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Julie Meadows, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Religion
Religion

Education

Ph.D., Religion: Ethics and Society, Emory University
M.Div., Ministry of Writing, Earlham School of Religion
B.A., Liberal Arts, St. John’s Colege

Research or Areas of Specialty

My research is interdisciplinary, cohering around a concern for moral formation. I’m interested in where moral formation is taking place in contemporary society, and to what ends, and in how we might learn to be more humane and more just. The range of that second question, for me, is wide: it includes pursuing questions about epistemology, imagination of the self, aesthetics, and forms of writing, and it involves engaging sources ranging from ancient philosophy to contemporary popular media. Recent presentations and publications range across a variety of topics, but cohere in this central concern: what pedagogies might help us learn to practice justice?

I have advised Summer Research Fellows working on Nietzsche and Adam Smith, and Religion Capstone research on women ministers in the Baptist church, liberative pedagogy, and Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato si. This year (2025), my Capstone and Honors research student Patrick Buchanan was selected to present his research on Pentecostalism in Brazil at the American Academy of Religion Southeast Region Annual Conference in Miami.

Classes at PC

  • Religion in America
  • Religion and Human Experience
  • Medieval Women Mystics
  • Religion and Film
  • Hellenistic Philosophy
  • Approaches to the Study of Religion
  • Classical Greek Philosophy
  • Environmental Ethics
  • African American Philosophy
  • Building Community

Organizations

  • American Academy of Religion (AAR)
  • Friend’s Association for Higher Education (FAHE)
  • Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion Blog Writer’s Workshop 2025 (Invited Participant)
  • The Generous Reader – Developmental Editing for Scholars in Religion

Publications

“Stress.” Spirit and Capital in an Age of Inequality. Robert P. Jones and Ted A. Smith, eds. New York, Routledge, 2018
“A Quaker Approach to Interreligious Dialogue: Michael Birkel’s Qu’ran in Conversation.” Quaker Religious Thought, Vol. 126, May 2016
“Mousike and Bluegrass.” PES Yearbook 2015, Philosophy of Education Society, May 2016.
“Quaker Testimonies and Scholarly Practices, Plain Speech and Hospitality.” Quaker Higher Education, April 2015
“Seduction and the Liberal Arts.” Quaker Perspectives in Higher Education, ed. Donn Weinholz, Jeffery Dudiak, and Donald Smith, June 2014