Roy A Fisher
Assistant Professor in the History of Spirituality and Mysticism | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Biography
Professor Fisher holds an interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Near Eastern Religions from the University of California, Berkeley. He received an M.A. in Biblical Languages from the Graduate Theological Union, and a B.S. in Physics from California State University, Chico. Prior to joining the LMU faculty, Professor Fisher was a post-doctoral researcher in the Anthropology of the Contemporary Research Collaboratory, Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Professor Fisher’s trans-disciplinary study of spirituality and mysticism takes place at the intersection of cultural anthropology and classical biblical studies. This work includes a critical analysis of the ways in which sacred texts and traditions are taken up within modern and contemporary forms of discourse with their respective technologies of power relations (including the interplay and interference with knowledge relations in the present). Professor Fisher teaches courses in Jewish Studies, Theological Studies, Archaeology & Classics, and the Bioethics Institute at LMU. Professor Fisher is co-chair of the History of Christianity program unit for the American Academy of Religion. In addition to his scholarly publications, Professor Fisher’s work has appeared in the Washington Post, he has been interviewed by Voz de América, and he has been a guest on the History Channel’s “The UnXplained” and “Ancient Aliens” programs.
https://lmu.academia.edu/RoyFisher
Education (3)
University of California, Berkeley: Ph.D., Near Eastern Religions
Graduate Theological Union: M.A., Biblical Languages
California State University, Chico: B.S., Physics
Areas of Expertise (12)
Ecology and Religion
Spirituality
Anthropology of Religion
Ancient Christianity
Cultural Anthropology
Near Eastern Religions
Second Temple Jewish literature
Anthropology and Archeology
New Testament Studies
Cultural Memory
Christian Origins
Mysticism
Affiliations (5)
- Society of Biblical Literature
- American Academy of Religion
- American Anthropological Association
- Catholic Biblical Association of America
- Society for the Anthropology of Religion
Languages (6)
- Biblical Hebrew
- Biblical Aramaic
- Koine Greek
- Septuagint Greek
- German (modern)
- French (modern)
Courses (8)
Beer, Sex, and Death: Figures of Anthropos in the Ancient Near East
Undergraduate course
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
Undergraduate course
Ancient Near Eastern Religions
Undergradaute course
Foundations of the New Testament
Graduate seminar
Literature of the Ancient Near East
Undergraduate course
Science and Religion
Upper-division undergraduate course
Special Topics in the Gospels
Graduate seminar
New Testament Contexts
Undergraduate course
Social