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 | Rita M. Lester |
| Associate Professor and Department Chair |
| Office: Old Main 304 |
| Office number: (402) 465-2300 |
Email: rlester@Nebrwesleyan.edu
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Rita M. Lester, who began teaching at Nebraska-Wesleyan University in the fall of 1998, graduated with a Ph.D. in Religion from Northwestern University in 1997, a Masters in Theological Studies from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in 1991, and a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Graceland University in 1989. She came to Nebraska to teach full time after having taught at Northwestern and Loyola University.
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Her areas of interest include the history and theories of the academic study of religion, world religions, the relationship between Judaism and Christianity, Christian theology, history of religion in America, feminism and religion.
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A member of the American Academy of Religion and the North American Association for the Study of Religion, the U.S. affiliate of the International Association for the History of Religions.
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Rita Lester regularly teaches courses such as Rel 015, Rel 124, Rel 125, Rel 227 and often supervises senior theses (Rel 299).
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In 2001, she supervised student research for the Harvard Pluralism Project on religious diversity in Lincoln and conducts a January Winter Term at the Encounter World Religion’s Centre in Toronto, Canada. Her most recent contribution to a publication was her entry on women in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints church in the Encyclopedia of Women and Religion in North America, published by Indiana University Press and a section of her dissertation appeared in the Fortress Press book Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion.
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