Rate My Professor Jeff Scholes

Jeffrey Scholes is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. He holds a position as Professor of Religious Studies within the Department of Philosophy and serves as Director of the Center for Religious Diversity and Public Life at the university. He is also a member of the Center for Critical Sport Studies. Scholes' research centers on the intersections of religion and sports, American political theology, religion and culture in the United States, and the dynamics of religion and sport. His scholarly work explores how religious themes influence sports culture and vice versa, alongside examinations of evangelical political theology and consumer culture's impact on vocational theology.

Scholes has authored key books including Vocation and the Politics of Work: Popular Theology in a Consumer Culture (Lexington Books, 2013), Religion and Sports in American Culture co-authored with Raphael Sassower (Routledge, 2014), Christianity, Race, and Sport (Routledge, 2021), and co-edited Religion and Sport in North America: Critical Essays for the Twenty-First Century with Randall Balmer (Routledge, 2022). He is currently developing a book on Religion and Sports Fandom. Additional publications encompass refereed articles such as 'Science and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective' with Raphael Sassower in the Journal of Religion and Society (2014) and 'Sports in Postsecular America: The Tebow Phenomenon' in Implicit Religion (2014); a chapter 'Sport' in the Companion Volume to Religion and Popular Culture (Routledge, 2015); book reviews; and online contributions like 'The Question Is: What Kind of Football Does God Fancy?' in Religion Dispatches (2015). Scholes teaches courses including PHIL 3070 Religion and Sports, PHIL 3080 Religion and the Spirit of Capitalism, PHIL 3100 World Religions, and PHIL 3620 Christian Thought. His public engagement includes invited talks such as 'Your Journey: Defining Calling' at Baylor University (2015) and 'Death according to the World Religions' at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference (2015), as well as presentations like 'Charity and the Hero-As-Giver' at the Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Social Imagery (2014).