Charles Mathewes

Associate Professor

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-6708

Address:
Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4126

Research Interests

Religious ethics, esp. comparative religious ethics; Christian thought, esp. Augustine and the Augustinian tradition; religion and culture; religion and politics; evil and sin.

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Georgetown University
• Master of Arts (MA), University of Chicago
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Chicago

Books

• Understanding Religious Ethics (a comparative study of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic ethics)
• An Augustinian Look at Empire After 9/11
• A Spirituality of Citizenship
• Evil and the Augustinian Tradition (Cambridge)
• A Theology of Public Life During the World (Cambridge)

Activities

• Editor of The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 2006-2010