Charles L. Kammer, III

Department/Affiliation: Religious Studies
Phone: 330-263-2473
Office Address: 023 Kauke
Email: ckammer@wooster.edu

Degrees

• B.A., Colgate 1968
• M.Div., Duke 1971
• Ph.D., Duke 1977

Courses Taught

• RELS 100: Religious Thought and Action
• ENST 200: Environmental Analysis and Action
• RELS 206: Sociology of Religion
• RELS 217: African Religions
• RELS 219: Ethics in a Social Perspective
• RELS 219: African Religions
• RELS 245: Christian Ethics
• RELS 251: Modern Religious Thinkers
• RELS 261: The Black Religious Experience in America
• Rels 269: Religion: Violence and Peacemaking
• RELS 269: Liberation Theology

Awards and Professional Memberships

• Society of Christian Ethics
• American Academy of Religion
• Common Cause
• Bread for the World
• Hastings Society

Publications

He has written numerous articles in his fields of expertise and two books in religion on social ethics:  The Kingdom Revisited and Ethics and Liberation.

Notes

A member of the faculty since 1990, Kammer is also academic dean of Wooster's Academies of Religion (formerly Lay and Clergy Academies of Religion).  Before joining Wooster's faculty, he was a professor at St. Olaf College (1977-90).

His areas of expertise include biomedical ethics, healthcare delivery, economic justice, ethics in foreign policy, liberation theology, professional ethics, religion and violence, and the church in society.