Ludger Viefhues-Bailey
Associate Professor of Religious Studies for Methods and Theory in the Study of Religion and for Women's and Gender Studies at Yale University
B.S. University of Düsseldorf
B.A. Hochschule für
Philosophie München;
Dipl.Theol. Philosophisch-Theologische
Hochschule St. Georgen Frankfurt
A.M., Ph.D. Harvard
University
Ludger Viefhues-Bailey is associate professor for Methods and Theory in the Study of Religion at Yale University. Currently, he serves, together with Professor Joseph Prabhu, as co-chair of the philosophy of religion section of the American Academy of Religion.
Ludger Viefhues-Bailey received his PhD in 2001 from Harvard University where he studied with Hilary Putnam and Sarah Coakley. His work has 2 foci: First, the connection between sexual and epistemological practices. Here he has written: Beyond the Philosopher’s Fear. A Cavellian Reading of Gender, Origin, and Religion in Modern Skepticism (Ashgate 2007). Secondly, he is interested in tracing how religious, sexual, and political normativities emerge together in modern secular nation states, a topic that lead him to write his second book called: Between a Man and a Woman? Making Sense of Conservative Christian Opposition to Same-Sex Love. (In press, Columbia University Press).
Currently, he is working on a book entitled No Separation. How Religion Makes the Secular Nation State. His website is: www.viefhues-bailey.org
