Expertise

My published scholarship has focused on scriptures as cultural texts, the New Testament in Western imagination, the construction of race and identity in the United States, African American cultural history, and pedagogy in higher education.

Dr. Newton’s areas of interest include theory and method in the study of religion, African American history, the New Testament in Western imagination, American cultural politics, and pedagogy in religious studies. His research explores how people create “ more »

Past Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Elizabethtown College (past)

Communities
Religious Studies
Degrees
PhD, Claremont Graduate University, Religion, 2014
MDiv, Southern Methodist University, 2009
BA, Texas Christian University, Religion and Anthropology, 2005