Eric Bain-Selbo

Eric Bain-Selbo is Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Southeast Missouri State University. He also is the former Executive Director of the Society for the Future of Higher Education, former co-editor of Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and current co-editor of the International Journal of Sport and Religion. His research spans across the disciplines of philosophy and religious studies, focusing primarily on social ethics, political philosophy, comparative religion, cultural criticism, and issues in higher education. He has been a frequent presenter at conferences such as the American Academy of Religion, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and the American Democracy Project (American Association of State Colleges and Universities). He has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and six books: Mediating the Culture Wars: Dialogical Virtues in Multicultural Education (2003), Judge and Be Judged: Moral Reflection in an Age of Relativism and Fundamentalism (2006), Game Day and God: Football, Faith, and Politics in the American South (2009), Violence in Southern Sport and Culture: Sacred Battles on the Gridiron (2016), and Understanding Sport as a Religious Phenomenon: An Introduction (2016), co-authored with D. Gregory Sapp. His most recent book is entitled The End(s) of Religion: A History of How the Study of Religion Makes Religion Irrelevant (2022).