Jason A. Springs

Jason A. Springs is Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research and teaching broadly integrate religious ethics with moral philosophy, political and social theories with specific attention to modern European and North American contexts. Springs studies restorative justice in the context of US mass incarceration; conceptions of religious toleration and the challenges posed by religious pluralism for transforming conflict; religious conflict in Europe and North America, and American pragmatist thought and postliberal theology.

Springs' most recent book is Restorative Justice and Lived Religion: Transforming Mass Incarceration in Chicago (NYU, 2024). He is the author of Healthy Conflict in Contemporary American Society: From Enemy to Adversary (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Toward a Generous Orthodoxy: Prospects for Hans Frei’s Postliberal Theology (Oxford University Press, 2010), and co-author (with Atalia Omer) of Religious Nationalism (ABC-CLIO, 2013). Springs’s articles appear in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Journal of Religion, Modern Theology, Journal of Religious Ethics, Political Theology, and Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal.