Mary-Jane Victoria Rubenstein
Professor of Religion
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Dean of the Social Sciences
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Professor, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Professor, Science in Society
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Professor, Philosophy
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BA Williams College
MA Columbia University
MPHIL Cambridge University
MPHIL Columbia University
PHD Columbia University
Mary-Jane Victoria Rubenstein
MJR is a philosopher of religion who focuses on the intersections of religion and science. She is particularly interested in the ways that ancient and contemporary myths and rituals influence (and emerge from) cosmology, ecology, and space travel.
Rubenstein is the author of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race (2022), Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters (2018), Worlds without End: The Many Lives of the Multiverse (2014), and Strange Wonder: The Closure of Metaphysics and the Opening of Awe (2009). She is also co-editor with Catherine Keller of Entangled Worlds: Religion, Science, and New Materialisms (2017), co-editor with Lance Gharavi of a volume in progress called Sacred Space, and co-author with Thomas A. Carlson and Mark C. Taylor of Image: Three Inquiries in Technology and Imagination (2021).
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