Associate Professor of Religion

A.B. Bates College
A.M., Ph.D. University of Chicago







Prof. Poland teaches in the areas of modern religious thought and Christian theology, with special interests in the history of biblical interpretation, gender, and ecology. Publications include Literary Criticism and Biblical Hermeneutics (1985), and numerous essays on Augustine, biblical interpretation, and the sublime. At Davidson since 1990.

Courses Taught:

• Rel 100W Food in Religious Perspective
• Rel 141 Introduction to Theology
• Rel 142 Autobiography and Religion
• Rel 245 Modern Christian Thought
• Rel 247 Religious Ethics of Food
• Rel 248 Christianity and Nature
• Rel 344 Modern Critics of Religion
• Rel 355 Woman and the Body in the Christian Tradition
• Rel 400 Senior Colloquium
• Rel 440 Seminars in Theology

To contact:

Department of Religion
Davidson College
Box 7015
Davidson, NC 28035-7015

Chambers 2006
Phone:(704) 894-2261
Fax:(704) 894-2005
E-Mail: lypoland@davidson.edu