Joel Stoker is a faculty associate of religious studies at Arizona State University. He joined ASU in 2010. His research areas include Religion in the Americas, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Environmental Ethics, the American Social Gospel, and Religion in the American West. He is also an adjunct faculty member with Glendale Community College (since 2011). Stoker is fluent in English and French, conversational in Indian Ocean French Creole, and has a reading comprehension of Spanish. He teaches a range of courses in-person and with ASU Online, including:
- REL 100: Religions of the World (online)
- REL 207: Ritual, Symbol, Myth (in-person)
- REL 320: American Religious Traditions (online and in-person)
- REL 321: Religion in America (in-person and hybrid)
- SOC 420: Sociology of Religion (online)
Religion in the Americas, Sociology of Religion, Religion and Environmental Ethics, the American Social Gospel, Religion in the American West, Global Christian Missions
Courses
2024 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 320 | American Religious Traditions |
| REL 320 | American Religious Traditions |
2023 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 320 | American Religious Traditions |
| REL 320 | American Religious Traditions |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| REL 320 | American Religious Traditions |
| REL 320 | American Religious Traditions |
2021 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| REL 321 | Religion in America |
| REL 321 | Religion in America |
Western Regional American Academy of Religion, March 2015 (Santa Clara, CA): “Disaffected LDS Youth and the Internet Resolution”
American Academy of Religion, November 2014 (San Diego, CA): “On My Own”
Western Regional American Academy of Religion, March 2014 (Los Angeles, CA): “The Renegade’s Saint: St. Expédit and the Peripheral Believer”
Yale-Edinburgh Group Meeting, June 2012 (Edinburgh, Scotland): “Without Purse and Scrip: Revitalization of the Mormon Missiological Enterprise, 1890-1930”
Western Regional American Academy of Religion, March 2012 (Santa Clara, CA): “Exercising the Precautionary Principle: The Response to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster”
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture: Religion, Nature and Art, October 2011 (Vatican City):“Sacred Grove, Sacred Art: Divinity within the Trees of Upstate New York”
Western Regional American Academy of Religion, April 2011 (Whittier, CA): “Depoliticizing the Environment: A ‘New Genesis’ of Mormon Environmentalism”
Intellectual Intersections, the Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference at Northern Arizona University, February 2011 (Flagstaff, AZ):“St. Expédit and the Sacred Imagination: The New Age of Experience and Unification”
Western Regional American Academy of Religion, March 2010 (Tempe, AZ) : “Revisioning Polygamy in the Contemporary, American Pluralistic Society: Blurring the Boundaries of Normative Marriage”
Southwest Graduate English Symposium, March 2009 (Tempe, AZ) : “Spreading the Kingdom, The Encounter of The Holy Ghost and Us Society and Chief Alfred Sam’s Back to Africa Movement: Cultural and Racial Dynamics in Early Pentecostalism”
Maricopa Community Colleges Outstanding Faculty Nomination, 2013
Arizona State University School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies Grant, 2011-2012
Arizona State University School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies Grant, 2010-2011
Arizona State University Graduate College Dean’s Fellowship, 2009-2010
Member of the Association for the Sociology of Religion
Member of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity
Member of the American Academy of Religion
Member of the American Society of Church History
Member of the American Historical Association
Member of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture
Faculty Associate, Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ), 2010 - current
Faculty Associate, Arizona State University Polytechnic (Mesa, AZ), 2012 – current
Faculty Associate, Arizona State University Online (Scottsdale, AZ), 2012 – current
Adjunct Faculty, Glendale Community College (Glendale, AZ), 2011 - current
Co-chair, Ecology and Religion section, American Academy of Religion (Western Region), 2011 - 2013
Chair, Ecology and Religion section, American Academy of Religion (Western Region), 2014 - 2015
Research Assistant, Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ), 2010 - 2011
Panel chair: What's in a Name? The Name of God and Eschatology in History, Philosophy, and Art (Tempe, AZ):“What’s in a Name? The Name-Glorifiers and Religious Controversy in Russia”, April 2009
Co-chair, Ecology and Religion section, American Academy of Religion (Western Region), 2011 - 2013
Chair, Ecology and Religion section, American Academy of Religion (Western Region), 2014-2015
Panel chair, Religion and Ethics section, American Academy of Religion (Western Region) 2012