Rate My Professor Nathan Colborne

Colborne's research interests center on the philosophy of the subject and the impact of religion on political and social organization. He investigates how people employ terms like 'religion,' 'holy,' 'sacred,' and 'divine,' as well as religion's functions and enduring relevance in discourse. His publications encompass several articles on sacrificial violence in forming political and religious identity; a forthcoming article in Method and Theory in the Study of Religion critiquing the use of 'religion' in contemporary evolutionary biology; "Violence and Resistance: Towards a Politics without a Scapegoat," published in 2013 in the Toronto Journal of Theology; and a 2010 book review of Anthony Gill's The Political Origins of Religious Liberty in Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses. His dissertation manuscript is currently in preparation for publication. Colborne teaches courses such as Religion and Politics, Religion and Violence, The Religious Animal, Fanaticism, and Is God Dead?.