Expertise

Interest:

  • 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 “scriptures” and how those productions operate in the formation of identities and cultural boundaries.

Subject areas:

  • scripture
  • race
  •  African American religions
  •  American cultural politics
  •  identity
  •  Digital Humanities

 

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