Braun, Willi
Dr. Willi Braun
Office location:
Arts 337-B
Telephone:
(780) 492-2879
Mail and courier to:
Department of History & Classics
2 – 28 Tory Building
Research and Teaching Areas
• Narrative argumentation in early Christian gospels
• Social formation of early Christian associations
• Early Christian and Greco-Roman feasting and foodways
• Early Christian inventions of Jesus
• Modern social theories of religion
| Select Recent Publications |
- Editor (with Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama), Introducing Religion: Essays in Honor of Jonathan Z. Smith. London: Equinox, 2007.
- “Celibacy in the Greco-Roman World,” in Carl Olson (ed.), Celibacy and Religious Traditions. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
- “‘Our Religion Compels Us to Make a Distinction’: Prolegomena on Meals and Social Formation,” in Zeba Crook and Philip Harland (eds.), Identity & Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean: Jews, Christians and Others. Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2007.
- Editor, Rhetoric and Reality in Early Christianities. Studies in Christianity and Judaism, 17. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.
- “‘Wir haben doch den amerikanischen Jesus’. Das amerikanische Jesus Seminar: Eine Standortbestimmung,” Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 16/8 (2005): 30-40.
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Editor (with Russell T. McCutcheon), Egheiridio Threskeiologias. Translated by Dimitris Xygalatas. Thessaloniki: Ekdoseis Banias, 2003.
- Editor (with Russell T. McCutcheon), Guide to the Study of Religion. London: Cassell Academic Press, 2000.
- Feasting and Social Rhetoric in Luke 14. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 85. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995; paperback edition, 2005.