Brennan Keegan

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

Education

  • Ph.D. in American Religions, Duke University
  • M.A in American Religions, Duke University
  • B.A. in Religion, Whitman College

Research Interests

  • Native American Religious Traditions
  • Religion and the Environment
  • Religion in the American West
  • Lived Religion
  • Theory in the Study of Religion
  • Ethnography

Courses Taught

  • RELS 101: Approaches to Religion
  • RELS 105: Intro to World Religions
  • RELS118: Modern History of Religions
  • RELS 120: Religion, Art, and Culture
  • RELS 253: Religions of Charleston
  • RELS 305: Topics in Indigenous Religions
  • RELS 260: Native American Religions
  • RELS 405: Indigenous Ecological Knowledge
  • RELS 450: Race, Gender, and Class
  • FYSU134: Environmental Storytelling: Religion, Race Nature
  • HONS 175: Approached to Religion: Sacred Space
  • EVSS 595: Indigenous Ecological Knowledge

Publications

  • "Contemporary Native American and Indigenous Religious: State of the Field," Religion Compass. Vol. 16, Issue 9. September 2022.
  • “Gospel of Gold: Unearthing Religious Spaces in the American West,” Religion & American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. (January 2021)
  • “Our Lady of the Rockies: Catholicism and Environmental Reclamation,” US Catholic Historian, special issue “Experiences of the Sacred.” (Summer 2020)
  • “Digital Building Blocks for Original Research,” The Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy.
  • “Religion and the Formation of 18th and 19th Century American Society,” Religious Freedom Center Educational Resources, textbook chapter for high school students.
  • “Apostolic Faith Mission of Portland, Oregon,” “Armstrong, Richard,” “Paintings,” “Textile Arts.” In Encyclopedia of Christianity in the United States. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Co-authored with Lawrence R. Watson. “Unintended Consequences: How Sustainability Certification and Renewable Biomass Mandates Threaten Nonindustrial Private Forests.” Forest Landowner. Vol. 71, No. 2.
  • “The Grizzly Art of Justice.” Missoulian, (appeared in 20 additional western newspapers). October 12, 2011.