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Rebecca Moore has more than thirty years experience teaching, publishing, editing, and lecturing in a variety of settings. She earned a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Marquette University and has taught as a professor at Montana State University and the University of North Dakota. She retired from San Diego State University in 2015, where she taught for more than 15 years and had served as Chair of the Department of Religious Studies. She is currently Reviews Editor for Nova Religio, the quarterly journal on new and emergent religions published by University of California Press.

An expert in the history of Christianity, in 2015 she published Women in Christian Traditions, a feminist analysis of the role women have played in the development of Christianity (New York University Press). Her narrative anthology, Voices of Christianity: A Global Introduction (McGraw Hill 2006), is coming out in a revised second edition from Herder and Herder in 2018.

Her current research examines contemporary Jewish scholarship on the New Testament, especially approaches to Jesus and Paul. 


Dr. Moore also studies New Religious Movements, where she has concentrated on interpreting Peoples Temple and the events at Jonestown, Guyana that occurred in November 1978. This work can be seen on the website http://jonestown.sdsu.edu and in the book Understanding Jonestown and Peoples Temple, with a paperback edition coming out in Summer 2018 (Praeger).

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Writer and Editor

Author of more than ten books, dozens of scholarly articles, and hundreds of reviews, encyclopedia entries, and news items. Currently Reviews Editor for Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, where she served as Co-General Editor (2000-2010) and on the Executive Advisory Committee.
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Public Speaker

Dr. Moore has taught at the university level for more than twenty-five years and has given hundreds of public presentations and lectures to a variety of audiences.
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