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C. Mark McCormick
Associate Professor and
Online Course Grader
Email: cmmccormick@bama.ua.edu
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In 2002-3, Prof. McCormick was one of our
Religion
in Culture lecturers...
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In October 2010, Prof. McCormick was a respondent
for another of our Religion in Culture lectures.
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C. Mark McCormick is Associate Professor and Chair
of the Department of Religion at Stillman
College, where he has taught since 2000. He has been a
grader for online courses in Religious Studies at UA since
2007.
Dr. McCormick received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Religious Studies,
focusing on Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East. His dissertation,
later published as Palace
and Temple: A Study of Architectural and Verbal Icons,
is an analysis of constructed space and its role in constructing
and legitimating social status and power through spatial organization
of material boundaries and access. His innovative use of built
environment and architectural theories on the description
of the temple in Jerusalem as described in 1
Kings 6-8 is his opening exploration of the application
of material theories on textual production. Using built theories
in tandem with literary theories regarding the production
of verbal icons, McCormick completed a comparative analysis
of a suite of rooms in a Neo-Assyrian palace and the verbal
presentation of the temple in Jerusalem in order to identify
the role of spatial construction, whether material or ideological,
in legitimating claims to power and status in the social order.
His current research builds upon the theory of the verbal
icon and the construction of authoritative readings of biblical
literature as contested in the history of the academic study
of the Bible and in confessionally interpretive readings in
communities of faith. His interests focus on the rhetorical
construction of the authoritative reading in both the academic
and confessional communities of study.
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Courses
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Dr. McCormick grades online sections of REL
110, REL
112, and REL
220.
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