Dr. Rabia Gregory

Dr. Rabia Gregory
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
gregoryra@missouri.edu
Bio

Rabia Gregory is the author of Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe: Popular Culture and Religious Reform and currently co-directs Confluences, a community-centered public scholarship project celebrating Missouri’s religious diversity and co-edits the interdisciplinary book series Christianities Before Modernity. Dr. Gregory is a faculty member in the Department of Classics, Archaeology, and Religion.

Research

My primary research interest is the history of Christianity in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. I approach the study of religion through book history, material culture, and theories of gender. I have also published on the relationship between religion, new media, and medieval culture in contemporary video games. I am currently preparing a critical introduction, biography, and facing-page edition and translation of the poetry of Anna Bijns (1493-1575). My next major book project, "Christian Pulp: Material Religion in the Age of Paper” documents how the introduction of affordable paper to western Europe changed Christianity. I also co-edit the interdisciplinary book series Christianities Before Modernity, which interrogates the traditional chronological, geographical, social, and institutional boundaries of premodern Christianity.

Select Publications

“The Illusion of Medieval Christianity.” in Pietas Litterata. Internationales Jahrbuch Für religiöses Wissen in der deutschen Literatur des Spätmittelaters und der Frühen Neuzeit. vol. 1, 2023, p. 91-116.

“Visual Exegesis and the Song of Songs” in The Companion to the Song of Songs in Christian Spirituality edited by Timothy Robinson, Brill, 2021  p. 294-326

“Cyborg Chimeras and Organic Meatbags: Gender, Religion, and the History of Videogames”  Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 84.3 2016 p. 641- 664 https://academic.oup.com/jaar/article/84/3/641/1751477/Gaming-Religionworlds-Why-Religious-Studies-Should#36240451

Marrying Jesus in Medieval and Early Modern Northern Europe: Popular Culture and Religious Reform (ISBN 978-1-4724-2266-8) Ashgate Publishing Company, February 2016

"Black as a Coconut and White as a Tusk: African Materials and European Displays of Christ Before Columbus" Journal of Africana Religions 2.3 July 2014 p. 395-408.