study of spirituality and religious traditions is not a sterile and detached enterprise, but one that demands curiosity, passion, and involvement."

Meet Our Staff
 
Louis Stulman, Ph.D.
 Chair, Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy, Professor of Religion
 Year Started at UF: 1997
Contact Information
  Office Location: 334 Frazer Street #A
 Telephone: 419-434-6988
 E-mail: stulman@findlay.edu
Credentials
  Ph.D., Drew University
M.Phil., Drew University
B.A., Roberts Wesleyan College

    Profile


    Louis Stulman is Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Religious Studies and Philosophy Department.  He earned the M.Phil and Ph.D in Hebrew Bible from Drew University and has done post-doctoral work at the University of Michigan.  Dr. Stulman’s research interests focus on the prophetic literature as an artistic tapestry of resistance and hope in response to war and captivity.

    He has written, co-authored or co-edited numerous books and articles (see below). Professor Stulman’s awards for teaching include the “Outstanding Educator” (Chamber of Commerce), the “Founder’s Academic Excellence Award for Faculty,” and "Excellence in Education" (Ohio Magazine). 

    Stulman is on the editorial board of the Journal of Biblical Literature; he is a contributor to Feasting on the Word (WJK) and the New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible (Abingdon); he also serves as a translator for the new Common English Bible.

    In addition to his professional activities, Louis enjoys hiking, cycling, almost every genre of music and film, and spending time with friends and family. Many years ago, he played lead guitar for a soul band called the Star Sapphires and the Primes. 

    Professional Activity

    Recent Papers/Presentations

         “Paths of Hope Amid Despair: Reading the Prophets in a World of Conflict,” Richard E. Wilkin Lecture in the College of Liberal Arts

    “Speaking on Behalf of the Losers: Reading Ezekiel as Disaster/Survival Literature," Annual SBL Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana

    “Art, Atrocity, and the Book of Jeremiah,” Annual SBL Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana

    “’But the Word of our God Endures Forever’: The Literarization of Prophecy,” Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society

    “Reading the Prophets as Meaning-Making Literature for Communities under Siege,” Annual AAR/SBL Meeting in Washington, DC

    “Collages of Terror, Tapestries of Hope: Reading Prophetic Texts in the Twenty-First Century,” Eastern Great Lakes Biblical Society

    “Jeremiah as Social Commentary and Map of Hope,” McCown Symposium, Rochester, New York

    “Mapquesting our Lives for Signs of Fear and Love,” Commencement Address at The University of Findlay

    Recent Publications and/or Performances


    Books and Edited Volumes 

    Jeremiah (Dis)Placed: New Directions in Writing/Reading Jeremiah. Edited with A. R. Pete Diamond (New York and London: T & T Clark, publication date: March 2011).

    You are My People: An Introduction to Prophetic Literature. With Hyun Chul Paul Kim (Nashville: Abingdon Press, publication date: September 2010)

    Abingdon Old Testament Commentary: Jeremiah (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2005)

    Inspired Speech: Prophecy in the Ancient Near East.  Essays in Honour of Herbert B. Huffmon. Edited with John Kaltner (New York and London: T & T Clark, 2004, 2005, 2008 paperback)

    Troubling Jeremiah,     edited with A. R. Diamond and Kathleen M. O’Connor (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press).

    Order Amid Chaos: Jeremiah As Symbolic Tapestry (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press).

    The Prose Sermons of the Book of Jeremiah. A Redescription of the Correspondences with Deuteronomistic Literature in the Light of Recent Text-Critical Research (Atlanta: Scholars Press).

    The Other Text of Jeremiah. A Reconstruction of the Hebrew Text Underlying the Greek Version of the Prose Sections of Jeremiah (New York and London: University Press of America).

    Selected Articles

    “The God of the Losers: Reading Ezekiel as Trauma/Survival Literature,” in Prophetic Exilic Gattung: The Relevance of Forced Migration Consciousness in the Major and Minor Prophets (LHBOTS; T & T Clark, projected 2011).

    Exegetical essays on Psalm 24, pp. 224-229; Psalm 34:1-8 (19-22), pp. 200-205; and Psalm 146; pp. 248-253 in Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary, Year B, Volume 4, David L. Bartlett and Barbara Brown Taylor, general editors (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2009.

    “Jeremiah as Messenger of Hope in Crisis,” Interpretation (Spring 2008)

    “Jeremiah, Book of,” in The New Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible,” ed., Katharine Doob Sakenfeld et al. (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2008).

    “Reading the Prophets as Meaning-making Literature for Communities under Siege, Horizons in Biblical Theology 29 (2007) 153-175

    “Conflicting Paths of Hope in Jeremiah,” Shaking Earth and Heaven: Essays in Honor of Walter Brueggemann and Charles B. Cousar, edited by Christine Yoder, Kathleen M. O’Connor et al. (Westminster John Knox, 2005).

    For a complete listing of publications, see my CV2010.doc