Deonnie Moodie

Deonnie Moodie is Chair of the Department of Religious Studies.  She earned her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Harvard University and M.Div. from Harvard Divinity School. She has a B. A. from Hope College, where she majored in International Studies. Dr. Moodie is an ethnographer and historian of religion specializing in South Asia and its global connections. She is especially interested in how religious ideas and practices entwine with political and economic discourse, re-shaping one another in distinctive ways in the modern world. At OU, Prof. Moodie teaches Introduction to Religious Studies; Approaches to the Study of Religion; Introduction to Hinduism; Religion and Nationalism in India; Money, Power, and God(s):  Religion and Economy East and West; and Capstone. 

Deonnie Moodie - Extended CV