Professor of Religion
Phone: 269.337.7286
Office: Humphrey House, Room 109
Email: taylor.petrey@kzoo.edu
Education
ThD Harvard Divinity School
MTS Harvard Divinity School
BA Pace University, Philosophy and Religious Studies
Profile
Dr. Taylor G. Petrey is a professor of religion and active member of the women, gender, and sexuality program. He teaches courses on the Bible and biblical interpretation, early Christianity, ancient Judaism, and theory and method in the study of religion. His research focuses on gender and sexuality in religion, especially in ancient Christianity and in Mormonism. He is the author of Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos (UNC 2024), Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism (UNC 2020), and Resurrecting Parts: Early Christians on Desire, Reproduction, and Sexual Difference (Routledge, 2015). At the college he has served as chair of religion, director of the women, gender, and sexuality program, chair of the faculty executive committee, and numerous other leadership roles.
Selected Publications
Queering Kinship in the Mormon Cosmos (2024)
The Bible and the Latter-Day Saint Tradition (2023)
Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism (2020)
The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender (2020)
Re-Making the World: Christianity and Categories; Essays in Honor of Karen L. King (2019)
Resurrecting Parts: Early Christians on Desire, Sexuality, and Sexual Difference (2015)