Rachel C Schneider
Dr. Rachel C. Schneider is a scholar of religion. She is the associate director of academic programs at the Boniuk Institute at Rice University and director of the Religion and Public Life Program (RPLP), which is a program of the Boniuk Institute. She also is an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Religion at Rice Univeristy.
Broadly, Schneider’s research focuses on how religion can undergird systems of inequality, such as racial and gender inequality, but also how religion and spirituality can shape ethical and political practices and inspire social change.
Working at the intersection of the humanities and the social sciences, Schneider has published research articles on religion and race; religion in the workplace; religion, health, and science; and religious responses to poverty and inequality in the United States and South Africa. She is also the co-editor of The Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion: Volume 2: Curations and Durations (Wifp and Stock 2022).
Her work has appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Socius, Sociological Inquiry, Journal of Religious Ethics, Religions, Journal of Religion in Africa, The Immanent Frame, Religion Dispatches, Religion News Service, Syndicate, and Marginalia Review of Books. She is also a writer and host for the RPLP podcast Religion Unmuted, which explores how religion and gender impact public discourse around important social issues, like racism, politics, immigration, health, and the body.
Schneider is also part of the co-managing team of Project Curate (PC). PC is a non-profit social impact agency and consultancy that works with religious, academic, and community organizations to address and support collaborative responses to intersectional issues relating to racial injustice and inequality. Project Curate's mission is to enact emancipatory and liberating practices of public and community engagement.
For most recent C.V. see:
https://rplp.rice.edu/people/rachel-c-schneider
Supervisors: Elias K. Bongmba, Dept of Religion, Rice University, James D. Faubion, Dept of Anthropology, Rice University, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, Dept of Sociology, Rice University; Director of Religion and Public Life Program
Broadly, Schneider’s research focuses on how religion can undergird systems of inequality, such as racial and gender inequality, but also how religion and spirituality can shape ethical and political practices and inspire social change.
Working at the intersection of the humanities and the social sciences, Schneider has published research articles on religion and race; religion in the workplace; religion, health, and science; and religious responses to poverty and inequality in the United States and South Africa. She is also the co-editor of The Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion: Volume 2: Curations and Durations (Wifp and Stock 2022).
Her work has appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Socius, Sociological Inquiry, Journal of Religious Ethics, Religions, Journal of Religion in Africa, The Immanent Frame, Religion Dispatches, Religion News Service, Syndicate, and Marginalia Review of Books. She is also a writer and host for the RPLP podcast Religion Unmuted, which explores how religion and gender impact public discourse around important social issues, like racism, politics, immigration, health, and the body.
Schneider is also part of the co-managing team of Project Curate (PC). PC is a non-profit social impact agency and consultancy that works with religious, academic, and community organizations to address and support collaborative responses to intersectional issues relating to racial injustice and inequality. Project Curate's mission is to enact emancipatory and liberating practices of public and community engagement.
For most recent C.V. see:
https://rplp.rice.edu/people/rachel-c-schneider
Supervisors: Elias K. Bongmba, Dept of Religion, Rice University, James D. Faubion, Dept of Anthropology, Rice University, and Elaine Howard Ecklund, Dept of Sociology, Rice University; Director of Religion and Public Life Program
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Critical Review Essays by Rachel C Schneider
Adriaan van Klinken and Ezra Chitando, eds, Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa, Routledge, 2016.
Ezra Chitando and Adriaan van Klinken, eds. Christianity and Controversies over Homosexuality in Contemporary Africa, Routledge, 2016.
Full symposium can be found at: https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/american-apocalypse/
Short Reviews by Rachel C Schneider
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Papers by Rachel C Schneider
Adriaan van Klinken and Ezra Chitando, eds, Public Religion and the Politics of Homosexuality in Africa, Routledge, 2016.
Ezra Chitando and Adriaan van Klinken, eds. Christianity and Controversies over Homosexuality in Contemporary Africa, Routledge, 2016.
Full symposium can be found at: https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/american-apocalypse/