Dr. Eric M. Mazur
Dr. Eric M. Mazur
| Title(s) | Gloria and David Furman Associate Professor; of Judaic Studies |
| Status | Faculty |
| Department(s) | Religious Studies |
| Phone number | 757.455.3250 |
| E-mail address | |
| Website | http://facultystaff.vwc.edu/~emazur/ |
| Office location | Blocker 25 |
Eric teaches courses on Judaism, religion in American culture, and the academic study of religion. His specific interests include religion and American law, religion & popular culture, Judaism in the American South. Before returning to graduate school, he served as a public interest lobbyist in Washington, D.C.
Publications
- Mazur, Eric Michael. "Going My Way? Crosby and Catholicism on the Road to America." In Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture, ed. Ruth Prigozy and Walter Raubicheck. Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 2007.
- Dalton, Lisle, Eric Michael Mazur, and Monica Siems. "Homer the Heretic and Charlie Church: Parody, Piety, and Pluralism in The Simpsons." In Magic, Witchcraft and Religion: An Anthropological Study of the Supernatural, 6th ed., ed. Arthur Lehman, James Myers, and Pamela Moro. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2004.
- Phillip E. Hammond, David W. Machacek, and Eric Michael Mazur. Religion on Trial: How Supreme Court Trends Threaten the Freedom of Conscience in America. Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2004.
- Mazur, Eric Michael. "Freedom of Conscience." In Encyclopedia of Religious Freedom, ed. Catharine Cookson. New York: Routledge, 2003.
- Mazur, Eric Michael. "Minority Religions and Limitations on Religious Freedom." Social Education 66, 3 (April 2002): 149-59.
- Mazur, Eric Michael, ed. Art & the Religious Impulse. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 2002.
- Mazur, Eric Michael. "Religious Minorities and the Pressures of Americanization." Insights on Law and Society 1, 2 (2001): 8-10.
- Mazur, Eric Michael, and Kate McCarthy, eds. God in the Details: American Religion in Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, 2001.