Carl   Raschke

• Professor
• Sturm Hall 273
• 303-871-3117
• carlraschke@gmail.com

Background:

PhD, Harvard University. Dr. Raschke has wide-ranging interests and engagements. He is the author of numerous books and hundreds of articles on topics ranging from postmodernism to popular religion and culture to technology and society. His best-known work, Painted Black (HarperCollins, 1991), surveys the relationship between certain religious cults and violence in contemporary society. His book The Interruption of Eternity (Nelson-Hall, 1980), is regarded as a standard reference work on the origins of the New Age movement.

His more recent books include GloboChrist (Baker Academic, 2008), The Next Reformation (Baker Books, 2004), The Digital Revolution and the Coming of the Postmodern University (Routledge 2002), Fire and Roses: Postmodernity and the Thought of the Body (State University of New York, 1995) and The Engendering God (Westminster, 1995), which deals with feminist strains in early Christianity. His latest book entitled Event Horizon, which deals with the theory of religion in the aftermath of postmodern philosophy, is expected to be published some time in 2012.  

Dr. Raschke is also past-president and former executive director of the American Association for the Advancement of Core Across the Curriculum and past-director of the University of Denver's Humanities Institute; he has also served on national committees of the American Academy of Religion. He is co-founder and senior editor of The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory and has been involved heavily in recent years in the development of national online learning initiatives, including the Syllabus Institute.

In recent years Dr. Raschke has led students on numerous trips to Vienna, Austria where he has developed a program entitled Project Vienna.  Project Vienna involves both research and study opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students in the areas of social justice, combating human trafficking, philosophy, religious theory, and the visual arts.  Selected internships and short-term study at the University of Vienna, currently only for doctoral students, are available.

Dr. Raschke's personal website can be found at http://www.carlraschke.com.