Member of the Perkins faculty since 1994
jrieger@smu.edu
214.768.2356

Education
Ph.D., Duke University, 1994; Th.M., Duke Divinity School, 1990; M.Div., Theologisches Seminar der Evangelisch-Methodistischen Kirche, Reutlingen, Germany, 1989

Teaching Specialties
Systematic theology, historical and contemporary theologies, liberation theologies, theology and religion in its social contexts

Research Interests
19th- and  20th-century theologies, liberation theologies, Methodist theology, theology and cultural studies, theology and economics, postcolonial and postmodern theories and theology

Selected Publications
Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007); God and the Excluded: Visions and Blindspots in  Contemporary Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress  Press, 2001); Remember the  Poor: The Challenge to Theology in the Twenty-First Century (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1998). Editor of: Empire and the Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007); Opting for the Margins: Postmodernity and Liberation in Christian Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003); Methodist and Radical: Rejuvenating a Tradition (Nashville, Kingswood Books, 2003); Theology from the Belly of  the Whale: A Frederick Herzog Reader (Harrisburg: Trinity Press International, 1999); Liberating the Future: God, Mammon and Theology (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998)

Professional Distinctions
Ordained elder, North Texas Conference, United  Methodist Church; Member, Workgroup for Constructive Theology; Advisory Board member for two Academic Book Series, Critical Issues in Contemporary Religion, and Religion and the Modern World, with Rowman and Littlefield Publishers; Co-Chair, American Academy of Religion Section on Theology and Religious Reflection.