Joerg Rieger
Joerg Rieger is distinguished professor of theology, the Cal Turner Chancellor's Chair of Wesleyan Studies, and the founding director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt University. Previously he was the Wendland-Cook endowed professor of constructive theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Rieger's work brings together the study of theology and of the movements for liberation and justice that mark our age. Author and editor of...See more
Joerg Rieger is distinguished professor of theology, the Cal Turner Chancellor's Chair of Wesleyan Studies, and the founding director of the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at Vanderbilt University. Previously he was the Wendland-Cook endowed professor of constructive theology at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University. Rieger's work brings together the study of theology and of the movements for liberation and justice that mark our age. Author and editor of twenty-six books and more than 180 academic articles, a selection of his books includes: Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity (Fortress, 2022); Jesus vs. Caesar: For People Tired of Serving the Wrong God (Abingdon, 2018); No Religion but Social Religion: Liberating Wesleyan Theology (Wesley's Foundery, 2018); Unified We are a Force: How Faith and Labor Can Overcome America's Inequalities (with Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger, Chalice, 2016); and Occupy Religion: Theology of the Multitude (with Kwok Pui-lan, Rowman & Littlefield, 2012). See less
