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Richard Newton

Richard Newton

Distinguished Teaching with Technology Fellow 2023-2026 Richard Newton, PhD, has served as Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama since Fall 2022. Newton earned his PhD from the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in 2014. In addition to publications in top-tier and internationally renowned journals, he is the author of Identifying Roots: Alex Haley and the Anthropology of Scriptures (Equinox 2020). co-editor of Fieldnotes in the Critical Study of Religion: Revisiting Classical Theorists (Bloomsbury 2023), and editor […]

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