Mr Shawn Landres,
Los Angeles, California

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About Shawn Landres

J. Shawn Landres is Synagogue 3000's Director of Research, a Visiting Research Fellow at UCLA's Center for Jewish Studies, and Academic Relations Coordinator for the U.S. State Department-sponsored UC Santa Barbara Study of the United States Institute on Religion in the United States: Pluralism and Public Presence. He co-chairs the American Academy of Religion's Anthropology of Religion Group and serves on the steering committee of the Cooperative Congregational Studies Partnership.
Shawn's latest book is Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place (co-edited with Oren Baruch Stier, Indiana University Press, 2006). He co-edited After The Passion is Gone: American Religious Consequences (with Michael Berenbaum, AltaMira Press, 2004). He co-edited and contributed to Personal Knowledge and Beyond: Reshaping the Ethnography of Religion, (with James V. Spickard and Meredith B. McGuire, New York University Press 2002). An occasional contributor to The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles, he has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters as well as essays for the popular press; his most recent articles include "Jewish Communities in the Americas," in The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions (Oxford University Press, 2006), "Evangelical-Jewish Dialogue: The Emerging Conversation>" (with Ryan K. Bolger, Sh'ma, May 2006), and "Emerging Patterns of Interreligious Conversations: A Christian-Jewish Experiment" (with Ryan K. Bolger, The Annals of the AAPSS, July 2007).
A participant in the Selah Leadership Training 2007 National Cohort, Shawn chairs the advisory board of Jewish Mosaic: The National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity and serves as an advisor to the Muslim-Jewish NewGround Project in Los Angeles. A popular lecturer both in the United States and abroad, Shawn has taught at the University of Judaism; Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic; and UC Santa Barbara. He holds degrees in Religious Studies and Social Anthropology from Columbia University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Oxford. His doctoral dissertation at UC Santa Barbara is entitled, "Religion After Secularization: The Liturgical Lives of Generation X Jews."