Richard Miller

Richard B. Miller (Col ’75 CM) published Why Study Religion? with Oxford University Press. Miller’s book argues that scholarship in religious studies, especially work in “theory and method,” is preoccupied with matters of value-neutral procedure and thus inarticulate about the goals that can justify scholarship in the field.  The book assesses six methodologies that symptomatize this inarticulacy and then offers an alternative framework for thinking about the purposes of the discipline. Miller’s framework, Critical Humanism, rests on four values toward which work in the study of religion can aim: Post-critical Reasoning, Social Criticism, Cross-cultural Fluency, and Environmental Responsibility. Mr. Miller is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Religion, Politics, and Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School and in the College.  He is the author of five other books and numerous articles on matters of religion, ethics, and public life.

Richard B. Miller (Col ’75 L/M) has published Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture (Columbia University Press, 2016). Mr. Miller is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Religious Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

Richard Miller (Col ’75 CM) published Friends and Other Strangers: Studies in Religion, Ethics, and Culture (Columbia University Press) in July 2016. The book urges religious ethicists to turn to cultural studies to broaden the range of issues they address and to examine matters of cultural practice and difference in critical and self-reflexive ways. Mr. Miller is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Religious Ethics at the University of Chicago.

Richard B. Miller (Col ’75 L/M) recently had his fourth book , Terror, Religion, and Liberal Thought, published by the Columbia University Press in the Columbia Series on Religion and Politics. He is currently a professor in the department of religious studies at Indiana University, where he has taught since 1985. Mr. Miller also serves as director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana.